¹“Say to your brothers, ‘My people!’ ‘Ammi’ in Hebrew and to your sisters, ‘My loved one!’ ‘Ruhamah’ in Hebrew

¹Recite bratom svojim: Ami [T. j. Ljudstvo moje.], in sestram svojim: Ruhama [T. j. Pomiloščena.].

²Contend with your mother! Contend, for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her prostitution from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

²Pravdajte se z materjo svojo, pravdajte! Kajti ona ni moja žena in jaz nisem njen mož; in naj odpravi nečistovanje svoje izpred svojega obličja in prešeštvovanje svoje izmed svojih prsi:

³Lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.

³da je ne slečem do nagega in je ne postavim, kakor je bila v dan svojega rojstva, in je ne naredim kakor puščavo in kakor suho zemljo ter je ne dam v smrt od žeje.

⁴Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy; for they are children of unfaithfulness;

⁴In njenih otrok se ne usmilim, ker so otroci nečistosti.

⁵For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; for she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’

⁵Kajti njih mati je nečistovala, sramotno se je vedla njih roditeljica; zakaj dejala je: Hodila bom za ljubovniki svojimi, ki mi dajo kruh moj in vodo mojo, volno mojo in predivo moje, olje moje in pijačo mojo.

⁶Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can’t find her way.

⁶Zato, glej, zagradim pot tvojo s trnjem in postavim zid zoper njo, da ne najde svojih stezá.

⁷She will follow after her lovers, but she won’t overtake them; and she will seek them, but won’t find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.’

⁷In tekla bo za svojimi ljubovniki, a ne dohiti jih, ter jih bo iskala, pa jih ne najde; tedaj poreče: Pojdem in se povrnem k prvemu možu svojemu, ker se mi je bolje godilo takrat nego sedaj!

⁸For she did not know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

⁸A ona ni spoznala, da sem jaz ji dajal žito in vino in olje ter ji množil srebro in zlato, kar so vse trošili za Baala.

⁹Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my new wine in its season, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.

⁹Zato vzamem nazaj žito svoje ob svojem času in vino svoje ob določenem času in ji iztrgam volno svojo in predivo svoje, ki naj bi bilo pokrilo njeno nagoto.

¹⁰Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of my hand.

¹⁰In sedaj odkrijem njeno sramoto vpričo ljubovnikov njenih, in nihče je ne otme iz moje roke.

¹¹I will also cause all her celebrations to cease: her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.

¹¹Storim tudi konec vsej njeni veselosti, njenim praznikom, njenim mlajem in sobotam in vsem prazničnim časom njenim.

¹²I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, about which she has said, ‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest,’ and the animals of the field shall eat them.

¹²In opustošim njene vinske trte in njeno smokovo drevje, o čemer je govorila: To je plačilo moje, ki so mi ga dajali ljubovniki moji. In naredim iz tega gozd, in poljske zveri bodo objedale vse.

¹³I will visit on her the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me,” says Yahweh.

¹³In kaznoval jo bom za dneve, posvečene Baalom, ob katerih jim je zažigala kadilo, ko se je lišpala s svojimi obročki in z drago ovratnino in hodila za svojimi ljubovniki, mene pa je pozabila, govori GOSPOD.

¹⁴“Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.

¹⁴Zato, glej, jaz jo izvabim in popeljem v puščavo in govoril ji bom na srce;

¹⁵I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁵in dam ji odondod njene vinograde in dolino Ahor, da ji bode vrata upanja; in zapoje tam, kakor je pela v dneh mladosti svoje in kakor v dan, ko je šla gori iz dežele Egiptovske.

¹⁶It will be in that day,” says Yahweh, “that you will call me ‘my husband,’ and no longer call me ‘my master.’

¹⁶In zgodi se tisti dan, govori GOSPOD, da me boš imenovala: moj mož, in ne boš me več imenovala: moj Baal.

¹⁷For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they will no longer be mentioned by name.

¹⁷Kajti vzamem imena Baalov iz njenih ust, da se nikoli več ne omenijo njih imena.

¹⁸In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the creeping things of the ground. I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle out of the land, and will make them lie down safely.

¹⁸In tisti dan sklenem zanje zavezo z zvermi na polju in s pticami nebeškimi in z laznino po zemlji ter starem lok, meč in vojno orožje v deželi in storim, da bodo varno počivali.

¹⁹I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.

¹⁹In zaročim se s teboj na vekomaj; in zaročim se s teboj v pravičnosti in v sodbi in v milosti in v usmiljenju,

²⁰I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know Yahweh.

²⁰zaročim se, pravim, s teboj v zvestobi, in spoznaš GOSPODA.

²¹It will happen in that day, I will respond,” says Yahweh, “I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth;

²¹In zgodi se tisti dan, da odgovorim, pravi GOSPOD: odgovorim nebu, in to odgovori zemlji,

²²and the earth will respond to the grain, and the new wine, and the oil; and they will respond to Jezreel.

²²in zemlja odgovori žitu in vinu in olju, in ta odgovore Jezreelu [T. j. ki ga seje Bog.].In zasejem si jo po deželi, in usmilim se Lo-ruhame; in porečem njim, ki niso bili moje ljudstvo: Moje si ljudstvo, in ono poreče: Ti si Bog moj!

²³I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’ and they will say, ‘My God!’”

²³In zasejem si jo po deželi, in usmilim se Lo-ruhame; in porečem njim, ki niso bili moje ljudstvo: Moje si ljudstvo, in ono poreče: Ti si Bog moj!