¹اسمعوا ما قاله الرب. قم خاصم لدى الجبال ولتسمع التلال صوتك.

¹Listen now to what Yahweh says: “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear what you have to say.

²اسمعي خصومة الرب ايتها الجبال ويا أسس الارض الدائمة. فان للرب خصومة مع شعبه وهو يحاكم اسرائيل

²Hear, you mountains, Yahweh’s controversy, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.

³يا شعبي ماذا صنعت بك وبماذا اضجرتك. اشهد عليّ.

³My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me!

⁴اني اصعدتك من ارض مصر وفككتك من بيت العبودية وارسلت امامك موسى وهرون ومريم.

⁴For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage. I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

⁵يا شعبي اذكر بماذا تآمر بالاق ملك موآب وبماذا اجابه بلعام بن بعور ــ من شطّيم الى الجلجال ــ لكي تعرف اجادة الرب

⁵My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of Yahweh.”

⁶بم اتقدم الى الرب وانحني للاله العلي. هل اتقدم بمحرقات بعجول ابناء سنة.

⁶How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

⁷هل يسرّ الرب بالوف الكباش بربوات انهار زيت. هل اعطي بكري عن معصيتي ثمرة جسدي عن خطية نفسي.

⁷Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

⁸قد اخبرك ايها الانسان ما هو صالح. وماذا يطلبه منك الرب ألا ان تصنع الحق وتحب الرحمة وتسلك متواضعا مع الهك

⁸He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

⁹صوت الرب ينادي للمدينة والحكمة ترى اسمك. اسمعوا للقضيب ومن رسمه.

⁹Yahweh’s voice calls to the city, and wisdom sees your name: “Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it.

¹⁰أفي بيت الشرير بعد كنوز شر وإيفة ناقصة ملعونة.

¹⁰Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah An ephah is a measure of volume (about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel), and a short ephah is made smaller than a full ephah for the purpose of cheating customers. that is accursed?

¹¹هل اتزكى مع موازين الشر ومع كيس معايير الغش.

¹¹Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

¹²فان اغنياءها ملآنون ظلما وسكانها يتكلمون بالكذب ولسانهم في فمهم غاشّ.

¹²Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

¹³فانا قد جعلت جروحك عديمة الشفاء مخربا من اجل خطاياك.

¹³Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins.

¹⁴انت تأكل ولا تشبع وجوعك في جوفك. وتعزّل ولا تنجي والذي تنجيه ادفعه الى السيف.

¹⁴You shall eat, but not be satisfied. Your humiliation will be in your midst. You will store up, but not save; and that which you save I will give up to the sword.

¹⁵انت تزرع ولا تحصد. انت تدوس زيتونا ولا تدهن بزيت وسلافة ولا تشرب خمرا.

¹⁵You will sow, but won’t reap. You will tread the olives, but won’t anoint yourself with oil; and crush grapes, but won’t drink the wine.

¹⁶وتحفظ فرائض عمري وجميع اعمال بيت اخآب. وتسلكون بمشوراتهم لكي اسلمك للخراب وسكانها للصفير فتحملون عار شعبي

¹⁶For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and her inhabitants a hissing; And you will bear the reproach of my people.”