Hosea 12
1 [The leaders of] Israel are constantly wavering [about seeking help from other countries]. [Seeking their help is as useless as] [MET] chasing the wind. They pile up their lies and violent acts. [First, ] they make a treaty with Assyria, and [then they] send olive oil to [the rulers of] Egypt [to seek their help].
| افرایم باد را می‌خورد و باد شرقی راتعاقب می‌کند. تمامی روز دروغ وخرابی را می‌افزاید و ایشان با آشور عهد می‌بندندو روغن (به جهت هدیه ) به مصر برده می‌شود. | ۱ |
2 Yahweh [says that he] will bring accusations against [the leaders of] Judah, and that he will punish [the descendants of] Jacob for what they have done.
| خداوند را با یهودا مخاصمه‌ای است و یعقوب را برحسب راههایش عقوبت رسانیده، بر وفق اعمالش او را جزا خواهد داد. | ۲ |
3 [When Jacob was] in his mother’s womb, he grabbed his brother [Esau’s] heel [because he wanted to be born first]. When Jacob grew up, he wrestled with God.
| او پاشنه برادرخود را در رحم گرفت و در حین قوتش با خدامجاهده نمود. | ۳ |
4 He struggled with [the one who had appeared to him in the form of] an angel, and Jacob defeated him, but [then] he cried and asked the angel to bless him. [Later], God came to Jacob at Bethel and talked with him there.
| با فرشته مجاهده نموده، غالب آمد. گریان شده، نزد وی تضرع نمود. دربیت ئیل او را یافت و در آنجا با ما تکلم نمود. | ۴ |
5 [That was] the Commander of the armies of angels whose name is Yahweh [who talked with him]!
| اما خداوند، خدای لشکرهاست و یادگاری او یهوه است. | ۵ |
6 But you [people of Israel] must return to your God! You must faithfully love [him], and you must do what is fair/just and always depend on him.
| اما تو بسوی خدای خودبازگشت نما و رحمت و راستی را نگاه داشته، دائم منتظر خدای خود باش. | ۶ |
7 The merchants [among you] use scales that do not weigh correctly; they love/like to cheat people.
| او سوداگری است که میزان فریب در دست او می‌باشد وظلم را دوست می‌دارد. | ۷ |
8 [The people of] Israel boast, saying “We are [very] rich [DOU]; and we got all that money by our own efforts, and without committing any sin.”
| و افرایم می‌گوید: «به درستی که دولتمند شده‌ام و توانگری رابرای خود تحصیل نموده‌ام و در تمامی کسب من بی‌انصافی‌ای که گناه باشد، در من نخواهند یافت.» | ۸ |
9 “I am Yahweh your God, [the one who brought your ancestors] out of Egypt. [And some day] I will force you to live in tents again [like your ancestors did] when [they celebrated] the Festival [of Living in Temporary Shelters].
| اما من از زمین مصر (تا حال )یهوه خدای تو هستم و تو را بار دیگر مثل ایام مواسم در خیمه‌ها ساکن خواهم گردانید. | ۹ |
10 [Many times] I spoke to the prophets, and I gave them many visions, and I gave them parables to tell [to the people].”
| به انبیا نیز تکلم نمودم و رویاها افزودم وبواسطه انبیا مثل‌ها زدم. | ۱۰ |
11 [The people of] Gilead [city] are [RHQ] extremely wicked; they are worthless. The people sacrifice bulls in Gilgal [city], but their altars will [soon] become like [SIM] piles of stone [at the edge of] a plowed field.
| به درستی که ایشان در جلعاد محض گناه و بطالت گردیدند و درجلجال گاوها قربانی کردند. و مذبح های ایشان نیز مثل توده های سنگ در شیارهای زمین می‌باشد. | ۱۱ |
12 [Your ancestor] Jacob fled [from his brother Esau] and went to northwest Mesopotamia. He worked [for his uncle Laban for many years] to get a wife; he took care of [his uncle’s] sheep [to pay] for her.
| و یعقوب به زمین ارام فرار کرد و اسرائیل به جهت زن خدمت نمود و برای زن شبانی کرد. | ۱۲ |
13 [Many years later, ] Yahweh enabled a prophet to bring the [ancestors of you] people of Israel here from Egypt; that prophet, [Moses], took care of them.
| و خداوند اسرائیل را بواسطه نبی از مصربرآورد و او به‌دست نبی محفوظ گردید. | ۱۳ |
14 [But now the people of] Israel have caused [Yahweh] to become very angry; Yahweh says that they deserve to die because they caused [many others] to die [MTY]; he will pay them back for the sins that they have committed against him and for insulting him.
| افرایم خشم بسیار تلخی به هیجان آورد، پس خداوندش خون او را بر سرش واگذاشت و عار اورا بر وی رد نمود. | ۱۴ |
