הושע 12
| אפרים רעה רוח ורדף קדים כל היום כזב ושד ירבה וברית עם אשור יכרתו ושמן למצרים יובל׃ | 1 |
But Ephraim is an evil spirit, he has chased the east wind all the day: he has multiplied empty and vain things, and made a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil has gone in the way of traffic into Egypt.
| וריב ליהוה עם יהודה ולפקד על יעקב כדרכיו כמעלליו ישיב לו׃ | 2 |
And the Lord [has] a controversy with Juda, in order to punish Jacob: according to his ways and according to his practices will he recompense him.
| בבטן עקב את אחיו ובאונו שרה את אלהים׃ | 3 |
He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and in his labours he had power with God.
| וישר אל מלאך ויכל בכה ויתחנן לו בית אל ימצאנו ושם ידבר עמנו׃ | 4 |
And he prevailed with the angel and was strong: they wept, and intreated me: they found me in the house of On, and there [a word] was spoken to them.
| ויהוה אלהי הצבאות יהוה זכרו׃ | 5 |
But the Lord God Almighty shall be his memorial.
| ואתה באלהיך תשוב חסד ומשפט שמר וקוה אל אלהיך תמיד׃ | 6 |
Thou therefore shalt return to thy God: keep thou mercy and judgment, and draw nigh to thy God continually.
| כנען בידו מאזני מרמה לעשק אהב׃ | 7 |
[As for] Chanaan, in his hand is a balance of unrighteousness: he has loved to tyrannize.
| ויאמר אפרים אך עשרתי מצאתי און לי כל יגיעי לא ימצאו לי עון אשר חטא׃ | 8 |
And Ephraim said, Nevertheless I am rich, I have found refreshment to myself. None of his labours shall be found [available] to him, by reason of the sins which he has committed.
| ואנכי יהוה אלהיך מארץ מצרים עד אושיבך באהלים כימי מועד׃ | 9 |
But I the Lord thy God brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: I will yet cause thee to dwell in tabernacles, according to the days of the feast.
| ודברתי על הנביאים ואנכי חזון הרביתי וביד הנביאים אדמה׃ | 10 |
And I will speak to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and by the means of the prophets I was represented.
| אם גלעד און אך שוא היו בגלגל שורים זבחו גם מזבחותם כגלים על תלמי שדי׃ | 11 |
If Galaad exists not, then the chiefs in Galaad when they sacrificed were false, and their altars were as heaps on the ground of the field.
| ויברח יעקב שדה ארם ויעבד ישראל באשה ובאשה שמר׃ | 12 |
And Jacob retreated into the plain of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and waited for a wife.
| ובנביא העלה יהוה את ישראל ממצרים ובנביא נשמר׃ | 13 |
And the Lord brought Israel out of the land of Egypt by a prophet, and by a prophet was he preserve.
| הכעיס אפרים תמרורים ודמיו עליו יטוש וחרפתו ישיב לו אדניו׃ | 14 |
Ephraim was angry and excited, therefore his blood shall be poured out upon him, and the Lord shall recompense to him his reproach.
