Hosea 13
1 “When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, but he became guilty because of Baal worship, and he died.
| כדבר אפרים רתת נשא הוא בישראל ויאשם בבעל וימת |
2 Now they sin more and more. They make cast metal figures from their silver, idols as skillfully worked as possible, all of them the work of the craftsmen. People say of them, 'These men who sacrifice kiss calves.'
| ועתה יוספו לחטא ויעשו להם מסכה מכספם כתבונם עצבים מעשה חרשים כלה להם הם אמרים זבחי אדם עגלים ישקון |
3 So they will be like the morning clouds, like the dew that goes away early, like the chaff that is driven by the wind away from a threshing floor, and like smoke out of a chimney.
| לכן יהיו כענן בקר וכטל משכים הלך כמץ יסער מגרן וכעשן מארבה |
4 But I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt. You must acknowledge no God but me; you must acknowledge that besides me, there is no other savior.
| ואנכי יהוה אלהיך מארץ מצרים ואלהים זולתי לא תדע ומושיע אין בלתי |
5 I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of great dryness.
| אני ידעתיך במדבר--בארץ תלאבות |
6 When you had pasture, then you became full; and when you were filled, your heart became lifted up. For that reason you forgot me.
| כמרעיתם וישבעו--שבעו וירם לבם על כן שכחוני |
7 I will become like a lion to them; like a leopard I will watch along the path.
| ואהי להם כמו שחל--כנמר על דרך אשור |
8 I will attack them as a bear that is robbed of her cubs. I will rip open their chests, and there I will devour them as a lion, as a wild beast would tear them to pieces.
| אפגשם כדב שכול ואקרע סגור לבם ואכלם שם כלביא חית השדה תבקעם |
9 I will destroy you, Israel; who will be able to help you?
| שחתך ישראל כי בי בעזרך |
10 Where now is your king, that he may save you in all your cities? Where are your rulers, about whom you said to me, 'Give me a king and princes'?
| אהי מלכך אפוא ויושיעך בכל עריך ושפטיך--אשר אמרת תנה לי מלך ושרים |
11 I gave you a king in my anger, and I took him away in my wrath.
| אתן לך מלך באפי ואקח בעברתי |
12 Ephraim's iniquity has been stored up; his guilt has been stored up.
| צרור עון אפרים צפונה חטאתו |
13 Pains of childbirth will come on him, but he is an unwise son, for when it is time to be born, he does not come out of the womb.
| חבלי יולדה יבאו לו הוא בן לא חכם כי עת לא יעמד במשבר בנים |
14 Will I rescue them from the hand of Sheol? Will I rescue them from death? Where, death, are your plagues? Where, Sheol, is your destruction? Compassion is hidden from my eyes.” (Sheol h7585)
| מיד שאול אפדם ממות אגאלם אהי דבריך מות אהי קטבך שאול--נחם יסתר מעיני (Sheol h7585) |
15 Though Ephraim is prosperous among his brothers, an east wind will come; the wind of Yahweh will blow in from the wilderness. Ephraim's spring will dry up, and his well will have no water. His enemy will plunder his storehouse of every precious object.
| כי הוא בין אחים יפריא יבוא קדים רוח יהוה ממדבר עלה ויבוש מקורו ויחרב מעינו--הוא ישסה אוצר כל כלי חמדה |
16 Samaria will be guilty, for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their young children will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.
| תאשם שמרון כי מרתה באלהיה בחרב יפלו--עלליהם ירטשו והריותיו יבקעו |
