Hebrew: Modern

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Hosea

8

1אל חכך שפר כנשר על בית יהוה יען עברו בריתי ועל תורתי פשעו׃
1“Put the trumpet to your lips! Something like an eagle is over Yahweh’s house, because they have broken my covenant, and rebelled against my law.
2לי יזעקו אלהי ידענוך ישראל׃
2They cry to me, ‘My God, we Israel acknowledge you!’
3זנח ישראל טוב אויב ירדפו׃
3Israel has cast off that which is good. The enemy will pursue him.
4הם המליכו ולא ממני השירו ולא ידעתי כספם וזהבם עשו להם עצבים למען יכרת׃
4They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made princes, and I didn’t approve. Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols, that they may be cut off.
5זנח עגלך שמרון חרה אפי בם עד מתי לא יוכלו נקין׃
5Let Samaria throw out his calf idol! My anger burns against them! How long will it be until they are capable of purity?
6כי מישראל והוא חרש עשהו ולא אלהים הוא כי שבבים יהיה עגל שמרון׃
6For this is even from Israel! The workman made it, and it is no God; indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
7כי רוח יזרעו וסופתה יקצרו קמה אין לו צמח בלי יעשה קמח אולי יעשה זרים יבלעהו׃
7For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.
8נבלע ישראל עתה היו בגוים ככלי אין חפץ בו׃
8Israel is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.
9כי המה עלו אשור פרא בודד לו אפרים התנו אהבים׃
9For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.
10גם כי יתנו בגוים עתה אקבצם ויחלו מעט ממשא מלך שרים׃
10But although they sold themselves among the nations, I will now gather them; and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mighty ones.
11כי הרבה אפרים מזבחת לחטא היו לו מזבחות לחטא׃
11Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they became for him altars for sinning.
12אכתוב לו רבו תורתי כמו זר נחשבו׃
12I wrote for him the many things of my law; but they were regarded as a strange thing.
13זבחי הבהבי יזבחו בשר ויאכלו יהוה לא רצם עתה יזכר עונם ויפקד חטאותם המה מצרים ישובו׃
13As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it; But Yahweh doesn’t accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins. They will return to Egypt.
14וישכח ישראל את עשהו ויבן היכלות ויהודה הרבה ערים בצרות ושלחתי אש בעריו ואכלה ארמנתיה׃
14For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire on his cities, and it will devour its fortresses.”