Jeremiah 24

1 The Lord shewed me, and beholde, two baskets of figges were set before the Temple of the Lord, after that Nebuchad-nezzar King of Babel had caryed away captiue Ieconiah ye sonne of Iehoiakim King of Iudah, and the princes of Iudah with the workemen, and cunning men of Ierusalem, and had brought them to Babel.

Gospod mi je pokazal in glej, dve košari fig sta bili postavljeni pred Gospodovim templjem, potem ko je babilonski kralj Nebukadnezar odvedel ujetništvo Jehoníja, sina Jojakíma, Judovega kralja in Judove prince s tesarji in kovači iz Jeruzalema in jih privedel v Babilon.

2 One basket had verie good figges, euen like the figges that are first ripe: and the other basket had verie naughtie figges, which could not be eaten, they were so euill.

Ena košara je imela zelo dobre fige, celó kakor fige, ki so najprej zrele, druga košara pa je imela zelo nespodobne fige, ki se niso mogle jesti, tako slabe so bile.

3 Then saide the Lord vnto mee, What seest thou, Ieremiah? And I said, Figges: ye good figges verie good, and the naughtie verie naughtie, which cannot be eaten, they are so euill.

Potem mi je Gospod rekel: »Kaj vidiš Jeremija?« Rekel sem: »Fige, dobre fige, zelo dobre in slabe ter zelo slabe, ki ne morejo biti pojedene, tako slabe so.«

4 Againe the worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,

Ponovno je prišla k meni Gospodova beseda, rekoč:

5 Thus sayeth the Lord, the God of Israel, Like these good figges, so will I knowe them that are caryed away captiue of Iudah to bee good, whome I haue sent out of this place, into the land of the Caldeans.

»Tako govori Gospod, Izraelov Bog: ›Podobno kot te dobre fige, tako bom priznal tiste, ki so odvedeni v ujetništvo od Juda, ki sem jih poslal ven iz tega kraja, v deželo Kaldejcev, v njihovo dobro.

6 For I wil set mine eyes vpon them for good, and I will bring them againe to this lande, and I will build them, and not destroy them, and I will plant them, and not roote them out,

Kajti svoje oči bom naravnal nanje v dobro in jih ponovno privedel v to deželo. Pozidal jih bom in jih ne podiral, jih sadil in ne ruval.

7 And I will giue them an heart to knowe me, that I am the Lord, and they shalbe my people, and I wil be their God: for they shall returne vnto mee with their whole heart.

Dal jim bom srce, da me spoznajo, da jaz sem Gospod. In oni bodo moje ljudstvo in jaz bom njihov Bog, kajti k meni se bodo vrnili s svojim celotnim srcem.

8 And as the naughtie figges which can not bee eaten, they are so euill (surely thus saith the Lord) so wil I giue Zedekiah the King of Iudah, and his princes, and the residue of Ierusalem, that remaine in this lande, and them that dwell in the lande of Egypt:

Kakor slabe fige, ki se ne morejo jesti, tako so slabe; ‹ zagotovo tako govori Gospod: ›Tako bom izročil Judovega kralja Sedekíja, njegove prince in Jeruzalemov preostanek, ki preostane v tej deželi in tiste, ki prebivajo v egiptovski deželi.

9 I will euen giue them for a terrible plague to all the kingdomes of the earth, and for a reproche, and for a prouerbe, for a common talke, and for a curse, in all places where I shall cast them.

Izročil jih bom, da bodo odstranjeni v vsa zemeljska kraljestva, v njihovo škodo, da bodo graja in pregovor, zbadljivka in prekletstvo, na vseh krajih, kamor jih bom pognal.

10 And I will sende the sworde, the famine, and the pestilence among them, till they bee consumed out of the land, that I gaue vnto them and to their fathers.

Mednje bom poslal meč, lakoto in kužno bolezen, dokler ne bodo použiti iz dežele, ki sem jo dal njim in njihovim očetom.‹«