Isaiah, 33

1. Woe to you who plunder! Will you yourselves not also be plundered? And woe to you who despise! Will you yourselves not also be despised? When you will have completed your plundering, you will be plundered. When, out of fatigue, you will have ceased acting with contempt, you will be treated with contempt.

1. Teško tebi koji nepustošen pustošiš, koji pljaèkaš nepljaèkan, kad prestaneš, tebe æe opustošiti, opljaèkat' te kad prestaneš pljaèkati.

2. O Lord, take pity on us. For we have waited for you. Be our arm in the morning and our salvation in the time of tribulation.

2. Jahve, smiluj nam se, u te se uzdamo! Budi mišica naša svako jutro, naš spas u doba nevolje.

3. From the voice of the Angel, the people fled. And from your exultation, the nations were scattered.

3. Od silna tutnja pobjegoše narodi, ti ustade, raspršiše se puci

4. And your spoils will be gathered together, just as the locusts are collected when the ditches have become filled with them.

4. i plijen se skuplja kao što se kupe šaške, na nj æe navaliti kao jato skakavaca.

5. The Lord has been magnified, because he has lived on high. He has filled Zion with judgment and justice.

5. Uzvišen je Jahve jer u visini stoluje, on puni Sion pravom i pravednošæu.

6. And there will be faith in your times: the riches of salvation, wisdom and knowledge. For the fear of the Lord is his treasure.

6. Pouzdan je tvoj vijek: mudrost i znanje spasonosno su blago - a strah Gospodnji njegovo bogatstvo.

7. Behold, outside, those who see will cry out. The Angels of peace will weep bitterly.

7. Gle, stanovništvo Arielovo kuka po ulicama, glasnici mironosni plaèu gorko.

8. The roads have become desolate. Travelers have ceased along the paths. The covenant has been nullified. He has tossed aside cities. He has disregarded men.

8. Opustješe ceste, s putova nesta putnika; raskidaju se savezi, preziru se svjedoci, ni prema kome nema obzira.

9. The earth has mourned and languished. Lebanon has been confounded and desecrated. And Sharon has become like a desert. And Bashan and Carmel have been struck together.

9. Gine zemlja u žalosti, u stidu vene Libanon. Šaron je kao stepa, Bašan i Karmel ogolješe.

10. “Now, I will rise up!” says the Lord. “Now I will be exalted! Now I will lift myself up!”

10. "Sada æu ustati", veli Jahve, "sada æu se diæi, sada uzvisiti.

11. You will conceive heat. You will give birth to stubble. Your own spirit will devour you like fire.

11. Zaèeste sijeno, rodit æete slamu; dah moj proždrijet æe vas kao oganj.

12. And the people will be like the ashes from a fire. They will be consumed by fire like a bundle of thorns.

12. Narodi æe biti sažgani u vapno, kao posjeèeno trnje što gori u vatri.

13. “You who are far away, listen to what I have done! And you who are near, acknowledge my strength!”

13. Èujte, vi koji ste daleko, što sam uèinio, a vi koji ste blizu poznajte mi snagu!"

14. The sinners in Zion are terrified; trembling has taken hold of the hypocrites. Who among you is able to live with a devouring fire? Who among you will live with an everlasting flame?

14. Na Sionu strepe grešnici, trepet spopada bezbožnika: "Tko æe od nas opstati pred ognjem zatornim, tko æe od nas opstati pred žarom vjeènim?"

15. The one who walks in justice and speaks the truth, who casts out avarice with oppression and shakes all bribes from his hands, who blocks his ears so that he may not listen to blood, and closes his eyes so that he may not see evil.

15. Onaj koji hodi u pravdi i pravo govori, koji prezire dobit od prinude, koji otresa ruku da ne primi mito, koji zatiskuje uši da ne èuje o krvoproliæu, koji zatvara oèi da ne vidi zlo:

16. Such a one will live on high; the fortification of rocks will be his lofty place. Bread has been given to him; his waters are reliable.

16. on æe prebivati u visinama, tvrðe na stijenama bit æe mu utoèište, imat æe dosta kruha i vode æe mu svagda dotjecati.

17. His eyes will see the king in his elegance; they will discern the land from far away.

17. Oèi æe ti gledati kralja u njegovoj ljepoti, promatrat æe zemlju nepreglednu.

18. Your heart will meditate on fear. Where are the learned? Where are those who ponder the words of the law? Where are the teachers of little ones?

18. Srce æe ti u strahu misliti: Gdje li je onaj što je brojio, gdje li onaj što je mjerio, gdje li onaj što je prebrajao mladiæe?

19. You will not look upon a shameless people, a people of exalted words. For you are not able to understand the dissertation of a tongue in which there is no wisdom.

19. Neæeš više vidjeti divljega naroda, naroda nerazumljiva i neshvatljiva govora, jezika strana što ga nitko ne razumije.

20. Look with favor upon Zion, the city of our solemnity. Your eyes will behold Jerusalem: an opulent habitation, a tabernacle that can never be taken away. Its stakes will not be taken away forever, nor will any of its cords be broken.

20. Pogledaj na Sion, grad blagdana naših: oèi æe ti Jeruzalem vidjeti, prebivalište zaštiæeno, šator što se ne prenosi, kojem se kolèiæi nikad ne vade, nit' mu se ijedno uže otkida.

21. For only in that place has our Lord been magnified. It is a place of rivers, very broad and open. No ship with oars will cross through it, nor will the great Greek ship pass through it.

21. Ondje nam je Jahve silni, umjesto rijeka i širokih rukavaca: neæe onud proæi nijedna laða s veslima niti æe koji bojni brod projedriti.

22. For the Lord is our judge. The Lord is our lawgiver. The Lord is our king. He himself will save us.

22. Jer Jahve je sudac naš, Jahve naš vojvoda, Jahve je kralj naš - on æe nas spasiti.

23. Your ropes have become loose, and they will not prevail. Your mast will be such that you will not be able to unfurl a flag. Then the spoils of much plunder will be divided. The lame will seize the spoils.

23. Užad ti je popustila, ne može držati jarbola ni razviti stijega, pa se dijeli golemo blago oteto - kljasti æe se naplijeniti plijena!

24. He who is nearby will not say: “I am too weak.” The people who live in it will have their iniquity taken away from them.

24. I nijedan graðanin neæe reæi: "Bolestan sam!" Narodu što živi ondje krivnja æe se oprostiti.