Hosea 7
1 Should I desire to heal Israel, then would the iniquity of Ephraim and the wickedness of Samaria be laid open; for they commit falsehood; and the thief entereth [secretly], and the troop of robbers is spread abroad without.
| כרפאי לישראל ונגלה עון אפרים ורעות שמרון כי פעלו שקר וגנב יבוא פשט גדוד בחוץ׃ |
2 And they never think in their own heart that I remember all their wickedness: though now their own doings are all round about them; before my face are they present.
| ובל יאמרו ללבבם כל רעתם זכרתי עתה סבבום מעלליהם נגד פני היו׃ |
3 With their wickedness they make the king glad, and with their lies the princes.
| ברעתם ישמחו מלך ובכחשיהם שרים׃ |
4 They are all adulterers, as an oven well heated by the baker: [when] he that stirreth [the fire] resteth awhile from kneading the dough, until it be leavened.
| כלם מנאפים כמו תנור בערה מאפה ישבות מעיר מלוש בצק עד חמצתו׃ |
5 On the day of our king's [entering on his rule] the princes are made sick with the fumes of wine: [the king] joineth his hand with scorners.
| יום מלכנו החלו שרים חמת מיין משך ידו את לצצים׃ |
6 For they make ready their heart for their tricky deeds, like the oven, the baker whereof sleepeth all the night, while in the morning it gloweth 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, they devour their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.
| כלם יחמו כתנור ואכלו את שפטיהם כל מלכיהם נפלו אין קרא בהם אלי׃ |
8 Ephraim mixeth himself indeed among the nations: Ephraim is a cake not turned.
| אפרים בעמים הוא יתבולל אפרים היה עגה בלי הפוכה׃ |
9 Strangers devour his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are sprinkled about on his [head], yet he knoweth not.
| אכלו זרים כחו והוא לא ידע גם שיבה זרקה בו והוא לא ידע׃ |
10 And humbled was the pride of Israel before his own face; but they did not return to the Lord their God, and sought him not, notwithstanding all this.
| וענה גאון ישראל בפניו ולא שבו אל יהוה אלהיהם ולא בקשהו בכל זאת׃ |
11 And Ephraim is become like a silly dove without understanding: Egypt did they call hither, to Assyria did they go.
| ויהי אפרים כיונה פותה אין לב מצרים קראו אשור הלכו׃ |
12 As they go, so will I spread out my net over them; as the fowls of the heaven will I bring them down: I will chastise them, as it hath been announced to their congregation.
| כאשר ילכו אפרוש עליהם רשתי כעוף השמים אורידם איסרם כשמע לעדתם׃ |
13 Woe unto them! for they have fled from me; destruction shall come unto them, because they have transgressed against me: though I desired to redeem them, they yet spoke lies against me.
| אוי להם כי נדדו ממני שד להם כי פשעו בי ואנכי אפדם והמה דברו עלי כזבים׃ |
14 And they cried not unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: for corn and new wine they assemble themselves, and they rebel against me.
| ולא זעקו אלי בלבם כי יילילו על משכבותם על דגן ותירוש יתגוררו יסורו בי׃ |
15 And I desired to instruct and to strengthen their arms; yet would they devise evil against me.
| ואני יסרתי חזקתי זרועתם ואלי יחשבו רע׃ |
16 They never return upward: they are like a deceitful bow: by the sword shall their princes fall because of 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׃ |
