| 1 قولوا لاخواتكم عمّي ولاخوتكم رحامة. | 1 Say to your brother, "My people," and to your sister, "She has obtained pity." |
| 2 حاكموا امكم حاكموا لانها ليست امرأتي وانا لست رجلها لكي تعزل زناها عن وجهها وفسقها من بين ثدييها | 2 "Plead with your mother, plead-- for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband--that she put away her harlotry from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts; |
| 3 لئلا اجرّدها عريانة واوقفها كيوم ولادتها واجعلها كقفر واصيرها كارض يابسة واميتها بالعطش. | 3 lest I strip her naked and make her as in the day she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a parched land, and slay her with thirst. |
| 4 ولا ارحم اولادها لانهم اولاد زنى | 4 Upon her children also I will have no pity, because they are children of harlotry. |
| 5 لان امهم قد زنت. التي حبلت بهم صنعت خزيا. لانها قالت اذهب وراء محبيّ الذين يعطون خبزي ومائي صوفي وكتاني زيتي واشربتي. | 5 For their mother has played the harlot; she that conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, 'I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.' |
| 6 لذلك هانذا اسيج طريقك بالشوك وابني حائطها حتى لا تجد مسالكها. | 6 Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns; and I will build a wall against her, so that she cannot find her paths. |
| 7 فتتبع محبيها ولا تدركهم وتفتش عليهم ولا تجدهم. فتقول اذهب وارجع الى رجلي الاول لانه حينئذ كان خير لي من الآن | 7 She shall pursue her lovers, but not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them. Then she shall say, 'I will go and return to my first husband, for it was better with me then than now.' |
| 8 وهي لم تعرف اني انا اعطيتها القمح والمسطار والزيت وكثّرت لها فضة وذهبا جعلوه لبعل. | 8 And she did not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the wine, and the oil, and who lavished upon her silver and gold which they used for Baal. |
| 9 لذلك ارجع وآخذ قمحي في حينه ومسطاري في وقته وانزع صوفي وكتاني اللذين لستر عورتها. | 9 Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my wine in its season; and I will take away my wool and my flax, which were to cover her nakedness. |
| 10 والآن اكشف عورتها امام عيون محبيها ولا ينقذها احد من يدي | 10 Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one shall rescue her out of my hand. |
| 11 وابطّل كل افراحها اعيادها ورؤوس شهورها وسبوتها وجميع مواسمها. | 11 And I will put an end to all her mirth, her feasts, her new moons, her sabbaths, and all her appointed feasts. |
| 12 واخرّب كرمها وتينها اللذين قالت هما اجرتي التي اعطانيها محبيّ واجعلهما وعرا فيأكلهما حيوان البرية. | 12 And I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, of which she said, 'These are my hire, which my lovers have given me.' I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall devour them. |
| 13 واعاقبها على ايام بعليم التي فيها كانت تبخر لهم وتتزين بخزائمها وحليها وتذهب وراء محبيها وتنساني انا يقول الرب | 13 And I will punish her for the feast days of the Baals when she burned incense to them and decked herself with her ring and jewelry, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, says the LORD. |
| 14 لكن هانذا اتملقها واذهب بها الى البرية والاطفها | 14 "Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her. |
| 15 واعطيها كرومها من هناك ووادي عخور بابا للرجاء وهي تغني هناك كايام صباها وكيوم صعودها من ارض مصر. | 15 And there I will give her her vineyards, and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. And there she shall answer as in the days of her youth, as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt. |
| 16 ويكون في ذلك اليوم يقول الرب انك تدعينني رجلي ولا تدعينني بعد بعلي. | 16 "And in that day, says the LORD, you will call me, 'My husband,' and no longer will you call me, 'My Baal.' |
| 17 وانزع اسماء البعليم من فمها فلا تذكر ايضا باسمائها. | 17 For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be mentioned by name no more. |
| 18 واقطع لهم عهدا في ذلك اليوم مع حيوان البرية وطيور السماء ودبابات الارض واكسر القوس والسيف والحرب من الارض واجعلهم يضطجعون آمنين. | 18 And I will make for you a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the creeping things of the ground; and I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land; and I will make you lie down in safety. |
| 19 واخطبك لنفسي الى الابد واخطبك لنفسي بالعدل والحق والاحسان والمراحم. | 19 And I will betroth you to me for ever; I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love, and in mercy. |
| 20 اخطبك لنفسي بالامانة فتعرفين الرب. | 20 I will betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know the LORD. |
| 21 ويكون في ذلك اليوم اني استجيب يقول الرب استجيب السموات وهي تستجيب الارض | 21 "And in that day, says the LORD, I will answer the heavens and they shall answer the earth; |
| 22 والارض تستجيب القمح والمسطار والزيت وهي تستجيب يزرعيل. | 22 and the earth shall answer the grain, the wine, and the oil, and they shall answer Jezreel; |
| 23 وازرعها لنفسي في الارض وارحم لورحامة واقول للوعمّي انت شعبي وهو يقول انت الهي | 23 and I will sow him for myself in the land. And I will have pity on Not pitied, and I will say to Not my people, 'You are my people'; and he shall say 'Thou art my God.'" |
