Hosea 8
1 “Put the trumpet to your lips! Something like an eagle is over the LORD’s house, because they have broken my covenant and rebelled against my law.
| אל חכך שפר כנשר על בית יהוה יען עברו בריתי ועל תורתי פשעו׃ |
2 They cry to me, ‘My God, we, Israel, acknowledge you!’
| לי יזעקו אלהי ידענוך ישראל׃ |
3 Israel has cast off that which is good. The enemy will pursue him.
| זנח ישראל טוב אויב ירדפו׃ |
4 They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made princes, and I did not approve. Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols, that they may be cut off.
| הם המליכו ולא ממני השירו ולא ידעתי כספם וזהבם עשו להם עצבים למען יכרת׃ |
5 Let Samaria throw out his calf idol! My anger burns against them! How long will it be until they are capable of purity?
| זנח עגלך שמרון חרה אפי בם עד מתי לא יוכלו נקין׃ |
6 For this is even from Israel! The workman made it, and it is no God; indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
| כי מישראל והוא חרש עשהו ולא אלהים הוא כי שבבים יהיה עגל שמרון׃ |
7 For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.
| כי רוח יזרעו וסופתה יקצרו קמה אין לו צמח בלי יעשה קמח אולי יעשה זרים יבלעהו׃ |
8 Israel is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.
| נבלע ישראל עתה היו בגוים ככלי אין חפץ בו׃ |
9 For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.
| כי המה עלו אשור פרא בודד לו אפרים התנו אהבים׃ |
10 But although they sold themselves among the nations, I will now gather them; and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mighty ones.
| גם כי יתנו בגוים עתה אקבצם ויחלו מעט ממשא מלך שרים׃ |
11 Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they became for him altars for sinning.
| כי הרבה אפרים מזבחת לחטא היו לו מזבחות לחטא׃ |
12 I wrote for him the many things of my law, but they were regarded as a strange thing.
| אכתוב לו רבו תורתי כמו זר נחשבו׃ |
13 As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it, but the LORD does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins. They will return to Egypt.
| זבחי הבהבי יזבחו בשר ויאכלו יהוה לא רצם עתה יזכר עונם ויפקד חטאותם המה מצרים ישובו׃ |
14 For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire on his cities, and it will devour its fortresses.”
| וישכח ישראל את עשהו ויבן היכלות ויהודה הרבה ערים בצרות ושלחתי אש בעריו ואכלה ארמנתיה׃ |
