Hosea 7

«حِينَمَا كُنْتُ أَشْفِي إِسْرَائِيلَ، أُعْلِنَ إِثْمُ أَفْرَايِمَ وَشُرُورُ السَّامِرَةِ، فَإِنَّهُمْ قَدْ صَنَعُوا غِشًّا. السَّارِقُ دَخَلَ وَالْغُزَاةُ نَهَبُوا فِي الْخَارِجِ.

When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.

وَلاَ يَفْتَكِرُونَ فِي قُلُوبِهِمْ أَنِّي قَدْ تَذَكَّرْتُ كُلَّ شَرِّهِمْ. اَلآنَ قَدْ أَحَاطَتْ بِهِمْ أَفْعَالُهُمْ. صَارَتْ أَمَامَ وَجْهِي.

And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.

«بِشَرِّهِمْ يُفَرِّحُونَ الْمَلِكَ، وَبِكَذِبِهِمِ الرُّؤَسَاءَ.

They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

كُلُّهُمْ فَاسِقُونَ كَتَنُّورٍ مُحْمًى مِنَ الْخَبَّازِ. يُبَطِّلُ الإِيقَادَ مِنْ وَقْتِمَا يَعْجِنُ الْعَجِينَ إِلَى أَنْ يَخْتَمِرَ.

They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.

يَوْمُ مَلِكِنَا يَمْرَضُ الرُّؤَسَاءُ مِنْ سَوْرَةِ الْخَمْرِ. يَبْسُطُ يَدَهُ مَعَ الْمُسْتَهْزِئِينَ.

In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.

لأَنَّهُمْ يُقَرِّبُونَ قُلُوبَهُمْ فِي مَكِيدَتِهِمْ كَالتَّنُّورِ. كُلَّ اللَّيْلِ يَنَامُ خَبَّازُهُمْ، وَفِي الصَّبَاحِ يَكُونُ مُحْمًى كَنَارٍ مُلْتَهِبَةٍ.

For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.

كُلُّهُمْ حَامُونَ كَالتَّنُّورِ وَأَكَلُوا قُضَاتَهُمْ. جَمِيعُ مُلُوكِهِمْ سَقَطُوا. لَيْسَ بَيْنَهُمْ مَنْ يَدْعُو إِلَيَّ.

They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.

«أَفْرَايِمُ يَخْتَلِطُ بِالشُّعُوبِ. أَفْرَايِمُ صَارَ خُبْزَ مَلَّةٍ لَمْ يُقْلَبْ.

Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

أَكَلَ الْغُرَبَاءُ ثَرْوَتَهُ وَهُوَ لاَ يَعْرِفُ، وَقَدْ رُشَّ عَلَيْهِ الشَّيْبُ وَهُوَ لاَ يَعْرِفُ.

Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.

وَقَدْ أُذِلَّتْ عَظَمَةُ إِسْرَائِيلَ فِي وَجْهِهِ، وَهُمْ لاَ يَرْجِعُونَ إِلَى الرَّبِّ إِلهِهِمْ وَلاَ يَطْلُبُونَهُ مَعَ كُلِّ هذَا.

And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.

وَصَارَ أَفْرَايِمُ كَحَمَامَةٍ رَعْنَاءَ بِلاَ قَلْبٍ. يَدْعُونَ مِصْرَ. يَمْضُونَ إِلَى أَشُّورَ.

Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

عِنْدَمَا يَمْضُونَ أَبْسُطُ عَلَيْهِمْ شَبَكَتِي. أُلْقِيهِمْ كَطُيُورِ السَّمَاءِ. أُؤَدِّبُهُمْ بِحَسَبِ خَبَرِ جَمَاعَتِهِمْ.

When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.

«وَيْلٌ لَهُمْ لأَنَّهُمْ هَرَبُوا عَنِّي. تَبًّا لَهُمْ لأَنَّهُمْ أَذْنَبُوا إِلَيَّ. أَنَا أَفْدِيهِمْ وَهُمْ تَكَلَّمُوا عَلَيَّ بِكَذِبٍ.

Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

وَلاَ يَصْرُخُونَ إِلَيَّ بِقُلُوبِهِمْ حِينَمَا يُوَلْوِلُونَ عَلَى مَضَاجِعِهِمْ. يَتَجَمَّعُونَ لأَجْلِ الْقَمْحِ وَالْخَمْرِ، وَيَرْتَدُّونَ عَنِّي.

And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.

وَأَنَا أَنْذَرْتُهُمْ وَشَدَّدْتُ أَذْرُعَهُمْ، وَهُمْ يُفَكِّرُونَ عَلَيَّ بِالشَّرِّ.

Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.

يَرْجِعُونَ لَيْسَ إِلَى الْعَلِيِّ. قَدْ صَارُوا كَقَوْسٍ مُخْطِئَةٍ. يَسْقُطُ رُؤَسَاؤُهُمْ بِالسَّيْفِ مِنْ أَجْلِ سَخَطِ أَلْسِنَتِهِمْ. هذَا هُزْؤُهُمْ فِي أَرْضِ مِصْرَ.

They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.