< Hosea 8 >

1 “To your mouth—a horn, As an eagle against the house of YHWH, Because they transgressed My covenant, And against My law they have rebelled.
«إِلَى فَمِكَ بِٱلْبُوقِ! كَٱلنَّسْرِ عَلَى بَيْتِ ٱلرَّبِّ. لِأَنَّهُمْ قَدْ تَجَاوَزُوا عَهْدِي وَتَعَدَّوْا عَلَى شَرِيعَتِي.١
2 To Me they cry, My God, we—Israel—have known You.
إِلَيَّ يَصْرُخُونَ: يَا إِلَهِي، نَعْرِفُكَ نَحْنُ إِسْرَائِيلَ.٢
3 Israel has cast off good, an enemy pursues him.
«قَدْ كَرِهَ إِسْرَائِيلُ ٱلصَّلَاحَ فَيَتْبَعُهُ ٱلْعَدُوُّ.٣
4 They have made kings, and not by Me, They have made princes, and I have not known, Their silver and their gold they have made to them idols, So that they are cut off.
هُمْ أَقَامُوا مُلُوكًا وَلَيْسَ مِنِّي. أَقَامُوا رُؤَسَاءَ وَأَنَا لَمْ أَعْرِفْ. صَنَعُوا لِأَنْفُسِهِمْ مِنْ فِضَّتِهِمْ وَذَهَبِهِمْ أَصْنَامًا لِكَيْ يَنْقَرِضُوا.٤
5 Your calf has cast off, O Samaria, My anger has burned against them; Until when are they not capable of purity?
قَدْ زَنِخَ عِجْلُكِ يَا سَامِرَةُ. حَمِيَ غَضَبِي عَلَيْهِمْ. إِلَى مَتَى لَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ ٱلنَّقَاوَةَ!٥
6 For even it [is] of Israel; a craftsman made it, And it [is] not God, For the calf of Samaria is fragments!
إِنَّهُ هُوَ أَيْضًا مِنْ إِسْرَائِيلَ. صَنَعَهُ ٱلصَّانِعُ وَلَيْسَ هُوَ إِلَهًا. إِنَّ عِجْلَ ٱلسَّامِرَةِ يَصِيرُ كِسَرًا.٦
7 For wind they sow, and a windstorm they reap, Stalk it has none—a shoot not yielding grain, If so be it yield—strangers swallow it up.
«إِنَّهُمْ يَزْرَعُونَ ٱلرِّيحَ وَيَحْصُدُونَ ٱلزَّوْبَعَةَ. زَرْعٌ لَيْسَ لَهُ غَلَّةٌ لَا يَصْنَعُ دَقِيقًا. وَإِنْ صَنَعَ، فَٱلْغُرَبَاءُ تَبْتَلِعُهُ.٧
8 Israel has been swallowed up, Now they have been among nations, As a vessel in which is no delight.
قَدِ ٱبْتُلِعَ إِسْرَائِيلُ. ٱلْآنَ صَارُوا بَيْنَ ٱلْأُمَمِ كَإِنَاءٍ لَا مَسَرَّةَ فِيهِ.٨
9 For they have gone up [to] Asshur, A wild donkey alone by himself [is] Ephraim, They have hired lovers!
لِأَنَّهُمْ صَعِدُوا إِلَى أَشُّورَ مِثْلَ حِمَارٍ وَحْشِيٍّ مُعْتَزِلٍ بِنَفْسِهِ. ٱسْتَأْجَرَ أَفْرَايِمُ مُحِبِّينَ.٩
10 Also though they hire among nations, Now I gather them, and they are pained a little, From the burden of a king of princes.
إِنِّي وَإِنْ كَانُوا يَسْتَأْجِرُونَ بَيْنَ ٱلْأُمَمِ، ٱلْآنَ أَجْمَعُهُمْ فَيَنْفَكُّونَ قَلِيلًا مِنْ ثِقْلِ مَلِكِ ٱلرُّؤَسَاءِ.١٠
11 Because Ephraim multiplied altars to sin, They have been to him altars to sin.
«لِأَنَّ أَفْرَايِمَ كَثَّرَ مَذَابِحَ لِلْخَطِيَّةِ، صَارَتْ لَهُ ٱلْمَذَابِحُ لِلْخَطِيَّةِ.١١
12 I write for him numerous things of My law, As a strange thing they have been reckoned.
أَكْتُبُ لَهُ كَثْرَةَ شَرَائِعِي، فَهِيَ تُحْسَبُ أَجْنَبِيَّةً.١٢
13 The sacrifices of My offerings! They sacrifice flesh, and they eat, YHWH has not accepted them, Now He remembers their iniquity, And inspects their sin, They return [to] Egypt.
أَمَّا ذَبَائِحُ تَقْدِمَاتِي فَيَذْبَحُونَ لَحْمًا وَيَأْكُلُونَ. ٱلرَّبُّ لَا يَرْتَضِيهَا. ٱلْآنَ يَذْكُرُ إِثْمَهُمْ وَيُعَاقِبُ خَطِيَّتَهُمْ. إِنَّهُمْ إِلَى مِصْرَ يَرْجِعُونَ.١٣
14 And Israel forgets his Maker, and builds temples, And Judah has multiplied cities of defense, And I have sent a fire into his cities, And it has consumed their palaces!”
وَقَدْ نَسِيَ إِسْرَائِيلُ صَانِعَهُ وَبَنَى قُصُورًا، وَكَثَّرَ يَهُوذَا مُدُنًا حَصِينَةً. لَكِنِّي أُرْسِلُ عَلَى مُدُنِهِ نَارًا فَتَأْكُلُ قُصُورَهُ».١٤

< Hosea 8 >