Ozeasza 9
1 Nie ciesz się, Izraelu, nie raduj się jak inne narody, bo uprawiałeś nierząd, odwracając się od swego Boga, [i] umiłowałeś zapłatę [nierządnicy] na wszystkich klepiskach zbożowych.
[You people of] Israel, do not shout joyfully [during your festivals] like [people of other] nations do! [I say that] because you have (not been faithful to/abandoned) me, your God. At every place where the people thresh grain you have [presented gifts to your idols like men] pay money to prostitutes.
2 Klepisko i prasa nie będą ich żywiły, a moszczu im zabraknie.
[But soon] there will not be enough grain [MTY, PRS] and wine [MTY, PRS] for you.
3 Nie będą mieszkać w ziemi PANA, ale Efraim wróci do Egiptu i w Asyrii będą jedli nieczyste rzeczy.
And you people will not remain in the land that I, Yahweh, [gave to your ancestors]. You will be [captured and] taken to [Assyria], [where you will become slaves like your ancestors were] in Egypt; and in Assyria you will be forced to eat food that Yahweh has forbidden you to eat.
4 Nie będą wylewali PANU [ofiar] z wina, nie będą mu one przyjemne. Ich ofiary [będą] dla nich jak chleb żałoby; wszyscy, którzy będą z niego jedli, będą nieczyści. Ich chleb bowiem za ich dusze nie wejdzie [do] domu PANA.
You Israelis will not [be able to] give wine offerings to him, or bring sacrifices to him. None of your other sacrifices will please him; they will be unacceptable to him, like [SIM] food that is touched by people at funerals, and everyone who eats that food will become unacceptable to him. They will be permitted to eat that food themselves, but they will not [be permitted to] bring it into the temple.
5 Cóż będziecie czynić w uroczysty dzień i w dzień święta PANA?
At that time you will not [RHQ] be able to celebrate the feasts and sacred festivals.
6 Oto bowiem poszli z powodu spustoszenia. Egipt ich zgromadzi, a Memfis ich pogrzebie. Przyjemne [miejsca] na ich srebro odziedziczy pokrzywa, a w ich namiotach [wyrosną] ciernie.
And even if you escape and are not killed [by the Assyrians], you will be captured by [the army of] Egypt, and you will [die and] be buried in Memphis, [the capital of Egypt]. Briers will [grow up and] cover your treasures of silver, and thorns will grow in your [ruined] tents/houses.
7 Przyjdą dni nawiedzenia, przyjdą dni zapłaty. Izrael pozna, że prorok jest głupcem, a człowiek duchowy – szalony, z powodu twojej wielkiej nieprawości i wielkiej nienawiści.
It is now the time for Yahweh to punish you, to pay you back for all the sins that you have committed. You people will [soon] know that. You have [committed] very many sins, and you very much hate Yahweh. You consider that the prophets are foolish, and you think that those who proclaim messages from him are crazy.
8 Prorok, który trzymał straż nad Efraimem razem z moim Bogiem, stał się sidłem ptasznika na wszystkich jego drogach; nienawiść jest w domu jego Boga.
My God appointed [me and the other] prophets to be [like] [MET] watchmen [to warn] you people of Israel, but everywhere that we go, [it is as though] people set traps for us and people are hostile [to us, even] in the temple of our God.
9 Zepsuli się do głębi, jak za dni Gibea. [PAN] będzie pamiętał o ich nieprawości i ukarze ich za grzechy.
The sins that the Israeli people have committed are as awful as [what the men of] Gibeah did long ago; [so] God will not forget the wicked things that they have done; he will punish the Israelis for [all] those sins.
10 Znalazłem Izraela jak winne grona na pustyni, widziałem twoich ojców jak pierwszy owoc figowca na jego początku. Ale oni poszli do Baal-Peor i oddali się tej hańbie, i stali się obrzydliwi, tak jak się im upodobało.
[Yahweh says], “When I first started [to do things to help] Israel, it seemed to me as though [SIM] I had found grapes in the desert. Your ancestors were [delightful], like [SIM] the first figs that grow on fig trees [each year]. But when they came to Peor [Mountain], they worshiped that disgusting idol Baal, and they became as disgusting as the idol that they loved.
11 Jak ptak sława Efraima uleci zaraz od urodzenia, od łona i od poczęcia.
The things that cause Israel to be great will disappear like [SIM] a bird that flies away; [most of their women will] not become pregnant [DOU] or give birth to children.
12 A choćby odchowali swoich synów, osierocę ich, [zanim osiągną] wiek męski. Owszem, biada im, gdy ja od nich odstąpię!
Even if their children are born and start to grow up, I will cause all of them to die [while they are still young]. Terrible things will happen to them when I abandon them!
13 Efraim, jak widzę, jest jak Tyr zasadzony na przyjemnym miejscu. Efraim jednak wyprowadzi swoich synów do mordercy.
I have seen Israel become beautiful and prosperous like Tyre [city] was [before it was destroyed], but now the people of Israel will [be forced to] take their children to be slaughtered [by their enemies].”
14 Daj im, PANIE! Cóż im dasz? Daj im łono bezpłodne i wyschnięte piersi.
Yahweh, [I do not know] [RHQ] what I should ask for my people. So I ask that you do this one thing: Cause the women who are pregnant to have miscarriages and unable [to nurse their babies].
15 Cała ich niegodziwość jest w Gilgal, dlatego tam ich nienawidzę. Z powodu zła ich uczynków wyrzucę ich z mego domu, nie będę ich już miłował. Wszyscy ich książęta są buntownikami.
[Yahweh says], “Because of all the wicked things that my people did at Gilgal, that is where I started to hate them. [And now], because of [all] the sinful things that they have done, I will expel them from my country. I will not love them any longer; all their leaders rebel [against me].
16 Efraim jest powalony, ich korzeń wysechł, nie przynoszą owocu. A choćby też zrodzili, zabiję umiłowane [dzieci] ich łona.
Israel is like [MET] a grapevine that is dried up; [like a vine] [MET] whose roots are withered and that produces no fruit. Even if the [women of Israel] give birth to [more] children, I will cause those children, whom they love, to die.
17 Mój Bóg ich odrzuci, bo nie chcieli go słuchać, a będą tułaczami wśród narodów.
The people of Israel have not obeyed me, their God, so I will reject them. [As a result], they will wander among the [other] nations, [searching for a place to live].”
