Oséias 8
1 Põe a trombeta á tua bocca; elle vem como a aguia contra a casa do Senhor, porque traspassaram o meu concerto, e se rebellaram contra a minha lei.
[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 Então a mim clamarão: Deus meu! nós, Israel, te conhecemos.
My Israeli people cry out to me, ‘Our God, we know that you are our God!’
3 Israel rejeitou o bem: o inimigo perseguil-o-ha.
But because the Israeli people have rejected what is good, their enemies will pursue them.
4 Elles fizeram reis, porém não de mim: constituiram principes, porém eu não o soube: da sua prata e do seu oiro fizeram idolos para si, para serem destruidos.
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 O teu bezerro, ó Samaria, te rejeitou: a minha ira se accendeu contra elles; até quando serão elles incapazes da innocencia?
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 Porque tambem isso é de Israel, um artifice o fez, e não é Deus, mas em pedaços será desfeito o bezerro de 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 Porque vento semearam, e segarão tormenta: seara não haverá, a herva não dará farinha: se a der, tragal-a-hão os estrangeiros.
[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 Israel foi tragado: agora entre as nações será tido como um vaso em que ninguem tem prazer.
[The people of] Israel will be defeated [MET] [by their enemies]; they will be [scattered] among other nations and become worthless.
9 Porque subiram á Assyria, como um jumento montez, por si só: mercou Ephraim amores.
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 Ainda que elles merquem entre as nações, agora as congregarei: já começaram a ser diminuidos por causa da carga do rei dos principes.
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 Porquanto Ephraim multiplicou os altares para peccar; teve altar para peccar.
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 Escrevi-lhe as grandezas da minha lei, porém essas são estimadas como coisa estranha.
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 Quanto aos sacrificios dos meus dons, sacrificam carne, e a comem, mas o Senhor não se deleitou n'elles: agora se lembrará da sua injustiça, e visitará os seus peccados: elles voltarão para o Egypto.
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 Porque Israel se esqueceu do seu Creador, e edificou templos, e Judah multiplicou cidades fortes; mas eu enviarei um fogo contra as suas cidades, que consumirá os seus palacios.
[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.”
