Hosea 7
1 “When I give healing to Israel, Then the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed, And the wickedness of Samaria, For they have worked falsehood, And a thief comes in, A troop has stripped off in the street,
| כרפאי לישראל ונגלה עון אפרים ורעות שמרון כי פעלו שקר וגנב יבוא פשט גדוד בחוץ׃ |
2 And they do not say to their heart, [That] I have remembered all their evil, Now their doings have surrounded them, They have been before My face.
| ובל יאמרו ללבבם כל רעתם זכרתי עתה סבבום מעלליהם נגד פני היו׃ |
3 With their wickedness they make a king glad, And with their lies—princes.
| ברעתם ישמחו מלך ובכחשיהם שרים׃ |
4 All of them [are] adulterers, Like a burning oven of a baker, He ceases from stirring up after kneading the dough, until its leavening.
| כלם מנאפים כמו תנור בערה מאפה ישבות מעיר מלוש בצק עד חמצתו׃ |
5 A day of our king! Princes have defiled themselves [with] the poison of wine, He has drawn out his hand with scorners.
| יום מלכנו החלו שרים חמת מיין משך ידו את לצצים׃ |
6 For they have drawn near, Their heart [is] as an oven In their lying in wait—their baker sleeps all night, Morning! He is burning as a flaming fire.
| כי קרבו כתנור לבם בארבם כל הלילה ישן אפהם בקר הוא בער כאש להבה׃ |
7 All of them are warm as an oven, And they have devoured their judges, All their kings have fallen, There is none calling to Me among them.
| כלם יחמו כתנור ואכלו את שפטיהם כל מלכיהם נפלו אין קרא בהם אלי׃ |
8 Ephraim! He mixes himself among peoples, Ephraim has been an unturned cake.
| אפרים בעמים הוא יתבולל אפרים היה עגה בלי הפוכה׃ |
9 Strangers have devoured his power, And he has not known, Also old age has sprinkled [itself] on him, And he has not known.
| אכלו זרים כחו והוא לא ידע גם שיבה זרקה בו והוא לא ידע׃ |
10 And the excellence of Israel has been humbled to his face, And they have not turned back to their God YHWH, Nor have they sought Him for all this.
| וענה גאון ישראל בפניו ולא שבו אל יהוה אלהיהם ולא בקשהו בכל זאת׃ |
11 And Ephraim is as a simple dove without heart, Egypt they called on—[to] Asshur they have gone.
| ויהי אפרים כיונה פותה אין לב מצרים קראו אשור הלכו׃ |
12 When they go I spread over them My net, As the bird of the heavens I bring them down, I discipline them as their congregation has heard.
| כאשר ילכו אפרוש עליהם רשתי כעוף השמים אורידם איסרם כשמע לעדתם׃ |
13 Woe to them, for they wandered from Me, Destruction to them, for they transgressed against Me, And I ransom them, and they have spoken lies against Me,
| אוי להם כי נדדו ממני שד להם כי פשעו בי ואנכי אפדם והמה דברו עלי כזבים׃ |
14 And have not cried to Me with their heart, but howl on their beds; They assemble themselves for grain and new wine, They turn aside against Me.
| ולא זעקו אלי בלבם כי יילילו על משכבותם על דגן ותירוש יתגוררו יסורו בי׃ |
15 And I instructed—I strengthened their arms, And concerning Me they think evil!
| ואני יסרתי חזקתי זרועתם ואלי יחשבו רע׃ |
16 They turn back—not to the Most High, They have been as a deceitful bow, Their princes fall by sword, From the insolence of their tongue, This [is] their derision in the land of Egypt!”
| ישובו לא על היו כקשת רמיה יפלו בחרב שריהם מזעם לשונם זו לעגם בארץ מצרים׃ |
