Osea 8
1 Dà fiato alla tromba! Come un'aquila sulla casa del Signore... perchè hanno trasgredito la mia alleanza e rigettato la mia legge.
[Yahweh said to me], “Blow [MTY] your trumpet [to warn the people]! My people have rejected the agreement that I made with them, and they have rebelled against [obeying] my laws. Therefore, [their enemies] are swooping down on my people’s country like [SIM] an eagle.
2 Essi gridano verso di me: «Noi ti riconosciamo Dio d'Israele!».
My Israeli people cry out to me, ‘Our God, we know that you are our God!’
3 Ma Israele ha rigettato il bene: il nemico lo perseguiterà.
But because the Israeli people have rejected what is good, their enemies will pursue them.
4 Hanno creato dei re che io non ho designati; hanno scelto capi a mia insaputa. Con il loro argento e il loro oro si sono fatti idoli ma per loro rovina.
The Israel people appointed [their last three] kings, but they did not ask me if I agreed to [what they were doing]. They chose their own leaders without asking if I would approve of them. They used their own silver and gold to make for themselves idols, and doing that led them to be destroyed.
5 Ripudio il tuo vitello, o Samaria! La mia ira divampa contro di loro; fino a quando non si potranno purificare
You people of Samaria, throw away your [idol that resembles a] calf! I am extremely angry with you people! How long [RHQ] will you [do things that cause] you to be unacceptable to me?
6 i figli di Israele? Esso è opera di un artigiano, esso non è un dio: sarà ridotto in frantumi il vitello di Samaria.
[Someone in] Israel made that idol for you; [but I am] God and it is not. So that idol of a calf in Samaria must be smashed to pieces.
7 E poiché hanno seminato vento raccoglieranno tempesta. Il loro grano sarà senza spiga, se germoglia non darà farina, e se ne produce, la divoreranno gli stranieri.
[The foolish thing that the people of Israel have done is like] [MET] trying to plant wind; but what they harvest will be like [MET] a whirlwind. So the grain that they planted will have no heads [on the stalks], and as a result [there will be no grain] from which to make flour. And if it did produce good grain, foreigners would [come and] steal it.
8 Israele è stato inghiottito: si trova ora in mezzo alle nazioni come un vaso spregevole.
[The people of] Israel will be defeated [MET] [by their enemies]; they will be [scattered] among other nations and become worthless.
9 Essi sono saliti fino ad Assur, asino selvaggio, che si aggira solitario; Efraim si è acquistato degli amanti.
Like [MET] donkeys that are looking for mates, they have requested [help] from Assyria; they paid money to [the leaders of Assyria] in order to [persuade those leaders to] protect them.
10 Se ne acquistino pure fra le nazioni, io li metterò insieme e fra poco cesseranno di eleggersi re e governanti.
But although they have agreed to pay money each year to [the leaders of] those countries, I will soon gather them together [to punish them]. The great King [of Assyria] will cause them to suffer greatly.
11 Efraim ha moltiplicato gli altari, ma gli altari sono diventati per lui un'occasione di peccato.
Although [the people of] Israel built many altars to present offerings [to their idols] to take away [their guilt for] sinning, those altars have become places where they commit [more] sins.
12 Ho scritto numerose leggi per lui, ma esse son considerate come una cosa straniera.
I wrote many laws for them, but they disregarded them, saying that [they did not have to obey them because] they were different from laws that they had known previously.
13 Essi offrono sacrifici e ne mangiano le carni, ma il Signore non li gradisce; si ricorderà della loro iniquità e punirà i loro peccati: dovranno tornare in Egitto.
They offer sacrifices to me, and they eat [some of] the meat of those sacrifices, [which is what I permitted them to do]. But I, Yahweh, am not pleased with those sacrifices. I remember the evil things that they have done, and I will punish them for the sins that they have committed: I will force them to [go to other countries] [and become slaves like they were] [MET] in Egypt.
14 Israele ha dimenticato il suo creatore, si è costruito palazzi; Giuda ha moltiplicato le sue fortezze. Ma io manderò il fuoco sulle loro città e divorerà le loro cittadelle.
[The people of] Israel have abandoned/forgotten me, the one who created their [nation]; they have built palaces, and [the people of] Judah have built walls around many towns. But I will send a fire that will destroy all their cities and their fortresses.”
