¹ Ja Iisraeli lapsed, terve kogudus, tulid esimeses kuus Siini kõrbe ja rahvas asus Kaadesisse. Seal suri Mirjam ja ta maeti sinna.

² Kogudusel aga ei olnud vett. Siis nad kogunesid Moosese ja Aaroni vastu.

³ Ja rahvas riidles Moosesega, nad rääkisid ning ütlesid nõnda: 'Oleksime ometi meiegi hinge heitnud, siis kui meie vennad hinge heitsid Issanda ees!

⁴ Miks tõite Issanda koguduse, meid ja meie loomad, siia kõrbe surema?

⁵ Miks tõite meid ära Egiptusest, tuues meid siia pahasse paika? Ei ole see vilja ega viigimarja, viinapuu ega granaatõuna paik, ja joomiseks ei ole vett!'

⁶ Aga Mooses ja Aaron tulid rahvakogu eest kogudusetelgi ukse ette ja heitsid silmili maha. Siis ilmutas ennast neile Issanda auhiilgus.

⁷ Ja Issand rääkis Moosesega, öeldes:

⁸ 'Võta kepp ja kogu kokku kogudus, sina ja su vend Aaron, ja öelge nende nähes kaljule, et see annaks vett! Sina too neile kaljust vesi välja ning jooda kogudust ja nende loomi!'

⁹ Siis Mooses võttis Issanda eest kepi, nagu teda oli kästud.

¹⁰ Ja Mooses ja Aaron kogusid koguduse kalju ette; ja ta ütles neile: 'Kuulge nüüd, te vastupanijad! Kas peame tooma teile vee välja sestsamast kaljust?'

¹¹ Siis Mooses tõstis oma käe üles ja lõi oma kepiga kaks korda kaljut, ja palju vett tuli välja ning kogudus ja nende loomad said juua.

¹² Aga Issand ütles Moosesele ja Aaronile: 'Sellepärast et te ei uskunud minusse ega pidanud mind pühaks Iisraeli laste silme ees, ei saa teie viia seda kogudust sellele maale, mille mina neile annan!'

¹³ See oli Meriba vesi, kus Iisraeli lapsed riidlesid Issandaga ja tema näitas ennast neile pühana.

¹⁴ Kaadesist läkitas Mooses käskjalad Edomi kuninga juurde: 'Nõnda ütleb su vend Iisrael: Sina tead kõiki raskusi, mis meid on tabanud,

¹⁵ et meie vanemad läksid alla Egiptusesse ja me asusime kaua aega Egiptuses ja et egiptlased tegid kurja meile ja meie vanemaile.

¹⁶ Aga me kisendasime Issanda poole ja tema kuulis meie häält ning läkitas ingli, kes tõi meid Egiptusest välja. Ja vaata, me oleme Kaadesis, linnas su maa piiril.

¹⁷ Luba meid nüüd oma maast läbi minna! Me ei lähe läbi põldude ega viinamägede ja me ei joo kaevuvett. Me läheme kuningateed mööda ega pöördu paremat või vasakut kätt, kuni oleme läbinud su maa-ala.'

¹⁸ Aga Edom vastas temale: 'Sa ei tohi läbi minna! Muidu ma tulen mõõgaga su vastu.'

¹⁹ Ja Iisraeli lapsed ütlesid temale: 'Me läheme maanteed mööda ja kui me joome su vett, mina ja mu loomad, siis ma maksan selle eest. Ei midagi muud, kui et võiksin jala läbi minna!'

²⁰ Aga tema vastas: 'Sa ei tohi läbi minna!' Ja Edom läks välja tema vastu hulga rahva ja kindla käega.

²¹ Kui Edom keeldus lubamast Iisraeli oma maa-alast läbi minna, siis Iisrael pöördus temast eemale.

²² Ja nad läksid teele Kaadesist. Ja Iisraeli lapsed, terve kogudus, tulid Hoori mäe juurde.

²³ Ja Issand rääkis Moosese ja Aaroniga Hoori mäe juures Edomi maa piiril, öeldes:

²⁴ 'Aaron koristatakse oma rahva juurde, sest ta ei pääse sellele maale, mille ma annan Iisraeli lastele, sellepärast et te Meriba vee juures olite tõrksad mu käsu vastu.

²⁵ Võta Aaron ja tema poeg Eleasar ja vii nad Hoori mäele!

²⁶ Võta Aaronil riided seljast ja pane need selga ta pojale Eleasarile! Aaron koristatakse ära ja ta sureb seal.'

²⁷ Ja Mooses tegi nõnda, nagu Issand käskis, ja nad läksid üles Hoori mäele terve koguduse nähes.

²⁸ Ja Mooses võttis Aaronil riided seljast ning pani need selga ta pojale Eleasarile. Ja Aaron suri seal mäeharjal, aga Mooses ja Eleasar astusid mäelt alla.

²⁹ Ja kui terve kogudus nägi, et Aaron oli hinge heitnud, siis nad nutsid Aaroni pärast kolmkümmend päeva, kogu Iisraeli sugu.

¹ Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.

² He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in its midst, and also cut out a winepress therein. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.

³ "Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge between me and my vineyard.

⁴ What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?

⁵ Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall of it, and it will be trampled down.

⁶ I will lay it a wasteland. It won't be pruned nor hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it."

⁷ For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

⁸ Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!

⁹ In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: "Surely many houses will be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied.

¹⁰ For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah."

¹¹ Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!

¹² The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don't respect the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

¹³ Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

¹⁴ Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.

¹⁵ So man is brought low, mankind is humbled, and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;

¹⁶ but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.

¹⁷ Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.

¹⁸ Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and wickedness as with cart rope;

¹⁹ Who say, "Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!"

²⁰ Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

²¹ Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

²² Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink;

²³ who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!

²⁴ Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

²⁵ Therefore Yahweh's anger burns against his people, and he has stretched out his hand against them, and has struck them. The mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is still stretched out.

²⁶ He will lift up a banner to the nations from far, and he will whistle for them from the end of the earth. Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly.

²⁷ None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the belt of their waist be untied, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:

²⁸ whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent. Their horses' hoofs will be like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind.

²⁹ Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver.

³⁰ They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.