¹Listen now to what Yahweh says: “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear what you have to say.

¹Čujte vendar, kar pravi GOSPOD: Vstani, pravdaj se vpričo gorá in hribi naj slišijo tvoj glas!

²Hear, you mountains, Yahweh’s controversy, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.

²Poslušajte, o gore, pravdo GOSPODOVO, in vi nepremični temelji zemlje! Zakaj pravdo ima GOSPOD z ljudstvom svojim in z Izraelom mora obračunati.

³My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me!

³Ljudstvo moje, kaj sem ti storil in s čim sem ti bil nadležen? Izpričaj zoper mene!

⁴For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage. I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

⁴Kajti pripeljal sem te gori iz dežele Egiptovske in te odrešil iz hiše sužnjev, in poslal sem pred teboj Mojzesa, Arona in Mirjamo.

⁵My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of Yahweh.”

⁵Ljudstvo moje, spomni se vendar, kaj je imel v mislih Balak, kralj moabski, in kaj mu je odgovoril Balam, sin Beorjev; kaj se je godilo od Sitima do Gilgala, da spoznaš pravična dela GOSPODOVA! –

⁶How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

⁶S čim naj stopim pred GOSPODA, se priklonim Bogu višave? Naj li stopim predenj z žgalnimi žrtvami, z enoletnimi teleti?

⁷Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

⁷Ali se bo GOSPOD veselil tisoč ovnov, desettisoč potokov olja? Ali naj dam prvenca svojega za prestopek svoj, svojega telesa sad za greh duše svoje?

⁸He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

⁸Naznanil ti je, o človek, kaj je dobro; in kaj zahteva GOSPOD od tebe, nego da strežeš pravici in ljubiš usmiljenje in da hodiš ponižno z Bogom svojim?

⁹Yahweh’s voice calls to the city, and wisdom sees your name: “Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it.

⁹Glas GOSPODOV kliče mestu – in mož zdrave pameti se bo bal tvojega imena. Poslušajte šibo in njega, ki jo je pripravil!

¹⁰Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah An ephah is a measure of volume (about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel), and a short ephah is made smaller than a full ephah for the purpose of cheating customers. that is accursed?

¹⁰So li še zakladi krivičnosti v hiši brezbožnikovi in premajhna mera, ki je prokleta?

¹¹Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

¹¹„Bodem li mar čist ob krivični tehtnici in če imam lažnive uteži v mošnji?“

¹²Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

¹²Njih bogatini so polni silovitosti in njih prebivalci govore laž in imajo prevarljive jezike v ustih!

¹³Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins.

¹³Zato te tudi jaz udarim neozdravljivo, te opustošim zavoljo grehov tvojih.

¹⁴You shall eat, but not be satisfied. Your humiliation will be in your midst. You will store up, but not save; and that which you save I will give up to the sword.

¹⁴Jedel boš, pa se ne nasitiš, in prazno ti ostane v notranjščini; v stran boš spravljal, a ne otmeš ničesar; in kar otmeš, izročim meču.

¹⁵You will sow, but won’t reap. You will tread the olives, but won’t anoint yourself with oil; and crush grapes, but won’t drink the wine.

¹⁵Sejal boš, pa ne boš žel; olivke boš tlačil, a z oljem se ne boš mazilil, tudi mošt, pa vina ne boš pil.Kajti drže se postav Omrijevih in ravnajo prav kakor hiša Ahabova in žive po njih svetu: zato da te izdam ljudem v strmenje in prebivalce mesta v žvižganje; in nosili boste ljudstva mojega sramoto.

¹⁶For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and her inhabitants a hissing; And you will bear the reproach of my people.”

¹⁶Kajti drže se postav Omrijevih in ravnajo prav kakor hiša Ahabova in žive po njih svetu: zato da te izdam ljudem v strmenje in prebivalce mesta v žvižganje; in nosili boste ljudstva mojega sramoto.