Hosea 7
1 When I would have healed Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria, for they have committed falsehood, and the thief is come in to steal, the robber is without.
Quand’ho voluto guarire Israele, allora s’è scoperta l’iniquità d’Efraim e la malvagità di Samaria; poiché praticano la falsità; il ladro entra, e i briganti scorrazzano fuori.
2 And lest they may say in their hearts, that I remember all their wickedness: their own devices now have beset them about, they have been done before my face.
E non dicono in cuor loro che io tengo a mente tutta la loro malvagità. Ora le loro azioni li circondano; esse stanno davanti alla mia faccia.
3 They have made the king glad with their wickedness: and the princes with their lies.
Essi rallegrano il re con la loro malvagità, e i capi con le loro menzogne.
4 They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker: the city rested a little from the mingling of the leaven, till the whole was leavened.
Sono tutti degli adulteri; sono come un forno scaldato dal fornaio, che cessa d’attizzare il fuoco dacché ha intriso la pasta finché sia lievitata.
5 The day of our king, the princes began to be mad with wine: he stretched out his hand with scorners.
Nel giorno del nostro re, i capi si rendon malati a forza di scaldarsi col vino; il re stende la mano ai giullari.
6 Because they have applied their heart like an oven, when he laid snares for them: he slept all the night baking them, in the morning he himself was heated as a flaming fire.
Nelle loro insidie, essi rendono il cuor loro simile ad un forno; il loro fornaio dorme tutta la notte, e la mattina il forno arde come un fuoco divampante.
7 They were all heated like an oven, and have devoured their judges: all their kings have fallen: there is none amongst them that calleth unto me.
Tutti sono ardenti come un forno, e divorano i loro reggitori; tutti i loro re cadono, non ve n’è uno fra loro che gridi a me.
8 Ephraim himself is mixed among the nations: Ephraim is become as bread baked under the ashes, that is not turned.
Efraim si mescola coi popoli, Efraim è una focaccia non rivoltata.
9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knew it not: yea, grey hairs also are spread about upon him, and he is ignorant of it.
Degli stranieri divorano la sua forza, ed egli non vi pon mente; dei capelli bianche gli appaiono qua e là sul capo, ed egli non vi pon mente.
10 And the pride of Israel shall be humbled before his face: and they have not returned to the Lord their God, nor have they sought him in all these.
L’orgoglio d’Israele testimonia contro di lui, ma essi non tornano all’Eterno, al loro Dio, e non lo cercano, nonostante tutto questo.
11 And Ephraim is become as a dove that is decoyed, not having a heart: they called upon Egypt, they went to the Assyrians.
Efraim è come una colomba stupida e senza giudizio; essi invocano l’Egitto, vanno in Assiria.
12 And when they shall go, I will spread my net upon them: I will bring them down as the fowl of the air, I will strike them as their congregation hath heard.
Mentre andranno, io stenderò su loro la mia rete; ve li farò cascare, come gli uccelli del cielo; li castigherò, com’è stato annunziato alla loro raunanza.
13 Woe to them, for they have departed from me: they shall be wasted because they have transgressed against me: and I redeemed them: and they have spoken lies against me.
Guai a loro, perché si sono sviati da me! Ruina su loro perché mi si son ribellati! Io li redimerei, ma essi dicon menzogne contro di me.
14 And they have not cried to me with their heart, but they howled in their beds: they have thought upon wheat and wine, they are departed from me.
Essi non gridano a me col cuor loro, ma si lamentano sui loro letti; si radunano ansiosi per il grano ed il vino, e si ribellano a me!
15 And I have chastised them, and strengthened their arms: and they have imagined evil against me.
Io li ho educati, ho fortificato le loro braccia ma essi macchinano del male contro di me.
16 They returned, that they might be without yoke: they became like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword, for the rage of their tongue. This is their derision in the land of Egypt.
Essi tornano, ma non all’Altissimo; sono diventati come un arco fallace; i loro capi cadranno per la spada, a motivo della rabbia della lor lingua; nel paese d’Egitto si faran beffe di loro.
