¹He said to me, Son of man, eat that which you find. Eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.

¹In mi veli: Sin človečji, jej, kar najdeš; jej ta zvitek in pojdi, govóri hiši Izraelovi.

²So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the scroll.

²In odprem usta, in on mi da jesti tisti zvitek.

³He said to me, Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your bowels with this scroll that I give you. Then I ate it; and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth.

³In mi reče: Sin človečji, nasiti si trebuh in napolni život svoj s tem zvitkom, ki ti ga dajem. In použil sem ga, in bil je v ustih mojih sladek kakor med.

⁴He said to me, Son of man, go to the house of Israel, and speak my words to them.

⁴Nato mi veli: Sin človečji, pojdi k Izraelovi hiši in govori jim z mojimi besedami!

⁵For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;

⁵Zakaj nisi poslan k ljudstvu globokega govora in neznanega jezika, temuč k hiši Izraelovi;

⁶not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you can not understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you.

⁶ne k mnogim ljudstvom globokega govora in neznanega jezika, katerih besede ne moreš umeti. Res, ko bi te k takim poslal, bi te radi poslušali.

⁷But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will not listen to me: for all the house of Israel are obstinate Literally, have a hard forehead and hard-hearted.

⁷Ali hiša Izraelova te ne bo hotela poslušati, ker nočejo mene poslušati; zakaj vsa hiša Izraelova je trdega čela in otrplega srca.

⁸Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads.

⁸Glej, jaz sem naredil obličje tvoje trdo proti njih obličju in čelo tvoje trdo proti njih čelu;

⁹As an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead: don’t be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.

⁹kakor demant, trše od skale sem naredil čelo tvoje. Ne boj se jih in ne ustraši se njih obličja, kajti uporna so družina.

¹⁰Moreover he said to me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears.

¹⁰Še mi veli: Sin človečji, vse besede moje, ki ti jih bom govoril, sprejmi v srce svoje in poslušaj z ušesi svojimi.

¹¹Go to them of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.

¹¹Vstani pa idi k odpeljanim v sužnost, k svojega ljudstva otrokom, pa jim govori in jim reci: „Tako pravi Gospod Jehova!“ najsi poslušajo ali pa ne.

¹²Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of Yahweh from his place.

¹²Tedaj me je vzdignil duh, in slišal sem za seboj glas velikega grmenja, govoreč: „Hvaljena bodi slava GOSPODOVA s svojega mesta!“

¹³I heard the noise of the wings of the living creatures as they touched one another, and the noise of the wheels beside them, even the noise of a great rushing.

¹³in šumenje perutnic živih stvari, ki so se dotikale druga druge, in ropot koles vzporedno ž njimi in glas velikega grmenja.

¹⁴So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and the hand of Yahweh was strong on me.

¹⁴In duh me je vzdignil in odnesel, in šel sem v bridkosti, v gorečnosti duha svojega in roka GOSPODOVA je bila mogočna nad menoj.

¹⁵Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel Aviv, that lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days.

¹⁵In prišel sem v Telabib k preseljenim v sužnost, bivajočim pri reki Kebarju, in ondi, kjer so oni sedeli, sem sedel strmeč sedem dni.

¹⁶It happened at the end of seven days, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

¹⁶In zgodi se ob koncu sedmih dni, da mi je prišla beseda GOSPODOVA, govoreč:

¹⁷Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel: therefore hear the word from my mouth, and give them warning from me.

¹⁷Sin človečji, za čuvaja sem te postavil hiši Izraelovi, da bi jih, čujoč besedo iz mojih ust, svaril v mojem imenu.

¹⁸When I tell the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand.

¹⁸Ako rečem brezbožniku: Gotovo umreš! A ti ga ne posvariš in ne govoriš, da odvrneš brezbožnika s krivične poti njegove, da ga ohraniš v življenju; umre ta brezbožnik v krivici svoji, ali kri njegovo bom zahteval iz tvojih rok.

¹⁹Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn’t turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.

¹⁹Toda če posvariš brezbožnika, on pa se ne preobrne od svoje brezbožnosti in od krivične poti svoje: umre v krivici svoji, ali ti si otel dušo svojo.

²⁰Again, when a righteous man does turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die: because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand.

²⁰In ko se odvrne pravični od pravičnosti svoje in bo delal krivico in mu nastavim spotikljaj: umre; ako ga nisi posvaril, umre v grehu svojem in pravičnih del njegovih, ki jih je storil, se ne bo spominjalo, toda kri njegovo bom zahteval iz tvojih rok.

²¹Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.

²¹Ako pa posvariš pravičnega, da bi ne grešil, pa ne bo grešil, gotovo bo živel, ker se je dal posvariti; ti pa si otel dušo svojo.

²²The hand of Yahweh was there on me; and he said to me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with you.

²²In roka GOSPODOVA je bil tam nad menoj, in mi veli: Vstani, pojdi v nižavo, in tam bom govoril s teboj.

²³Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and behold, the glory of Yahweh stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.

²³Vstanem torej in odidem v nižavo. In glej, ondi je stala slava GOSPODOVA, enaka slavi, ki sem jo videl pri reki Kebarju. In padem na obraz svoj.

²⁴Then the Spirit entered into me, and set me on my feet; and he spoke with me, and said to me, Go, shut yourself inside your house.

²⁴A duh pride v me in me postavi pokonci. In govori z menoj in mi reče: Pojdi, zakleni se v hišo svojo.

²⁵But you, son of man, behold, they shall lay bands on you, and shall bind you with them, and you shall not go out among them:

²⁵In ti, sin človečji, glej: vrvi denejo nate in te zvežejo ž njimi, da ne boš mogel iti ven mednje.

²⁶and I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, that you shall be mute, and shall not be to them a reprover; for they are a rebellious house.

²⁶In storim, da se ti jezik prilepi k nebesu, da onemiš in jim ne boš svarilec; kajti uporna so družina.Ali ko bom govoril s teboj, odprem usta tvoja, in porečeš jim: Tako pravi Gospod Jehova: Kdor hoče poslušati, poslušaj, kdor pa noče, naj ne posluša; kajti uporna so družina.

²⁷But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: He who hears, let him hear; and he who forbears, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.

²⁷Ali ko bom govoril s teboj, odprem usta tvoja, in porečeš jim: Tako pravi Gospod Jehova: Kdor hoče poslušati, poslušaj, kdor pa noče, naj ne posluša; kajti uporna so družina.