¹ Břímě Ninive: Kniha vidění Nahuma Elkošského.

² Hospodin jest Bůh horlivý a mstitel, mstitel jestiť Hospodin, a zůřivý. Hospodin uvodí pomstu na protivníky své, a drží hněv proti nepřátelům svým.

³ Hospodin dlouhočekající jest a velikomocný, však nikoli neospravedlňuje vinného. U vichru a bouři jest cesta Hospodinova, a oblak jest prach noh jeho.

⁴ Když domlouvá moři, vysušuje je, i všecky řeky vysušuje; chřadne Bázan i Karmel, i květ Libánský chřadne.

⁵ Hory se třesou před ním, a pahrbkové se rozplývají, země pak hoří před tváří jeho, i okršlek zemský a všickni, kteříž přebývají na něm.

⁶ Před rozhněváním jeho kdo ostojí? A kdo se postaví proti prchlivosti hněvu jeho? Prchlivost jeho vylévá se jako oheň, a skály vyvracejí se Před ním.

⁷ Dobrýť jest Hospodin, silou jest v den ssoužení, a zná ty, kdož v něho doufají.

⁸ Protož povodní prudkou konec učiní místu jeho, a nepřátely Boží stihati budou temnosti.

⁹ Co myslíte proti Hospodinu? Onť konec učiní, nezdvihne druhé rány.

¹⁰ Nebo rovně jako trní spleteni jsouce, a jako vínem opojeni, jako strniště suché docela sehlceni budou.

¹¹ Z tebeť vyšel ten, kterýž myslí proti Hospodinu zlé, rádce nešlechetný.

¹² Takto dí Hospodin: Byť se byli pokojně měli, byliť by tak v rozšíření zůstali aneb by toliko přemrštěni byli; i bylo by to pominulo, a netrápil bych jich více, tak jako jsem trápil.

¹³ Nyní pak polámi jho jeho, aby neleželo na tobě, a to, čímž jsi svázán, roztrhám.

¹⁴ Nebo přikázaní vydal proti tobě Hospodin, nebudeť rozsíváno ze jména tvého více; z domu Boha tvého vyhladím rytinu i slitinu, a když zlehčen budeš, způsobímť hrob.

¹⁵ Aj hle na horách těchto nohy potěšené věci zvěstujícího, ohlašujícího pokoj. Slaviž, o Judo, slavnosti své, plň sliby své. Neboť nepokusí se více ani mimo tebe choditi nešlechetný, docelať jest vyhlazen.

¹ I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit,

² that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.

³ For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh,

⁴ who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

⁵ of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.

⁶ But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel.

⁷ Neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children. But, "In Isaac will your seed be called."

⁸ That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.

⁹ For this is a word of promise, "At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son."

¹⁰ Not only so, but Rebecca also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.

¹¹ For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,

¹² it was said to her, "The elder will serve the younger."

¹³ Even as it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."

¹⁴ What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!

¹⁵ For he said to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."

¹⁶ So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.

¹⁷ For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."

¹⁸ So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.

¹⁹ You will say then to me, "Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?"

²⁰ But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"

²¹ Or hasn't the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

²² What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,

²³ and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,

²⁴ us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?

²⁵ As he says also in Hosea, "I will call them 'my people,' which were not my people; and her 'beloved,' who was not beloved."

²⁶ "It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' There they will be called 'children of the living God.'"

²⁷ Isaiah cries concerning Israel, "If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved;

²⁸ for He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because the LORD will make a short work upon the earth."

²⁹ As Isaiah has said before, "Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah."

³⁰ What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn't follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;

³¹ but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn't arrive at the law of righteousness.

³² Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

³³ even as it is written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed."