Tobit, 3

1. Then Tobit sighed, and he began to pray with tears,

1. Ojaðen zaplakah i poèeh moliti pun tuge:

2. saying, “O Lord, you are just and all your judgments are just, and all your ways are mercy, and truth, and judgment.

2. "Pravedan si, Gospode, sva su tvoja djela i svi tvoji putovi milosrðe i istina: ti si sudac svijeta.

3. And now, O Lord, remember me, and do not take vengeance for my sins, and do not call to mind my offenses, nor those of my parents.

3. Spomeni me se i pogledaj na me: ne kažnjavaj me zbog mojih grijeha ni zbog prijestupa otaca mojih, koji su griješili pred tobom.

4. For we have not obeyed your precepts, and so we have been handed over to plundering and to captivity, and to death, and to mockery, and as a disgrace before all the nations, among which you have dispersed us.

4. Uistinu smo prestupili zapovijedi tvoje te si nas prepustio pljaèki, zatoèenju, smrti i porugi meðu svim narodima meðu koje si nas razasuo.

5. And now, O Lord, great are your judgments. For we have not acted according to your precepts, and we have not walked sincerely before you.

5. Pravedni su tvoji sudovi zbog grijeha što ih èinih ja i moji oci, jer se nismo držali tvojih zapovijedi, nismo u istini hodili pred tobom.

6. And now, O Lord, do with me according to your will, and order my spirit to be received in peace. For it is more expedient for me to die, than to live.”

6. Sad postupaj sa mnom po svojoj volji, odluèi se da prihvatiš moj duh, da umrem i postanem zemlja. Jer mi je bolje umrijeti nego živjeti i slušati lažne prijekore i gorèinu u duši kÓupiti. Zapovjedi da budem osloboðen od ove pokore pa da odem u prostore vjeène: ne odvræi lica svoga od mene."

7. And so, on the same day, it happened that Sarah, the daughter of Raguel, in Rages, a city of the Medes, also heard a reproach from one of her father’s servant maids.

7. Istoga dana i Sari, kæeri Raguelovoj, u Ekbatani Medijskoj, dogodi se te je izruži jedna sluškinja njezina oca

8. For she had been given to seven husbands, and a demon named Asmodeus had killed them, as soon as they had approached her.

8. zbog toga što je sedam muževa za koje Sara bijaše pošla pakosni zloduh Asmodej ubio prije nego što su ušli k njoj. Reèe joj ona sluškinja: "Jest, ubijaš svoje muževe! Sedam si ih imala, a ne bijaše ti sreæe ni s jednim.

9. Therefore, when she corrected the maid for her fault, she answered her, saying, “May we never see son or daughter from you upon the earth, you murderess of your husbands.

9. Zašto nas kažnjavaš? Ako su umrli, poteci za njima! Nikad mi ne vidjele ni tvoga sina ni tvoje kæeri!"

10. Would you also kill me, just as you have already killed seven husbands?” At these words, she proceeded to an upper room of her house. And for three days and three nights, she did not eat or drink.

10. Kad je Sara to èula, veoma se ražalostila. Plaèuæi je otišla u oèevu sobu, u nakani da se objesi. Ali onda, promislivši, reèe u sebi: "Zar da mi oca kude i da mu predbacuju: 'Imao si jedinu, ljubljenu, kæer, pa ti se, na nesreæu, i ona objesila.' Starog bih oca svoga rastužila i gurnula u carstvo mrtvih. Ne, neæu se objesiti: bolje mi je moliti Boga da mi udijeli smrt da nikad više ne èujem ovakvih uvreda."

11. But, continuing in prayer with tears, she beseeched God, so that he would liberate her from this reproach.

11. I raskrilivši ruke kraj prozora, pomoli se ovako: "Blagoslovljen, Bože milosrða, i blagoslovljeno tvoje Ime navijeke! Blagoslivljaju te sva tvoja djela zauvijek.

12. And it happened on the third day, while she was completing her prayer, blessing the Lord,

12. Obraæam, Gospode, lice svoje k tebi i oèi upirem u te.

13. that she said: “Blessed is your name, O God of our fathers, who, though you had been angry, will show mercy. And in time of tribulation, you dismiss the sins of those who call upon you.

13. Zapovijedi, Gospode, da poðem s ove zemlje i da više nikada ne èujem one uvrede.

14. To you, O Lord, I turn my face; to you, I direct my eyes.

14. Ti znaš, Gospode, da sam èista od svakoga grijeha s èovjekom

15. I beg you, O Lord, that you may absolve me from the chains of this reproach, or at least take me away from the earth.

15. i da nisam uprljala ime svoje, ni ime oca svojega u zemlji sužanjstva. Jedina sam kæi u oca, nema on drugoga djeteta koje bi ga naslijedilo, niti kakva brata blizu, niti roðaka koga bih èekala. Sedam sam muževa veæ izgubila: tÓa èemu bih još živjela? Ne želiš li mi smrt udijeliti, svrni onda pogled na me i smiluj se da nikad više ne èujem onih uvreda."

16. You know, O Lord, that I have never coveted a husband, and I have preserved my soul clean from all impure desire.

16. Obje molitve bijahu uslišane pred Slavom Gospodnjom.

17. I have never mingled myself with those who play. And I have not presented myself as a participant with those who walk with levity.

17. I bi poslan Rafael, anðeo Gospodnji, da ih oboje izlijeèi: da skine bijele mrlje s Tobita i vid mu vrati; a Saru, kæer Raguelovu, da dade za ženu Tobiji, sinu Tobitovu, te da okuje pakosnog zloduha Asmodeja: jer je ona Tobiji bila namijenjena. U isto vrijeme Tobit se vrati u svoju kuæu, a Sara, kæi Raguelova, siðe iz gornje sobe.

18. But I consented to accept a husband, in your fear, not in my lust.

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19. And, either I was unworthy of them, or they perhaps were not worthy of me. For perhaps you have preserved me for another husband.

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20. For your counsel is not within the ability of man.

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21. But all who worship you are certain of this: that one’s life, if it should be tested, shall be crowned, and if it should be in tribulation, shall be delivered, and if it should be corrected, shall be permitted to approach your mercy.

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22. For you are not delighted with our perdition. For, after a storm, you create tranquility, and after tears and weeping, you pour out exultation.

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23. May your name, O God of Israel, be blessed forever.”

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24. At that time, the prayers of them both were heard in the sight of the glory of the most high God.

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25. And the holy Angel of the Lord, Raphael, was sent to care for both of them, whose prayers were recited at the same time in the sight of the Lord.

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