¹Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. The prey doesn’t depart.

¹Gorje okrvavljenemu mestu, vse polno je laži in silovitosti, ne neha ropati.

²The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots,

²Biči pokajo in kolesa škripljejo, konji dirjajo in vozovi drdrajo!

³the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies,

³Konjiki pridirjavajo in meči se svetijo in sulice blesketajo! množica je pobitih in grmada mrtvih in trupel brez konca; čez njih trupla padajo!

⁴because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft.

⁴zavoljo mnogega nečistovanja preljubke nečistnice, izvedenke v čaranju, ki prodaja narode s svojim nečistovanjem in rodove s svojim čarovništvom.

⁵“Behold, I am against you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.

⁵Glej, jaz sem zoper tebe, govori GOSPOD nad vojskami, in ti odgrnem rob suknje tvoje na obličje ter pokažem narodom nagoto tvojo in kraljestvom sramoto tvojo.

⁶I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle.

⁶In vržem nate blato in te storim ničvredno in te postavim na ogled.

⁷It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, ‘Nineveh is laid waste! Who will mourn for her?’ Where will I seek comforters for you?”

⁷In vsak, kdor te bo videl, pobeži od tebe in poreče: Ninive so opustošene! Kdo jih bo pomiloval? Odkod naj ti poiščem tolažnikov?

⁸Are you better than No-Amon, or, Thebes who was situated among the rivers, who had the waters around her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea?

⁸Si mar boljši nego mesto Noamon, ki je stalo pri rekah in imelo vode okoli sebe? Morje mu je bilo branišče, zidovi so štrleli iz morja.

⁹Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put and Libya were her helpers.

⁹Etiopija in Egipt sta bila njegova moč, in to brez konca; Put in Libija sta mu pomagala.

¹⁰Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

¹⁰Tudi ono je bilo odpeljano, je šlo v ujetništvo; tudi njegove otročiče so razbijali po voglih vseh ulic, in za njegove plemenitnike so metali kocko, in vsi njegovi velikaši so bili vkovani v verige.

¹¹You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy.

¹¹Tudi ti boš upijanjeno, se boš moralo skriti; tudi ti boš iskalo zavetišča pred sovražnikom.

¹²All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs: if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.

¹²Vse tvoje trdnjave so kakor smokve z zgodnjimi sadovi: če se potresejo, padejo v usta njemu, kdor jih hoče jesti.

¹³Behold, your troops in your midst are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.

¹³Glej, tvoje ljudstvo je kakor žene sredi tebe; sovražnikom tvojim so vrata dežele tvoje široko odprta, ogenj je požrl zapahe tvoje.

¹⁴Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.

¹⁴Zajmi si vode za čas oblege; popravi utrdbe svoje! Dróbi glino, tlači ilovico, utrdi opekarnico!

¹⁵There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.

¹⁵Tam te požre ogenj, te pokonča meč, požre te kakor glodalec, namnóži se, kakor glodalec, namnóži se kakor kobilice!

¹⁶You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.

¹⁶Napravil si več trgovcev, nego je zvezd na nebu; glodalec se spusti na plen, potem odleti.

¹⁷Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun appears, they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.

¹⁷Tvoji izbranci so kakor kobilice in tvoji vojaški poveljniki kakor roji kobilic, ki sedé na plotovih, kadar je mraz; ko pa vzide solnce, odlete, in nihče ne ve, kje so.

¹⁸Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them.

¹⁸Zaspali so pastirji tvoji, o kralj asirski, tvoji mogočneži počivajo; ljudstvo tvoje je razkropljeno po gorah in nikogar ni, ki bi ga zbral.Ni ga hladila potrtju tvojemu, rana tvoja je smrtna! Vsi, ki slišijo tvojo zgodbo, ploskajo z rokami nad teboj; kajti na koga se ni razlivala tvoja hudobnost neprestano?

¹⁹There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you; for who hasn’t felt your endless cruelty?

¹⁹Ni ga hladila potrtju tvojemu, rana tvoja je smrtna! Vsi, ki slišijo tvojo zgodbo, ploskajo z rokami nad teboj; kajti na koga se ni razlivala tvoja hudobnost neprestano?