¹Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. The prey doesn’t depart.

¹Oj, beda mestu krvi! Celé je samé klamstvo, plné násilia; neustupuje lúpež.

²The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots,

²Práskanie biča a hukot, hrkot kolesa, cválajúci kôň a nadskakujúci voz,

³the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies,

³vzpínanie sa jazdca a blýskanie sa meča, blesk kopie a množstvo pobitých a hromada mŕtvych tiel, nebude konca mŕtvolám, a budú padať cez ich mŕtvoly,

⁴because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft.

⁴pre množstvo smilstiev smilnice, krásnej a pôvabnej, majstryne čarov, ktorá predávala národy svojimi smilstvami a čeľade svojimi čarmi.

⁵“Behold, I am against you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.

⁵Hľa, prijdem na teba, hovorí Hospodin Zástupov, a odkryjem tvoje podolky dvihnúc ich na tvoju tvár a ukážem národom tvoju nahotu a kráľovstvám tvoju hanbu

⁶I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle.

⁶a pohádžem na teba tvoje hnusoby a potupím ťa a vystavím ťa za divadlo.

⁷It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, ‘Nineveh is laid waste! Who will mourn for her?’ Where will I seek comforters for you?”

⁷A stane sa, že každý, kto ťa uvidí, bude utekať od teba a povie: Ninive je spustošené! Kto ho bude ľutovať? Kde - odkiaľ pohľadám tých, ktorí by ťa potešili?

⁸Are you better than No-Amon, or, Thebes who was situated among the rivers, who had the waters around her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea?

⁸Či si ty lepšie ako No-amon, ktoré sedelo na riekach a malo vody kolom dookola, ktorého valom bolo more, od mora jeho múr?

⁹Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put and Libya were her helpers.

⁹Ethiopia jeho silou a Egypt, a iným nebolo konca. Pútovia a Lýbovia ti boli, ó, No, na pomoc!

¹⁰Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

¹⁰Ale aj ono bolo prestehované, odišlo do zajatia; aj jeho malé deti boly rozrážané na uhloch všetkých ulíc, a o jeho slávnych hádzali los, a všetci jeho veľkí boli sovrení putami.

¹¹You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy.

¹¹Aj ty sa opiješ; budeš pokryté, aj ty budeš hľadať pevnosť pred nepriateľom.

¹²All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs: if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.

¹²Všetky tvoje hrady budú jako fíky so skorými fíkami; ak ich zatrasú, padnú do úst toho, kto ide jesť.

¹³Behold, your troops in your midst are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.

¹³Hľa, tvoj ľud ženami v tvojom strede; brány tvojej zeme budú dokorán pootvárané tvojim nepriateľom; oheň strávi tvoje závory.

¹⁴Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.

¹⁴Naber si vody obľahnutia, upevni svoje hradby, vojdi do blata a šliap po hline, oprav tehelňu.

¹⁵There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.

¹⁵Tam ťa strávi oheň, vytne ťa meč, zožerie ťa jako žravá chrobač, nech ťa je množstvo jako chrobače, nech ťa je množstvo jako kobyliek!

¹⁶You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.

¹⁶Rozmnožilo si svojich kupcov nad počet nebeských hviezd; chrobač vtrhne lúpežne aj odletí.

¹⁷Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun appears, they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.

¹⁷Tvoje kniežatá jako kobylky a tvoji velitelia ako roje koníkov, ktorí táboria po ohradách v deň chladu, Ale keď vyjde slnce, odletia, a nezná sa ich miesto, kde sú.

¹⁸Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them.

¹⁸Podriemali tvoji pastieri, kráľu Assúra, odpočívajúc ležia tvoji slávni; tvoj ľud je rozptýlený po vrchoch, a nieto nikoho, kto by shromaždil.

¹⁹There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you; for who hasn’t felt your endless cruelty?

¹⁹Niet úľavy pre tvoje skrúšenie; tvoja rana je bolestná. Všetci, ktorí počujú zvesť o tebe, plesknú rukami nad tebou. Lebo veď cez koho neišla tvoja zlosť neprestajne?!