¹Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees;

¹Gorje jim, ki sklepajo krivične postave, in pisateljem, ki spisujejo nadlogo,

²to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

²da izpodrinejo siromake iz pravde in da ugrabijo pravico ubožcem ljudstva mojega, da jim bodo vdove za plen ter da oropajo sirote!

³What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

³Kaj boste počeli ob dnevi obiskovanja in ob nevihti, ki pride iz daljave? h komu se zatečete za pomoč? in kam spravite bogastvo svoje?

⁴They will only bow down under the prisoners, and will fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

⁴Nič drugega vam ne bo mogoče, nego sključiti se med ujetniki in pasti med ubitimi. Pri vsem tem se ne odvrne jeza Njegova, a še je iztegnjena Njegova roka.

⁵Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!

⁵Gorje Asircu, ki je šiba jeze moje in palica v roki njegovi togota moja!

⁶I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me will I give him a command to take the spoil and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

⁶Nad hinavski rod ga pošljem in zoper ljudstvo, s katerim se srdim, mu dam povelje, da naj pleni plen in da naj ropa rop in naj jih potepta kakor na ulicah blato.

⁷However he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.

⁷On seveda ne meni tako in srce njegovo ne misli tako; pogubiti mu je le namera in potrebiti narodov ne malo.

⁸For he says, “Aren’t all of my princes kings?

⁸Kajti govori: Niso li vsi knezi moji tudi kralji?

⁹Isn’t Calno like Carchemish? Isn’t Hamath like Arpad? Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?”

⁹Ni li Kalno kakor Karkemiš? ni li Hamat kakor Arpad? ni li kakor Damask Samarija?

¹⁰As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images exceeded those of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

¹⁰Kakor je roka moja dosegla kraljestva malikov, katerih rezane podobe so bile lepše od jeruzalemskih in samarijskih –

¹¹shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

¹¹ali ne bom, kakor sem storil Samariji in malikom njenim, enako storil Jeruzalemu in njegovim podobam?

¹²Therefore it will happen that, when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his haughty looks.

¹²Zato se zgodi, ko Gospod dovrši vse delo svoje na gori Sionski in v Jeruzalemu, da bom kaznoval sad prevzetnega srca kralja asirskega in bahanje ponosnih oči njegovih.

¹³For he has said, “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers.

¹³Kajti govoril je: Z roke svoje krepkostjo sem storil to in z modrostjo svojo, ker sem razumen; in premaknil sem ljudstvom meje in uplenil sem njih zaklade in pahnil kot mogočnjak s prestolov nje, ki so na njih sedeli;

¹⁴My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, have I gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped.”

¹⁴in roka moja je dosegla kakor gnezdo bogastvo ljudstev, in kakor bi pobiral jajca zapuščena, sem obral vso deželo, in ni ga bilo, da bi bil ganil s perutjo ali odprl usta ali začivkal. –

¹⁵Should an axe brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.

¹⁵Se li more ponašati sekira proti njemu, ki seka ž njo? ali rezilo se poviševati proti njemu, ki ga rabi? kakor da bi šiba vihtela njega, ki jo dviga, kakor da bi privzdigovala palica človeka, ki ni od lesa!

¹⁶Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory a burning will be kindled like the burning of fire.

¹⁶Zato pošlje Gospod, Jehova nad vojskami, med debeluhe njegove sušico, in pod slavo njegovo se vname požar, podoben ognjenemu požaru.

¹⁷The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.

¹⁷In luč Izraelova bode za ogenj in Svetnik njegov za plamen, ki zapali in požge grmovje in trnje njegovo en dan.

¹⁸He will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body. It will be as when a standard bearer faints.

¹⁸In pokonča slavo gozda njegovega in rodovitnih njiv njegovih z dušo in z mesom, da bode, kakor ko hira jetičnik.

¹⁹The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child could write their number.

¹⁹In majhen bode ostanek drevja v gozdu njegovem, da ga bo deček mogel zapisati.

²⁰It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, and those who have escaped from the house of Jacob will no more again lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

²⁰In zgodi se tisti dan, da se ne bode ostanek Izraelov in kdor se ohrani hiši Jakobovi več opiral nanj, ki jih je tepel, marveč opiral se bo na GOSPODA, Svetnika Izraelovega, v resnici.

²¹A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.

²¹Ostanek se preobrne, ostanek Jakobov k mogočnemu Bogu.

²²For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

²²Kajti ko bi bilo ljudstva tvojega, Izrael, kakor peska morskega, le ostanek se preobrne iz njega. Določeno je pokončanje, ki razliva obilno pravičnost.

²³For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will make a full end, and that determined, in the midst of all the earth.

²³Zakaj pokončanje, in to določeno, dovrši Gospod, Jehova nad vojskami, sredi vse zemlje.

²⁴Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, says “My people who dwell in Zion, don’t be afraid of the Assyrian, though he strike you with the rod, and lift up his staff against you, as Egypt did.

²⁴Zatorej pravi tako Gospod, Jehova nad vojskami: Ne boj se, ljudstvo moje, ki prebivaš na Sionu, Asirca! S šibo te bo tepel in palico svojo bo vzdignil zoper tebe, kakor se je v Egiptu godilo.

²⁵For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed to his destruction.”

²⁵Kajti še malo, prav malo časa, potem bode konec srditosti in jeza moja se obrne nanje, da jih pokonča.

²⁶Yahweh of Armies will stir up a scourge against him, as in the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb. His rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up like he did against Egypt.

²⁶In GOSPOD nad vojskami zavihti zoper njega bič kakor v poboju Madiancev pri skali Orebski; in palica Njegova bode nad morjem in jo vzdigne, kakor jo je vzdignil nad Egiptom.

²⁷It will happen in that day, that his burden will depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing oil.

²⁷In zgodi se v tistem času, da se razprta breme njegovo z rame tvoje in jarem njegov z vratu tvojega, da, jarem razpade spričo maziljenja [Ali: tolščobe; dobesedno: olja.].

²⁸He has come to Aiath. He has passed through Migron. At Michmash he stores his baggage.

²⁸Pride v Ajat, pojde skozi Migron, pri Mikmasu odloži prtljago svojo;

²⁹They have gone over the pass. They have taken up their lodging at Geba. Ramah trembles. Gibeah of Saul has fled.

²⁹preidejo prelaz, veleč: v Gebi bo naše prenočišče! Rama trepeta, Gibea Savlova beži.

³⁰Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Listen, Laishah! You poor Anathoth!

³⁰Glasno vpij, hči galimska! Poslušaj, o Lajsa! O ubožica Anatot!

³¹Madmenah is a fugitive. The inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety.

³¹Madmena beži, prebivalci gebimski so se zbrali, da pobegnejo.

³²This very day he will halt at Nob. He shakes his hand at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

³²Še danes se ustavi v Nobu, že zavihti roko svojo proti gori hčere sionske, proti hribu jeruzalemskemu. –

³³Behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will lop the boughs with terror. The tall will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low.

³³Glej, Gospod, Jehova nad vojskami, poseka veje z grozno močjo, in tisti, ki so visoke postave, bodo posekani, in prevzetni bodo ponižani;in posekal bo gozdno goščavo z železom svojim, in Libanon pade po Veličastnem.

³⁴He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.

³⁴in posekal bo gozdno goščavo z železom svojim, in Libanon pade po Veličastnem.