הושע 8

1 אל חכך שפר כנשר על בית יהוה--יען עברו בריתי ועל תורתי פשעו

Put the horn to your mouth. He comes like an eagle against the house of the Lord; because they have gone against my agreement, they have not kept my law.

2 לי יזעקו אלהי ידענוך ישראל

They will send up to me a cry for help: We, Israel, have knowledge of you, O God of Israel.

3 זנח ישראל טוב אויב ירדפו

Israel has given up what is good; his haters will go after him.

4 הם המליכו ולא ממני השירו ולא ידעתי כספם וזהבם עשו להם עצבים למען יכרת

They have put up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, but I had no knowledge of it; they have made images of silver and gold, so that they may be cut off.

5 זנח עגלך שמרון חרה אפי בם עד מתי לא יוכלו נקין

I will have nothing to do with your young ox, O Samaria; my wrath is burning against them; how long will it be before the children of Israel make themselves clean?

6 כי מישראל והוא--חרש עשהו ולא אלהים הוא כי שבבים יהיה עגל שמרון

The workman made it, it is no god; the ox of Samaria will be broken into bits.

7 כי רוח יזרעו וסופתה יקצרו קמה אין לו צמח בלי יעשה קמח--אולי יעשה זרים יבלעהו

For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.

8 נבלע ישראל עתה היו בגוים ככלי אין חפץ בו

Israel has come to destruction; now they are among the nations like a cup in which there is no pleasure.

9 כי המה עלו אשור פרא בודד לו אפרים התנו אהבים

For they have gone up to Assyria like an ass going by himself; Ephraim has given money to get lovers.

10 גם כי יתנו בגוים עתה אקבצם ויחלו מעט ממשא מלך שרים

But though they give money to the nations for help, still I will send them in all directions; and in a short time they will be without a king and rulers.

11 כי הרבה אפרים מזבחות לחטא היו לו מזבחות לחטא

Because Ephraim has been increasing altars for sin, altars have become a cause of sin to him.

12 אכתוב (אכתב) לו--רבו (רבי) תורתי כמו זר נחשבו

Though I put my law in writing for him in ten thousand rules, they are to him as a strange thing.

13 זבחי הבהבי יזבחו בשר ויאכלו--יהוה לא רצם עתה יזכר עונם ויפקד חטאותם--המה מצרים ישובו

He gives the offerings of his lovers, and takes the flesh for food; but the Lord has no pleasure in them; now he will keep in mind their evil-doing and give them the punishment of their sins; they will go back to Egypt.

14 וישכח ישראל את עשהו ויבן היכלות ויהודה הרבה ערים בצרות ושלחתי אש בעריו ואכלה ארמנתיה

For Israel has no memory of his Maker, and has put up the houses of kings; and Judah has made great the number of his walled towns. But I will send a fire on his towns and put an end to his great houses.