Ὡσηέʹ 8
1 Σάλπισον ταύτα με το στόμα σου· θέλεις ορμήσει ως αετός εναντίον του οίκου του Κυρίου, διότι παρέβησαν την διαθήκην μου και ησέβησαν εις τον νόμον μου.
[Yahweh said to me], “Blow [MTY] your trumpet [to warn the people]! My people have rejected the agreement that I made with them, and they have rebelled against [obeying] my laws. Therefore, [their enemies] are swooping down on my people’s country like [SIM] an eagle.
2 Ο Ισραήλ θέλει κράζει προς εμέ, Θεέ μου, σε γνωρίζομεν.
My Israeli people cry out to me, ‘Our God, we know that you are our God!’
3 Ο Ισραήλ απέρριψε το αγαθόν· ο εχθρός θέλει καταδιώξει αυτόν.
But because the Israeli people have rejected what is good, their enemies will pursue them.
4 Αυτοί κατέστησαν βασιλείς, πλην ουχί παρ' εμού· έκαμον άρχοντας, πλην χωρίς να έχω είδησιν· εκ του αργυρίου αυτών και εκ του χρυσίου αυτών έκαμον εις εαυτούς είδωλα, διά να εξολοθρευθώσιν.
The Israel people appointed [their last three] kings, but they did not ask me if I agreed to [what they were doing]. They chose their own leaders without asking if I would approve of them. They used their own silver and gold to make for themselves idols, and doing that led them to be destroyed.
5 Απέρριψεν αυτούς ο μόσχος σου, Σαμάρεια· ο θυμός μου εξήφθη εναντίον αυτών· έως πότε δεν θέλουσι δυνηθή να καθαρισθώσι;
You people of Samaria, throw away your [idol that resembles a] calf! I am extremely angry with you people! How long [RHQ] will you [do things that cause] you to be unacceptable to me?
6 Και τούτο βεβαίως έγεινεν υπό του Ισραήλ· ο τεχνίτης έκαμεν αυτό· όθεν αυτό δεν είναι Θεός· ο μόσχος λοιπόν της Σαμαρείας θέλει γείνει συντρίμματα.
[Someone in] Israel made that idol for you; [but I am] God and it is not. So that idol of a calf in Samaria must be smashed to pieces.
7 Επειδή έσπειραν άνεμον, διά τούτο θέλουσι θερίσει ανεμοστρόβιλον· δεν έχει κάλαμον· ο βλαστός δεν θέλει δώσει άλευρον· και αν δώση, ξένοι θέλουσι καταπίει αυτό.
[The foolish thing that the people of Israel have done is like] [MET] trying to plant wind; but what they harvest will be like [MET] a whirlwind. So the grain that they planted will have no heads [on the stalks], and as a result [there will be no grain] from which to make flour. And if it did produce good grain, foreigners would [come and] steal it.
8 Κατεπόθη ο Ισραήλ· τώρα έγειναν μεταξύ των εθνών ως σκεύος εν ω δεν υπάρχει χάρις.
[The people of] Israel will be defeated [MET] [by their enemies]; they will be [scattered] among other nations and become worthless.
9 Διότι αφ' εαυτών ανέβησαν εις τους Ασσυρίους, ως όναγρος μονάζων καθ' εαυτόν· ο Εφραΐμ εμίσθωσεν εραστάς.
Like [MET] donkeys that are looking for mates, they have requested [help] from Assyria; they paid money to [the leaders of Assyria] in order to [persuade those leaders to] protect them.
10 Πλην αν και εμίσθωσαν εραστάς μεταξύ των εθνών, τώρα θέλω συνάξει αυτούς· και θέλουσι λυπηθή μετ' ολίγον διά το φορτίον του βασιλέως των αρχόντων.
But although they have agreed to pay money each year to [the leaders of] those countries, I will soon gather them together [to punish them]. The great King [of Assyria] will cause them to suffer greatly.
11 Επειδή ο Εφραΐμ επλήθυνε τα θυσιαστήρια διά να αμαρτάνη, θέλουσι γείνει εις αυτόν θυσιαστήρια του αμαρτάνειν.
Although [the people of] Israel built many altars to present offerings [to their idols] to take away [their guilt for] sinning, those altars have become places where they commit [more] sins.
12 Έγραψα προς αυτόν τα μεγαλεία του νόμου μου· πλην ελογίσθησαν ως αλλότριον πράγμα.
I wrote many laws for them, but they disregarded them, saying that [they did not have to obey them because] they were different from laws that they had known previously.
13 Εν ταις θυσίαις, τας οποίας προσφέρουσιν εις εμέ, θυσιάζουσι κρέας και τρώγουσιν· ο Κύριος δεν δέχεται αυτάς· τώρα θέλει ενθυμηθή την ανομίαν αυτών και επισκεφθή τας αμαρτίας αυτών· αυτοί θέλουσιν επιστρέψει εις την Αίγυπτον.
They offer sacrifices to me, and they eat [some of] the meat of those sacrifices, [which is what I permitted them to do]. But I, Yahweh, am not pleased with those sacrifices. I remember the evil things that they have done, and I will punish them for the sins that they have committed: I will force them to [go to other countries] [and become slaves like they were] [MET] in Egypt.
14 Διότι ο Ισραήλ ελησμόνησε τον Ποιητήν αυτού και οικοδομεί ναούς, και ο Ιούδας επλήθυνεν ωχυρωμένας πόλεις· αλλά θέλω εξαποστείλει πυρ επί τας πόλεις αυτού και θέλει καταφάγει τα παλάτια αυτών.
[The people of] Israel have abandoned/forgotten me, the one who created their [nation]; they have built palaces, and [the people of] Judah have built walls around many towns. But I will send a fire that will destroy all their cities and their fortresses.”
