هُوشَع 2

١ 1 «قُولُوا لِإِخْوَتِكُمْ «عَمِّي» وَلِأَخَوَاتِكُمْ «رُحَامَةَ».

Say to your brothers, 'My people!' and to your sisters, 'You have been shown compassion.'”

٢ 2 حَاكِمُوا أُمَّكُمْ حَاكِمُوا، لِأَنَّهَا لَيْسَتِ ٱمْرَأَتِي وَأَنَا لَسْتُ رَجُلَهَا، لِكَيْ تَعْزِلَ زِنَاهَا عَنْ وَجْهِهَا وَفِسْقَهَا مِنْ بَيْنِ ثَدْيَيْهَا،

Bring a lawsuit against your mother, bring a lawsuit, for she is not my wife, and neither am I her husband. Let her put away her prostitution from before herself, and her acts of adultery from between her breasts.

٣ 3 لِئَلَّا أُجَرِّدَهَا عُرْيَانَةً وَأَوْقِفَهَا كَيَوْمِ وِلَادَتِهَا، وَأَجْعَلَهَا كَقَفْرٍ، وَأُصَيِّرَهَا كَأَرْضٍ يَابِسَةٍ، وَأُمِيتَهَا بِٱلْعَطَشِ.

If not, I will strip her naked and show her nakedness as on the day that she was born. I will make her like the wilderness, like a parched land, and I will make her die from thirst.

٤ 4 وَلَا أَرْحَمُ أَوْلَادَهَا لِأَنَّهُمْ أَوْلَادُ زِنًى.

I will not have any mercy on her children, for they are children of prostitution.

٥ 5 «لِأَنَّ أُمَّهُمْ قَدْ زَنَتِ. ٱلَّتِي حَبِلَتْ بِهِمْ صَنَعَتْ خِزْيًا. لِأَنَّهَا قَالَتْ: أَذْهَبُ وَرَاءَ مُحِبِّيَّ ٱلَّذِينَ يُعْطُونَ خُبْزِي وَمَائِي، صُوفِي وَكَتَّانِي، زَيْتِي وَأَشْرِبَتِي.

For their mother has been a prostitute, and she who conceived them has acted shamefully. She said, “I will go after my lovers, for they give me my bread and water, my wool and flax, my oil and drink.”

٦ 6 لِذَلِكَ هَأَنَذَا أُسَيِّجُ طَرِيقَكِ بِٱلشَّوْكِ، وَأَبْنِي حَائِطَهَا حَتَّى لَا تَجِدَ مَسَالِكَهَا.

Therefore I will build up a hedge to block her way with thorns. I will build up a wall against her so she cannot find her way.

٧ 7 فَتَتْبَعُ مُحِبِّيهَا وَلَا تُدْرِكُهُمْ، وَتُفَتِّشُ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا تَجِدُهُمْ. فَتَقُولُ: أَذْهَبُ وَأَرْجِعُ إِلَى رَجُلِي ٱلْأَوَّلِ، لِأَنَّهُ حِينَئِذٍ كَانَ خَيْرٌ لِي مِنَ ٱلْآنَ.

She will pursue her lovers, but she will not overtake them. She will seek them, but she will not find them. Then she will say, “I will return to my first husband, for it was better for me then than it is now.”

٨ 8 «وَهِيَ لَمْ تَعْرِفْ أَنِّي أَنَا أَعْطَيْتُهَا ٱلْقَمْحَ وَٱلْمِسْطَارَ وَٱلزَّيْتَ، وَكَثَّرْتُ لَهَا فِضَّةً وَذَهَبًا جَعَلُوهُ لِبَعْلٍ.

For she had not known that it was I who gave her the grain, the new wine and the oil, and who lavished on her silver and gold, which they then used for Baal.

٩ 9 لِذَلِكَ أَرْجِعُ وَآخُذُ قَمْحِي فِي حِينِهِ، وَمِسْطَارِي فِي وَقْتِهِ، وَأَنْزِعُ صُوفِي وَكَتَّانِي ٱللَّذَيْنِ لِسَتْرِ عَوْرَتِهَا.

So I will take back her grain at harvest time, and my new wine in its season. I will take back my wool and flax that were used to cover her nakedness.

١٠ 10 وَٱلْآنَ أَكْشِفُ عَوْرَتَهَا أَمَامَ عُيُونِ مُحِبِّيهَا وَلَا يُنْقِذُهَا أَحَدٌ مِنْ يَدِي.

Then I will strip her naked in the sight of her lovers, and no one will rescue her out of my hand.

١١ 11 وَأُبَطِّلُ كُلَّ أَفْرَاحِهَا: أَعْيَادَهَا وَرُؤُوسَ شُهُورِهَا وَسُبُوتَهَا وَجَمِيعَ مَوَاسِمِهَا.

I will also cause all her celebrations to cease— her feasts, her new moon celebrations, her Sabbaths, and all her appointed festivals.

١٢ 12 وَأُخَرِّبُ كَرْمَهَا وَتِينَهَا ٱللَّذَيْنِ قَالَتْ: هُمَا أُجْرَتِي ٱلَّتِي أَعْطَانِيهَا مُحِبِّيَّ، وَأَجْعَلُهُمَا وَعْرًا فَيَأْكُلُهُمَا حَيَوَانُ ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ.

“I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, of which she has said, 'These are the wages that my lovers gave me.' I will make them a forest, and the animals of the field will eat them.

١٣ 13 وَأُعَاقِبُهَا عَلَى أَيَّامِ بَعْلِيمَ ٱلَّتِي فِيهَا كَانَتْ تُبَخِّرُ لَهُمْ وَتَتَزَيَّنُ بِخَزَائِمِهَا وَحُلِيهَا وَتَذْهَبُ وَرَاءَ مُحِبِّيهَا وَتَنْسَانِي أَنَا، يَقُولُ ٱلرَّبُّ.

I will punish her for the feast days of the Baals, when she burned incense to them, when she adorned herself with her rings and jewelry, and she went after her lovers and forgot me— this is Yahweh's declaration.”

١٤ 14 «لَكِنْ هَأَنَذَا أَتَمَلَّقُهَا وَأَذْهَبُ بِهَا إِلَى ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ وَأُلَاطِفُهَا،

So I am going to win her back. I will bring her into the wilderness and speak tenderly to her.

١٥ 15 وَأُعْطِيهَا كُرُومَهَا مِنْ هُنَاكَ، وَوَادِي عَخُورَ بَابًا لِلرَّجَاءِ. وَهِيَ تُغَنِّي هُنَاكَ كَأَيَّامِ صِبَاهَا، وَكَيَوْمِ صُعُودِهَا مِنْ أَرْضِ مِصْرَ.

I will give her back her vineyards, and the Valley of Achor as a door of hope. She will answer me there as she did in the days of her youth, as in the days that she came out of the land of Egypt.

١٦ 16 وَيَكُونُ فِي ذَلِكَ ٱلْيَوْمِ، يَقُولُ ٱلرَّبُّ، أَنَّكِ تَدْعِينَنِي: رَجُلِي، وَلَا تَدْعِينَنِي بَعْدُ بَعْلِي.

“It will be in that day—this is Yahweh's declaration— that you will call me, 'My husband,' and you will no longer call me, 'My Baal.'

١٧ 17 وَأَنْزِعُ أَسْمَاءَ ٱلْبَعْلِيمِ مِنْ فَمِهَا، فَلَا تُذْكَرُ أَيْضًا بِأَسْمَائِهَا.

For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth; their names will not be remembered anymore.”

١٨ 18 وَأَقْطَعُ لَهُمْ عَهْدًا فِي ذَلِكَ ٱلْيَوْمِ مَعَ حَيَوَانِ ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ وَطُيُورِ ٱلسَّمَاءِ وَدَبَّابَاتِ ٱلْأَرْضِ، وَأَكْسِرُ ٱلْقَوْسَ وَٱلسَّيْفَ وَٱلْحَرْبَ مِنَ ٱلْأَرْضِ، وَأَجْعَلُهُمْ يَضْطَجِعُونَ آمِنِينَ.

“On that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts in the fields, with the birds in the sky, and with the crawling things on the ground. I will drive away the bow, the sword, and the battle from the land, and I will make you lie down in safety.

١٩ 19 وَأَخْطُبُكِ لِنَفْسِي إِلَى ٱلْأَبَدِ. وَأَخْطُبُكِ لِنَفْسِي بِٱلْعَدْلِ وَٱلْحَقِّ وَٱلْإِحْسَانِ وَٱلْمَرَاحِمِ.

I will promise to be your husband forever. I will promise to be your husband in righteousness, justice, covenant faithfulness, and mercy.

٢٠ 20 أَخْطُبُكِ لِنَفْسِي بِٱلْأَمَانَةِ فَتَعْرِفِينَ ٱلرَّبَّ.

I will pledge myself to you in faithfulness, and you will know Yahweh.

٢١ 21 وَيَكُونُ فِي ذَلِكَ ٱلْيَوْمِ أَنِّي أَسْتَجِيبُ، يَقُولُ ٱلرَّبُّ، أَسْتَجِيبُ ٱلسَّمَاوَاتِ وَهِيَ تَسْتَجِيبُ ٱلْأَرْضَ،

On that day, I will answer—this is Yahweh's declaration— I will answer the heavens, and they will answer the earth.

٢٢ 22 وَٱلْأَرْضُ تَسْتَجِيبُ ٱلْقَمْحَ وَٱلْمِسْطَارَ وَٱلزَّيْتَ، وَهِيَ تَسْتَجِيبُ يَزْرَعِيلَ.

The earth will answer the grain, the new wine and the oil, and they will answer Jezreel.

٢٣ 23 وَأَزْرَعُهَا لِنَفْسِي فِي ٱلْأَرْضِ، وَأَرْحَمُ لُورُحَامَةَ، وَأَقُولُ لِلُوعَمِّي: أَنْتَ شَعْبِي، وَهُوَ يَقُولُ: أَنْتَ إِلَهِي».

I will plant her for myself in the land, and I will have mercy on Lo-Ruhamah. I will say to Lo-Ammi, 'You are Ammi Attah,' and they will say to me, 'You are my God.'”