1اسمعوا هذا ايها الكهنة وانصتوا يا بيت اسرائيل واصغوا يا بيت الملك لان عليكم القضاء اذ صرتم فخّا في مصفاة وشبكة مبسوطة على تابور
1Hear this, O ye priests, and hearken, O house of Israel, and give ear, O house of the king; for unto you pertaineth the judgment; for ye have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
2وقد توغّلوا في ذبائح الزيغان فانا تأديب لجميعهم.
2And the revolters are gone deep in making slaughter; but I am a rebuker of them all.
3انا اعرف افرايم. واسرائيل ليس مخفيا عني. انك الآن زنيت يا افرايم. قد تنجس اسرائيل.
3I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me; for now, O Ephraim, thou hast played the harlot, Israel is defiled.
4افعالهم لا تدعهم يرجعون الى الههم لان روح الزنى في باطنهم وهم لا يعرفون الرب.
4Their doings will not suffer them to turn unto their God; for the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they know not Jehovah.
5وقد أذلّت عظمة اسرائيل في وجهه فيتعثر اسرائيل وافرايم في اثمهما ويتعثر يهوذا ايضا معهما.
5And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in their iniquity; Judah also shall stumble with them.
6يذهبون بغنمهم وبقرهم ليطلبوا الرب ولا يجدونه. قد تنحى عنهم.
6They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Jehovah; but they shall not find him: he hath withdrawn himself from them.
7قد غدروا بالرب. لانهم ولدوا اولادا اجنبيين. الآن يأكلهم شهر مع انصبتهم
7They have dealt treacherously against Jehovah; for they have borne strange children: now shall the new moon devour them with their fields.
8اضربوا بالبوق في جبعة بالقرن في الرامة. اصرخوا في بيت آون. وراءك يا بنيامين.
8Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: sound an alarm at Beth-aven; behind thee, O Benjamin.
9يصير افرايم خرابا في يوم التأديب. في اسباط اسرائيل اعلمت اليقين.
9Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.
10صارت رؤساء يهوذا كناقلي التخوم فاسكب عليهم سخطي كالماء.
10The princes of Judah are like them that remove the landmark: I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
11افرايم مظلوم مسحوق القضاء لانه ارتضى ان يمضي وراء الوصية.
11Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; because he was content to walk after [man's] command.
12فانا لافرايم كالعث ولبيت يهوذا كالسوس
12Therefore am I unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
13ورأى افرايم مرضه ويهوذا جرحه فمضى افرايم الى اشور وارسل الى ملك عدو ولكنه لا يستطيع ان يشفيكم ولا ان يزيل منكم الجرح.
13When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah [saw] his wound, then went Ephraim to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.
14لاني لافرايم كالاسد ولبيت يهوذا كشبل الاسد فاني انا افترس وامضي آخذ ولا منقذ.
14For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will carry off, and there shall be none to deliver.
15اذهب وارجع الى مكاني حتى يجازوا ويطلبوا وجهي. في ضيقهم يبكرون اليّ
15I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me earnestly.