Hosea 7
1 When my desire was for the fate of my people to be changed and to make Israel well, then the sin of Ephraim was made clear, and the evil-doing of Samaria; for their ways are false, and the thief comes into the house, while the band of outlaws takes property by force in the streets.
Ενώ ιάτρευον τον Ισραήλ, απεκαλύφθη τότε η ανομία του Εφραΐμ και η κακία της Σαμαρείας· διότι έπραξαν ψεύδος· και ο κλέπτης εισέρχεται, ο ληστής γυμνόνει έξωθεν.
2 And they do not say to themselves that I keep in mind all their sin; now their evil acts come round them on every side; they are before my face.
Και αυτοί δεν λέγουσιν εν τη καρδία αυτών, ότι ενθυμούμαι πάσαν την ανομίαν αυτών· τώρα περιεκύκλωσαν αυτούς αι πράξεις αυτών· έμπροσθεν του προσώπου μου έγειναν.
3 In their sin they make a king for themselves, and rulers in their deceit.
Εν τη κακία αυτών εύφραναν τον βασιλέα και εν τοις ψεύδεσιν αυτών τους άρχοντας.
4 They are all untrue; they are like a burning oven; the bread-maker does not make up the fire from the time when the paste is mixed till it is leavened.
Πάντες είναι μοιχοί, ως ο κλίβανος ο πεπυρωμένος υπό του αρτοποιού· όστις, αφού ζυμώση το φύραμα, παύει του να θερμαίνη αυτόν, εωσού γείνη η ζύμωσις.
5 On the day of our king, the rulers made him ill with the heat of wine; his hand was stretched out with the men of pride.
Εν τη ημέρα του βασιλέως ημών, οι άρχοντες ησθένησαν υπό της φλογώσεως του οίνου, και αυτός εξήπλωσε την χείρα αυτού προς τους αχρείους.
6 For they have made their hearts ready like an oven, while they are waiting secretly; their wrath is sleeping all night; in the morning it is burning like a flaming fire.
Διότι ενασχολούσι την καρδίαν αυτών φλεγωμένην ως κλίβανον εν ταις ενέδραις αυτών· ο αρτοποιός αυτών κοιμάται όλην την νύκτα· την δε αυγήν αυτή καίει ως πυρ φλογίζον.
7 They are all heated like an oven, and they put an end to their judges; all their kings have been made low; not one among them makes prayer to me.
Πάντες ούτοι εθερμάνθησαν ως κλίβανος και κατέφαγον τους κριτάς αυτών· πάντες οι βασιλείς αυτών έπεσον· δεν υπάρχει μεταξύ αυτών ο επικαλούμενός με.
8 Ephraim is mixed with the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
Ο Εφραΐμ, αυτός συνεμίγη μετά των λαών· ο Εφραΐμ είναι ως εγκρυφίας όστις δεν εστράφη.
9 Men from other lands have made waste his strength, and he is not conscious of it; grey hairs have come on him here and there, and he has no knowledge of it.
Ξένοι κατέφαγον την δύναμιν αυτού και αυτός δεν γνωρίζει τούτο· και λευκαί τρίχες ανεφύησαν σποράδην εν αυτώ και αυτός δεν γνωρίζει τούτο.
10 And the pride of Israel gives an answer to his face; but for all this, they have not gone back to the Lord their God, or made search for him.
Και η υπερηφανία του Ισραήλ μαρτυρεί κατά πρόσωπον αυτού· και δεν επιστρέφουσι προς Κύριον τον Θεόν αυτών ουδέ εκζητούσιν αυτόν διά πάντα ταύτα.
11 And Ephraim is like a foolish dove, without wisdom; they send out their cry to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
Και ο Εφραΐμ είναι ως περιστερά δελεαζομένη, μη έχουσα σύνεσιν· επικαλούνται την Αίγυπτον, υπάγουσιν εις την Ασσυρίαν.
12 When they go, my net will be stretched out over them; I will take them like the birds of heaven, I will give them punishment, I will take them away in the net for their sin.
Όταν υπάγωσι, θέλω εξαπλώσει επ' αυτούς το δίκτυόν μου· θέλω καταβιβάσει αυτούς καθώς τα πετεινά του ουρανού· θέλω παιδεύσει αυτούς καθώς εκηρύχθη εν τη συναγωγή αυτών.
13 May trouble be theirs! for they have gone far away from me; and destruction, for they have been sinning against me; I was ready to be their saviour, but they said false words against me.
Ουαί εις αυτούς, διότι απεσκίρτησαν απ' εμού· όλεθρος εις αυτούς, διότι ησέβησαν εις εμέ· ενώ εγώ εξηγόρασα αυτούς, αυτοί ελάλησαν κατ' εμού ψεύδη.
14 And they have not made prayer to me in their hearts, but they make loud cries on their beds; they are cutting themselves for food and wine, they are turned against me.
Και δεν με επεκαλέσθησαν εν τη καρδία αυτών, αλλά ωλόλυζον επί τας κλίνας αυτών· βασανίζονται διά σίτον και οίνον και στασιάζουσιν εναντίον μου.
15 Though I have given training and strength to their arms, they have evil designs against me.
Και εγώ επαίδευσα αυτούς ενώ ενίσχυσα τους βραχίονας αυτών, αυτοί όμως διελογίζοντο πονηρά εναντίον μου.
16 They have gone to what is of no value; they are like a false bow; their captains will come to destruction by the sword, and their ruler by my wrath; for this, the land of Egypt will make sport of them.
Επιστρέφουσιν, ουχί εις τον Υψιστον· έγειναν ως τόξον στρεβλόν· οι άρχοντες αυτών θέλουσι πέσει εν ρομφαία διά την αυθάδειαν της γλώσσης αυτών· τούτο θέλει είσθαι το όνειδος αυτών εν τη γη της Αιγύπτου.
