Jonah 1
1 And the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying:
Torej Gospodova beseda je prišla k Jonu, Amitájevemu sinu, rekoč:
2 Rise and go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach in it. For its malice has ascended before my eyes.
»Vstani, pojdi v Ninive, to veliko mesto in kliči zoper njega, kajti njihova zlobnost je prišla predme.«
3 And Jonah rose in order to flee from the face of the Lord to Tarshish. And he went down to Joppa and found a ship bound for Tarshish. And he paid its fare, and he went down into it, in order to go with them to Tarshish from the face of the Lord.
Toda Jona se je dvignil, da pred Gospodovo prisotnostjo zbeži v Taršíš in je odšel dol v Jopo in našel ladjo, ki je šla v Taršíš. Tako je plačal njeno voznino in odšel dol vanjo, da gre z njimi v Taršíš, proč od Gospodove prisotnosti.
4 But the Lord sent a great wind into the sea. And a great tempest took place in the sea, and the ship was in danger of being crushed.
Toda Gospod je na morje odposlal velik veter in tam na morju je bil mogočen vihar, tako da je ladjo hotel zlomiti.
5 And the mariners were afraid, and the men cried out to their god. And they threw the containers that were in the ship into the sea in order to lighten it of them. And Jonah went down into the interior of the ship, and he fell into a painful deep sleep.
Potem so bili mornarji prestrašeni in vsak je klical k svojemu bogu in odvrgli [so] blago, ki je bilo na ladji, v morje, da jo olajšajo. Jona pa je odšel dol med ladijske boke in legel ter trdno zaspal.
6 And the helmsman approached him, and he said to him, “Why are you weighed down with sleep? Rise, call upon your God, so perhaps God will be mindful of us and we might not perish.”
Tako je kapitan prišel k njemu in mu rekel: »Kaj ti misliš, oh zaspanec? Vstani, kliči k svojemu Bogu, če je tako, da bo Bog mislil na nas, da se ne pogubimo.«
7 And a man said to his shipmate, “Come, and let us cast lots, so that we may know why this disaster is upon us.” And they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.
In rekli so vsak svojemu tovarišu: »Pridimo in mečimo žrebe, da bomo lahko izvedeli zaradi čigavega vzroka je nad nami to zlo.« Tako so metali žrebe in žreb je padel na Jona.
8 And they said to him: “Explain to us what is the reason that this disaster is upon us. What is your work? Which is your country? And where are you going? Or which people are you from?”
Potem so mu rekli: »Povej nam, prosimo te, zaradi čigavega vzroka je nad nami to zlo. Kakšen je tvoj poklic? In od kod prihajaš? Katera je tvoja dežela? In iz katerega ljudstva si?«
9 And he said to them, “I am Hebrew, and I fear the Lord God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.”
Rekel jim je: »Jaz sem Hebrejec in se bojim Gospoda, Boga nebes, ki je naredil morje in kopno zemljo.«
10 And the men were greatly afraid, and they said to him, “Why have you done this?” (For the men knew that he was fleeing from the face of the Lord, because he had told them.)
Potem so bili ljudje silno prestrašeni in mu rekli: »Zakaj si to storil?« Kajti ljudje so vedeli, da je pobegnil izpred Gospodovega obličja, ker jim je povedal.
11 And they said to him, “What are we to do with you, so that the sea will cease for us?” For the sea flowed and swelled.
Potem so mu rekli: »Kaj naj ti storimo, da se nam morje lahko umiri?« Kajti morje se je maščevalo in bilo viharno.
12 And he said to them, “Take me, and cast me into the sea, and the sea will cease for you. For I know that it is because of me that this great tempest has come upon you.”
Rekel jim je: »Vzemite me in me vrzite v morje. Tako se vam bo morje umirilo, kajti vem, da je zaradi mene ta veliki vihar nad vami.«
13 And the men were rowing, so as to return to dry land, but they did not succeed. For the sea flowed and swelled against them.
Kljub temu so možje trdo veslali, da jo privedejo k obali, toda niso mogli, kajti morje se je maščevalo in bilo viharno proti njim.
14 And they cried out to the Lord, and they said, “We beseech you, Lord, do not let us perish for this man’s life, and do not attribute to us innocent blood. For you, Lord, have done just as it pleased you.”
Zato so klicali h Gospodu in rekli: »Rotimo te, oh Gospod, rotimo te, naj se ne pogubimo zaradi življenja tega moža in ne položi na nas nedolžne krvi, kajti ti, oh Gospod, si storil, kakor ti je ugajalo.«
15 And they took Jonah and cast him into the sea. And the sea was stilled from its fury.
Tako so vzeli Jona in ga vrgli v morje in morje je odnehalo od svojega besnenja.
16 And the men feared the Lord greatly, and they sacrificed victims to the Lord, and they made vows.
Potem so se možje silno zbali Gospoda in Gospodu darovali klavno daritev in naredili zaobljube.
17 And the Lord prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish for three days and three nights.
Torej Gospod je pripravil veliko ribo, da je pogoltnila Jona. In Jona je bil v ribjem trebuhu tri dni in tri noči.
