Ozej 3

1 Potem mi je Gospod rekel: »Pojdi že, ljubi žensko, ljubljeno od njenega prijatelja, vendar zakonolomko, glede na Gospodovo ljubezen do Izraelovih otrok, ki gledajo k drugim bogovom in ljubijo flaškone vina.«

Yahweh said to me, “Go again, love a woman, loved by her husband, but who is an adulteress. Love her just as I, Yahweh, love the people of Israel, although they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.”

2 Tako sem si jo kupil za petnajst koščkov srebra in za tovor ječmena in pol tovora ječmena.

So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a lethek of barley.

3 Rekel sem ji: »Mnogo dni boš čakala name. Ne boš igrala pocestnice in ne boš za drugega moškega; tako bom tudi jaz nate.«

I said to her, “You must live with me many days. You will not be a prostitute or belong to any other man. In the same way, I will be with you.”

4 Kajti Izraelovi otroci bodo mnogo dni ostali brez kralja, brez princa, brez klavne daritve, brez podobe, brez efóda in brez družinskega malika.

For the people of Israel will live for many days without a king, prince, sacrifice, stone pillar, ephod or household idols.

5 Potem se bodo Izraelovi otroci vrnili in iskali Gospoda, svojega Boga in Davida, svojega kralja in bali se bodo Gospoda in njegove dobrote v zadnjih dneh.

Afterward the people of Israel will return and seek Yahweh their God and David their king, and in the last days, they will come trembling before Yahweh and his goodness.