Hosea 7
1 When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief comes in, and the troop of robbers spoils without.
| כרפאי לישראל ונגלה עון אפרים ורעות שמרון--כי פעלו שקר וגנב יבוא פשט גדוד בחוץ |
2 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.
| ובל יאמרו ללבבם כל רעתם זכרתי עתה סבבום מעלליהם נגד פני היו |
3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
| ברעתם ישמחו מלך ובכחשיהם שרים |
4 They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceases from raising after he has kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
| כלם מנאפים--כמו תנור בערה מאפה ישבות מעיר מלוש בצק עד חמצתו |
5 In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
| יום מלכנו החלו שרים חמת מיין משך ידו את לצצים |
6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleeps all the night; in the morning it burns as a flaming fire.
| כי קרבו כתנור לבם בארבם כל הלילה ישן אפהם--בקר הוא בער כאש להבה |
7 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calls to me.
| כלם יחמו כתנור ואכלו את שפטיהם כל מלכיהם נפלו אין קרא בהם אלי |
8 Ephraim, he has mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
| אפרים בעמים הוא יתבולל אפרים היה עגה בלי הפוכה |
9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knows it not: yes, gray hairs are here and there on him, yet he knows not.
| אכלו זרים כחו והוא לא ידע גם שיבה זרקה בו והוא לא ידע |
10 And the pride of Israel testifies to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.
| וענה גאון ישראל בפניו ולא שבו אל יהוה אלהיהם ולא בקשהו בכל זאת |
11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
| ויהי אפרים כיונה פותה אין לב מצרים קראו אשור הלכו |
12 When they shall go, I will spread my net on them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.
| כאשר ילכו אפרוש עליהם רשתי--כעוף השמים אורידם איסירם כשמע לעדתם |
13 Woe to them! for they have fled from me: destruction to them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
| אוי להם כי נדדו ממני שד להם כי פשעו בי ואנכי אפדם--והמה דברו עלי כזבים |
14 And they have not cried to me with their heart, when they howled on their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.
| ולא זעקו אלי בלבם כי יילילו על משכבותם על דגן ותירוש יתגוררו יסורו בי |
15 Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.
| ואני יסרתי חזקתי זרועתם ואלי יחשבו רע |
16 They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.
| ישובו לא על היו כקשת רמיה--יפלו בחרב שריהם מזעם לשונם זו לעגם בארץ מצרים |
