Osee 7
1 When I have healed Israel, then shall the iniquity of Ephraim be revealed, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they have wrought falsehood: and a thief shall come in to him, [even] a robber spoiling in his way;
| כרפאי לישראל ונגלה עון אפרים ורעות שמרון--כי פעלו שקר וגנב יבוא פשט גדוד בחוץ |
2 that they may concert together as [men] singing in their heart: I remember all their wickedness: now have their own counsels compassed them about; they came before my face.
| ובל יאמרו ללבבם כל רעתם זכרתי עתה סבבום מעלליהם נגד פני היו |
3 They gladdened kings with their wickedness, and princes with their lies.
| ברעתם ישמחו מלך ובכחשיהם שרים |
4 They are all adulterers, as an oven glowing with flame for hot-baking, on account of the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.
| כלם מנאפים--כמו תנור בערה מאפה ישבות מעיר מלוש בצק עד חמצתו |
5 [In] the days of our kings, the princes began to be inflamed with wine: he stretched out his hand with pestilent fellows.
| יום מלכנו החלו שרים חמת מיין משך ידו את לצצים |
6 Therefore their hearts are inflamed as an oven, while they rage all the night: Ephraim is satisfied with sleep; the morning is come; he is burnt up as a flame of fire.
| כי קרבו כתנור לבם בארבם כל הלילה ישן אפהם--בקר הוא בער כאש להבה |
7 They are all heated like an oven, and have devoured their judges: all their kings are fallen; there was not among them one that called on me.
| כלם יחמו כתנור ואכלו את שפטיהם כל מלכיהם נפלו אין קרא בהם אלי |
8 Ephraim is mixed among his people; Ephraim became a cake not turned.
| אפרים בעמים הוא יתבולל אפרים היה עגה בלי הפוכה |
9 Strangers devoured his strength, and he knew [it] not; and grey hairs came upon him, and he knew [it] not.
| אכלו זרים כחו והוא לא ידע גם שיבה זרקה בו והוא לא ידע |
10 And the pride of Israel shall be brought down before his face: yet they have not returned to the Lord their God, neither have they diligently sought him for all this.
| וענה גאון ישראל בפניו ולא שבו אל יהוה אלהיהם ולא בקשהו בכל זאת |
11 And Ephraim was as a silly dove, not having a heart: he called to Egypt, and they went to the Assyrians.
| ויהי אפרים כיונה פותה אין לב מצרים קראו אשור הלכו |
12 Whenever they shall go, I will cast my net upon them; I will bring them down as the birds of the sky, I will chasten them with the rumor of their [coming] affliction.
| כאשר ילכו אפרוש עליהם רשתי--כעוף השמים אורידם איסירם כשמע לעדתם |
13 Woe to them! for they have started aside from me: they are cowards; for they have sinned against me: yet I redeemed them, but they spoke falsehoods against me.
| אוי להם כי נדדו ממני שד להם כי פשעו בי ואנכי אפדם--והמה דברו עלי כזבים |
14 And their hearts did not cry to me, but they howled on their beds: they pined for oil and wine.
| ולא זעקו אלי בלבם כי יילילו על משכבותם על דגן ותירוש יתגוררו יסורו בי |
15 They were instructed by me, and I strengthened their arms; and they devised evils against me.
| ואני יסרתי חזקתי זרועתם ואלי יחשבו רע |
16 They turned aside to that which is not, they became as a bent bow: their princes shall fall by the sword, by reason of the unbridled state of their tongue: this is their setting at nothing in the land of Egypt.
| ישובו לא על היו כקשת רמיה--יפלו בחרב שריהם מזעם לשונם זו לעגם בארץ מצרים |
