هُوشَع 3

١ 1 ثُمَّ قَالَ لِي الرَّبُّ: «اذْهَبْ ثَانِيَةً وَأَحْبِبِ امْرَأَةً عَشِيقَةَ آخَرَ، زَانِيَةً، أَحْبِبْهَا كَمَحَبَّةِ الرَّبِّ لِشَعْبِهِ إِسْرَائِيلَ، عَلَى الرَّغْمِ مِنْ ضَلالِهِمْ وَرَاءَ آلِهَةٍ أُخْرَى، وَوَلَعِهِمْ بِتَقْدِيمِ قَرَابِينِ الزَّبِيبِ لَهُمْ.

Jehovah said to me, "Go again, love a woman who loves another, and is an adulteress, even as Jehovah loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins."

٢ 2 فَاشْتَرَيْتُهَا بِخَمْسَةَ عَشَرَ شَاقِلاً مِنَ الْفِضَّةِ (نَحْوَ مِئَةٍ وَثَمَانِينَ جِرَاماً)، وَبِحُومَرَ وَنِصْفِ حُومَرَ مِنَ الشَّعِيرِ (نَحْوَ ثَلاثِ مِئَةٍ وَسِتِّينَ لِتْراً)،

So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.

٣ 3 وَقُلْتُ لَهَا: تَمْكُثِينَ مِلْكاً خَالِصاً لِي أَيَّاماً كَثِيرَةً لَا تَزْنِينَ وَلا تَكُونِينَ لِرَجُلٍ آخَرَ وَأَكُونُ أَنَا كَذَلِكَ لَكِ.

I said to her, "You shall stay with me many days. You shall not play the prostitute, and you shall not be with any other man. I will also be so toward you."

٤ 4 لأَنَّ أَبْنَاءَ إِسْرَائِيلَ يَمْكُثُونَ أَمَداً طَوِيلاً مِنْ غَيْرِ مَلِكٍ أَوْ أَمِيرٍ، وَمِنْ غَيْرِ ذَبِيحَةٍ وَلا تَمَاثِيلَ وَلا أَفُودٍ وَلا تَرَافِيمَ.

For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols.

٥ 5 ثُمَّ يَرْجِعُ أَبْنَاءُ إِسْرَائِيلَ وَيَطْلُبُونَ الرَّبَّ إِلَهَهُمْ، وَدَاوُدَ مَلِكَهُمْ، وَيَلْتَمِسُونَ بِرَهْبَةٍ الرَّبَّ وَجُودَهُ فِي آخِرِ الأَيَّامِ».

Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Jehovah their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Jehovah and to his blessings in the last days.