הושע 7
| כרפאי לישראל ונגלה עון אפרים ורעות שמרון כי פעלו שקר וגנב יבוא פשט גדוד בחוץ׃ | 1 |
When I have healed Israel, then shall the iniquity of Ephraim be revealed, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they have wrought falsehood: and a thief shall come in to him, [even] a robber spoiling in his way;
| ובל יאמרו ללבבם כל רעתם זכרתי עתה סבבום מעלליהם נגד פני היו׃ | 2 |
that they may concert together as [men] singing in their heart: I remember all their wickedness: now have their own counsels compassed them about; they came before my face.
| ברעתם ישמחו מלך ובכחשיהם שרים׃ | 3 |
They gladdened kings with their wickedness, and princes with their lies.
| כלם מנאפים כמו תנור בערה מאפה ישבות מעיר מלוש בצק עד חמצתו׃ | 4 |
They are all adulterers, as an oven glowing with flame for hot-baking, on account of the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.
| יום מלכנו החלו שרים חמת מיין משך ידו את לצצים׃ | 5 |
[In] the days of our kings, the princes began to be inflamed with wine: he stretched out his hand with pestilent fellows.
| כי קרבו כתנור לבם בארבם כל הלילה ישן אפהם בקר הוא בער כאש להבה׃ | 6 |
Wherefore their hearts are inflamed as an oven, while they rage all the night: Ephraim is satisfied with sleep; the morning is come; he is burnt up as a flame of fire.
| כלם יחמו כתנור ואכלו את שפטיהם כל מלכיהם נפלו אין קרא בהם אלי׃ | 7 |
They are all heated like an oven, and have devoured their judges: all their kings are fallen; there was not among them one that called on me.
| אפרים בעמים הוא יתבולל אפרים היה עגה בלי הפוכה׃ | 8 |
Ephraim is mixed among his people; Ephraim became a cake not turned.
| אכלו זרים כחו והוא לא ידע גם שיבה זרקה בו והוא לא ידע׃ | 9 |
Strangers devoured his strength, and he knew [it] not; and grey hairs came upon him, and he knew [it] not.
| וענה גאון ישראל בפניו ולא שבו אל יהוה אלהיהם ולא בקשהו בכל זאת׃ | 10 |
And the pride of Israel shall be brought down before his face: yet they have not returned to the Lord their God, neither have they diligently sought him for all this.
| ויהי אפרים כיונה פותה אין לב מצרים קראו אשור הלכו׃ | 11 |
And Ephraim was as a silly dove, not having a heart: he called to Egypt, and they went to the Assyrians.
| כאשר ילכו אפרוש עליהם רשתי כעוף השמים אורידם איסרם כשמע לעדתם׃ | 12 |
Whenever they shall go, I will cast my net upon them; I will bring them down as the birds of the sky, I will chasten them with the rumor of their [coming] affliction.
| אוי להם כי נדדו ממני שד להם כי פשעו בי ואנכי אפדם והמה דברו עלי כזבים׃ | 13 |
Woe to them! for they have started aside from me: they are cowards; for they have sinned against me: yet I redeemed them, but they spoke falsehoods against me.
| ולא זעקו אלי בלבם כי יילילו על משכבותם על דגן ותירוש יתגוררו יסורו בי׃ | 14 |
And their hearts did not cry to me, but they howled on their beds: they pined for oil and wine.
| ואני יסרתי חזקתי זרועתם ואלי יחשבו רע׃ | 15 |
They were instructed by me, and I strengthened their arms; and they devised evils against me.
| ישובו לא על היו כקשת רמיה יפלו בחרב שריהם מזעם לשונם זו לעגם בארץ מצרים׃ | 16 |
They turned aside to that which is not, they became as a bent bow: their princes shall fall by the sword, by reason of the unbridled state of their tongue: this is their setting at nought in the land of Egypt.
