¹Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”

¹Čujte to besedo, krave basánske, ki ste na gori Samarije, ki tlačite ubožca, tarete potrebnega in pravite svojim gospodarjem: Prinesi, da pijemo!

²The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness that behold, “The days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, and the last of you with fish hooks.

²Prisegel je Gospod Jehova pri svetosti svoji: Glejte, pridejo dnevi nad vas, da vas bodo vlekli stran s trnki in ostanek vaš z vodicami.

³You will go out at the breaks in the wall, everyone straight before her; and you will cast yourselves into Harmon,” says Yahweh.

³In pojdete ven skozi vrzeli, vsaka naravnost predse, in boste pahnjene v Harmon, govori GOSPOD.

⁴“Go to Bethel, and sin; to Gilgal, and sin more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days,

⁴Le hodíte v Betel in se pregrešujte, v Gilgalu množite prestopke! In prinašajte vsako jutro klalne daritve, vsak tretji dan desetine svoje;

⁵offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim free will offerings and brag about them: for this pleases you, you children of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh.

⁵in zažigajte okvašeno v hvalno daritev ter razglašujte prostovoljne darove in jih oznanjajte! To vam je namreč všeč, o sinovi Izraelovi, govori Gospod Jehova.

⁶“I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.

⁶Saj tudi jaz sem vam dal čiste zobe po vseh mestih vaših in pomanjkanje kruha po vseh krajih vaših, a vendar se niste povrnili prav do mene, govori GOSPOD.

⁷“I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One place was rained on, and the piece where it didn’t rain withered.

⁷In jaz sem vam tudi zadržal dež, ko je bilo še tri mesece do žetve; in na eno mesto sem dal dežiti, na drugo pa ne, ena njiva je bila z dežjem pomočena, njiva pa, ki nanjo ni dežilo, se je posušila;

⁸So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.

⁸in iz dveh, treh mest so se opotekali do enega mesta, da bi pili vodo, a niso se odžejali. Vendar se niste povrnili prav do mene, govori GOSPOD.

⁹“I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards; and your fig trees and your olive trees have the swarming locust devoured: yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.

⁹Udaril sem vas snetjo in strupeno roso, množino vaših vrtov in vinogradov in smokev in oljk so požrle kobilice. Vendar se niste povrnili prav do mene, govori GOSPOD.

¹⁰“I sent plagues among you like I did Egypt. I have slain your young men with the sword, and have carried away your horses; and I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.

¹⁰Poslal sem med vas kugo po načinu egiptovskem; mladeniče vaše sem usmrtil z mečem in obenem sem dal odpeljati vaše konje in storil sem, da je smrad iz vaših šatorišč puhtel prav do vaših nosnic. Vendar se niste povrnili prav do mene, govori GOSPOD.

¹¹“I have overthrown some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.

¹¹Razdejal sem nekatere kraje vaše, kakor je Bog razdejal Sodomo in Gomoro; in bili ste kakor glavnja, potegnjena iz ognja. Vendar se niste povrnili prav do mene, govori GOSPOD.

¹²“Therefore thus will I do to you, Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel.

¹²Zavoljo tega ti hočem tako storiti, o Izrael; in ker ti to hočem storiti, pripravi se, Izrael, da pojdeš Bogu naproti!Kajti, glej, on, ki upodablja gore in ustvarja veter in oznanja človeku, kakšno je mišljenje njegovo, ki dela iz jutranje zarje temo in stopa po višavah zemeljskih: Jehova, Bog nad vojskami, je ime njegovo.

¹³For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.”

¹³Kajti, glej, on, ki upodablja gore in ustvarja veter in oznanja človeku, kakšno je mišljenje njegovo, ki dela iz jutranje zarje temo in stopa po višavah zemeljskih: Jehova, Bog nad vojskami, je ime njegovo.