2 Maccabees 5

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	Biblija Hrvatski
1 About this time Antiochus sent his second expedition into Egypt.	1 U to je vrijeme Antioh pripremao drugu vojnu na Egipat.
2 It then happened that all over the city, for nearly forty days, there appeared horsemen charging in midair, clad in garments interwoven with gold--companies fully armed with lances	2 Gotovo četrdeset dana po svem gradu pojavljivali se konjanici koji su u zlatnim odorama projahivali zrakom; zatim naoružane čete raspoređene u kohorte;
3 and drawn swords; squadrons of cavalry in battle array, charges and countercharges on this side and that, with brandished shields and bristling spears, flights of arrows and flashes of gold ornaments, together with armor of every sort.	3 pa konjički odredi svrstani u borbene redove, koji su srljali i napadali jedni na druge; na sve strane zamahivanje štitovima, šuma sulica, mačevi izvučeni iz korica, blještav sjaj zlatnih oklopa i svakojake bojne opreme.
4 Therefore all prayed that this vision might be a good omen.	4 Svi su molili da ta pojava bude dobar znak.
5 But when a false rumor circulated that Antiochus was dead, Jason gathered fully a thousand men and suddenly attacked the city. As the defenders on the walls were forced back and the city was finally being taken, Menelaus took refuge in the citadel.	5 Uto se pronese lažan glas da je Antioh preminuo. Jason tada uze ništa manje nego tisuću ljudi te iznenada napade grad. Pošto su bili istjerani oni koji su branili zidine i grad već bio zauzet, Menelaj uteče u tvrđavu.
6 Jason then slaughtered his fellow citizens without mercy, not realizing that triumph over one's own kindred was the greatest failure, but imagining that he was winning a victory over his enemies, not his fellow countrymen.	6 Jason je stao nemilice klati svoje sugrađane, ne uviđajući da je uspjeh protiv sunarodnjaka najveći neuspjeh, misleći da stječe pobjedničku slavu nad neprijateljima, a ne nad braćom.
7 Even so, he did not gain control of the government, but in the end received only disgrace for his treachery, and once again took refuge in the country of the Ammonites.	7 Nije se domogao vlasti, nego je sramotno završio svoju izdaju i morao opet tražiti utočište u Amanitidi.
8 At length he met a miserable end. Called to account before Aretas, king of the Arabs, he fled from city to city, hunted by all men, hated as a transgressor of the laws, abhorred as the butcher of his country and his countrymen. After being driven into Egypt,	8 Tako se završilo njegovo opako djelo. Optužili su ga kod arapskog vladara Arete te je morao bježati od grada do grada; svi su ga gonili, svi mrzili kao otpadnika od Zakona i proklinjali kao krvnika svoje domovine i svojih sugrađana, dok konačno ne zastade u Egiptu.
9 he crossed the sea to the Spartans, among whom he hoped to find protection because of his relations with them. There he who had exiled so many from their country perished in exile;	9 Tako je on koji je mnoge izagnao iz domovine poginuo u tuđini, otišavši Lakedemoncima ne bi li u ime srodstva našao zaštitu.
10 and he who had cast out so many to lie unburied went unmourned himself with no funeral of any kind or any place in the tomb of his ancestors.	10 On koji je toliko ljudi bez sahrane bacio na zemlju ostade neoplakan, bez ukopa i bez mjesta u grobu svojih otaca.
11 When these happenings were reported to the king, he thought that Judea was in revolt. Raging like a wild animal, he set out from Egypt and took Jerusalem by storm.	11 Kad je kralj doznao što se dogodilo, pomisli da se Judeja odmetnula. Zato se podiže iz Egipta, zvjerski razjaren u duši, i zauze grad oružanom rukom.
12 He ordered his soldiers to cut down without mercy those whom they met and to slay those who took refuge in their houses.	12 Vojnicima zapovjedi da nesmiljeno pobiju sve one koje sretnu i da pokolju one koji uteknu u kuće.
13 There was a massacre of young and old, a killing of women and children, a slaughter of virgins and infants.	13 Ubijali su mlado i staro, zatirali žene i djecu, klali djevojke i nejačad.
14 In the space of three days, eighty thousand were lost, forty thousand meeting a violent death, and the same number being sold into slavery.	14 U cigla tri dana bilo je osamdeset tisuća žrtava, od čega je četrdeset tisuća palo od udaraca, a isto ih je toliko prodano u roblje.
15 Not satisfied with this, the king dared to enter the holiest temple in the world; Menelaus, that traitor both to the laws and to his country, served as guide.	15 Ni time se nije izdovoljio, nego se drznuo ući u Hram najsvetiji na svem svijetu, a vodio ga Menelaj, izdajica zakonâ i domovine.
16 He laid his impure hands on the sacred vessels and gathered up with profane hands the votive offerings made by other kings for the advancement, the glory, and the honor of the Place.	16 Tu je svojim nečistim rukama uzimao sveto posuđe, poganim rukama grabio darove što su ih drugi kraljevi davali za napredak, slavu i dostojanstvo tog mjesta.
17 Puffed up in spirit, Antiochus did not realize that it was because of the sins of the city's inhabitants that the Lord was angry for a little while and hence disregarded the holy Place.	17 Antioh se uznio u srcu, ne misleći da se Gospod samo na kratko vrijeme ljuti na građane zbog njihovih grijeha i zato ne haje za Sveto mjesto.
18 If they had not become entangled in so many sins, this man, like Heliodorus, who was sent by King Seleucus to inspect the treasury, would have been flogged and turned back from his presumptuous action as soon as he approached.	18 I da nije bilo tolikog mnoštva grijeha, i njega bi, čim bi ušao, udarci biča odvratili od drskosti, kao što su odvratili i Heliodora, koga bijaše poslao kralj Seleuk da pregleda riznicu.
19 The Lord, however, had not chosen the people for the sake of the Place, but the Place for the sake of the people.	19 Ali Gospodin nije izabrao narod radi Svetog mjesta, nego mjesto radi naroda.
20 Therefore, the Place itself, having shared in the people's misfortunes, afterward participated in their good fortune; and what the Almighty had forsaken in his anger was restored in all its glory, once the great Sovereign became reconciled.	20 Zato je i samo mjesto, imajući udjela u narodnim nevoljama, kasnije sudjelovalo i u blagostanju; zapušteno zbog srdžbe Svemogućega, bit će opet u svoj svojoj slavi obnovljeno nakon izmirenja s velikim Gospodinom.
21 Antiochus carried off eighteen hundred talents from the temple, and hurried back to Antioch. In his arrogance he planned to make the land navigable and the sea passable on foot, so carried away was he with pride.	21 Antioh, dakle, iz Hrama odnije tisuću i osam stotina talenata pa se požuri u Antiohiju, misleći u svojoj oholosti da zemlju može učiniti plovnom a more prohodnim – toliko mu se uznijelo srce!
22 But he left governors to harass the nation: at Jerusalem, Philip, a Phrygian by birth, and in character more cruel than the man who appointed him;	22 Za nadstojnike, pak, koji će zlostavljati narod ostavi u Jeruzalemu Filipa, po narodnosti Frigijca, po ćudi surovijega od onoga koji ga je postavio;
23 at Mount Gerizim, Andronicus; and besides these, Menelaus, who lorded it over his fellow citizens worse than the others did. Out of hatred for the Jewish citizens,	23 a na gori Gerizimu Andronika; osim njih još i Menelaja, koji je opakije od drugih gospodovao svojim sugrađanima, a bio je osobito neprijateljski raspoložen prema Židovima.
24 the king sent Appollonius, commander of the Mysians, at the head of an army of twenty-two thousand men, with orders to kill all the grown men and sell the women and young men into slavery.	24 Posla i namjesnika Apolonija na čelu vojske od dvadeset i dvije tisuće ljudi, zapovjedivši mu da sve odrasle pokolje, a žene i mladež proda.
25 When this man arrived in Jerusalem, he pretended to be peacefully disposed and waited until the holy day of the sabbath; then, finding the Jews refraining from work, he ordered his men to parade fully armed.	25 Kad je taj došao u Jeruzalem, pretvarajući se kao miroljubiv čovjek, pričeka do svetoga subotnjeg dana; tada, iskoristivši židovski počinak, zapovjedi svojim podređenima da izađu pod oružjem.
26 All those who came out to watch, he massacred, and running through the city with armed men, he cut down a large number of people.	26 Sve one koji su došli da vide smotru dade poubijati, a potom je, krstareći s naoružanim vojnicima po gradu, pogubio mnoštvo ljudi.
27 But Judas Maccabeus and about nine others withdrew to the wilderness, where he and his companions lived like wild animals in the hills, continuing to eat what grew wild to avoid sharing the defilement.	27 Tada se Juda Makabej povuče s desetak ljudi u pustinju te su u gorama provodili život kao divlje zvijeri, hraneći se samo zelenjem da se čime ne bi onečistili.