1 الى فمك بالبوق. كالنسر على بيت الرب. لانهم قد تجاوزوا عهدي وتعدّوا على شريعتي. | 1 Put the trumpet to your lips! Like an eagle, disaster is swooping on Yahweh's home! Because they haveviolated my covenant and been unfaithful to my Law, |
2 اليّ يصرخون يا الهي نعرفك نحن اسرائيل | 2 in vain wil they cry, 'My God!' In vain, 'We, Israel, know you!' |
3 قد كره اسرائيل الصلاح فيتبعه العدو. | 3 Israel has rejected the good, the enemy will pursue them. |
4 هم اقاموا ملوكا وليس مني. اقاموا رؤساء وانا لم اعرف. صنعوا لانفسهم من فضتهم وذهبهم اصناما لكي ينقرضوا. | 4 They have set up kings, but without my consent, and appointed princes, but without my knowledge.With their silver and gold, they have made themselves idols, but only to be destroyed. |
5 قد زنخ عجلك يا سامرة. حمي غضبي عليهم. الى متى لا يستطيعون النقاوة. | 5 I spurn your calf, Samaria! My anger blazes against them! How long wil it be before they recover theirinnocence? |
6 انه هو ايضا من اسرائيل. صنعه الصانع وليس هو الها. ان عجل السامرة يصير كسرا | 6 For it is the product of Israel- a craftsman made the thing, it is no god at al ! The calf of Samaria wil bebroken to pieces! |
7 انهم يزرعون الريح ويحصدون الزوبعة. زرع ليس له غلّة لا يصنع دقيقا. وان صنع فالغرباء تبتلعه. | 7 Since they sow the wind, they will reap the whirlwind; stalk without ear, it wil never yield flour- or if itdoes, foreigners will swallow it. |
8 قد ابتلع اسرائيل. الآن صاروا بين الامم كاناء لا مسرّة فيه. | 8 Israel has himself been swal owed; now they are lost among the nations like something no one wants, |
9 لانهم صعدوا الى اشور مثل حمار وحشي معتزل بنفسه. استأجر افرايم محبين. | 9 for having made approaches to Assyria- like a wild donkey, al alone. Ephraim has rented lovers |
10 اني وان كانوا يستأجرون بين الامم الآن اجمعهم فينفكّون قليلا من ثقل ملك الرؤساء | 10 and because he has rented them from the nations I am now going to round them up; soon they wilfeel the weight of the king of princes! |
11 لان افرايم كثّر مذابح للخطية صارت له المذابح للخطية. | 11 Ephraim keeps building altars for his sins, these very altars are themselves a sin. |
12 اكتب له كثرة شرائعي فهي تحسب اجنبية. | 12 However much of my Law I write for him, Ephraim regards it as alien to him. |
13 اما ذبائح تقدماتي فيذبحون لحما وياكلون. الرب لا يرتضيها. الآن يذكر اثمهم ويعاقب خطيتهم. انهم الى مصر يرجعون. | 13 They offer sacrifices to me and eat the meat, they do not win Yahweh's favour. On the contrary, he wilremember their guilt and punish their sins; they wil have to go back to Egypt. |
14 وقد نسي اسرائيل صانعه وبنى قصورا وكثّر يهوذا مدنا حصينة. لكني ارسل على مدنه نارا فتأكل قصوره | 14 Israel has forgotten his Maker and has built palaces, while Judah keeps on building fortified towns; butI shal send fire down on his cities to devour their citadels. |