¹ Ja Mooses vastas ning ütles: 'Aga kui nemad mind ei usu ja mu sõna ei kuula, vaid ütlevad: Issand ei ole ennast sulle ilmutanud?'

² Siis Issand küsis: 'Mis see on, mis sul käes on?' Ta vastas: 'Kepp.'

³ Ja tema ütles: 'Viska see maha!' Ta viskas selle maha ja see muutus maoks. Ja Mooses põgenes selle eest.

⁴ Ja Issand ütles Moosesele: 'Siruta oma käsi ja haara temal sabast,' - ja ta sirutas oma käe ning võttis temast kinni, ja see muutus ta pihus kepiks -

⁵ 'et nad usuksid, et sulle on ennast ilmutanud Issand, nende vanemate Jumal, Aabrahami Jumal, Iisaki Jumal ja Jaakobi Jumal!'

⁶ Ja Issand ütles temale veel: 'Pane oma käsi põue!' Ta pani oma käe põue ja tõmbas välja, ja vaata, käsi oli pidalitõvest valge nagu lumi.

⁷ Ja ta ütles: 'Pane oma käsi tagasi põue!' Ta pani oma käe põue ja tõmbas välja, ja vaata, see oli jälle nagu ta ihu.

⁸ 'Kui nad sind ei usu ega kuula su sõna esimese imeteo põhjal, siis nad usuvad teise imeteo sõnumit.

⁹ Ja kui nad ka neid kahte imetegu ei usu ega kuula su sõna, siis võta Niiluse jõe vett ja vala kuivale maale! Vesi, mida sa Niiluse jõest võtad, muutub siis kuival maal vereks.'

¹⁰ Aga Mooses ütles Issandale: 'Oh Issand, mina ei ole sõnakas mees, ei varemast ajast ega ka mitte sellest peale, kui sa oma sulasega oled rääkinud, sest mul on raskevõitu suu ja raskevõitu keel.'

¹¹ Siis Issand ütles temale: 'Kes on teinud inimesele suu, või kes teeb keeletu, kurdi, nägija või pimeda? Kas mitte mina, Issand?

¹² Ja nüüd mine, ja mina olen abiks sinu suule ning õpetan sind, mida sa pead rääkima!'

¹³ Aga ta ütles: 'Oh Issand, läkita, keda läkitad, ainult mitte mind!'

¹⁴ Siis Issanda viha süttis põlema Moosese vastu ja ta ütles: 'Eks ole leviit Aaron sinu vend? Ma tean, et ta räägib hästi; ja vaata, ta tulebki sulle vastu. Kui ta sind näeb, siis ta rõõmutseb südamest.

¹⁵ Sina pead temaga rääkima ja temale sõnad suhu panema, aga mina olen sinu suuga ja tema suuga, ja ma õpetan teid, mida te peate tegema.

¹⁶ Tema rääkigu sinu asemel rahvaga ja see olgu nõnda: tema on sulle suuks ja sina oled temale Jumalaks.

¹⁷ Ja võta kätte see kepp, millega sa imetegusid teed!'

¹⁸ Siis Mooses läks ära ja tuli tagasi oma äia Jitro juurde ning ütles temale: 'Ma tahan minna tagasi oma vendade juurde, kes on Egiptuses, et näha, kas nad on veel elus!' Ja Jitro ütles Moosesele: 'Mine rahuga!'

¹⁹ Issand ütles Moosesele Midjanis: 'Pöördu tagasi Egiptusesse, sest kõik need mehed, kes nõudsid su hinge, on surnud!'

²⁰ Ja Mooses võttis oma naise ja pojad ning pani need eesli selga ja läks tagasi Egiptusemaale; ja Mooses võttis Jumala kepi oma kätte.

²¹ Issand ütles Moosesele: 'Kui sa lähed ja tuled tagasi Egiptusesse, siis vaata, et sa teed vaarao ees kõik need imeteod, mis mina sinu kätte olen andnud. Aga mina teen ta südame kõvaks ja tema ei lase rahvast ära.

²² Kuid ütle vaaraole: Nõnda ütleb Issand: Iisrael on minu esmasündinud poeg.

²³ Ja ma ütlen sulle: Saada mu poeg ära, et ta mind teeniks! Aga kui sa keeldud teda saatmast, vaata, siis ma tapan su esmasündinud poja!'

²⁴ Aga kui ta oli teel öömajale, tuli Issand temale vastu ja püüdis teda surmata.

²⁵ Siis Sippora võttis kivinoa ja lõikas ära oma poja eesnaha, puudutas sellega ta häbet ning ütles: 'Sa oled tõesti mu verepeigmees!'

²⁶ Siis see jättis tema rahule; sel ajal öeldi verepeigmees ümberlõikamise tähenduses.

²⁷ Ja Issand ütles Aaronile: 'Mine kõrbesse Moosesele vastu!' Ta läks ning kohtas teda Jumala mäe juures ja andis temale suud.

²⁸ Ja Mooses tegi Aaronile teatavaks kõik Issanda sõnad, kes teda oli läkitanud, ja kõik imeteod, mis ta teda oli käskinud teha.

²⁹ Siis Mooses läks koos Aaroniga ja nad kogusid kokku kõik Iisraeli laste vanemad.

³⁰ Ja Aaron rääkis kõik need sõnad, mis Issand oli Moosesele rääkinud, ja ta tegi imetegusid rahva silma ees.

³¹ Ja rahvas uskus; kui nad kuulsid, et Issand oli tundnud muret Iisraeli laste pärast, ja et ta oli näinud nende viletsust, siis nad kummardasid ja heitsid silmili maha.

¹ Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees;

² to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

³ What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

⁴ They will only bow down under the prisoners, and will fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

⁵ Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!

⁶ I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me will I give him a command to take the spoil and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

⁷ However he doesn't mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.

⁸ For he says, "Aren't all of my princes kings?

⁹ Isn't Calno like Carchemish? Isn't Hamath like Arpad? Isn't Samaria like Damascus?"

¹⁰ As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images exceeded those of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

¹¹ shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

¹² Therefore it will happen that, when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his haughty looks.

¹³ For he has said, "By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers.

¹⁴ My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, have I gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped."

¹⁵ Should an axe brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.

¹⁶ Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory a burning will be kindled like the burning of fire.

¹⁷ The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in One day.

¹⁸ He will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body. It will be as when a standard bearer faints.

¹⁹ The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child could write their number.

²⁰ It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, and those who have escaped from the house of Jacob will no more again lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

²¹ A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.

²² For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

²³ For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will make a full end, and that determined, in the midst of all the earth.

²⁴ Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, says "My people who dwell in Zion, don't be afraid of the Assyrian, though he strike you with the rod, and lift up his staff against you, as Egypt did.

²⁵ For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed to his destruction."

²⁶ Yahweh of Armies will stir up a scourge against him, as in the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb. His rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up like he did against Egypt.

²⁷ It will happen in that day, that his burden will depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing oil.

²⁸ He has come to Aiath. He has passed through Migron. At Michmash he stores his baggage.

²⁹ They have gone over the pass. They have taken up their lodging at Geba. Ramah trembles. Gibeah of Saul has fled.

³⁰ Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Listen, Laishah! You poor Anathoth!

³¹ Madmenah is a fugitive. The inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety.

³² This very day he will halt at Nob. He shakes his hand at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

³³ Behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will lop the boughs with terror. The tall will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low.

³⁴ He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.