1 افرايم راعي الريح وتابع الريح الشرقية. كل يوم يكثر الكذب والاغتصاب ويقطعون مع اشور عهدا والزيت الى مصر يجلب. | 1 Ephraim besieges me with lying, the House of Israel with duplicity. (But Judah stil is on God's side, heis faithful to the Holy One.) |
2 فللرب خصام مع يهوذا وهو مزمع ان يعاقب يعقوب بحسب طرقه. بحسب افعاله يرد عليه | 2 Ephraim feeds himself on wind, all day he chases the wind from the East, he heaps up cheating andviolence; they make a treaty with Assyria, at the same time sending oil to Egypt. |
3 في البطن قبض بعقب اخيه وبقوّته جاهد مع الله. | 3 Yahweh has a case against Judah, he will punish Jacob as his conduct merits, he will repay him as hisdeeds deserve. |
4 جاهد مع الملاك وغلب. بكى واسترحمه. وجده في بيت ايل وهناك تكلم معنا. | 4 In the very womb he overreached his brother, in maturity he wrestled against God. |
5 والرب اله الجنود يهوه اسمه. | 5 He wrestled with the angel and beat him, he wept and pleaded with him. He met him at Bethel andthere God spoke to us- |
6 وانت فارجع الى الهك. احفظ الرحمة والحق وانتظر الهك دائما | 6 yes, Yahweh, God Sabaoth, Yahweh is his title! |
7 مثل الكنعاني في يده موازين الغش. يحب ان يظلم. | 7 So turn back with God's help, maintain faithful love and loyalty and always put your trust in your God. |
8 فقال افرايم اني صرت غنيا. وجدت لنفسي ثروة. جميع اتعابي لا يجدون لي فيها ذنبا هو خطية. | 8 Merchants use fraudulent scales. To defraud is his delight. |
9 وانا الرب الهك من ارض مصر حتى اسكنك الخيام كايام الموسم. | 9 'How rich I have become!' says Ephraim, 'I have made a fortune.' But of al his gains he wil keepnothing because of the sin of which he is guilty. |
10 وكلّمت الانبياء وكثّرت الرؤى وبيد الانبياء مثّلت امثالا. | 10 But I have been Yahweh your God since your days in Egypt and will make you live in tents again asin the days of Meeting. |
11 انهم في جلعاد قد صاروا اثما بطلا لا غير. في الجلجال ذبحوا ثيرانا ومذابحهم كرجم في اتلام الحقل. | 11 I will speak through prophets, I will give vision after vision and through the ministry of prophets wilspeak in parables. |
12 وهرب يعقوب الى صحراء ارام وخدم اسرائيل لاجل امرأة ولاجل امرأة رعى | 12 Is Gilead a sink of iniquity? Yes, they are a worthless lot! At Gilgal they sacrifice to bulls, that is whytheir altars are like heaps of stones in a ploughed field. |
13 وبنبيّ اصعد الرب اسرائيل من مصر وبنبيّحفظ. | 13 Jacob fled to the countryside of Aram, Israel slaved to win a wife, to win a wife he looked after sheep. |
14 اغاظه اسرائيل بمرارة فيترك دماءه عليه ويردّ سيده عاره عليه | 14 By a prophet Yahweh brought Israel out of Egypt and by a prophet Israel was preserved. |
| 15 Ephraim gave bitter provocation- Yahweh will bring his bloodshed down on him, his Lord wil repayhim for his insult. |