Hoşea 12

¹Efraim beni yalanla, İsrail ve Yahuda evi ise tanrısızlıkla kuşattı; şimdi Tanrı onları bildi ve onlar Tanrı'nın kutsal halkı olarak adlandırılacaktır.

²Efraim ise kötü bir rüzgarın peşine düştü, bütün gün yakıcı doğu rüzgarını kovaladı; boş ve yararsız şeyleri çoğalttı, Asurlularla antlaşma yaptı ve Mısır'a zeytinyağı ticareti yapıyordu.

³Yakup'u cezalandırmak için Rab'bin Yahuda ile davası var; onun yollarına ve yaptıklarına göre ona karşılığını verecektir.

⁴Ana rahmindeyken kardeşinin topuğunu tuttu ve kendi çabalarıyla Tanrı'ya karşı güç gösterdi.

⁵Bir melekle mücadele edip üstün geldi; ağladılar ve benden merhamet dilediler; beni On evinde buldular ve orada onlarla konuşuldu.

⁶Her şeye egemen olan Rab Tanrı, O'nun anısı olacaktır.

⁷Sen de Tanrın sayesinde döneceksin; merhameti ve adaleti gözet, her zaman Tanrın'a yaklaş.

⁸Kenan'ın elinde hileli terazi var, ezmeyi ve hükmetmeyi sevdi.

⁹Efraim, "Yine de zenginleştim, kendime rahatlık buldum" dedi; işlediği haksızlıklar yüzünden, çektiği emeklerin hiçbiri kendisi için yeterli olmayacaktır.

¹⁰Ama seni Mısır toprağından çıkaran Tanrın Rab benim; bayram gününde olduğu gibi seni yine çadırlarda yaşatacağım.

¹¹Peygamberlere konuşacağım, görümleri çoğaltacağım ve peygamberlerin elleriyle benzetmeler sunacağım.

¹²Eğer Gilead yoksa, demek ki Gilgal'da kurban sunan önderler yalancıydılar; onların sunakları da tarlanın kuru toprağı üzerindeki kaplumbağalar gibidir.

¹³Yakup Suriye ovasına kaçtı, İsrail bir kadın için kölelik yaptı ve bir kadın için sürü güdüp korudu.

¹⁴Rab bir peygamber aracılığıyla İsrail'i Mısır toprağından çıkardı ve bir peygamber aracılığıyla korunup kollandı.

¹⁵Efraim öfkelendi ve O'nu gazaba getirdi; bu yüzden onun kanı kendi üzerine dökülecektir ve uğradığı hakareti Rab ona ödetecektir.

¹ΕΚΥΚΛΩΣΕ με ἐν ψεύδει ᾿Εφραὶμ καὶ ἐν ἀσεβείας οἶκος ᾿Ισραὴλ καὶ ᾿Ιούδα. νῦν ἔγνω αὐτοὺς ὁ Θεός, καὶ λαὸς ἅγιος κεκλήσεται Θεοῦ.

²ὁ δὲ ᾿Εφραὶμ πονηρὸν πνεῦμα ἐδίωξε, καύσωνα ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν· κενὰ καὶ μάταια ἐπλήθυνε καὶ διαθήκην μετὰ ᾿Ασσυρίων διέθετο, καὶ ἔλαιον εἰς Αἴγυπτον ἐνεπορεύετο.

³καὶ κρίσις τῷ Κυρίῳ πρὸς ᾿Ιούδαν τοῦ ἐκδικῆσαι τὸν ᾿Ιακώβ· κατὰ τὰς ὁδοὺς αὐτοῦ καὶ κατὰ τὰ ἐπιτηδεύματα αὐτοῦ ἀποδώσει αὐτῷ.

⁴ἐν τῇ κοιλίᾳ ἐπτέρνισε τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐν κόποις αὐτοῦ ἐνίσχυσε πρὸς Θεὸν

⁵καὶ ἐνίσχυσε μετὰ ἀγγέλου, καὶ ἠδυνάσθη. ἔκλαυσαν καὶ ἐδεήθησάν μου, ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ ῏Ων εὕροσάν με, καὶ ἐκεῖ ἐλαλήθη πρὸς αὐτούς.

⁶ὁ δὲ Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς ὁ παντοκράτωρ ἔσται μνημόσυνον αὐτοῦ.

⁷καὶ σὺ ἐν Θεῷ σου ἐπιστρέψεις· ἔλεον καὶ κρίμα φυλάσσου καὶ ἔγγιζε πρὸς τὸν Θεόν σου διαπαντός. -

⁸Χαναὰν ἐν χειρὶ αὐτοῦ ζυγὸς ἀδικίας, καταδυναστεύειν ἠγάπησε.

⁹καὶ εἶπε ᾿Εφραίμ· πλὴν πεπλούτηκα, εὕρηκα ἀναψυχὴν ἐμαυτῷ. πάντες οἱ πόνοι αὐτοῦ οὐχ εὑρεθήσονται αὐτῷ, δι᾿ ἀδικίας ἃς ἥμαρτεν.

¹⁰ἐγὼ δὲ Κύριος ὁ Θεός σου ἀνήγαγόν σε ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου, ἔτι κατοικιῶ σε ἐν σκηναῖς καθὼς ἡμέρᾳ ἑορτῆς.

¹¹καὶ λαλήσω πρὸς προφήτας, καὶ ἐγὼ ὁράσεις ἐπλήθυνα καὶ ἐν χερσὶ προφητῶν ὡμοιώθην.

¹²εἰ μὴ Γαλαὰδ ἐστιν, ἄρα ψευδεῖς ἦσαν ἐν Γαλγὰλ ἄρχοντες θυσιάζοντες, καὶ τὰ θυσιαστήρια αὐτῶν ὡς χελῶναι ἐπὶ χέρσον ἀγροῦ.

¹³καὶ ἀνεχώρησεν ᾿Ιακὼβ εἰς πεδίον Συρίας, καὶ ἐδούλευσεν ᾿Ισραὴλ ἐν γυναικὶ καὶ ἐν γυναικὶ ἐφυλάξατο.

¹⁴καὶ ἐν προφήτῃ ἀνήγαγε Κύριος τὸν ᾿Ισραὴλ ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου, καὶ ἐν προφήτῃ διεφυλάχθη.

¹⁵ἐθύμωσεν ᾿Εφραὶμ καὶ παρώργισε, καὶ τὸ αἷμα αὐτοῦ ἐπ᾿ αὐτὸν ἐκχυθήσεται, καὶ τὸν ὀνειδισμὸν αὐτοῦ ἀνταποδώσει αὐτῷ Κύριος.

¹Ephraim has compassed me with falsehood, and the house of Israel and Juda with ungodliness: [but] now God knows them, and they shall be called God’s holy people.

²But Ephraim is an evil spirit, he has chased the east wind all the day: he has multiplied empty and vain things, and made a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil has gone in the way of traffic into Egypt.

³And the Lord [has] a controversy with Juda, in order to punish Jacob: according to his ways and according to his practices will he recompense him.

⁴He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and in his labours he had power with God.

⁵And he prevailed with the angel and was strong: they wept, and intreated me: they found me in the house of On, and there [a word] was spoken to them.

⁶But the Lord God Almighty shall be his memorial.

⁷Thou therefore shalt return to thy God: keep thou mercy and judgment, and draw nigh to thy God continually.

⁸[As for] Chanaan, in his hand is a balance of unrighteousness: he has loved to tyrannize.

⁹And Ephraim said, Nevertheless I am rich, I have found refreshment to myself. None of his labours shall be found [available] to him, by reason of the sins which he has committed.

¹⁰But I the Lord thy God brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: I will yet cause thee to dwell in tabernacles, according to the days of the feast.

¹¹And I will speak to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and by the means of the prophets I was represented.

¹²If Galaad exists not, then the chiefs in Galaad when they sacrificed were false, and their altars were as heaps on the ground of the field.

¹³And Jacob retreated into the plain of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and waited for a wife.

¹⁴And the Lord brought Israel out of the land of Egypt by a prophet, and by a prophet was he preserved.

¹⁵Ephraim was angry and excited, therefore his blood shall be poured out upon him, and the Lord shall recompense to him his reproach.