Hosea 8
1 [Yahweh said to me], “Blow [MTY] your trumpet [to warn the people]! My people have rejected the agreement that I made with them, and they have rebelled against [obeying] my laws. Therefore, [their enemies] are swooping down on my people’s country like [SIM] an eagle.
Imbocca il corno! Come un’aquila, piomba il nemico sulla casa dell’Eterno, perché han violato il mio patto, han trasgredito la mia legge.
2 My Israeli people cry out to me, ‘Our God, we know that you are our God!’
Essi grideranno a me: “Mio Dio, noi d’Israele ti conosciamo!…”
3 But because the Israeli people have rejected what is good, their enemies will pursue them.
Israele ha in avversione il bene; il nemico lo inseguirà.
4 The Israel people appointed [their last three] kings, but they did not ask me if I agreed to [what they were doing]. They chose their own leaders without asking if I would approve of them. They used their own silver and gold to make for themselves idols, and doing that led them to be destroyed.
Si son stabiliti dei re, senz’ordine mio; si sono eletti dei capi a mia insaputa; si son fatti, col loro argento e col loro oro, degl’idoli destinati ad esser distrutti.
5 You people of Samaria, throw away your [idol that resembles a] calf! I am extremely angry with you people! How long [RHQ] will you [do things that cause] you to be unacceptable to me?
Il tuo vitello, o Samaria è un’abominazione. La mia ira è accesa contro di loro; Quanto tempo passerà prima che possano essere assolti?
6 [Someone in] Israel made that idol for you; [but I am] God and it is not. So that idol of a calf in Samaria must be smashed to pieces.
Poiché vien da Israele anche questo vitello; un operaio l’ha fatto, e non è un dio; e infatti il vitello di Samaria sarà ridotto in frantumi.
7 [The foolish thing that the people of Israel have done is like] [MET] trying to plant wind; but what they harvest will be like [MET] a whirlwind. So the grain that they planted will have no heads [on the stalks], and as a result [there will be no grain] from which to make flour. And if it did produce good grain, foreigners would [come and] steal it.
Poiché costoro seminano vento, e mieteranno tempesta; la semenza non farà stelo, i germogli non daranno farina; e, se ne facessero, gli stranieri la divorerebbero.
8 [The people of] Israel will be defeated [MET] [by their enemies]; they will be [scattered] among other nations and become worthless.
Israele è divorato; essi son diventati, fra le nazioni, come un vaso di cui non si fa caso.
9 Like [MET] donkeys that are looking for mates, they have requested [help] from Assyria; they paid money to [the leaders of Assyria] in order to [persuade those leaders to] protect them.
Poiché son saliti in Assiria, come un onàgro cui piace appartarsi; Efraim coi suoi doni s’è procurato degli amanti.
10 But although they have agreed to pay money each year to [the leaders of] those countries, I will soon gather them together [to punish them]. The great King [of Assyria] will cause them to suffer greatly.
Benché spandano i loro doni fra le nazioni, ora io li radunerò, e cominceranno a decrescere sotto il peso del re dei principi.
11 Although [the people of] Israel built many altars to present offerings [to their idols] to take away [their guilt for] sinning, those altars have become places where they commit [more] sins.
Efraim ha moltiplicato gli altari per peccare, e gli altari lo faran cadere in peccato.
12 I wrote many laws for them, but they disregarded them, saying that [they did not have to obey them because] they were different from laws that they had known previously.
Scrivessi pur per lui le mie leggi a miriadi, sarebbero considerate come cosa che non lo concerne.
13 They offer sacrifices to me, and they eat [some of] the meat of those sacrifices, [which is what I permitted them to do]. But I, Yahweh, am not pleased with those sacrifices. I remember the evil things that they have done, and I will punish them for the sins that they have committed: I will force them to [go to other countries] [and become slaves like they were] [MET] in Egypt.
Quanto ai sacrifizi che m’offrono, immolano carne e la mangiano; l’Eterno non li gradisce. Ora l’Eterno si ricorderà della loro iniquità, e punirà i loro peccati; essi torneranno in Egitto.
14 [The people of] Israel have abandoned/forgotten me, the one who created their [nation]; they have built palaces, and [the people of] Judah have built walls around many towns. But I will send a fire that will destroy all their cities and their fortresses.”
Israele ha dimenticato colui che li ha fatti, e ha edificato palazzi, e Giuda ha moltiplicato le città fortificate; ma io manderò il fuoco nelle loro città, ed esso divorerà i loro castelli.
