¹I will stand at my watch, and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.

¹Na svojo čuvajnico stopim in se postavim na stolp in bom oprezoval, da bi videl, kaj bo govoril z menoj in kaj naj odgovorim na svojo tožbo.

²Yahweh answered me, “Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it.

²In GOSPOD mi je odgovoril, rekoč: Zapiši prikazen in razločno začrkaj na plošče, da se lahko čita.

³For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

³Kajti še velja prikazen za določeni čas in hiti do konca, in varala ne bo. Ako odlaša, je le čakaj; zakaj gotovo pride, se ne zakasni.

⁴Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

⁴Glej, kdor je prevzeten, duša njegova ni poštena v njem. Pravični pa bo živel po svoji veri.

⁵Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. A haughty man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol Sheol is the place of the dead. , and he is like death, and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.

⁵In vrhutega – koliko prevare je v vinu! Ošabni mož nima obstanka, ki odpira kakor pekel [Hebr. šeol.] žrelo svoje in kakor smrt ni nikdar sit, in grabi k sebi vse narode in vleče nase vsa ljudstva.

⁶Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’

⁶Ali ne začno vsi ti pregovora o njem in zabavljice in uganke o njem? in poreko: „Gorje mu, kdor zase kopiči, kar ni njegovo – doklej bo? in kdor nase deva zastavljeno blago!

⁷Won’t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?

⁷Ali ne vstanejo naglo, ki te bodo terjali za obresti, se li ne zbude, ki te poženejo s tvojega? in bodeš jim v plen.

⁸Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.

⁸Ker si ti oplenil mnoge narode, zato te opleni ves ostanek vseh ljudstev zavoljo človeške krvi in nasilstva, ki si ga storil deželi, mestu in vsem prebivalcem v njem.“

⁹Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

⁹Gorje mu, kdor grabi kriv dobiček za hišo svojo, da na visokem postavi gnezdo svoje, da se otme iz nesreče!

¹⁰You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.

¹⁰Sklenil si, kar je v sramoto hiši tvoji, pokončanje narodov mnogih, in s tem si grešil zoper dušo svojo.

¹¹For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.

¹¹Kajti kamen bo vpil iz stene in prečnica iz lesovja mu bo odgovarjala.

¹²Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!

¹²Gorje mu, kdor gradi mesta s krvjo in ustanavlja gradove s krivico!

¹³Behold, isn’t it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

¹³Glej, ni li to od GOSPODA nad vojskami, da se ljudstva trudijo za ogenj in narodi mučijo za nič?

¹⁴For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.

¹⁴Kajti zemlja bode polna spoznanja slave GOSPODOVE, kakor vode pokrivajo morja globočino.

¹⁵“Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!

¹⁵Gorje mu, kdor da pijačo bližnjemu svojemu in jo nameša s svojim žolčem, in ga tako upijani, da bi gledal nagoto njegovo!

¹⁶You are filled with shame, and not glory. You will also drink, and be exposed! The cup of Yahweh’s right hand will come around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory.

¹⁶Nasitil si se sramote namesto časti; pij tudi ti in kaži svojo neobrezo! Prideš tudi na vrsto, da prejmeš čašo iz desnice GOSPODOVE, in sramotno pljuvanje pride na slavo tvojo.

¹⁷For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the animals, which made them afraid; because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to every city and to those who dwell in them.

¹⁷Kajti nasilstvo, storjeno na Libanonu, te pokrije in poguba živali te bo strašila zavoljo človeške krvi in nasilstva, ki si ga storil deželi, mestu in vsem prebivalcem v njem.

¹⁸“What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?

¹⁸Kaj pomaga rezana podoba, da jo je izrezal podobar? kaj pomaga ulita podoba in učiteljica laži, da upa obraznik v svoj izdelek in še nareja neme malike?

¹⁹Woe to him who says to the wood, ‘Awake!’ or to the mute stone, ‘Arise!’ Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in its midst.

¹⁹Gorje mu, ki veleva lesu: Zbudi se! nememu kamenu: Vstani! Ta naj uči? Glej, prevlečen je z zlatom in srebrom in še diha ni v njem!Ali GOSPOD je v templju svetosti svoje – mólči pred njim, vsa zemlja!

²⁰But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”

²⁰Ali GOSPOD je v templju svetosti svoje – mólči pred njim, vsa zemlja!