Jeremiah 9
1 Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Oh, da bi bila moja glava vode in moje oči studenec solza, da bi lahko dan in noč jokal zaradi umorjenih hčera svojega ljudstva!
2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Oh, da bi imel v divjini kraj za nastanitev popotnikov; da bi lahko zapustil svoje ljudstvo in odšel od njih! Kajti vsi so zakonolomci, zbor zahrbtnih mož.
3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth on the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, says the LORD.
Svoje jezike krivijo za laži kakor svoj lok, toda niso hrabri za resnico na zemlji. Kajti napredujejo od zla k zlu, mene pa ne poznajo, ‹ govori Gospod.
4 Take you heed every one of his neighbor, and trust you not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders.
›Vsakdo naj se pazi svojega soseda in ne zaupajte v kateregakoli brata, kajti vsak brat bo popolnoma izpodrinjen in vsak sosed bo hodil z obrekovalci.
5 And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
Zavajali bodo vsak svojega soseda in ne bodo govorili resnice. Svoj jezik so naučili, da govori laži in izmučili so se s početjem krivičnosti.
6 Your habitation is in the middle of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD.
Tvoje prebivališče je v sredi prevare, zaradi prevare so odklonili, da me spoznajo, ‹ govori Gospod.
7 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
Zato tako govori Gospod nad bojevniki: ›Glej, stopil jih bom in jih preizkusil. Kajti kako naj bi delal za hčer svojega ljudstva?
8 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in heart he lays his wait.
Njihov jezik je kakor izstreljena puščica; ta govori prevaro. Nekdo s svojimi usti govori miroljubno svojemu sosedu, toda v srcu preži.
9 Shall I not visit them for these things? says the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Ali jih ne bom obiskal zaradi teh stvari?‹ govori Gospod. ›Mar se ne bo moja duša maščevala na takšnem narodu, kot je ta?
10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
Zaradi gora bom povzdignil jokanje in tarnanje in zaradi prebivališč divjine žalovanje, ker so požgani, tako da nihče ne more iti skozi njih; niti ljudje ne morejo slišati glasu živine. Tako perjad neba kakor živali polja so pobegnile, odšle so.
11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
[Prestolnico] Jeruzalem bom naredil kupe in brlog zmajev. Judova mesta bom naredil zapuščena, brez prebivalca.
12 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD has spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perishes and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passes through?
Kdo je moder človek, da lahko to razume? Kdo je tisti, kateremu so Gospodova usta govorila, da lahko to oznani, čemu dežela propada in je požgana kakor divjina, da nihče ne gre skoznjo?‹
13 And the LORD says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
Gospod govori: ›Ker so zapustili mojo postavo, ki sem jo postavil prednje in niso ubogali mojega glasu niti hodili v tem,
14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
temveč so hodili po zamisli svojega lastnega srca in za Báali, kar so jih naučili njihovi očetje.‹
15 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
Zato tako govori Gospod nad bojevniki, Izraelov Bog: ›Glej, hranil jih bom, celó to ljudstvo, s pelinom in piti jim bom dajal vodo iz žolča.
16 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
Razkropil jih bom tudi med pogane, ki jih niso poznali niti oni niti njihovi očetje. Za njimi bom poslal meč, dokler jih ne použijem.‹
17 Thus says the LORD of hosts, Consider you, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:
Tako govori Gospod nad bojevniki: ›Preudarite in pokličite žalovalke, da bi lahko prišle in pošljite po spretne ženske, da bi lahko prišle.
18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
Podvizajo naj se in povzamejo tarnanje za nas, da bodo naše oči lahko tekle s solzami in naše veke brizgale z vodami.
19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.
Kajti glas tarnanja je slišati iz Siona: ›Kako smo oplenjeni! Silno smo zbegani, ker smo zapustili deželo, ker so nas naša prebivališča izvrgla.‹‹
20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation.
Vendar poslušajte Gospodovo besedo, oh ve ženske in naj vaše uho prejme besedo iz njegovih ust in svoje hčere učite tarnanja in vsaka svojo sosedo objokovanja.
21 For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
Kajti smrt se je povzpela skozi naša okna in vstopila v naše palače, da iztrebi otroke od zunaj in mladeniče iz ulic.
22 Speak, Thus says the LORD, Even the carcasses of men shall fall as dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.
»Govori: ›Tako govori Gospod: ›Celo trupla ljudi bodo padala kakor gnoj na odprtem polju in kakor prgišče za žanjcem in nihče jih ne bo zbral.‹
23 Thus says the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
Tako govori Gospod: ›Ne dopusti, da moder človek slavi v svoji modrosti niti naj mogočen človek ne slavi v svoji moči, naj bogat človek ne slavi v svojih bogastvih.
24 But let him that glories glory in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD which exercise loving kindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, says the LORD.
Temveč naj tisti, ki slavi, slavi v tem, da me razume in spoznava, da jaz sem Gospod, ki izvajam ljubečo skrbnost, sodbo in pravičnost na zemlji. Kajti v teh stvareh se veselim, ‹ govori Gospod.
25 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;
›Glej, dnevi prihajajo, ‹ govori Gospod, ›da bom kaznoval vse tiste, ki so obrezani, z neobrezanimi:
26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.
Egipt, Juda, Edóm, Amónove otroke, Moáb in vse, ki so na skrajnih vogalih, ki prebivajo v divjini, kajti vsi ti narodi so neobrezani in vse Izraelove hiše so v srcu neobrezane.‹«
