Ezra 3
1 When the seventh month had come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.
Kad je došao sedmi mjesec - sinovi su Izraelovi bili već u svojim gradovima - sabrao se sav narod kao jedan čovjek u Jeruzalemu.
2 Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak stood up with his brothers the priests and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and his relatives, and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.
Tada Ješua, sin Josadakov, sa svojom braćom svećenicima, i Zerubabel, sin Šealtielov, sa svojom braćom, počeše graditi žrtvenik Bogu Izraelovu da bi prinosili paljenice, kako je pisano u Zakonu Mojsija, čovjeka Božjeg.
3 In spite of their fear because of the peoples of the surrounding lands, they set the altar on its base; and they offered burnt offerings on it to the LORD, even burnt offerings morning and evening.
I podigoše žrtvenik na starome mjestu - iako su bili u strahu od naroda u zemlji - i prinosili su paljenice Jahvi, paljenice jutarnje i večernje;
4 They kept the feast of booths, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the ordinance, as the duty of every day required;
i slavili su Blagdan sjenica, kako je pisano: prinosili su svakodnevno broj paljenica propisan za svaki dan.
5 and afterward the continual burnt offering, the offerings of the new moons, of all the set feasts of the LORD that were consecrated, and of everyone who willingly offered a free will offering to the LORD.
Osim toga prinosili su svakidašnje paljenice, zatim žrtve određene za mlađak i za sve blagdane Jahvine i za sve one koji su htjeli dragovoljno žrtvovati Jahvi.
6 From the first day of the seventh month, they began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD; but the foundation of the LORD’s temple was not yet laid.
Od prvoga dana u sedmom mjesecu počeli su prinositi Jahvi žrtve paljenice, premda još nisu bili položeni temelji svetišta Jahvina.
7 They also gave money to the masons and to the carpenters. They also gave food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had from Cyrus King of Persia.
I dadoše novac kamenarima i drvodjelcima; Sidoncima i Tircima poslaše hranu i piće i ulje da dovezu drva cedrova s Libanona do Jafe po dopuštenju perzijskoga kralja Kira.
8 Now in the second year of their coming to God’s house at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come out of the captivity to Jerusalem, began the work and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of the LORD’s house.
A druge godine poslije njihova dolaska k Domu Božjemu u Jeruzalemu, drugoga mjeseca kako su Zerubabel, sin Šealtielov, i Ješua, sin Josadakov, s ostalom svojom braćom svećenicima, levitima i sa svim narodom koji se iz ropstva vratio u Jeruzalem počeli graditi, postavili su levite od dvadeset godina naviše da upravljaju poslovima oko Doma Jahvina.
9 Then Jeshua stood with his sons and his brothers, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together to have the oversight of the workmen in God’s house: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brothers the Levites.
Ješua, njegovi sinovi i braća njegova Kadmiel, Binuj i Hodavja bijahu postavljeni da kao jedan upravljaju poslenicima na gradnji Doma Božjega.
10 When the builders laid the foundation of the LORD’s temple, they set the priests in their vestments with trumpets, with the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LORD, according to the directions of David king of Israel.
Kad su zidari bili postavili temelje Svetišta Jahvina, postavili su se svećenici u svečanim odjećama, s trubama, a tako i leviti, sinovi Asafovi, s cimbalima da slave Jahvu prema odredbama Davida, kralja Izraelova.
11 They sang to one another in praising and giving thanks to the LORD, “For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever toward Israel.” All the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the LORD’s house had been laid.
I pjevahu Jahvi hvalu i slavu: “Jer je dobar, jer je vječna njegova ljubav prema Izraelu.” I sav je narod klicao hvaleći Jahvu, jer je Dom Jahvin bio postavljen na svoje temelje.
12 But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ households, the old men who had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice. Many also shouted aloud for joy,
Zaista, mnogi svećenici, mnogi leviti i glavari obiteljski i starješine, koji su svojim očima vidjeli temelje prijašnjega Hrama, plakahu iza glasa, a mnogi opet snažno klicahu od radosti.
13 so that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people; for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard far away.
I tako nitko nije mogao razlikovati radosno klicanje od plača u narodu; jer je narod glasno klicao i vika se čula vrlo daleko.
