¹The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

¹In beseda GOSPODOVA mi pride, govoreč:

²Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and drop your word toward the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel;

²Sin človečji, obrni obličje proti Jeruzalemu in kapljaj besede proti svetinjam in prorokuj zoper zemljo Izraelovo;

³and tell the land of Israel, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.

³in reci zemlji Izraelovi: Tako pravi GOSPOD: Glej, jaz sem zoper tebe in izderem meč iz njegovih nožnic in zatarem v tebi pravične in brezbožne.

⁴Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:

⁴Zatorej, ker zatarem v tebi pravične in brezbožne, pojde meč moj iz svojih nožnic zoper vse meso od poldneva do polnoči.

⁵and all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, have drawn forth my sword out of its sheath; it shall not return any more.

⁵In vse meso spozna, da sem jaz, GOSPOD, potegnil meč svoj iz nožnic njegovih; ne vrne se več.

⁶Sigh therefore, you son of man; with the breaking of your thighs and with bitterness you will sigh before their eyes.

⁶Ti pa, sin človečji, zdihuj, kakor da te ledje boli, v bridki bolečini zdihuj vpričo njih.

⁷It shall be, when they tell you, Why do you sigh? that you shall say, Because of the news, for it comes; and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh.

⁷In ko ti poreko: Zakaj zdihuješ? odgovóri: Zavoljo govorice, ki prihaja; in kopnelo bo vsako srce in vse roke opešajo in vsak duh omedli in vsa kolena se raztajejo kakor voda. Glej, prihaja in zgodi se to, govori Gospod Jehova.

⁸The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

⁸Še mi pride beseda GOSPODOVA, govoreč:

⁹Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says Yahweh: Say, A sword, a sword, it is sharpened, and also furbished;

⁹Sin človečji, prorokuj in reci: Tako pravi Gospod: Reci: Meč, meč, nabrušen in zlikan!

¹⁰it is sharpened that it may make a slaughter; it is furbished that it may be as lightning: shall we then make mirth? the rod of my son, it condemns every tree.

¹⁰Da napravi klanje, je nabrušen, da se bliska, je zlikan. Ali naj se razveseljujemo? Palica, določena za mojega sina, zaničuje vse drevje.

¹¹It is given to be furbished, that it may be handled: the sword, it is sharpened, yes, it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the killer.

¹¹Dali so ga zlikati, da se more prijeti v roko. Meč je nabrušen in zlikan, da se da morilcu v roko.

¹²Cry and wail, son of man; for it is on my people, it is on all the princes of Israel: they are delivered over to the sword with my people; strike therefore on your thigh.

¹²Vpij in tuli, sin človečji! kajti zoper moje ljudstvo je namerjen, zoper vse kneze Izraelove: meču so izročeni z mojim ljudstvom vred; zato se tolci po stegnih.

¹³For there is a trial; and what if even the rod that condemns shall be no more? says the Lord Yahweh.

¹³Kajti izkušnja se je naredila; kaj pa, če palice, ki zaničuje vse, ne bode več? govori Gospod Jehova.

¹⁴You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and strike your hands together; and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the deadly wounded: it is the sword of the great one who is deadly wounded, which enters into their rooms.

¹⁴Ti pa, sin človečji, prorokuj in ploskaj z roko ob roko; in dvojen bodi meč, trojen bodi meč, ki smrtno rani; morilni meč, veliki morilni meč je, ki jih obkroža.

¹⁵I have set the threatening sword against all their gates, that their heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied: ah! it is made as lightning, it is pointed for slaughter.

¹⁵Nameril sem ost meča proti vsem njih vratom, da jim skopni srce in jih mnogo popada. Gorje! narejen je, da se bliska, priostrili so ga za morjenje.

¹⁶Gather yourselves together, go to the right, set yourselves in array, go to the left, wherever your face is set.

¹⁶Mahaj zadaj, na desno, spredaj, na levo, kamorkoli je namerjena ostrica tvoja!

¹⁷I will also strike my hands together, and I will cause my wrath to rest: I, Yahweh, have spoken it.

¹⁷Pa tudi jaz bom ploskal z roko ob roko, in potolažim srd svoj. Jaz, GOSPOD, sem govoril.

¹⁸The word of Yahweh came to me again, saying,

¹⁸Zopet mi pride beseda GOSPODOVA, govoreč:

¹⁹Also, you son of man, appoint two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come; they both shall come forth out of one land: and mark out a place, mark it out at the head of the way to the city.

¹⁹In ti, sin človečji, napravi si dva pota, po katerih naj pride meč kralja babilonskega; iz ene dežele naj držita oba; in nariši kažipot, ob začetku pota v mesto ga nariši.

²⁰You shall appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.

²⁰Napravi pot, da bi prišel meč v Rabo sinov Amonovih in na Judovo v utrjeni Jeruzalem.

²¹For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he shook the arrows back and forth, he consulted the teraphim, he looked in the liver.

²¹Zakaj kralj babilonski se ustavi ob razpotju, ob začetku tistih dveh potov, da se posvetuje z vedeževanjem: pretresa pšice, vprašuje hišne malike, ogleduje jetra.

²²In his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build forts.

²²V desnico njegovo pride vedeževanje „Jeruzalem!“, da naj nastavi zidolome, odpre usta, veleč moriti, povzdigne glas z bojnim vpitjem, nastavi zidolome zoper vrata, nanosi nasipe, zgradi obležne utrdbe.

²³It shall be to them as a false divination in their sight, who have sworn oaths to them; but he brings iniquity to memory, that they may be taken.

²³In zdelo se jim bo, kakor da je lažnivo vedeževanje; s prisego so jim potrdili; a on napelje v spomin krivdo, da bi bili ujeti.

²⁴Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins appear; because you have come to memory, you shall be taken with the hand.

²⁴Zatorej pravi tako Gospod Jehova: Ker ste napeljali v spomin krivdo svojo s tem, da so se odkrili prestopki vaši, tako da se vidijo v vseh dejanjih vaših grehi vaši – ker ste prišli v spomin, boste ujeti z roko morilčevo.

²⁵You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,

²⁵Ti pa, skrunilec svetega, brezbožnik, knez Izraelov, čigar dan je prišel ob času, ko se krivičnosti naredi konec,

²⁶thus says the Lord Yahweh: Remove the turban, and take off the crown; this shall be no more the same; exalt that which is low, and abase that which is high.

²⁶tako pravi Gospod Jehova: Snemite mu pokrivalo z glave, vzemite mu krono! Kar je, ne bode več tako. Nizko bodi povišano in visoko ponižano!

²⁷I will overturn, overturn, overturn it: this also shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.

²⁷Uničim, uničim, uničim jo; tudi ta ne bode več – dokler ne pride, kateri ima pravico do nje: njemu jo dam.

²⁸You, son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach; and say, A sword, a sword is drawn, for the slaughter it is furbished, to cause it to devour, that it may be as lightning;

²⁸Ti pa, sin človečji, prorokuj in reci: Tako pravi Gospod Jehova zastran sinov Amonovih in zastran njih sramotenja, in reci: Meč, meč, izdrt v morjenje, poostren, da požira, da se bliska

²⁹while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies to you, to lay you on the necks of the wicked who are deadly wounded, whose day has come in the time of the iniquity of the end.

²⁹(oni pa vidijo ničemurne prikazni zate, ti prorokujejo laži), da ga denejo na vratove skrunilcem svetega, brezbožnikom, katerih dan je prišel ob času, ko se krivičnosti naredi konec.

³⁰Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your birth, will I judge you.

³⁰Vtakni ga zopet v nožnice svoje! Tam, kjer si bil ustvarjen, v rojstva tvojega deželi te bom sodil.

³¹I will pour out my indignation on you; I will blow on you with the fire of my wrath; and I will deliver you into the hand of brutish men, skillful to destroy.

³¹In izlijem srd svoj nadte, ogenj jeze svoje bom pihal zoper tebe; in dam te v roko ljudem živinskim, ki kujejo pogubo.Ognju bodeš v jed; kri tvoja bo sredi dežele; ne bo ti spomina več. Zakaj jaz, GOSPOD, sem govoril.

³²You shall be for fuel to the fire; your blood shall be in the midst of the land; you shall be remembered no more: for I, Yahweh, have spoken it.

³²Ognju bodeš v jed; kri tvoja bo sredi dežele; ne bo ti spomina več. Zakaj jaz, GOSPOD, sem govoril.