< Hosea 1 >

1 [I am] Hosea, the son of Beeri. Yahweh gave me these messages [at various times] during the years that Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah were the kings of Judah, and Jeroboam the son of Jehoash was the King of Israel.
آحاز و حزقیا پادشاهان یهودا و در ایام یربعام بن یوآش پادشاه اسرائیل، بر هوشع بن بئیری نازل شد.۱
2 When Yahweh first [began to] give messages to me [to tell to the people of Israel], he said to me, “Go and marry a prostitute. But [some of] her children will be born as a result of her having sex with men to whom she is not married. That will illustrate how the people of Israel have turned away from me and worship (idols/other gods).”
ابتدای کلام خداوند به هوشع. خداوند به هوشع گفت: «برو و زنی زانیه و اولاد زناکار برای خود بگیر زیرا که این زمین از خداوند برگشته، سخت زناکار شده‌اند.»۲
3 So I married Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim. She became pregnant and gave birth to my son.
پس رفت و جومر دختردبلایم را گرفت و او حامله شده، پسری برایش زایید.۳
4 Yahweh said to me, “Give him the name Jezreel, [which means ‘God scatters’], because I will soon punish the descendants [MTY] of [King] Jehu [by scattering them], because he killed many of my people at Jezreel [town]. [Some day] I will end the kingdom of Israel,
و خداوند وی را گفت: «او را یزرعیل نام بنه زیرا که بعد از اندک زمانی انتقام خون یزرعیل را از خاندان ییهو خواهم گرفت و مملکت خاندان اسرائیل را تلف خواهم ساخت.۴
5 by destroying the power [MTY] of [the army of] Israel in Jezreel Valley.”
و در آن روزکمان اسرائیل را در وادی یزرعیل خواهم شکست.»۵
6 [Later] Gomer became pregnant [again], and she gave birth to a daughter. Yahweh said to me “Give her the name Lo-ruhamah, [which means ‘not loved],’ because I will no longer [show that I] love the people [MET] of Israel, and I will not forgive them [for the sins that they have committed].
پس بار دیگر حامله شده، دختری زایید و اووی را گفت: «او را لوروحامه نام بگذار، زیرا باردیگر بر خاندان اسرائیل رحمت نخواهم فرمود، بلکه ایشان را از میان بالکل خواهم برداشت.۶
7 But I will [show that I] love the people [MTY] of Judah [by saving them from their enemies]. However, it will not be by weapons and armies or horses and chariots that I will save them. Instead, it will be by [the power that I], Yahweh their God, [have].”
لیکن بر خاندان یهودا رحمت خواهم فرمود وایشان را به یهوه خدای ایشان نجات خواهم داد وایشان را به کمان و شمشیر و جنگ و اسبان وسواران نخواهم رهانید.»۷
8 After Gomer had (weaned/stopped breast-feeding) Lo-ruhamah, she became pregnant again, and she gave birth to another son.
و چون لوروحامه را از شیر بازداشته بود، حامله شده، پسری زایید.۸
9 Yahweh said “Give him the name Lo-ammi, [which means 'not my people', ] because the people of Israel are no [longer my people], and I am not their God.
و او گفت: «نام او رالوعمی بخوان زیرا که شما قوم من نیستید و من (خدای ) شما نیستم.۹
10 But [some day] the people of Israel will be [as numerous] as [SIM] the [grains of] sand on the seashore; no one will be able to count them. Now [I] am saying to them, ‘You are not my people,’ but then people will say to them, ‘[You are the] children of God who is all-powerful.’
لیکن شماره بنی‌اسرائیل مثل ریگ دریا خواهد بود که نتوان پیمود و نتوان شمرد و در مکانی که به ایشان گفته می‌شد شماقوم من نیستید، در آنجا گفته خواهد شد پسران خدای حی می‌باشید.۱۰
11 [At that time], the people of Judah and the people of Israel will unite. They will appoint one leader for all of them, and they will return from the countries [to which they have been (exiled/forced to go)]. That will be a great time; Jezreel [also means ‘God plants’, and it will be as though God will plant them in this country again].”
و بنی یهودا وبنی‌اسرائیل با هم جمع خواهند شد و یک رئیس به جهت خود نصب نموده، از آن زمین برخواهندآمد زیرا که روز یزرعیل، روز عظیمی خواهدبود.»۱۱

< Hosea 1 >