Hosea 2

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

١ «قُولُوا لِإِخْوَتِكُمْ «عَمِّي» وَلِأَخَوَاتِكُمْ «رُحَامَةَ».

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 حَاكِمُوا، لِأَنَّهَا لَيْسَتِ ٱمْرَأَتِي وَأَنَا لَسْتُ رَجُلَهَا، لِكَيْ تَعْزِلَ زِنَاهَا عَنْ وَجْهِهَا وَفِسْقَهَا 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 لِئَلَّا أُجَرِّدَهَا عُرْيَانَةً وَأَوْقِفَهَا كَيَوْمِ وِلَادَتِهَا، وَأَجْعَلَهَا كَقَفْرٍ، وَأُصَيِّرَهَا كَأَرْضٍ يَابِسَةٍ، وَأُمِيتَهَا بِٱلْعَطَشِ.

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

٤ وَلَا أَرْحَمُ أَوْلَادَهَا لِأَنَّهُمْ أَوْلَادُ زِنًى.

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 «لِأَنَّ أُمَّهُمْ قَدْ زَنَتِ. ٱلَّتِي حَبِلَتْ بِهِمْ صَنَعَتْ خِزْيًا. لِأَنَّهَا قَالَتْ: أَذْهَبُ وَرَاءَ مُحِبِّيَّ ٱلَّذِينَ يُعْطُونَ خُبْزِي وَمَائِي، صُوفِي وَكَتَّانِي، زَيْتِي وَأَشْرِبَتِي.

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 هَأَنَذَا أُسَيِّجُ طَرِيقَكِ بِٱلشَّوْكِ، وَأَبْنِي حَائِطَهَا حَتَّى لَا تَجِدَ مَسَالِكَهَا.

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 فَتَتْبَعُ مُحِبِّيهَا وَلَا تُدْرِكُهُمْ، وَتُفَتِّشُ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا تَجِدُهُمْ. فَتَقُولُ: أَذْهَبُ وَأَرْجِعُ إِلَى رَجُلِي ٱلْأَوَّلِ، لِأَنَّهُ حِينَئِذٍ كَانَ خَيْرٌ لِي مِنَ ٱلْآنَ.

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 «وَهِيَ لَمْ تَعْرِفْ أَنِّي أَنَا أَعْطَيْتُهَا ٱلْقَمْحَ وَٱلْمِسْطَارَ وَٱلزَّيْتَ، وَكَثَّرْتُ لَهَا فِضَّةً وَذَهَبًا جَعَلُوهُ لِبَعْلٍ.

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 أَرْجِعُ وَآخُذُ قَمْحِي فِي حِينِهِ، وَمِسْطَارِي فِي وَقْتِهِ، وَأَنْزِعُ صُوفِي وَكَتَّانِي ٱللَّذَيْنِ لِسَتْرِ عَوْرَتِهَا.

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

١٠ وَٱلْآنَ أَكْشِفُ عَوْرَتَهَا أَمَامَ عُيُونِ مُحِبِّيهَا وَلَا 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: أَعْيَادَهَا وَرُؤُوسَ شُهُورِهَا وَسُبُوتَهَا 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 وَأُخَرِّبُ كَرْمَهَا وَتِينَهَا ٱللَّذَيْنِ قَالَتْ: هُمَا أُجْرَتِي ٱلَّتِي أَعْطَانِيهَا مُحِبِّيَّ، وَأَجْعَلُهُمَا وَعْرًا فَيَأْكُلُهُمَا حَيَوَانُ ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ.

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 YHWH.

١٣ وَأُعَاقِبُهَا عَلَى أَيَّامِ بَعْلِيمَ ٱلَّتِي فِيهَا كَانَتْ تُبَخِّرُ لَهُمْ وَتَتَزَيَّنُ بِخَزَائِمِهَا وَحُلِيهَا وَتَذْهَبُ وَرَاءَ مُحِبِّيهَا وَتَنْسَانِي أَنَا، يَقُولُ ٱلرَّبُّ.

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

١٤ «لَكِنْ هَأَنَذَا أَتَمَلَّقُهَا وَأَذْهَبُ بِهَا إِلَى ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ وَأُلَاطِفُهَا،

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 وَأُعْطِيهَا كُرُومَهَا مِنْ هُنَاكَ، وَوَادِي عَخُورَ بَابًا لِلرَّجَاءِ. وَهِيَ تُغَنِّي هُنَاكَ كَأَيَّامِ صِبَاهَا، وَكَيَوْمِ صُعُودِهَا مِنْ أَرْضِ مِصْرَ.

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

١٦ وَيَكُونُ فِي ذَلِكَ ٱلْيَوْمِ، يَقُولُ ٱلرَّبُّ، أَنَّكِ تَدْعِينَنِي: رَجُلِي، وَلَا تَدْعِينَنِي بَعْدُ 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 وَأَنْزِعُ أَسْمَاءَ ٱلْبَعْلِيمِ مِنْ فَمِهَا، فَلَا تُذْكَرُ أَيْضًا بِأَسْمَائِهَا.

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 وَأَقْطَعُ لَهُمْ عَهْدًا فِي ذَلِكَ ٱلْيَوْمِ مَعَ حَيَوَانِ ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ وَطُيُورِ ٱلسَّمَاءِ وَدَبَّابَاتِ ٱلْأَرْضِ، وَأَكْسِرُ ٱلْقَوْسَ وَٱلسَّيْفَ وَٱلْحَرْبَ مِنَ ٱلْأَرْضِ، وَأَجْعَلُهُمْ يَضْطَجِعُونَ آمِنِينَ.

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 ٱلْأَبَدِ. وَأَخْطُبُكِ لِنَفْسِي بِٱلْعَدْلِ وَٱلْحَقِّ وَٱلْإِحْسَانِ وَٱلْمَرَاحِمِ.

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

٢٠ أَخْطُبُكِ لِنَفْسِي بِٱلْأَمَانَةِ فَتَعْرِفِينَ ٱلرَّبَّ.

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

٢١ وَيَكُونُ فِي ذَلِكَ ٱلْيَوْمِ أَنِّي أَسْتَجِيبُ، يَقُولُ ٱلرَّبُّ، أَسْتَجِيبُ ٱلسَّمَاوَاتِ وَهِيَ تَسْتَجِيبُ ٱلْأَرْضَ،

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

٢٢ وَٱلْأَرْضُ تَسْتَجِيبُ ٱلْقَمْحَ وَٱلْمِسْطَارَ وَٱلزَّيْتَ، وَهِيَ تَسْتَجِيبُ يَزْرَعِيلَ.

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 وَأَزْرَعُهَا لِنَفْسِي فِي ٱلْأَرْضِ، وَأَرْحَمُ لُورُحَامَةَ، وَأَقُولُ لِلُوعَمِّي: أَنْتَ شَعْبِي، وَهُوَ يَقُولُ: أَنْتَ إِلَهِي».