هُوشَع 2

١ 1 «قُولُوا لإِخْوَتِكُمْ عَمِّي (أَنْتُمْ شَعْبِي) وَلأَخَوَاتِكُمْ رُحَامَةَ (أَنَا أَرْحَمُكُم).

Call ye your brothers, 'Ammi [[my people]]; and your sisters, Ruchamah [[That hath obtained mercy]].

٢ 2 حَاكِمُوا أُمَّكُمْ، لأَنَّهَا لَيْسَتْ زَوْجَتِي، وَأَنَا لَسْتُ رَجُلَهَا، حَتَّى تَخْلَعَ زِنَاهَا عَنْ وَجْهِهَا وَفُجُورَهَا مِنْ بَيْنِ ثَدْيَيْهَا.

Contend with your mother, contend; for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; but let her put away her prostitution from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts:

٣ 3 لِئَلّا أُعَرِّيَهَا وَأَرُدَّهَا كَمَا كَانَتْ يَوْمَ مَوْلِدِهَا، وَأَجْعَلَهَا كَالْقَفْرِ أَوْ كَأَرْضٍ جَرْدَاءَ، وَأُمِيتَهَا ظَمَأً.

Lest I strip her naked, and set her, as on the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and render her like a dry land, and let her die with thirst.

٤ 4 وَلا أَرْحَمُ أَبْنَاءَهَا لأَنَّهُمْ أَوْلادُ زِنىً.

And upon her children will I not have mercy; for they are children of prostitution;

٥ 5 فَأُمُّهُمْ قَدْ زَنَتْ، وَالَّتِي حَمَلَتْهُمُ ارْتَكَبَتِ الْمُوبِقَاتِ، لأَنَّهَا قَالَتْ: أَسْعَى وَرَاءَ عُشَّاقِي الَّذِينَ يُقَدِّمُونَ لِي خُبْزِي وَمَائِي وَصُوفِي وَكَتَّانِي وَزَيْتِي وَمَشْرُوبَاتِي.

For their mother hath played the harlot; she that conceived them hath done shamefully; for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.

٦ 6 لِذَلِكَ أُسَيِّجُ طَرِيقَهَا بِالشَّوْكِ وَأَحُوطُهَا بِسُورٍ حَتَّى لَا تَجِدَ لَهَا مَسْلَكاً.

Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will close it up with a fence, that she shall not find her paths.

٧ 7 فَتَسْعَى وَرَاءَ عُشَّاقِهَا وَلَكِنَّهَا لَا تُدْرِكُهُمْ، وَتَلْتَمِسُهُمْ فَلا تَجِدُهُمْ، ثُمَّ تَقُولُ، لأَنْطَلِقَنَّ وَأَرْجِعَنَّ إِلَى زَوْجِي الأَوَّلِ، فَقَدْ كُنْتُ مَعَهُ فِي حَالٍ خَيْرٍ مِمَّا أَنَا عَلَيْهِ الآنَ.

And she will make pursuit after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she will seek them, but shall not find them: then will she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for it was better with me then than now.

٨ 8 إِنَّهَا لَمْ تَعْرِفْ أَنَّنِي أَنَا الَّذِي أَعْطَيْتُهَا الْقَمْحَ وَالْخُبْزَ وَالزَّيْتَ، وَأَغْدَقْتُ عَلَيْهَا الْفِضَّةَ وَالذَّهَبَ الَّتِي قَدَّمُوهَا لِلْبَعْلِ.

But she indeed did not acknowledge, that it was I that had given her the corn, and the wine, and the oil, and multiplied for her silver and gold, which they devoted for Ba'al.

٩ 9 لِذَلِكَ أَسْتَرِدُّ حِنْطَتِي فِي حِينِهَا، وَخَمْرِي فِي أَوَانِهِ، وَأَنْتَزِعُ صُوفِي وَكَتَّانِي اللَّذَيْنِ تَسْتُرُ بِهِمَا عُرْيَهَا.

Therefore will I turn back, and take away my corn in its time, and my wine in its season, and I will snatch away my wool and my flax, [given] to cover her nakedness.

١٠ 10 وَأَكْشِفُ عَوْرَتَهَا أَمَامَ عُشَّاقِهَا، وَلا يُنْقِذُهَا أَحَدٌ مِنْ يَدِي.

And now will I lay open her disgrace before the eyes of her lovers, and no man shall deliver her out of my hand.

١١ 11 وَأُبَطِّلُ كُلَّ أَفْرَاحِهَا وَأَعْيَادِهَا وَاحْتِفَالاتِ رُؤُوسِ شُهُورِهَا وَسُبُوتِهَا وَجَمِيعَ مَوَاسِمِهَا.

And I will cause to cease all her mirth, her festival, her new-moon, and her sabbath, and all her appointed feasts.

١٢ 12 وَأُتْلِفُ كُرُومَهَا وَتِينَهَا الَّتِي قَالَتْ عَنْهَا: هِيَ أُجْرَتِي الَّتِي قَبَضْتُهَا مِنْ عُشَّاقِي، فَأُحَوِّلُهَا إِلَى غَابَةٍ يَلْتَهِمُهَا وَحْشُ الصَّحْرَاءِ.

And I will make desolate her vine and her fig-tree, whereof she hath said, These are my reward which my lovers have given me: and I will change them into a forest, and the beasts of the field shall devour them.

١٣ 13 وَأُعَاقِبُهَا عَلَى أَيَّامِ احْتِفَالاتِهَا بِآلِهَةِ الْبَعْلِ، حِينَ أَحْرَقَتْ لَهَا الْبَخُورَ، وَتَزَيَّنَتْ بِخَوَاتِمِهَا وَحُلِّيِهَا وَضَلَّتْ وَرَاءَ عُشَّاقِهَا وَنَسِيَتْنِي، يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ.

And I will visit upon her the days of the Be'alim, to which she used to burn incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and me she forgot, saith the Lord.

١٤ 14 لِهَذَا، هَا أَنَا أَتَمَلَّقُهَا وَآخُذُهَا إِلَى الصَّحْرَاءِ وَأُخَاطِبُهَا بِحَنَانٍ،

Therefore, behold, will I allure her, and lead her forth into the wilderness, and I will speak comfortingly unto her heart.

١٥ 15 وَأَرُدُّ لَهَا كُرُومَهَا هُنَاكَ، وَأَجْعَلُ مِنْ وَادِي عَخُورَ (أَيْ وَادِي الإِزْعَاجِ) بَاباً لِلرَّجَاءِ، فَتَتَجَاوَبُ مَعِي كَالْعَهْدِ بِها فِي أَيَّامِ صِبَاهَا، حِينَ خَرَجَتْ مِنْ دِيَارِ مِصْرَ.

And I will give her [again] her vineyards from there, and the valley of 'Achor [[sorrow]] as an entrance for hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as on the day of her coming up out of the land of Egypt.

١٦ 16 فِي ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ، يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ، تَدْعِينَنِي: زَوْجِي، وَلا تَدْعِينَنِي أَبَداً: بَعْلِي.

And it shall happen at that day, saith the Lord, that thou shalt call me Ishi [[my husband]], and shalt not call me any more Ba'ali [[my lord]].

١٧ 17 لأَنِّي أَنْزِعُ أَسْمَاءَ الْبَعْلِ مِنْ فَمِكِ، وَلا يَرِدُ ذِكْرُهَا بِأَسْمَائِهَا مِنْ بَعْدُ.

For I will remove the names of the Be'alim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be mentioned by their name.

١٨ 18 وَأُبْرِمُ فِي ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ مِنْ أَجْلِكِ عَهْداً مَعَ وَحْشِ الْبَرِّيَّةِ وَطُيُورِ السَّمَاءِ وَزَوَاحِفِ الأَرْضِ وَأُحَطِّمُ الْقَوْسَ وَالسَّيْفَ، وَأُبْطِلُ الْحَرْبَ مِنَ الأَرْضِ، وَأَجْعَلُكِ تَنَامِينَ مُطْمَئِنَّةً

And I will make for them a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of the heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and bow, and sword, and war I will break away out of the land, and I will cause them to lie down in safety.

١٩ 19 وَأَخْطُبُكِ لِنَفْسِي إِلَى الأَبَدِ، أَخْطُبُكِ بِالْعَدْلِ وَالْحَقِّ وَالإِحْسَانِ وَالْمَرَاحِمِ.

And I will betroth thee unto me for ever: yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in justice, and in loving-kindness, and in mercy.

٢٠ 20 أَخْطُبُكِ لِنَفْسِي بِالأَمَانَةِ فَتَعْرِفِينَ الرَّبَّ.

And I will betroth thee unto me in faithfulness; and thou shalt know the Lord.

٢١ 21 فِي ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ أَسْتَجِيبُ لِشَعْبِي إِسْرَائِيلَ، وَأَغْمُرُ أَرْضَهُمْ بِالْمَطَرِ، فَتُثْمِرُ.

And it shall come to pass on that day, that I will answer prayer, saith the Lord, I will answer the heavens, and they shall answer the earth;

٢٢ 22 فَتُنْبِتُ الأَرْضُ الْقَمْحَ وَالْعِنَبَ وَالزَّيْتَ، وَكُلُّهَا تَسْتَجِيبُ لِيَزْرَعِيلَ (أَيْ: اللهُ يَزْرَعُ)

And the earth shall answer the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall answer Yizre'el.

٢٣ 23 وَأَزْرَعُ شَعْبِي فِي الأَرْضِ لِنَفْسِي، وَأَرْحَمُ لُورُحَامَةَ (أَيْ: لَا رَحْمَةَ)، وَأَقُولُ: لِلُوعَمِّي (أَيْ: لَيْسَ شَعْبِي) أَنْتَ شَعْبِي، فَيَقُولُ: أَنْتَ إِلَهِي».

And I will sow her for me in the land; and I will have mercy upon “Her that had not obtained mercy” [[Lo-ruchamah]]; and I will say to those who were “Not my people” [[Lo-'ammi]], Thou art my people: and they shall say, Thou art my God.