Hosea 8

1 Put the ram’s horn to your lips! An eagle looms over the house of the LORD, because the people have transgressed My covenant and rebelled against My law.

1 ضَعِ الْبُوقَ بَيْنَ شَفَتَيْكَ لِتَنْفُخَ فِيهِ، لأَنَّ نَسْراً يَنْقَضُّ عَلَى بَيْتِ الرَّبِّ، فَإِنَّ الشَّعْبَ قَدْ نَقَضُوا عَهْدِي وَتَعَدَّوْا عَلَى شَرِيعَتِي.

2 Israel cries out to Me, “O our God, we know You!”

2 يَسْتَغِيثُونَ بِي قَائِلِينَ: «يَا إِلَهَنَا، إِنَّنَا نَعْرِفُكَ، فَنَحْنُ إِسْرَائِيلَ شَعْبُكَ».

3 But Israel has rejected good; an enemy will pursue him.

3 غَيْرَ أَنَّ إِسْرَائِيلَ قَدْ مَقَتَ الْخَيْرَ، لِهَذَا يُطَارِدُهُ عَدُوٌّ.

4 They set up kings, but not by Me. They make princes, but without My approval. With their silver and gold they make themselves idols, to their own destruction.

4 قَدْ نَصَبُوا لَهُمْ مُلُوكاً وَلَكِنْ مِنْ غَيْرِ رِضَايَ، وَأَقَامُوا رُؤَسَاءَ مِنْ غَيْرِ مُوَافَقَتِي، وَصَنَعُوا بِذَهَبِهِمْ وَفِضَّتِهِمْ أَصْنَاماً تَؤُولُ إِلَى هَلاكِهِمْ.

5 He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?

5 لَشَدَّ مَا أَزْدَرِي عِجْلَكِ أَيَّتُهَا السَّامِرَةُ، وَهَا غَضَبِي قَدِ احْتَدَمَ عَلَيْهِمْ فَإِلَى مَتَى يَظَلُّونَ عَاجِزيِنَ عَنِ النَّقَاوَةِ؟

6 For this thing is from Israel—a craftsman made it, and it is not God. It will be broken to pieces, that calf of Samaria.

6 إِنَّهُ صَنْعَةُ عَامِلٍ إِسْرَائِيلِيٍّ وَلَيْسَ إِلَهاً، وَلابُدَّ أَنْ يَصِيرَ عِجْلُ السَّامِرَةِ حُطَاماً.

7 For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.

7 إِنَّهُمْ يَزْرَعُونَ الرِّيحَ، وَسَيَحْصُدُونَ الزَّوْبَعَةَ. زَرْعٌ عَقِيمٌ لَا يَصْنَعُ دَقِيقاً، وَإِنْ صَنَعَ يَلْتَهِمُهُ الْغُرَبَاءُ.

8 Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like a worthless vessel.

8 قَدِ ابْتُلِعَ إِسْرَائِيلُ، وَأَصْبَحَ بَيْنَ الشُّعُوبِ كَإِنَاءٍ لَا جَدْوَى مِنْهُ،

9 For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.

9 لأَنَّ أَبْنَاءَ إِسْرَائِيلَ لَجَأُوا إِلَى أَشُّورَ كَحِمَارٍ وَحْشِيٍّ مُتَوَحِّدٍ شَرِيدٍ، وَاسْتَأْجَرَ أَفْرَايِمُ مُحِبِّينَ

10 Though they hire allies among the nations, I will now round them up, and they will begin to diminish under the oppression of the king of princes.

10 وَإِنْ كَانُوا يَسْتَأْجِرُونَ حُلَفَاءَ مِنْ بَيْنِ الأُمَمِ، فَإِنِّي أَجْمَعُهُمُ الآنَ، فَيَتَحَرَّرُونَ إِلَى حِينٍ مِنْ نِيرِ الْمَلِكِ وَالرُّؤَسَاءِ.

11 Though Ephraim multiplied the altars for sin, they became his altars for sinning.

11 أَكْثَرَ أَفْرَايِمُ مِنْ تَشْيِيدِ الْمَذَابِحِ لِيُصْعِدَ عَلَيْهَا ذَبَائِحَ الْخَطِيئَةِ، فَأَصْبَحَتْ هَذِهِ مَذَابِحَ لاِرْتِكَابِ الْخَطِيئَةِ.

12 Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.

12 قَدْ كَتَبْتُ لَهُمْ بِكَثْرَةٍ شَرِيعَتِي لَكِنَّهُمْ حَسَبُوهَا غَرِيبَةً عَنْهُمْ.

13 Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.

13 يَذْبَحُونَ الذَّبَائِحَ الْمُقَرَّبَةَ إِلَيَّ لِيَأْكُلُوا لُحُومَهَا، لَا لِيُقَدِّمُوهَا إِلَيَّ. وَلَكِنِّي لَا أُسَرُّ بِها. وَالآنَ أَذْكُرُ إِثْمَهُمْ وَأُعَاقِبُهُمْ عَلَى خَطَايَاهُمْ وَإِلَى مِصْرَ يَرْجِعُونَ.

14 Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has multiplied its fortified cities. But I will send fire upon their cities, and it will consume their citadels.

14 لأَنَّ إِسْرَائِيلَ قَدْ نَسِيَ خَالِقَهُ، وَشَيَّدَ قُصُوراً، وَأَكْثَرَ يَهُوذَا مِنْ بِنَاءِ الْمُدُنِ الْمُحَصَّنَةِ، لِهَذَا سَأُرْسِلُ نَاراً عَلَى هَذِهِ الْمُدُنِ فَتَلْتَهِمُ حُصُونَهُ.