Osee Propheta 2

1 Dicite fratribus vestris: Populus meus: et sorori vestræ, Misericordiam consecuta.

Say vnto your brethren, Ammi, and to your sisters, Ruhamah,

2 Iudicate matrem vestram, iudicate: quoniam ipsa non uxor mea, et ego non vir eius. auferat fornicationes suas a facie sua, et adulteria sua de medio uberum suorum.

Plead with your mother: plead with her: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: but let her take away her fornications out of her sight, and her adulteries from betweene her breasts.

3 Ne forte expoliem eam nudam, et statuam eam secundum diem nativitatis suæ: et ponam eam quasi solitudinem, et statuam eam velut terram inviam, et interficiam eam siti.

Lest I strippe her naked, and set her as in the day that shee was borne, and make her as a wildernes, and leaue her like a drie land, and slaie her for thirst.

4 Et filiorum illius non miserebor: quoniam filii fornicationum sunt.

And I wil haue no pitie vpon her children: for they be the children of fornications.

5 quia fornicata est mater eorum, confusa est quæ concepit eos: quia dixit: Vadam post amatores meos, qui dant panes mihi, et aquas meas, lanam meam, et linum meum, oleum meum, et potum meum.

For their mother hath plaied the harlot: she that conceiued them, hath done shamefully: for shee said, I will goe after my louers that giue me my bread and my water, my wooll and my flaxe, mine oyle and my drinke.

6 Propter hoc ecce ego sepiam viam tuam spinis, et sepiam eam maceria, et semitas suas non inveniet.

Therefore beholde, I will stoope thy way with thornes, and make an hedge, that shee shall not finde her pathes.

7 Et sequetur amatores suos, et non apprehendet eos: et quæret eos, et non inveniet, et dicet: Vadam, et revertar ad virum meum priorem: quia bene mihi erat tunc magis quam nunc.

Though shee follow after her louers, yet shall shee not come at them: though shee seeke them, yet shall shee not finde them: then shall she say, I will goe and returne to my first husband: for at that time was I better then nowe.

8 Et hæc nescivit, quia ego dedi ei frumentum, et vinum, et oleum, et argentum multiplicavi ei, et aurum, quæ fecerunt Baal.

Nowe she did not knowe that I gaue her corne, and wine, and oyle, and multiplied her siluer and golde, which they bestowed vpon Baal.

9 Idcirco convertar, et sumam frumentum meum in tempore suo, et vinum meum in tempore suo, et liberabo lanam meam et linum meum, quæ operiebant ignominiam eius.

Therefore wil I returne, and take away my corne in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recouer my wool and my flaxe lent, to couer her shame.

10 Et nunc revelabo stultitiam eius in oculis amatorum eius: et vir non eruet eam de manu mea:

And now will I discouer her lewdnes in the sight of her louers, and no man shall deliuer her out of mine hand.

11 et cessare faciam omne gaudium eius, sollemnitatem eius, neomeniam eius, sabbatum eius, et omnia festa tempora eius.

I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast daies, her newe moones, and her Sabbathes, and all her solemne feasts.

12 Et corrumpam vineam eius, et ficum eius: de quibus dixit: Mercedes hæ, meæ sunt, quas dederunt mihi amatores mei: et ponam eam in saltum, et comedet eam bestia agri.

And I wil destroy her vines and her figtrees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my louers haue giuen mee: and I will make them as a forest, and the wilde beasts shall eate them.

13 Et visitabo super eam dies Baalim, quibus accendebat incensum, et ornabatur inaure sua, et monili suo, et ibat post amatores suos, et mei obliviscebatur, dicit Dominus.

And I wil visit vpon her the daies of Baalim, wherein shee burnt incense to them: and shee decked her selfe with her earings and her iewels, and shee folowed her louers, and forgate me, saith the Lord.

14 Propter hoc, ecce ego lactabo eam, et ducam eam in solitudinem: et loquar ad cor eius.

Therefore beholde, I will allure her, and bring her into the wildernesse, and speake friendly vnto her.

15 Et dabo ei vinitores eius ex eodem loco, et Vallem Achor ad aperiendam spem: et canet ibi iuxta dies iuventutis suæ, et iuxta dies ascensionis suæ de Terra Ægypti.

And I will giue her her vineyardes from thence, and the valley of Achor for the doore of hope, and shee shall sing there as in the daies of her youth, and as in the daies when shee came vp out of the land of Egypt.

16 Et erit in die illa, ait Dominus: vocabit me: Vir meus: et non vocabit me ultra, Baali.

And at that day, sayeth the Lord, thou shalt call me Ishi, and shalt call me no more Baali.

17 Et auferam nomina Baalim de ore eius, et non recordabitur ultra nominis eorum.

For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall be no more remembred by their names.

18 Et percutiam cum eis fœdus in die illa, cum bestia agri, et cum volucre cæli, et cum reptili terræ: et arcum, et gladium, et bellum conteram de terra: et dormire eos faciam fiducialiter.

And in that day wil I make a couenant for them, with the wilde beasts, and with the foules of the heauen, and with that that creepeth vpon the earth: and I will breake the bowe, and the sworde and the battell out of the earth, and will make them to sleepe safely.

19 Et sponsabo te mihi in sempiternum: et sponsabo te mihi in iustitia, et iudicio, et in misericordia, et in miserationibus.

And I wil marry thee vnto me for euer: yea, I will marry thee vnto me in righteousnes, and in iudgement, and in mercy and in compassion.

20 Et sponsabo te mihi in fide: et scies quia ego Dominus.

I will euen marry thee vnto me in faithfulnes, and thou shalt knowe the Lord.

21 Et erit in die illa: Exaudiam, dicit Dominus, exaudiam cælos, et illi exaudient terram.

And in that day I wil heare, saith the Lord, I will euen heare the heauens, and they shall heare the earth,

22 Et terra exaudiet triticum, et vinum, et oleum: et hæc exaudient Iezrahel.

And the earth shall heare the corne, and the wine, and the oyle, and they shall heare Izreel.

23 Et seminabo eam mihi in terra, et miserebor eius, quæ fuit Absque misericordia. Et dicam non populo meo: Populus meus es tu: et ipse dicet: Deus meus es tu.

And I will sowe her vnto me in the earth, and I will haue mercie vpon her, that was not pitied, and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people. And they shall say, Thou art my God.