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«قُولُوا لِإِخْوَتِكُمْ «عَمِّي» وَلِأَخَوَاتِكُمْ «رُحَامَةَ». ١ 1
So call your brothers, My People, and your sisters, Compassion.
حَاكِمُوا أُمَّكُمْ حَاكِمُوا، لِأَنَّهَا لَيْسَتِ ٱمْرَأَتِي وَأَنَا لَسْتُ رَجُلَهَا، لِكَيْ تَعْزِلَ زِنَاهَا عَنْ وَجْهِهَا وَفِسْقَهَا مِنْ بَيْنِ ثَدْيَيْهَا، ٢ 2
Accuse, accuse your mother: for she is not my wife, and I will not be her husband. Let her put her acts of infidelity out of her sight, and her lovers from between her breasts,
لِئَلَّا أُجَرِّدَهَا عُرْيَانَةً وَأَوْقِفَهَا كَيَوْمِ وِلَادَتِهَا، وَأَجْعَلَهَا كَقَفْرٍ، وَأُصَيِّرَهَا كَأَرْضٍ يَابِسَةٍ، وَأُمِيتَهَا بِٱلْعَطَشِ. ٣ 3
else I will strip her bare, expose her as she was on the day of her birth, make her like the wilderness, let her become like a parched land, and let her die of thirst.
وَلَا أَرْحَمُ أَوْلَادَهَا لِأَنَّهُمْ أَوْلَادُ زِنًى. ٤ 4
And on her children I will have no pity, since they are children of adultery,
«لِأَنَّ أُمَّهُمْ قَدْ زَنَتِ. ٱلَّتِي حَبِلَتْ بِهِمْ صَنَعَتْ خِزْيًا. لِأَنَّهَا قَالَتْ: أَذْهَبُ وَرَاءَ مُحِبِّيَّ ٱلَّذِينَ يُعْطُونَ خُبْزِي وَمَائِي، صُوفِي وَكَتَّانِي، زَيْتِي وَأَشْرِبَتِي. ٥ 5
for their mother has become a prostitute, she who conceived them has behaved shamefully. She has said, ‘I will go after my lovers who gave me my bread and my water, my wool, my flax, my oil, and my drink.’
لِذَلِكَ هَأَنَذَا أُسَيِّجُ طَرِيقَكِ بِٱلشَّوْكِ، وَأَبْنِي حَائِطَهَا حَتَّى لَا تَجِدَ مَسَالِكَهَا. ٦ 6
That is why I am going to hedge up her ways with thorns, and build a wall about her, so that she cannot find her paths.
فَتَتْبَعُ مُحِبِّيهَا وَلَا تُدْرِكُهُمْ، وَتُفَتِّشُ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا تَجِدُهُمْ. فَتَقُولُ: أَذْهَبُ وَأَرْجِعُ إِلَى رَجُلِي ٱلْأَوَّلِ، لِأَنَّهُ حِينَئِذٍ كَانَ خَيْرٌ لِي مِنَ ٱلْآنَ. ٧ 7
She will pursue her lovers, but will not overtake them. She will seek them, but not find them. In time she will say, ‘I will go back to my first husband, I was better off then than now.’
«وَهِيَ لَمْ تَعْرِفْ أَنِّي أَنَا أَعْطَيْتُهَا ٱلْقَمْحَ وَٱلْمِسْطَارَ وَٱلزَّيْتَ، وَكَثَّرْتُ لَهَا فِضَّةً وَذَهَبًا جَعَلُوهُ لِبَعْلٍ. ٨ 8
She herself did not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the sweet wine, and the oil, who lavished on her silver and gold – that they used in worshipping Baal!
لِذَلِكَ أَرْجِعُ وَآخُذُ قَمْحِي فِي حِينِهِ، وَمِسْطَارِي فِي وَقْتِهِ، وَأَنْزِعُ صُوفِي وَكَتَّانِي ٱللَّذَيْنِ لِسَتْرِ عَوْرَتِهَا. ٩ 9
So I will take back my grain at the harvest, and my sweet wine in its season. I will withdraw my wool and my flax, given to cover her nakedness;
وَٱلْآنَ أَكْشِفُ عَوْرَتَهَا أَمَامَ عُيُونِ مُحِبِّيهَا وَلَا يُنْقِذُهَا أَحَدٌ مِنْ يَدِي. ١٠ 10
and so I will strip her naked before her lovers, and no one shall deliver her out of my hand.
وَأُبَطِّلُ كُلَّ أَفْرَاحِهَا: أَعْيَادَهَا وَرُؤُوسَ شُهُورِهَا وَسُبُوتَهَا وَجَمِيعَ مَوَاسِمِهَا. ١١ 11
I will end all her celebrations, her yearly feasts, her new moons, and her sabbaths, all her festivals.
وَأُخَرِّبُ كَرْمَهَا وَتِينَهَا ٱللَّذَيْنِ قَالَتْ: هُمَا أُجْرَتِي ٱلَّتِي أَعْطَانِيهَا مُحِبِّيَّ، وَأَجْعَلُهُمَا وَعْرًا فَيَأْكُلُهُمَا حَيَوَانُ ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ. ١٢ 12
I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, of which she says, ‘These are my wages which my lovers have given me.’ I will make them a thicket, and the wild animals will eat them.
وَأُعَاقِبُهَا عَلَى أَيَّامِ بَعْلِيمَ ٱلَّتِي فِيهَا كَانَتْ تُبَخِّرُ لَهُمْ وَتَتَزَيَّنُ بِخَزَائِمِهَا وَحُلِيهَا وَتَذْهَبُ وَرَاءَ مُحِبِّيهَا وَتَنْسَانِي أَنَا، يَقُولُ ٱلرَّبُّ. ١٣ 13
In this way I will punish her for the days of the Baals, in which she made offerings to them, and decked herself with earrings and jewels, and went after her lovers, but forgot me, – declares the Lord.
«لَكِنْ هَأَنَذَا أَتَمَلَّقُهَا وَأَذْهَبُ بِهَا إِلَى ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ وَأُلَاطِفُهَا، ١٤ 14
So I am going to court her, bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.
وَأُعْطِيهَا كُرُومَهَا مِنْ هُنَاكَ، وَوَادِي عَخُورَ بَابًا لِلرَّجَاءِ. وَهِيَ تُغَنِّي هُنَاكَ كَأَيَّامِ صِبَاهَا، وَكَيَوْمِ صُعُودِهَا مِنْ أَرْضِ مِصْرَ. ١٥ 15
I will give her from there her vineyards, and the valley of Achor as a door of hope. There she will respond as in the days of her youth, as in the days when she came up from the land of Egypt.
وَيَكُونُ فِي ذَلِكَ ٱلْيَوْمِ، يَقُولُ ٱلرَّبُّ، أَنَّكِ تَدْعِينَنِي: رَجُلِي، وَلَا تَدْعِينَنِي بَعْدُ بَعْلِي. ١٦ 16
At that time, declares the Lord, you will call me your husband, and will no more call me your master.
وَأَنْزِعُ أَسْمَاءَ ٱلْبَعْلِيمِ مِنْ فَمِهَا، فَلَا تُذْكَرُ أَيْضًا بِأَسْمَائِهَا. ١٧ 17
I will remove the name of the Baals from her mouth, their names never again uttered.
وَأَقْطَعُ لَهُمْ عَهْدًا فِي ذَلِكَ ٱلْيَوْمِ مَعَ حَيَوَانِ ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ وَطُيُورِ ٱلسَّمَاءِ وَدَبَّابَاتِ ٱلْأَرْضِ، وَأَكْسِرُ ٱلْقَوْسَ وَٱلسَّيْفَ وَٱلْحَرْبَ مِنَ ٱلْأَرْضِ، وَأَجْعَلُهُمْ يَضْطَجِعُونَ آمِنِينَ. ١٨ 18
On that day I will make for them a covenant with the wild animals, the birds of the sky, and the creatures that crawl on the earth. I will break the bow and the sword, banish battle from the land, and I will make them lie down in safety.
وَأَخْطُبُكِ لِنَفْسِي إِلَى ٱلْأَبَدِ. وَأَخْطُبُكِ لِنَفْسِي بِٱلْعَدْلِ وَٱلْحَقِّ وَٱلْإِحْسَانِ وَٱلْمَرَاحِمِ. ١٩ 19
I will take you for my wife forever, I will take you for my wife in righteousness, in justice, in kindness, and in mercy.
أَخْطُبُكِ لِنَفْسِي بِٱلْأَمَانَةِ فَتَعْرِفِينَ ٱلرَّبَّ. ٢٠ 20
I will take you for my wife in faithfulness, and you will know the Lord.
وَيَكُونُ فِي ذَلِكَ ٱلْيَوْمِ أَنِّي أَسْتَجِيبُ، يَقُولُ ٱلرَّبُّ، أَسْتَجِيبُ ٱلسَّمَاوَاتِ وَهِيَ تَسْتَجِيبُ ٱلْأَرْضَ، ٢١ 21
On that day I will answer – declares the Lord, I will answer the empty skies, and they will answer the dry earth.
وَٱلْأَرْضُ تَسْتَجِيبُ ٱلْقَمْحَ وَٱلْمِسْطَارَ وَٱلزَّيْتَ، وَهِيَ تَسْتَجِيبُ يَزْرَعِيلَ. ٢٢ 22
The earth will answer with grain, and new wine and oil, and they will answer Jezreel,
وَأَزْرَعُهَا لِنَفْسِي فِي ٱلْأَرْضِ، وَأَرْحَمُ لُورُحَامَةَ، وَأَقُولُ لِلُوعَمِّي: أَنْتَ شَعْبِي، وَهُوَ يَقُولُ: أَنْتَ إِلَهِي». ٢٣ 23
and I will plant her in the land. I will have compassion to No-Compassion, I will say to Not-My-People, ‘You are my people,’ and they will say, ‘You are my God.’

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