¹Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackcloth, and earth on them.

¹A štiriindvajseti dan tega meseca so se zbrali sinovi Izraelovi s postom in v žalni obleki in s prstjo na glavi.

²The seed of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.

²In seme Izraelovo se je ločilo od vseh otrok tujcev, in ustopili so se in pripoznavali grehe svoje in očetov svojih kriva dejanja.

³They stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of Yahweh their God a fourth part of the day; and a fourth part they confessed, and worshiped Yahweh their God.

³In stali so na mesto svojem in so brali v knjigi postave GOSPODA, svojega Boga, četrti del dne. In drugi četrti del dne so pripoznavali in se poklanjali GOSPODU, svojemu Bogu.

⁴Then Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani of the Levites stood up on the stairs, and cried with a loud voice to Yahweh their God.

⁴Nato stopijo na stopnice levitov Jesua, Bani, Kadmiel, Sebanija, Buni, Serebija, Bani in Kenani, in so vpili z velikim glasom h GOSPODU, svojemu Bogu.

⁵Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, “Stand up and bless Yahweh your God from everlasting to everlasting! Bessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise!

⁵In leviti: Jesua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hasabneja, Serebija, Hodija, Sebanija in Petahija so dejali: Vstanite in hvalite GOSPODA, svojega Boga, od vekomaj do vekomaj! In hvaljeno bodi ime slave tvoje, ki je vzvišeno nad vsako hvalo in proslavo.

⁶You are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you.

⁶Ti si GOSPOD, ti edini! Ti si naredil nebo, nebesa nebes in vso njih vojsko, zemljo in vse, kar je na njej, morja in karkoli je v njih, in ti jim vsem vzdržuješ obstanek; in vojske nebeške te molijo.

⁷You are Yahweh, the God who chose Abram, and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gave him the name of Abraham,

⁷Ti si Jehova, Bog, ki si izvolil Abrama ter ga pripeljal iz Ura Kaldejcev, in dal si mu ima Abraham.

⁸and found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his seed, and have performed your words; for you are righteous.

⁸In našel si srce njegovo zvesto pred seboj ter sklenil ž njim zavezo, da mu daš deželo Kanaancev, Hetejcev, Amorejcev, Ferizejcev, Jebusejcev in Girgasejcev, da jo daš semenu njegovemu, in si vzdržal besede svoje, zakaj ti si pravičen.

⁹“You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Red Sea or, Sea of Reeds ,

⁹Ti si videl nadlogo očetov naših v Egiptu in slišal njih vpitje ob Rdečem morju;

¹⁰and showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, and against all his servants, and against all the people of his land; for you knew that they dealt proudly against them, and made a name for yourself, as it is this day.

¹⁰in storil si znamenja in čudeže nad Faraonom in nad vsemi hlapci njegovimi in nad vsem ljudstvom dežele njegove, zakaj vedel si, da so prevzetno ravnali proti njim; in si sebi storil ime, kakor je današnji dan.

¹¹You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and you cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.

¹¹Razklal si morje pred njimi, da so šli sredi morja po suhem; njih preganjalce pa si vrgel v globočine, kakor kamen v silne vode.

¹²Moreover, in a pillar of cloud you led them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way in which they should go.

¹²In vodil si jih v oblakovem stebru po dne in v ognjenem stebru po noči, da bi jim svetil na poti, ki so po njej šli.

¹³“You came down also on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,

¹³In prišel si doli na goro Sinaj in govoril si ž njimi iz nebes ter jim dal pravične sodbe in zakone resnične ter dobre postave in zapovedi;

¹⁴and made known to them your holy Sabbath, and commanded them commandments, and statutes, and a law, by Moses your servant,

¹⁴in znano si jim storil sveto soboto svojo in jim zapovedal zapovedi in postave in zakon po Mojzesu, hlapcu svojem.

¹⁵and gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and commanded them that they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn to give them.

¹⁵In kadar so bili lačni, si jim dajal kruha iz nebes in izpeljal si zanje vodo iz skale, ko so bili žejni, in si jim velel, naj gredo posest deželo, za katero si s povzdignjeno roko prisegel, da jim jo daš.

¹⁶“But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their neck, didn’t listen to your commandments,

¹⁶Ali oni, očetje naši, so ravnali prevzetno in postali so trdovratni in niso poslušali zapovedi tvojih

¹⁷and refused to obey, neither were they mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn’t forsake them.

¹⁷in so se branili poslušati in se niso spominjali čudovitih del tvojih, ki si jih storil med njimi, temuč v trdovratnosti svoji in v uporu svojem so si postavili glavarja, da bi se vrnili v sužnost svojo. Ali ti si Bog mnogega odpuščanja, milostiv in poln usmiljenja, počasen v jezi in obilen v milosti, ti jih nisi zapustil.

¹⁸Yes, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and had committed awful blasphemies;

¹⁸Ko so si celo naredili ulito tele in rekli: To je tvoj Bog, ki te je izpeljal iz Egipta, in so počenjali grozno zasmehovanje Boga,

¹⁹yet you in your manifold mercies didn’t forsake them in the wilderness: the pillar of cloud didn’t depart from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go.

¹⁹ti jih vendar nisi zapustil v mnogoterem usmiljenju svojem v puščavi: oblakov steber se ni umaknil iznad njih po dne, da bi jih vodil po poti, ne ognjeni steber po noči, da bi jim svetil na pot, po kateri naj gredo.

²⁰You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn’t withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.

²⁰Ti si tudi dal dobrega duha svojega, da jih poučuje, in njih ustom nisi odrekel mane svoje, in dajal si jim vode, ko so bili žejni.

²¹“Yes, forty years you sustained them in the wilderness. They lacked nothing. Their clothes didn’t grow old, and their feet didn’t swell.

²¹Štirideset let si jih oskrboval v puščavi, da jim ničesar ni pomanjkovalo; njih obleka se ni razdrapala in njih noge niso otekle.

²²Moreover you gave them kingdoms and peoples, which you allotted according to their portions. So they possessed the land of Sihon, even the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.

²²In dal si jim kraljestva in ljudstva in ta jim pridelil po posameznih pokrajinah; tako so posedli deželo Sihona, kralja hesbonskega, in deželo Oga, kralja v Basanu.

²³You also multiplied their children as the stars of the sky, and brought them into the land concerning which you said to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.

²³In njih otroke si pomnožil kakor zvezde na nebu in si jih pripeljal v deželo, za katero si bil govoril njih očetom, da pridejo vanjo in jo posedejo;

²⁴“So the children went in and possessed the land, and you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hands, with their kings, and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they pleased.

²⁴njih otroci so torej prišli vanjo in jo posedli, in ti si ponižal pred njimi prebivalce te dežele, Kanaance, in si jih dal njim v roke ž njih kralji in z ljudstvi vred v deželi, da so ž njimi storili po volji svoji.

²⁵They took fortified cities, and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, and olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate, were filled, became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness.

²⁵In zavzeli so utrjena mesta in mastno zemljo in dobili v last hiše, polne vsakršnega blaga, vodnjake izkopane, vinograde, oljkove vrte in sadnih dreves obilo: in jedli so in se nasitili in odebeleli, dobro živeč po veliki dobroti tvoji.

²⁶“Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and cast your law behind their back, and killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.

²⁶Ali postali so nepokorni in se uprli zoper tebe in so vrgli zakon tvoj za hrbet svoj in pomorili proroke tvoje, ki so pričevali zoper nje, da bi jih zopet preobrnili k tebi, in so počenjali grozno zasmehovanje Boga.

²⁷Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them. In the time of their trouble, when they cried to you, you heard from heaven; and according to your manifold mercies you gave them saviors who saved them out of the hand of their adversaries.

²⁷Zato si jih dal v roke njih zatiralcem, ki so jih tlačili; ali ko so ob času nadloge vpili k tebi, ti si jih uslišal iz nebes in po svojem mnogoterem usmiljenju si jim dal rešitelje, ki so jih oteli iz roke njih zatiralcev.

²⁸But after they had rest, they did evil again before you; therefore left you them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them; yet when they returned, and cried to you, you heard from heaven; and many times you delivered them according to your mercies,

²⁸A komaj so imeli pokoj, so zopet delali hudo pred teboj. Zato si jih prepustil pesti njih sovražnikov, da so jim gospodovali; pa zopet so vpili k tebi, in slišal si jih iz nebes in mnogokrat si jih otel po mnogem usmiljenju svojem.

²⁹and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they dealt proudly, and didn’t listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances, (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear.

²⁹In pričeval si zoper nje, da bi jih izpreobrnil k postavi svoji, oni pa so se vedli prevzetno in niso poslušali zapovedi tvojih, ampak so grešili zoper pravice tvoje (katere kdor izpolnjuje, bo živel po njih) in pleča svoja umeknili izpod jarma tvojega; vdali so se trdovratnosti in niso hoteli poslušati.

³⁰Yet many years you put up with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet would they not give ear. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

³⁰A veliko let si imel potrpljenje ž njimi in po duhu svojem si pričeval zoper nje, po svojih prorokih, a niso poslušali; zato si jih dal v roke ljudstvom dežel.

³¹“Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you did not make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful God.

³¹Vendar pa v mnogoterem usmiljenju svojem jih nisi docela pokončal, ne jih zapustil, zakaj ti, Bog mogočni, si milostiv in poln usmiljenja.

³²Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, don’t let all the travail seem little before you, that has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.

³²In sedaj, o Bog naš, Bog mogočni, veliki, silni in grozni, ki hraniš zavezo in milost, naj se ti ne vidi majhna vsa tista težava, ki je zadela nas in kralje naše in kneze in duhovnike in proroke in očete naše in vse ljudstvo tvoje, od dni kraljev asirskih do tega dne.

³³However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly;

³³Ali ti si pravičen v vsem, kar je prišlo nad nas: zakaj ti si ravnal po resnici, mi pa smo delali krivično.

³⁴neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you testified against them.

³⁴In naši kralji, knezi, duhovniki in očetje niso delali po postavi tvoji in niso pazili na zapovedi tvoje in pričevanja, s katerimi si pričeval zoper nje.

³⁵For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and rich land which you gave before them, neither did they turn from their wicked works.

³⁵Kajti niso ti služili v kraljestvu svojem in ob veliki dobroti tvoji, ki si jo jim podeljeval, in v tej postrani in mastni deželi, ki si jo jim bil izročil, in se niso preobrnili od hudih dejanj svojih.

³⁶“Behold, we are servants this day, and as for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat its fruit and its good, behold, we are servants in it.

³⁶Glej, hlapci smo danes, in dežela, ki si jo dal očetom našim, da uživajo njene sadove in dobrote – glej, v tej smo hlapci!

³⁷It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins: also they have power over our bodies, and over our livestock, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

³⁷In ona dohodke svoje množi kraljem, ki si jih nam postavil zavoljo grehov naših, in ti gospodujejo telesom našim in živini naši, kakor jim je drago, in v veliki smo nadlogi.A pri vsem tem narejamo in pišemo trdno zavezo, in vojvode naši, leviti in duhovniki naši, jo s pečati potrjujejo.

³⁸Yet for all this, we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, seal it.”

³⁸A pri vsem tem narejamo in pišemo trdno zavezo, in vojvode naši, leviti in duhovniki naši, jo s pečati potrjujejo.