¹The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.

¹Beseda GOSPODOVA, ki je prišla Jeremiju o sušah:

²Judah mourns, and its gates languish, they sit in black on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

²Judeja žaluje in vrata njena hirajo, v žalni obleki ležé na tleh in tožno vpitje Jeruzalema gre kvišku.

³Their nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the cisterns, and find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads.

³Tudi njih plemenitniki pošiljajo najmanjše svoje po vodo: pridejo k vodnjakom, in ne najdejo vode, povrnejo se s praznimi posodami; sram jih je in s sramoto obliti si pokrivajo glave.

⁴Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are disappointed, they cover their heads.

⁴Zavoljo žejne zemlje, ker ni bilo dežja v deželi, so kmetovalci osramočeni in si pokrivajo glave.

⁵Yes, the hind also in the field calves, and forsakes her young, because there is no grass.

⁵Da, tudi košuta na polju zapušča mladiče, ko jih je rodila, ker ni nobene trave.

⁶The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.

⁶In divji osli, stoječ na golih gričih, duškajo kakor šakali; hirajo jim oči, ker ni zelenjave.

⁷Though our iniquities testify against us, work for your name’s sake, Yahweh; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.

⁷Dasi pričajo krivice naše zoper nas, o GOSPOD, delaj z nami zaradi imena svojega; kajti mnogi so odpadi naši, tebi smo grešili.

⁸You hope of Israel, its Savior in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night?

⁸O upanje Izraelovo, rešitelj njegov v času stiske, zakaj si kakor tujec v tej deželi in kakor popotnik, ki se ustavi, da prenoči?

⁹Why should you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can’t save? Yet you, Yahweh, are in the midst of us, and we are called by your name; don’t leave us.

⁹Zakaj bi bil kakor prestrašen mož, kakor junak, ki ne more rešiti? Saj si vendar sredi nas, GOSPOD, in po imenu tvojem se zovemo, ne zapusti nas!

¹⁰Thus says Yahweh to this people, Even so have they loved to wander; they have not refrained their feet: therefore Yahweh does not accept them; now he will remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.

¹⁰Tako pravi GOSPOD o tem ljudstvu: Tako radi tekajo semintja, nog svojih ne zdržujejo, zato jih GOSPOD ne sprejema prijazno; sedaj se spomni jih krivic in kaznoval bo njih grehe.

¹¹Yahweh said to me, Don’t pray for this people for their good.

¹¹In GOSPOD mi je velel: Nikar ne prosi temu ljudstvu v prid!

¹²When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.

¹²Ko se bodo postili, ne uslišim njih vpitja, in ko bodo prinašali žgalne in jedilne daritve, jih milo ne sprejmem, temuč z mečem in lakoto in kugo jih pokončam.

¹³Then I said, Ah, Lord Yahweh! behold, the prophets tell them, You shall not see the sword, neither shall you have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.

¹³Tedaj rečem: Oh, Gospod Jehova! glej, tisti proroki jim govore: Ne boste izkusili meča in lakote vam ne bode, ampak stanoviten mir vam dam v tem kraju.

¹⁴Then Yahweh said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name; I didn’t send them, neither have I commanded them, neither spoke I to them: they prophesy to you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart.

¹⁴Nato mi reče GOSPOD: Lažnivo prorokujejo tisti proroki v mojem imenu; nisem jih poslal, ne zapovedal jim, še ogovoril jih nisem: sami vam prorokujejo z lažnivo prikaznijo in vedeževanjem in ničnostjo in z zvijačo svojega srca.

¹⁵Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, and I didn’t send them, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land: By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.

¹⁵Zato pravi GOSPOD zoper tiste proroke, ki prorokujejo v mojem imenu, ko jih jaz nisem poslal, in govore: „Meča ali lakote ne bode v tej deželi“, z mečem in lakoto poginejo tisti proroki.

¹⁶The people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them—them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness on them.

¹⁶Ljudstvo pa, ki mu oni prorokujejo, bo ležalo po ulicah jeruzalemskih od lakote in meča, in nikogar ne bodo imeli, da bi pokopaval nje, njih žene in njih sinove in hčere; tako razlijem nadnje njih hudobnost.

¹⁷You shall say this word to them, Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.

¹⁷Porečeš jim torej to besedo: Iz mojih oči kapajo solze noč in dan in ne prenehajo liti; zakaj z velikim potrtjem je potrta devica, hči mojega ljudstva, s prehudim udarcem.

¹⁸If I go forth into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then, behold, those who are sick with famine! for both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.

¹⁸Če grem na polje, glej, tam prebodeni z meči; če pa stopim v mesto, glej, tam bolni od lakote! kajti i prorok i duhovnik hodita po deželi in nimata spoznanja.

¹⁹Have you utterly rejected Judah? has your soul loathed Zion? why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!

¹⁹Ali si docela zavrtel Judo? ali se je Siona naveličala duša tvoja? Zakaj nas biješ tako, da nam ni zdravila? Ko čakamo miru, ni nič dobrega, in čas zdravljenja, glej, tolik strah!

²⁰We acknowledge, Yahweh, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you.

²⁰Spoznavamo, GOSPOD, brezbožnost svojo, očetov svojih krivico; kajti grešili smo zoper tebe.

²¹Do not abhor us, for your name’s sake; do not disgrace the throne of your glory: remember, don’t break your covenant with us.

²¹Ne zaničuj nas zaradi imena svojega, ne onečaščuj prestola slave svoje, spomni se, ne prelomi zaveze svoje z nami!Ali so med ničevimi maliki poganov kateri, da dajó dežja? ali pa nebesa morejo dati deževje? Nisi li ti tisti, o GOSPOD, Bog naš? Zato čakamo tebe, ker ti sam si naredil vse to.

²²Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the sky give showers? Aren’t you he, Yahweh our God? therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.

²²Ali so med ničevimi maliki poganov kateri, da dajó dežja? ali pa nebesa morejo dati deževje? Nisi li ti tisti, o GOSPOD, Bog naš? Zato čakamo tebe, ker ti sam si naredil vse to.