Hosea 2
1 “Say to your brothers—Ammi, And to your sisters—Ruhamah.
Dicite fratribus vestris: Populus meus: et sorori vestrae, Misericordiam consecuta.
2 Plead with your mother—plead (For she [is] not My wife, and I [am] not her husband), And she turns her whoredoms from before her, And her adulteries from between her breasts,
Iudicate matrem vestram, iudicate: quoniam ipsa non uxor mea, et ego non vir eius. auferat fornicationes suas a facie sua, et adulteria sua de medio uberum suorum.
3 Lest I strip her naked. And have set her up as [in] the day of her birth, And have made her as a wilderness, And have set her as a dry land, And have put her to death with thirst.
Ne forte expoliem eam nudam, et statuam eam secundum diem nativitatis suae: et ponam eam quasi solitudinem, et statuam eam velut terram inviam, et interficiam eam siti.
4 And her sons I do not pity, For they [are] sons of whoredoms,
Et filiorum illius non miserebor: quoniam filii fornicationum sunt.
5 For their mother has gone whoring, Their conceiver has acted shamefully, For she has said, I go after my lovers, Those giving my bread and my water, My wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.
quia fornicata est mater eorum, confusa est quae concepit eos: quia dixit: Vadam post amatores meos, qui dant panes mihi, et aquas meas, lanam meam, et linum meum, oleum meum, et potum meum.
6 Therefore, behold, I am hedging up your way with thorns, And I have made a wall for her, And her paths she does not find.
Propter hoc ecce ego sepiam viam tuam spinis, et sepiam eam maceria, et semitas suas non inveniet.
7 And she has pursued her lovers, And she does not overtake them, And has sought them, and does not find [them], And she has said: I go, and I return to my first husband, For—better to me then than now.
Et sequetur amatores suos, et non apprehendet eos: et quaeret eos, et non inveniet, et dicet: Vadam, et revertar ad virum meum priorem: quia bene mihi erat tunc magis quam nunc.
8 And she did not know that I had given to her The grain, and the new wine, and the oil. Indeed, I multiplied silver to her, And the gold they prepared for Ba‘al.
Et haec nescivit, quia ego dedi ei frumentum, et vinum, et oleum, et argentum multiplicavi ei, et aurum, quae fecerunt Baal.
9 Therefore I return, And I have taken My grain in its season, And My new wine in its appointed time, And I have taken away My wool and My flax, covering her nakedness.
Idcirco convertar, et sumam frumentum meum in tempore suo, et vinum meum in tempore suo, et liberabo lanam meam et linum meum, quae operiebant ignominiam eius.
10 And now I reveal her dishonor before the eyes of her lovers, And none deliver her out of My hand.
Et nunc revelabo stultitiam eius in oculis amatorum eius: et vir non eruet eam de manu mea:
11 And I have caused all her joy to cease, Her festival, her new moon, and her Sabbath, Even all her appointed times,
et cessare faciam omne gaudium eius, sollemnitatem eius, neomeniam eius, sabbatum eius, et omnia festa tempora eius.
12 And made desolate her vine and her fig tree, Of which she said, They [are] a wage to me, That my lovers have given to me, And I have made them for a forest, And a beast of the field has consumed them.
Et corrumpam vineam eius, et ficum eius: de quibus dixit: Mercedes hae, meae sunt, quas dederunt mihi amatores mei: et ponam eam in saltum, et comedet eam bestia agri.
13 And I have charged on her the days of the Ba‘alim, To whom she makes incense, And puts on her ring and her ornament, And goes after her lovers, And forgot Me,” a declaration of YHWH.
Et visitabo super eam dies Baalim, quibus accendebat incensum, et ornabatur inaure sua, et monili suo, et ibat post amatores suos, et mei obliviscebatur, dicit Dominus.
14 “Therefore, behold, I am enticing her, And have caused her to go to the wilderness, And I have spoken to her heart,
Propter hoc, ecce ego lactabo eam, et ducam eam in solitudinem: et loquar ad cor eius.
15 And given to her her vineyards from there, And the Valley of Achor for an opening of hope, And she has responded there as in the days of her youth, And as in the day of her coming up out of the land of Egypt.
Et dabo ei vinitores eius ex eodem loco, et Vallem Achor ad aperiendam spem: et canet ibi iuxta dies iuventutis suae, et iuxta dies ascensionis suae de Terra Aegypti.
16 And it has come to pass in that day,” A declaration of YHWH, “You call Me: My husband, And do not call Me anymore: My lord.
Et erit in die illa, ait Dominus: vocabit me: Vir meus: et non vocabit me ultra, Baalim.
17 And I have turned aside the names of the lords from her mouth, And they are not remembered anymore by their name.
Et auferam nomina Baalim de ore eius, et non recordabitur ultra nominis eorum.
18 And I have made a covenant for them in that day, With the beast of the field, And with the bird of the heavens, And the creeping thing of the ground, And bow, and sword, and war I break from off the land, And have caused them to lie down confidently.
Et percutiam cum eis foedus in die illa, cum bestia agri, et cum volucre caeli, et cum reptili terrae: et arcum, et gladium, et bellum conteram de terra: et dormire eos faciam fiducialiter.
19 And I have betrothed you to Me for all time, And betrothed you to Me in righteousness, And in judgment, and kindness, and mercies,
Et sponsabo te mihi in sempiternum: et sponsabo te mihi in iustitia, et iudicio, et in misericordia, et in miserationibus.
20 And betrothed you to Me in faithfulness, And you have known YHWH.
Et sponsabo te mihi in fide: et scies quia ego Dominus.
21 And it has come to pass in that day, I answer,” A declaration of YHWH, “I answer the heavens, and they answer the earth.
Et erit in die illa: Exaudiam, dicit Dominus, exaudiam caelos, et illi exaudient terram.
22 And the earth answers the grain, And the new wine, and the oil, And they answer Jezreel.
Et terra exaudiet triticum, et vinum, et oleum: et haec exaudient Iezrahel.
23 And I have sowed her to Me in the land, And I have pitied Lo-Ruhamah, And I have said to Lo-Ammi, You [are] My people, And he says, My God!”
Et seminabo eam mihi in terra, et miserebor eius, quae fuit Absque misericordia. Et dicam non populo meo: Populus meus es tu: et ipse dicet: Deus meus es tu.
