¹Open your doors, Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars.

¹Otvor, Libanone, svoje vráta, a nech žerie oheň tvoje cedry!

²Wail, fir tree, for the cedar has fallen, because the stately ones are destroyed. Wail, you oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest has come down.

²Kvíľ, ó, jedľo, pretože padla cedra, lebo slávni sú spustošení! Kvíľte, duby Bázana, lebo sostúpil les, neprístupný.

³A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! For their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions! For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.

³Hlas kvílenia pastierov! Lebo je zkazená ich nádhera. Hlas revu mladých ľvov! Lebo je zkazená pýcha Jordána.

⁴Thus says Yahweh my God: “Feed the flock of slaughter.

⁴Takto hovorí Hospodin, môj Bôh: Pas stádo oviec, oddané na zabitie,

⁵Their buyers slaughter them, and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich;’ and their own shepherds don’t pity them.

⁵ktoré nemilosrdne zabíjajú ich majitelia a podľa svojej mienky nedopúšťajú sa tým viny, a tí, ktorí ich predávajú, hovoria: Požehnaný Hospodin, že som zbohatol. A ich pastieri? Niktorý sa nezľutúva nad nimi.

⁶For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land,” says Yahweh; “but, behold, I will deliver the men everyone into his neighbor’s hand, and into the hand of his king. They will strike the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.”

⁶Lebo sa už viacej nezľutujem nad obyvateľmi tejto zeme, hovorí Hospodin, ale hľa, ja spôsobím to, že najde človek človeka, a vydám ich každého do ruky jeho blížneho a do ruky jeho kráľa; potlčú zem, a nevytrhnem z ich ruky.

⁷So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called “Favor,” and the other I called “Union,” and I fed the flock.

⁷A tak som pásol stádo oviec, oddané na zabitie, tedy strápených toho stáda. A vzal som si dve palice, z ktorých jednu som nazval Noam a druhú som nazval Choblím, a tak som pásol stádo.

⁸I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

⁸A zahladil som troch pastierov v jednom mesiaci. Zunovala ich moja duša, a tiež aj ich duša si zošklivila mňa.

⁹Then I said, “I will not feed you. That which dies, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let those who are left eat each other’s flesh.”

⁹Preto som povedal: Nebudem vás pásť; tá, ktorá má zomrieť, nech tedy zomrie, a tá, ktorá má byť vyhladená, nech je vyhladená, a tie, ktoré pozostanú, nech žerú každá mäso svojej družky.

¹⁰I took my staff Favor, and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples.

¹⁰A vzal som svoju palicu, Noam, a posekal som ju, aby som zrušil svoju smluvu, ktorú som učinil so všetkými národami.

¹¹It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that listened to me knew that it was the word of Yahweh.

¹¹A bola zrušená toho dňa, a tak poznali strápení stáda, ktorí pozorovali na mňa, že je to slovo Hospodinovo.

¹²I said to them, “If you think it best, give me my wages; and if not, keep them.” So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver.

¹²A povedal som im: Ak je to dobré vo vašich očiach, dajte moju mzdu, ale ak nie, nechajte tak. A odvážili moju mzdu, tridsať strieborných.

¹³Yahweh said to me, “Throw it to the potter, the handsome price that I was valued at by them!” I took the thirty pieces of silver, and threw them to the potter, in the house of Yahweh.

¹³A Hospodin mi riekol: Hoď ju ta hrnčiarovi, nádhernú to cenu, ktorou som ocenený od nich. A vezmúc tých tridsať strieborných hodil som to v dome Hospodinovom pred hrnčiara.

¹⁴Then I cut apart my other staff, even Union, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

¹⁴Potom som posekal svoju druhú palicu, Choblím, aby som zrušil bratstvo medzi Júdom a Izraelom.

¹⁵Yahweh said to me, “Take for yourself yet again the equipment of a foolish shepherd.

¹⁵A Hospodin mi riekol: Ešte si vezmi nástroj bláznivého pastiera.

¹⁶For, behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit those who are cut off, neither will seek those who are scattered, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that which is sound; but he will eat the flesh of the fat sheep, and will tear their hoofs in pieces.

¹⁶Lebo hľa, ja vzbudím pastiera v tejto zemi. Hynúcich oviec nenavštívi, zahnaného nebude hľadať ani polámanej nebude liečiť, tej, ktorá stojí, nebude opatrovať, ale mäso tučnej bude jesť a ich kopytá zláme.

¹⁷Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will be on his arm, and on his right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will be totally blinded!”

¹⁷Beda tomu ničomnému pastierovi, ktorý opúšťa stádo! Meč na jeho rameno a na jeho pravé oko! Jeho rameno istotne uschne, a jeho pravé oko sa istotne zatemnie.