هُوشَع 14

١ 1 اِرْجِعْ يَا إِسْرَائِيلُ إِلَى ٱلرَّبِّ إِلَهِكَ، لِأَنَّكَ قَدْ تَعَثَّرْتَ بِإِثْمِكَ.

Return, Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled in your iniquity.

٢ 2 خُذُوا مَعَكُمْ كَلَامًا وَٱرْجِعُوا إِلَى ٱلرَّبِّ. قُولُوا لَهُ: «ٱرْفَعْ كُلَّ إِثْمٍ وَٱقْبَلْ حَسَنًا، فَنُقَدِّمَ عُجُولَ شِفَاهِنَا.

Take words of repentance with you, and return to the Lord your God. Say to him: Wholly pardon our iniquity, accept that which is good, instead of sacrificing bulls, we offer our praise.

٣ 3 لَا يُخَلِّصُنَا أَشُّورُ. لَا نَرْكَبُ عَلَى ٱلْخَيْلِ، وَلَا نَقُولُ أَيْضًا لِعَمَلِ أَيْدِينَا: آلِهَتَنَا. إِنَّهُ بِكَ يُرْحَمُ ٱلْيَتِيمُ».

Assyria will not save us, nor Egyptian warhorses, and we will no more call the work of our hands our gods. For in you orphan Israel finds mercy.

٤ 4 «أَنَا أَشْفِي ٱرْتِدَادَهُمْ. أُحِبُّهُمْ فَضْلًا، لِأَنَّ غَضَبِي قَدِ ٱرْتَدَّ عَنْهُ.

‘I will heal their apostasy, I will love them freely, now that my anger is turned away from them,

٥ 5 أَكُونُ لِإِسْرَائِيلَ كَٱلنَّدَى. يُزْهِرُ كَٱلسَّوْسَنِ، وَيَضْرِبُ أُصُولَهُ كَلُبْنَانَ.

I will be as dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, he will plant his roots like the cedars of Lebanon,

٦ 6 تَمْتَدُّ خَرَاعِيبُهُ، وَيَكُونُ بَهَاؤُهُ كَٱلزَّيْتُونَةِ، وَلَهُ رَائِحَةٌ كَلُبْنَانَ.

his saplings will spread out, his beauty will be like that of the olive tree, his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon.

٧ 7 يَعُودُ ٱلسَّاكِنُونَ فِي ظِلِّهِ يُحْيُونَ حِنْطَةً وَيُزْهِرُونَ كَجَفْنَةٍ. يَكُونُ ذِكْرُهُمْ كَخَمْرِ لُبْنَانَ.

People will return and dwell in my shade, they will bring life to new grain. They shall sprout like the vine, and their renown will be like that of the wine of Lebanon.

٨ 8 يَقُولُ أَفْرَايِمُ: مَا لِي أَيْضًا وَلِلْأَصْنَامِ؟ أَنَا قَدْ أَجَبْتُ فَأُلَاحِظُهُ. أَنَا كَسَرْوَةٍ خَضْرَاءَ. مِنْ قِبَلِي يُوجَدُ ثَمَرُكِ».

Ephraim – what have I to do with idols! It is I the Lord who respond to him and look after him. I am like an evergreen cypress, from me is your fruit found.

٩ 9 مَنْ هُوَ حَكِيمٌ حَتَّى يَفْهَمَ هَذِهِ ٱلْأُمُورَ، وَفَهِيمٌ حَتَّى يَعْرِفَهَا! فَإِنَّ طُرُقَ ٱلرَّبِّ مُسْتَقِيمَةٌ، وَٱلْأَبْرَارَ يَسْلُكُونَ فِيهَا، وَأَمَّا ٱلْمُنَافِقُونَ فَيَعْثُرُونَ فِيهَا.

Whoever is wise, let him discern these things, prudent, let him perceive them; For the Lord’s ways are straight, and the righteous walk in them, but the wicked stumble in them.