¹ A Jakov ču gde sinovi Lavanovi govore: Jakov uze sve što beše našeg oca, i od onog što beše našeg oca steče sve ovo blago.

² I vide Jakov gde lice Lavanovo nije prema njemu kao pre.

³ I Gospod reče Jakovu: Vrati se u zemlju otaca svojih i u rod svoj, i ja ću biti s tobom.

⁴ I poslavši Jakov dozva Rahilju i Liju u polje k stadu svom.

⁵ I reče im: Vidim gde lice oca vašeg nije prema meni kao pre; ali je Bog oca mog bio sa mnom.

⁶ I vi znate da sam služio ocu vašem kako sam god mogao;

⁷ A otac me je vaš varao i menjao mi platu deset puta; ali mu Bog ne dade da me ošteti;

⁸ Kad on reče: Šta bude šareno neka ti je plata, onda se mladilo sve šareno; a kad reče: S belegom šta bude neka ti je plata, onda se mladilo sve s belegom.

⁹ Tako Bog uze stoku ocu vašem i dade je meni;

¹⁰ Jer kad se upaljivaše stoka, podigoh oči svoje i videh u snu, a to ovnovi i jarci što skaču na ovce i koze behu šareni, s belegama prutastim i kolastim.

¹¹ A anđeo Gospodnji reče mi u snu: Jakove! A ja odgovorih: Evo me.

¹² A on reče: Podigni sad oči svoje i gledaj, ovnovi i jarci što skaču na ovce i koze, šareni su, s belegama prutastim i kolastim; jer videh sve što ti čini Lavan.

¹³ Ja sam Bog od Vetilja, gde si prelio kamen i učinio mi zavet; ustani sada i idi iz ove zemlje, i vrati se na postojbinu svoju.

¹⁴ Tada odgovori Rahilja i Lija, i rekoše mu: Eda li još imamo kakav deo i nasledstvo u domu oca svog?

¹⁵ Nije li nas držao kao tuđinke kad nas je prodao? Pa je još i naše novce jednako jeo.

¹⁶ Jer sve ovo blago što uze Gospod ocu našem, naše je i naše dece. Zato čini sve što ti je Gospod kazao.

¹⁷ I podiže se Jakov, i metnu decu svoju i žene svoje na kamile;

¹⁸ I odvede svu stoku svoju i sve blago što beše stekao, stoku koju beše stekao u Padan-Aramu, i pođe k Isaku ocu svom u zemlju hanansku.

¹⁹ A Lavan beše otišao da striže ovce svoje; i Rahilja ukrade idole ocu svom.

²⁰ I Jakov otide kradom od Lavana Sirina ne javivši mu da hoće da ide.

²¹ I pobeže sa svim blagom svojim, i podiže se te pređe preko vode, i uputi se ka gori Galadu.

²² A treći dan javiše Lavanu da je pobegao Jakov.

²³ I uze sa sobom braću svoju, i pođe za njim u poteru, i za sedam dana stiže ga na gori Galadu.

²⁴ Ali Bog dođe Lavanu Sirinu noću u snu, i reče mu: Čuvaj se da ne govoriš s Jakovom ni lepo ni ružno.

²⁵ I stiže Lavan Jakova; a Jakov beše razapeo šator svoj na gori, pa i Lavan takođe razape svoj s braćom svojom na gori Galadu.

²⁶ I Lavan reče Jakovu: Šta učini te kradom pobeže od mene i odvede kćeri moje kao na mač otete?

²⁷ Zašto tajno pobeže i kradom otide od mene? Niti mi reče da te ispratim s veseljem i s pesmama, s bubnjevima i guslama?

²⁸ Niti mi dade da izljubim sinove svoje i kćeri svoje? Ludo si radio.

²⁹ Mogao bih vam dosaditi; ali Bog oca vašeg noćas mi reče govoreći: Čuvaj se da ne govoriš s Jakovom ni lepo ni ružno.

³⁰ Idi dakle kad si se tako uželeo kuće oca svog; ali zašto ukrade bogove moje?

³¹ A Jakov odgovori i reče: Bojah se i mišljah hoćeš silom oteti kćeri svoje od mene.

³² A bogove svoje u koga nađeš, onaj neka ne živi više; pred našom braćom traži šta je tvoje u mene, pa uzmi. Jer Jakov nije znao da ih je ukrala Rahilja.

³³ I uđe Lavan u šator Jakovljev i u šator Lijin i u šator dveju robinja, i ne nađe ih; i izašav iz šatora Lijina uđe u šator Rahiljin.

³⁴ A Rahilja uze idole i sakri ih pod samar kamile svoje i sede ozgo; i Lavan pipaše po celom šatoru, i ne nađe.

³⁵ A ona reče ocu svom: Nemoj se srditi, gospodaru, što ti ne mogu ustati, jer mi je šta u žena biva. Traživši dakle ne nađe idole svoje.

³⁶ I Jakov se rasrdi, i stade koriti Lavana, i govoreći reče mu: Šta sam učinio, šta sam skrivio, te si me tako žestoko terao?

³⁷ Pipao si sav prtljag moj, pa šta si našao iz svoje kuće? Daj ovamo pred moju i svoju braću, neka rasude između nas dvojice.

³⁸ Evo dvadeset godina bih kod tebe: ovce tvoje i koze tvoje ne jaloviše se, a ovnova iz stada tvog ne jedoh.

³⁹ Šta bi zverje zaklalo nisam ti donosio, sam sam podmirivao; od mene si iskao što bi mi bilo ukradeno danju ili noću.

⁴⁰ Danju me ubijaše vrućina a noću mraz; i san mi ne padaše na oči.

⁴¹ Tako mi je bio dvadeset godina u tvojoj kući; služio sam ti četrnaest godina za dve kćeri tvoje i šest godina za stoku tvoju, i platu si mi menjao deset puta.

⁴² Da nije Bog oca mog, Bog Avramov, i strah Isakov bio sa mnom, bi me zacelo otpustio prazna. Ali je Bog video nevolju moju i trud ruku mojih, pa te ukori noćas.

⁴³ A Lavan odgovori Jakovu i reče: Ove su kćeri moje kćeri, i ovi su sinovi moji sinovi, i ova stoka moja stoka, i šta god vidiš sve je moje; pa šta bih učinio danas kćerima svojim ili sinovima njihovim koje rodiše?

⁴⁴ Nego hajde da uhvatimo veru, ja i ti, da bude svedočanstvo između mene i tebe.

⁴⁵ I Jakov uze kamen i utvrdi ga za spomen.

⁴⁶ I reče Jakov braći svojoj; nakupite kamenja. I nakupiše kamenja i složiše na gomilu, i jedoše na gomili.

⁴⁷ I Lavan ga nazva Jegar-Sahadut, a Jakov ga nazva Galed.

⁴⁸ I reče Lavan: Ova gomila neka bude svedok između mene i tebe danas. Zato se prozva Galed.

⁴⁹ A prozva se i Mispa, jer reče Lavan: Neka Gospod gleda između mene i tebe, kad ne uzmožemo videti jedan drugog.

⁵⁰ Ako ucveliš kćeri moje i ako uzmeš žene preko mojih kćeri, neće čovek biti između nas nego gle Bog svedok između mene i tebe.

⁵¹ I još reče Lavan Jakovu: Gledaj ovu gomilu i gledaj ovaj spomenik, koji podigoh između sebe i tebe.

⁵² Svedok je ova gomila i svedok je ovaj spomenik, da ni ja neću preći preko ove gomile k tebi ni ti k meni da nećeš preći preko ove gomile i spomenika ovog na zlo.

⁵³ Bog Avramov i bogovi Nahorovi, bogovi oca njihovog, neka sude među nama. A Jakov se zakle strahom oca svog Isaka.

⁵⁴ I Jakov prinese žrtvu na gori, i sazva braću svoju na večeru; i jedoše pa noćiše na gori.

⁵⁵ A ujutru rano usta Lavan, i izljubi svoju unučad i kćeri svoje, i blagoslovi ih, pa otide, i vrati se u svoje mesto.

¹ "Woe to the rebellious children," says Yahweh, "who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,

² who set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked my advice; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!

³ Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

⁴ For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors have come to Hanes.

⁵ They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can't profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach."

⁶ The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.

⁷ For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore have I called her Rahab who sits still.

⁸ Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.

⁹ For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of Yahweh;

¹⁰ who tell the seers, "Don't see!" and to the prophets, "Don't prophesy to us right things. tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.

¹¹ Get out of the way. Turn aside from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us."

¹² Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, "Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it;

¹³ therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.

¹⁴ He will break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won't be found among the broken piece a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern."

¹⁵ For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, "You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence." You refused,

¹⁶ but you said, "No, for we will flee on horses;" therefore you will flee; and, "We will ride on the swift;" therefore those who pursue you will be swift.

¹⁷ One thousand will flee at the threat of One. At the threat of five, you will flee until you are left like a beacon on the top of a mountain, and like a banner on a hill.

¹⁸ Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

¹⁹ For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You will weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you.

²⁰ Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won't be hidden anymore, but your eyes will see your teachers;

²¹ and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way. Walk in it."

²² You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall tell it, "Go away!"

²³ He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.

²⁴ The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground will eat savory provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.

²⁵ There shall be brooks and streams of water on every lofty mountain and on every high hill in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

²⁶ Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.

²⁷ Behold, the name of Yahweh comes from far away, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke. His lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring fire.

²⁸ His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction; and a bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.

²⁹ You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come to Yahweh's mountain, to Israel's Rock.

³⁰ Yahweh will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the descent of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, storm, and hailstones.

³¹ For through the voice of Yahweh the Assyrian will be dismayed. He will strike him with his rod.

³² Every stroke of the rod of punishment, which Yahweh will lay on him, will be with the sound of tambourines and harps. He will fight with them in battles, brandishing weapons.

³³ For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, for the king it is prepared. He has made its pyre deep and large with fire and much wood. Yahweh's breath, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.