הושע 11
| כי נער ישראל ואהבהו וממצרים קראתי לבני | 1 |
Early in the morning were they cast off, the king of Israel has been cast off: for Israel is a child, and I loved him, and out of Egypt have I called his children.
| קראו להם כן הלכו מפניהם--לבעלים יזבחו ולפסלים יקטרון | 2 |
As I called them, so they departed from my presence: they sacrificed to Baalim, and burnt incense to graven images.
| ואנכי תרגלתי לאפרים קחם על זרועתיו ולא ידעו כי רפאתים | 3 |
Yet I bound the feet of Ephraim, I took him on my arm; but they knew not that I healed them.
| בחבלי אדם אמשכם בעבתות אהבה ואהיה להם כמרימי על על לחיהם ואט אליו אוכיל | 4 |
When men were destroyed, I drew them with the bands of my love: and I will be to them as a man striking [another] on his cheek: and I will have respect to him, I will prevail with him.
| לא ישוב אל ארץ מצרים ואשור הוא מלכו כי מאנו לשוב | 5 |
Ephraim lived in Egypt; and [as for] the Assyrian, he was his king, because he would not return.
| וחלה חרב בעריו וכלתה בדיו ואכלה--ממעצותיהם | 6 |
And in his cities he prevailed not with the sword, and he ceased [to war] with his hands: and they shall eat [of the fruit] of their own devices:
| ועמי תלואים למשובתי ואל על יקראהו--יחד לא ירומם | 7 |
and his people [shall] cleave fondly to their habitation; but God shall be angry with his precious things, and shall not at all exalt him.
| איך אתנך אפרים אמגנך ישראל--איך אתנך כאדמה אשימך כצבאים נהפך עלי לבי יחד נכמרו נחומי | 8 |
How shall I deal with you, Ephraim? [how] shall I protect you, Israel? what shall I do with you? I will make you as Adama, and as Seboim; my heart is turned at once, my repentance is powerfully excited.
| לא אעשה חרון אפי לא אשוב לשחת אפרים כי אל אנכי ולא איש--בקרבך קדוש ולא אבוא בעיר | 9 |
I will not act according to the fury of my wrath, I will not abandon Ephraim to be utterly destroyed: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One within you: and I will not enter into the city.
| אחרי יהוה ילכו כאריה ישאג כי הוא ישאג ויחרדו בנים מים | 10 |
I will go after the Lord: he shall utter [his voice] as a lion: for he shall roar, and the children of the waters shall be amazed.
| יחרדו כצפור ממצרים וכיונה מארץ אשור והושבתים על בתיהם נאם יהוה | 11 |
They shall be amazed [and fly] as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of the Assyrians: and I will restore them to their houses, says the Lord.
| סבבני בכחש אפרים ובמרמה בית ישראל ויהודה עד רד עם אל ועם קדושים נאמן | 12 |
Ephraim has compassed me with falsehood, and the house of Israel and Juda with ungodliness: [but] now God knows them, and they shall be called God's holy people.
