Baruch, 1

1. And these are the words of the book, which Baruch the son of Neraiah, the son of Mahseiah, the son of Zedekiah, the son of Hasadiah, the son Hilkiah, wrote in Babylon,

1. Ovo su rijeèi knjige koju u Babilonu napisa Baruh, sin Nerije, sina Maaseje, sina Sidkije, sina Hasadije, sina Hilkije,

2. in the fifth year, on the seventh day of the month, since the time when the Chaldeans captured Jerusalem and set it on fire.

2. pete godine, sedmoga dana u mjesecu, u vrijeme kada su Kaldejci osvojili Jeruzalem i spalili ga.

3. And Baruch read the words of this book to the ears of Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and to the ears of the entire people, who came to the book:

3. Baruh proèita rijeèi ove knjige pred Jekonijom, sinom Jojakimovim, kraljem Judinim, i pred èitavim narodom koji bijaše došao na èitanje knjige;

4. even to the ears of the powerful sons of kings, and to the ears of the elders, and to the ears of the people, from the least to the greatest of them, of all those living in Babylon, near the river Sud.

4. pred moguænicima i kraljevim sinovima, pred starješinama, ukratko, pred svim narodom, malim i velikim, pred svima koji su živjeli u Babilonu, na obalama rijeke Suda.

5. And upon hearing it, they wept and fasted and prayed in the sight of the Lord.

5. Èuvši, plakali su, postili i molili se pred Gospodom.

6. And they collected money in accordance with whatever each one was able to handover.

6. Sabraše i novca, koliko tko mogaše,

7. And they sent it to Jerusalem to Jehoiakim, the son of Hilkiah, the son of Shalum the priest, and to the priests, and to all the people, who were found with him in Jerusalem.

7. i poslaše ga u Jeruzalem sveæeniku Jojakimu, sinu Hilkije, Šalumova sina, i ostalim sveæenicima i svemu narodu koji se s njim nalazio u Jeruzalemu.

8. At that time, he received the vessels of the temple of the Lord (which had been carried away from the temple) so as to return them to the land of Judah, on the tenth day of the month Sivan. These were the silver vessels, which Zedekiah, the son of Josiah king of Judah, had made.

8. Desetoga dana mjeseca Sivana Baruh je spasio posuðe kuæe Gospodnje što bijaše ugrabljeno iz Hrama da bi ga odnio natrag u zemlju Judinu - srebrno posuðe što ga je naèinio Sidkija, sin Jošijin, kralj Judin,

9. After this, Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, captured Jeconiah, and the leaders, and all the powerful, and the people of the land, and led them captive from Jerusalem to Babylon.

9. kad je Nabukodonozor, kralj babilonski, odveo iz Jeruzalema i u Babilon doveo Jekoniju s knezovima, kljuèarima, moguænicima i svim narodom.

10. And they said, “Behold we have sent you money with which to buy holocausts and frankincense. Therefore, make manna and offer it for sin at the altar of the Lord our God.

10. I napisaše: Evo, šaljemo vam novac da njime kupite žrtve paljenice i tamjan; pripravite žrtve i prinesite ih za grijehe na žrtveniku Gospoda, Boga našega.

11. And pray for the life of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and for the life of Belshazzar his son, so that their days may be just like the days of the heaven above the earth,

11. I molite se za život Nabukodonozora, kralja babilonskog, i za život sina njegova Baltazara da im dani na zemlji budu kao dani neba;

12. and so that the Lord may give virtue to us, and enlighten our eyes, so that we may live under the shadow of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and under the shadow of Belshazzar his son, and so that we may serve them for many days and may find favor in their sight.

12. neka nam Gospod dade snage i prosvijetli oèi naše da bismo živjeli u sjeni Nabukodonozora, kralja babilonskog, i u sjeni njegova sina Baltazara, da bismo ih dugo služili te našli milost pred njima.

13. And pray for us also to the Lord our God, for we have sinned against the Lord our God, and the madness of our sin has not been driven away from us even to this day.

13. Molite se i za nas Gospodu, Bogu našem, jer smo ga uvrijedili i do danas se gnjev i srdžba Gospodnja nije odvratila od nas.

14. And read this book, which we have sent to you to be recited in the temple of the Lord, on solemn days and on other suitable days.

14. Èitajte, dakle, knjigu koju vam šaljemo i obznanite je u kuæi Gospodnjoj, na blagdan i u dane Zborovanja.

15. And you will say, ‘To the Lord our God is justice, but to us is confusion of our face, just as it is this day for all of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem,

15. Recite tada: Pravedan je Gospod, Bog naš! Ali nama treba da se danas zacrvene od stida obrazi - nama Judejcima i žiteljima jeruzalemskim,

16. even for our kings, and our leaders, and our priests, and our prophets, and our fathers.

16. našim kraljevima i knezovima, našim sveæenicima i prorocima i našim ocima,

17. We have sinned before the Lord our God and we have not believed, lacking confidence in him.

17. jer smo griješili pred Gospodom, bili mu nepokorni

18. And we have not been submissive to him, and we have not listened to the voice of the Lord our God, so as to walk in his commandments, which he has given to us.

18. i nismo slušali glasa Gospoda, Boga svojega, da hodimo po zapovjedima koje Gospod bijaše stavio pred nas.

19. From the day that he led our fathers out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, we were unfaithful to the Lord our God, and, having been scattered, we fell away. We did not listen to his voice.

19. Od dana kada je oce naše izveo iz Egipta pa do dana današnjega nepokorni smo bili Gospodu, Bogu svojem, i nismo marili da èujemo njegov glas.

20. And we joined ourselves to many evils and to the curses which the Lord established through Moses, his servant, who led our fathers out of the land of Egypt, to give us a land flowing with milk and honey, just as it is in the present day.

20. Tada navališe na nas nevolje i prokletstva kojima se Gospod zaprijetio sluzi svome Mojsiju u dan kada je izveo oce naše iz Egipta da bi nam dao zemlju kojom teèe med i mlijeko. I tako je to do danas.

21. And we have not listened to the voice of the Lord our God, according to all the words of the prophets whom he sent to us.

21. Nismo bili poslušali glas Gospoda, Boga svojega, ni rijeèi njegovih preko proroka koje nam je on slao;

22. And we have gone astray, each one after the inclinations of his own malignant heart, serving strange gods and doing evil before the eyes of the Lord our God.

22. svaki je od nas hodio po nagnuæu svoga opakog srca, služeæi drugim bogovima i èineæi što nije po volji Gospodu, Bogu našem.