Hosea 2

1 "Say to your brothers, 'My People.' and to your sisters, 'Compassion.'

١ «قُولُوا لإِخْوَتِكُمْ عَمِّي (أَنْتُمْ شَعْبِي) وَلأَخَوَاتِكُمْ رُحَامَةَ (أَنَا أَرْحَمُكُم).

2 Contend with your mother. Contend, for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her prostitution from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

٢ حَاكِمُوا أُمَّكُمْ، لأَنَّهَا لَيْسَتْ زَوْجَتِي، وَأَنَا لَسْتُ رَجُلَهَا، حَتَّى تَخْلَعَ زِنَاهَا عَنْ وَجْهِهَا وَفُجُورَهَا مِنْ بَيْنِ ثَدْيَيْهَا.

3 Lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.

٣ لِئَلّا أُعَرِّيَهَا وَأَرُدَّهَا كَمَا كَانَتْ يَوْمَ مَوْلِدِهَا، وَأَجْعَلَهَا كَالْقَفْرِ أَوْ كَأَرْضٍ جَرْدَاءَ، وَأُمِيتَهَا ظَمَأً.

4 Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy; for they are children of unfaithfulness;

٤ وَلا أَرْحَمُ أَبْنَاءَهَا لأَنَّهُمْ أَوْلادُ زِنىً.

5 For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; for she said, 'I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.'

٥ فَأُمُّهُمْ قَدْ زَنَتْ، وَالَّتِي حَمَلَتْهُمُ ارْتَكَبَتِ الْمُوبِقَاتِ، لأَنَّهَا قَالَتْ: أَسْعَى وَرَاءَ عُشَّاقِي الَّذِينَ يُقَدِّمُونَ لِي خُبْزِي وَمَائِي وَصُوفِي وَكَتَّانِي وَزَيْتِي وَمَشْرُوبَاتِي.

6 Therefore, look, I will hedge up her way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can't find her way.

٦ لِذَلِكَ أُسَيِّجُ طَرِيقَهَا بِالشَّوْكِ وَأَحُوطُهَا بِسُورٍ حَتَّى لَا تَجِدَ لَهَا مَسْلَكاً.

7 She will follow after her lovers, but she won't overtake them; and she will seek them, but won't find them. Then she will say, 'I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.'

٧ فَتَسْعَى وَرَاءَ عُشَّاقِهَا وَلَكِنَّهَا لَا تُدْرِكُهُمْ، وَتَلْتَمِسُهُمْ فَلا تَجِدُهُمْ، ثُمَّ تَقُولُ، لأَنْطَلِقَنَّ وَأَرْجِعَنَّ إِلَى زَوْجِي الأَوَّلِ، فَقَدْ كُنْتُ مَعَهُ فِي حَالٍ خَيْرٍ مِمَّا أَنَا عَلَيْهِ الآنَ.

8 For she did not know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

٨ إِنَّهَا لَمْ تَعْرِفْ أَنَّنِي أَنَا الَّذِي أَعْطَيْتُهَا الْقَمْحَ وَالْخُبْزَ وَالزَّيْتَ، وَأَغْدَقْتُ عَلَيْهَا الْفِضَّةَ وَالذَّهَبَ الَّتِي قَدَّمُوهَا لِلْبَعْلِ.

9 Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my new wine in its season, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.

٩ لِذَلِكَ أَسْتَرِدُّ حِنْطَتِي فِي حِينِهَا، وَخَمْرِي فِي أَوَانِهِ، وَأَنْتَزِعُ صُوفِي وَكَتَّانِي اللَّذَيْنِ تَسْتُرُ بِهِمَا عُرْيَهَا.

10 Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of my hand.

١٠ وَأَكْشِفُ عَوْرَتَهَا أَمَامَ عُشَّاقِهَا، وَلا يُنْقِذُهَا أَحَدٌ مِنْ يَدِي.

11 I will also cause all her celebrations to cease: her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.

١١ وَأُبَطِّلُ كُلَّ أَفْرَاحِهَا وَأَعْيَادِهَا وَاحْتِفَالاتِ رُؤُوسِ شُهُورِهَا وَسُبُوتِهَا وَجَمِيعَ مَوَاسِمِهَا.

12 I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, about which she has said, 'These are my wages that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest,' and the animals of the field shall eat them.

١٢ وَأُتْلِفُ كُرُومَهَا وَتِينَهَا الَّتِي قَالَتْ عَنْهَا: هِيَ أُجْرَتِي الَّتِي قَبَضْتُهَا مِنْ عُشَّاقِي، فَأُحَوِّلُهَا إِلَى غَابَةٍ يَلْتَهِمُهَا وَحْشُ الصَّحْرَاءِ.

13 I will visit on her the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me," says Jehovah.

١٣ وَأُعَاقِبُهَا عَلَى أَيَّامِ احْتِفَالاتِهَا بِآلِهَةِ الْبَعْلِ، حِينَ أَحْرَقَتْ لَهَا الْبَخُورَ، وَتَزَيَّنَتْ بِخَوَاتِمِهَا وَحُلِّيِهَا وَضَلَّتْ وَرَاءَ عُشَّاقِهَا وَنَسِيَتْنِي، يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ.

14 "Therefore, look, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.

١٤ لِهَذَا، هَا أَنَا أَتَمَلَّقُهَا وَآخُذُهَا إِلَى الصَّحْرَاءِ وَأُخَاطِبُهَا بِحَنَانٍ،

15 I will give her vineyards from there, and the Valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

١٥ وَأَرُدُّ لَهَا كُرُومَهَا هُنَاكَ، وَأَجْعَلُ مِنْ وَادِي عَخُورَ (أَيْ وَادِي الإِزْعَاجِ) بَاباً لِلرَّجَاءِ، فَتَتَجَاوَبُ مَعِي كَالْعَهْدِ بِها فِي أَيَّامِ صِبَاهَا، حِينَ خَرَجَتْ مِنْ دِيَارِ مِصْرَ.

16 It will be in that day," says Jehovah, "that you will call me 'my husband,' and no longer call me 'my master.'

١٦ فِي ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ، يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ، تَدْعِينَنِي: زَوْجِي، وَلا تَدْعِينَنِي أَبَداً: بَعْلِي.

17 For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they will no longer be mentioned by name.

١٧ لأَنِّي أَنْزِعُ أَسْمَاءَ الْبَعْلِ مِنْ فَمِكِ، وَلا يَرِدُ ذِكْرُهَا بِأَسْمَائِهَا مِنْ بَعْدُ.

18 In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the crawling creatures of the ground. I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle out of the land, and will make them lie down safely.

١٨ وَأُبْرِمُ فِي ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ مِنْ أَجْلِكِ عَهْداً مَعَ وَحْشِ الْبَرِّيَّةِ وَطُيُورِ السَّمَاءِ وَزَوَاحِفِ الأَرْضِ وَأُحَطِّمُ الْقَوْسَ وَالسَّيْفَ، وَأُبْطِلُ الْحَرْبَ مِنَ الأَرْضِ، وَأَجْعَلُكِ تَنَامِينَ مُطْمَئِنَّةً

19 I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.

١٩ وَأَخْطُبُكِ لِنَفْسِي إِلَى الأَبَدِ، أَخْطُبُكِ بِالْعَدْلِ وَالْحَقِّ وَالإِحْسَانِ وَالْمَرَاحِمِ.

20 I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know Jehovah.

٢٠ أَخْطُبُكِ لِنَفْسِي بِالأَمَانَةِ فَتَعْرِفِينَ الرَّبَّ.

21 It will happen in that day, I will respond," says Jehovah, "I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth;

٢١ فِي ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ أَسْتَجِيبُ لِشَعْبِي إِسْرَائِيلَ، وَأَغْمُرُ أَرْضَهُمْ بِالْمَطَرِ، فَتُثْمِرُ.

22 and the earth will respond to the grain, and the new wine, and the oil; and they will respond to Jezreel.

٢٢ فَتُنْبِتُ الأَرْضُ الْقَمْحَ وَالْعِنَبَ وَالزَّيْتَ، وَكُلُّهَا تَسْتَجِيبُ لِيَزْرَعِيلَ (أَيْ: اللهُ يَزْرَعُ)

23 And I will sow her for myself in the land; and I will compassion on No Compassion; and I will say to Not My People, 'You are my people;' and they will say, 'My God.'"

٢٣ وَأَزْرَعُ شَعْبِي فِي الأَرْضِ لِنَفْسِي، وَأَرْحَمُ لُورُحَامَةَ (أَيْ: لَا رَحْمَةَ)، وَأَقُولُ: لِلُوعَمِّي (أَيْ: لَيْسَ شَعْبِي) أَنْتَ شَعْبِي، فَيَقُولُ: أَنْتَ إِلَهِي».