Isaiah 43
1 But now, says the Lord your Maker, O Jacob, and your life-giver, O Israel: have no fear, for I have taken up your cause; naming you by your name, I have made you mine.
Toda sedaj tako govori Gospod, ki te je ustvaril, oh Jakob in tisti, ki te je oblikoval, oh Izrael: »Ne boj se, kajti odkupil sem te, poklical sem te s tvojim imenom, moj si.
2 When you go through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not go over you: when you go through the fire, you will not be burned; and the flame will have no power over you.
Ko hodiš skozi vode, bom s teboj in skozi reke, te ne bodo preplavile. Ko hodiš skozi ogenj, ne boš ožgan niti se plamen ne bo vnel na tebi.
3 For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your saviour; I have given Egypt as a price for you, Ethiopia and Seba for you.
Kajti jaz sem Gospod, tvoj Bog, Sveti Izraelov, tvoj Odrešenik. Egipt sem dal za tvojo odkupnino, Etiopijo in Sebo zate.
4 Because of your value in my eyes, you have been honoured, and loved by me; so I will give men for you, and peoples for your life.
Ker si bil dragocen v mojem pogledu, bil si častitljiv in jaz sem te ljubil. Zato bom zate dal ljudi in ljudstva za tvoje življenje.
5 Have no fear, for I am with you: I will take your seed from the east, and get you together from the west;
Ne boj se, kajti jaz sem s teboj. Tvoje seme bom privedel od vzhoda in te zbral od zahoda.
6 I will say to the north, Give them up; and to the south, Do not keep them back; send back my sons from far, and my daughters from the end of the earth;
Severu bom rekel: ›Izroči‹ in jugu: ›Ne zadržuj.‹ Moje sinove privedi od daleč in moje hčere od koncev zemlje,
7 Every one who is named by my name, and whom I have made for my glory, who has been formed and designed by me.
celó vsakega, ki je klican z mojim imenom, kajti jaz sem ga ustvaril za svojo slavo, jaz sem ga oblikoval; da, jaz sem ga naredil.
8 Send out the blind people who have eyes, and those who have ears, but they are shut.
Privedi slepo ljudstvo, ki ima oči in gluhe, ki imajo ušesa.
9 Let all the nations come together, and let the peoples be present: who among them is able to make this clear, and give us word of earlier things? let their witnesses come forward, so that they may be seen to be true, and that they may give ear, and say, It is true.
Naj bodo vsi narodi zbrani skupaj in naj bo ljudstvo zbrano. Kdo izmed njih lahko to razglasi in nam pokaže prejšnje stvari? Naj privedejo naprej svoje priče, da bodo lahko opravičeni. Ali naj slišijo in rečejo: › To je resnica.‹
10 You are my witnesses, says the Lord, and my servant whom I have taken for myself: so that you may see and have faith in me, and that it may be clear to you that I am he; before me there was no God formed, and there will not be after me.
Vi ste moje priče, ‹ govori Gospod in moj služabnik, ki sem ga izbral, da me boste lahko poznali in mi verjeli in razumeli, da jaz sem ta. Pred menoj ni bil oblikovan noben Bog niti ne bo za menoj.
11 I, even I, am the Lord; and there is no saviour but me.
Jaz, celó jaz sem Gospod in poleg mene ni rešitelja.
12 I gave the word, and made it clear, and there was no strange god among you: for this reason you are my witnesses, says the Lord.
Razglasil sem, rešil in pokazal, ko med vami ni bilo nobenega tujega boga. Zato ste vi moje priče, ‹ govori Gospod, ›da jaz sem Bog.
13 From time long past I am God, and from this day I am he: there is no one who is able to take you out of my hand: when I undertake a thing, by whom will my purpose be changed?
Da, preden je bil dan, jaz sem in nobenega ni, ki lahko osvobodi iz moje roke. Delal bom in kdo bo to dopustil?‹
14 The Lord, who has taken up your cause, the Holy One of Israel, says, Because of you I have sent to Babylon, and made all their seers come south, and the Chaldaeans whose cry is in the ships.
Tako govori Gospod, vaš odkupitelj, Sveti Izraelov: ›Zaradi vas sem poslal v Babilon in ponižal vse njihove plemiče in Kaldejce, katerih vpitje je na ladjah.
15 I am the Lord, your Holy One, the Maker of Israel, your King.
Jaz sem Gospod, vaš Sveti, stvarnik Izraela, vaš Kralj.‹
16 This is the word of the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, and a road through the deep waters;
Tako govori Gospod, ki dela pot v morju in stezo v mogočnih vodah,
17 Who sends out the war-carriages and the horses, the army with all its force; they have come down, they will not get up again; like a feebly burning light they are put out.
ki privede naprej bojni voz in konja, vojsko in moč; skupaj se bodo ulegli, ne bodo vstali. Izumrli so, pogašeni so kakor predivo.
18 Give no thought to the things which are past; let the early times go out of your minds.
Ne spominjajte se prejšnjih stvari niti ne preudarjajte stvari od davnine.
19 See, I am doing a new thing; now it is starting; will you not take note of it? I will even make a way in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country.
Glejte, storil bom novo stvar. Sedaj bo ta vzbrstela; mar tega ne boste spoznali? Naredil bom celo pot v divjini in reke v puščavi.
20 The beasts of the field will give me honour, the jackals and the ostriches: because I send out waters in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country, to give drink to the people whom I have taken for myself:
Divja žival polja me bo spoštovala, zmaji in sove, ker dam vode v divjino in reke v puščavo, da dam piti svojemu ljudstvu, svojim izbranim.
21 Even the people whom I made to be the witnesses of my praise.
To ljudstvo sem oblikoval zase, naznanjali bodo mojo hvalo.
22 But you have made no prayer to me, O Jacob: and you have given no thought to me, O Israel.
Toda ti nisi klical k meni, oh Jakob, temveč si se me naveličal, oh Izrael.
23 You have not made me burned offerings of sheep, or given me honour with your offerings of beasts; I did not make you servants to give me an offering, and I did not make you tired with requests for perfumes.
Nisi mi privedel majhne živine od svojih žgalnih daritev niti me nisi častil s svojimi klavnimi daritvami. Nisem ti storil, da služiš z daritvijo niti te nisem mučil s kadilom.
24 You have not got me sweet-smelling plants with your money, or given me pleasure with the fat of your offerings: but you have made me a servant to your sins, and you have made me tired with your evil doings.
Z denarjem mi nisi kupil nobenega sladkornega trsta niti me nisi nasičeval s tolščo svojih klavnih daritev, temveč si me s svojimi grehi primoral, da služim; izmučil si me s svojimi krivičnostmi.
25 I, even I, am he who takes away your sins; and I will no longer keep your evil doings in mind.
Jaz, celó jaz, sem tisti, ki zaradi sebe izbrisujem tvoje prestopke in se ne bom spominjal tvojih grehov.
26 Put me in mind of this; let us take up the cause between us: put forward your cause, so that you may be seen to be in the right.
Spomni me, skupaj se pravdajva. Ti razglasi, da boš lahko opravičen.
27 Your first father was a sinner, and your guides have gone against my word.
Tvoj prvi oče je grešil in tvoji učitelji so se pregrešili zoper mene.
28 Your chiefs have made my holy place unclean, so I have made Jacob a curse, and Israel a thing of shame.
Zato sem oskrunil prince svetišča in dal Jakoba v prekletstvo in Izraela v graje.
