Hoşea 7

¹Ve Efraim’in haksızlığı ile Samiriye’nin kötülüğü açığa çıkarılacak, çünkü yalan dolanla iş gördüler; hırsız içeri sızacak ve yol kesen haydut yolda insanları soyup çıplak bırakacak.

²Yürekleriyle şarkı söyleyenler gibi kötülükte uyum sağlasınlar diye bir araya geldiler; onların bütün kötülüklerini hatırladım, şimdi kendi entrikaları çevrelerini sardı ve gözlerimin önüne serildi.

³Kötülükleriyle kralları ve yalanlarıyla önderleri neşelendirdiler.

⁴Hepsi zina edendir; hamurun yoğrulmasından mayalanmasına kadar, alevin sıcaklığıyla pişirmek için kızdırılmış bir fırın gibidirler.

⁵Krallarınızın günlerinde önderler şaraptan ötürü öfkelenmeye başladılar; o da elini bozguncularla birlikte uzattı.

⁶Çünkü onları yıkıma sürüklerken yürekleri bir fırın gibi tutuştu; Efraim’in günahla doyduğu bütün gece boyunca beklediler, sabah olunca ise bir ateşin parıltısı gibi yandılar.

⁷Hepsi bir fırın gibi kızıştı ve kendi yargıçlarını yiyip bitirdi; bütün kralları düştü, aralarında bana yakaran tek bir kişi bile yoktu.

⁸Efraim kendi halklarının arasında karışıp gitti; Efraim, pişerken tersyüz edilmemiş bir kül pidesi gibi oldu.

⁹Yabancılar onun gücünü yiyip bitirdi ama o bunun farkına varmadı; saçlarına aklar düştü ama o yine de farkına varmadı.

¹⁰İsrail’in kibri kendi yüzünün önünde alçaltılacak; yine de Tanrıları Rab’be dönmediler ve bütün bunlara rağmen O’nu aramadılar.

¹¹Efraim, aklı ve iradesi olmayan saf bir güvercin gibi oldu; Mısır’ı yardıma çağırdılar ve Asurlulara gittiler.

¹²Gittikleri her yerde üzerlerine ağımı atacağım; onları gökteki kuşlar gibi aşağı indireceğim, başlarına gelecek sıkıntının haberiyle onları terbiye edeceğim.

¹³Vay onlara, çünkü benden uzaklaştılar; zavallıdırlar, çünkü bana karşı isyan ettiler; ben onları kurtardım, onlarsa bana karşı yalanlar uydurdular.

¹⁴Yürekten bana feryat etmediler, aksine yataklarında uludular; buğday ve şarap uğruna pagan ritüelleriyle bedenlerini kesip parçaladılar.

¹⁵Benim tarafımdan eğitildiler, kollarını güçlendirdim; ama onlar bana karşı kötülük tasarladılar.

¹⁶Hiçliğe döndüler, gerilmiş gevşek bir yay gibi oldular; dillerinin terbiyesizliği yüzünden önderleri kılıçla düşecek; Mısır toprağında onlarla böyle alay edilecek.

¹ΚΑΙ ἀποκαλυφθήσεται ἡ ἀδικία ᾿Εφραὶμ καὶ ἡ κακία Σαμαρείας, ὅτι εἰργάσαντο ψευδῆ· καὶ κλέπτης πρὸς αὐτὸν εἰσελεύσεται, ἐκδιδύσκων λῃστὴς ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ αὐτοῦ,

²ὅπως συνᾴδωσιν ὡς ᾄδοντες τῇ καρδίᾳ αὐτῶν. πάσας τὰς κακίας αὐτῶν ἐμνήσθην· νῦν ἐκύκλωσαν αὐτοὺς τὰ διαβούλια αὐτῶν, ἀπέναντι τοῦ προσώπου μου ἐγένοντο.

³ἐν ταῖς κακίαις αὐτῶν εὔφραναν βασιλεῖς καὶ ἐν τοῖς ψεύδεσιν αὐτῶν ἄρχοντας·

⁴πάντες μοιχεύοντες, ὡς κλίβανος καιόμενος εἰς πέψιν κατακαύματος ἀπὸ τῆς φλογός, ἀπὸ φυράσεως στέατος ἕως τοῦ ζυμωθῆναι αὐτό.

⁵αἱ ἡμέραι τῶν βασιλέων ὑμῶν, ἤρξαντο οἱ ἄρχοντες θυμοῦσθαι ἐξ οἴνου, ἐξέτεινε τὴν χεῖρα αὐτοῦ μετὰ λοιμῶν·

⁶διότι ἀνεκαύθησαν ὡς κλίβανος αἱ καρδίαι αὐτῶν, ἐν τῷ καταράσσειν αὐτούς, ὅλην τὴν νύκτα ὅπου ᾿Εφραὶμ ἐνεπλήσθη, πρωΐ ἐγενήθη, ἀνεκαύθη ὡς πυρὸς φέγγος.

⁷πάντες ἐθερμάνθησαν ὡς κλίβανος καὶ κατέφαγον τοὺς κριτὰς αὐτῶν· πάντες οἱ βασιλεῖς αὐτῶν ἔπεσαν, οὐκ ἦν ἐν αὐτοῖς ὁ ἐπικαλούμενος πρός με. -

⁸᾿Εφραὶμ ἐν τοῖς λαοῖς αὐτοῦ συνεμίγνυτο, ᾿Εφραὶμ ἐγένετο ἐγκρυφίας οὐ μεταστρεφόμενος.

⁹κατέφαγον ἀλλότριοι τὴν ἰσχὺν αὐτοῦ, αὐτὸς δὲ οὐκ ἔγνω· καὶ πολιαὶ ἐξήνθησαν αὐτῷ, καὶ αὐτὸς οὐκ ἔγνω.

¹⁰καὶ ταπεινωθήσεται ἡ ὕβρις ᾿Ισραὴλ εἰς πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ, καὶ οὐκ ἐπέστρεψαν πρὸς Κύριον τὸν Θεὸν αὐτῶν καὶ οὐκ ἐξεζήτησαν αὐτὸν ἐν πᾶσι τούτοις.

¹¹καὶ ἦν ᾿Εφραὶμ ὡς περιστερὰ ἄνους οὐχ ἔχουσα καρδίαν· Αἴγυπτον ἐπεκαλεῖτο καὶ εἰς ᾿Ασσυρίους ἐπορεύθησαν.

¹²καθὼς ἂν πορεύωνται, ἐπιβαλῶ ἐπ᾿ αὐτοὺς τὸ δίκτυόν μου· καθὼς τὰ πετεινὰ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ κατάξω αὐτούς, παιδεύσω αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ ἀκοῇ τῆς θλίψεως αὐτῶν.

¹³οὐαὶ αὐτοῖς, ὅτι ἀπεπήδησαν ἀπ᾿ ἐμοῦ· δείλαιοί εἰσιν, ὅτι ἠσέβησαν εἰς ἐμέ· ἐγὼ δὲ ἐλυτρωσάμην αὐτούς, αὐτοὶ δὲ κατελάλησαν κατ᾿ ἐμοῦ ψευδῆ.

¹⁴καὶ οὐκ ἐβόησαν πρός με αἱ καρδίαι αὐτῶν, ἀλλ᾿ ἢ ὠλόλυζον ἐν ταῖς κοίταις αὐτῶν· ἐπὶ σίτῳ καὶ οἴνῳ κατετέμνοντο.

¹⁵ἐπαιδεύθησαν ἐν ἐμοί, κἀγὼ κατίσχυσα τοὺς βραχίονας αὐτῶν, καὶ εἰς ἐμὲ ἐλογίσαντο πονηρά.

¹⁶ἀπεστράφησαν εἰς οὐδέν, ἐγένοντο ὡς τόξον ἐντεταμένον· πεσοῦνται ἐν ῥομφαίᾳ οἱ ἄρχοντες αὐτῶν δι᾿ ἀπαιδευσίαν γλώσσης αὐτῶν· οὗτος ὁ φαυλισμὸς αὐτῶν ἐν γῇ Αἰγύπτῳ.

¹Then shall the iniquity of Ephraim be revealed, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they have wrought falsehood: and a thief shall come in to him, [even] a robber spoiling in his way;

²that they may concert together as [men] singing in their heart: I remember all their wickedness: now have their own counsels compassed them about; they came before my face.

³They gladdened kings with their wickedness, and princes with their lies.

⁴They are all adulterers, as an oven glowing with flame for hot-baking, on account of the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.

⁵[In] the days of our kings, the princes began to be inflamed with wine: he stretched out his hand with pestilent fellows.

⁶Wherefore their hearts are inflamed as an oven, while they rage all the night: Ephraim is satisfied with sleep; the morning is come; he is burnt up as a flame of fire.

⁷They are all heated like an oven, and have devoured their judges: all their kings are fallen; there was not among them one that called on me.

⁸Ephraim is mixed among his people; Ephraim became a cake not turned.

⁹Strangers devoured his strength, and he knew [it] not; and grey hairs came upon him, and he knew [it] not.

¹⁰And the pride of Israel shall be brought down before his face: yet they have not returned to the Lord their God, neither have they diligently sought him for all this.

¹¹And Ephraim was as a silly dove, not having a heart: he called to Egypt, and they went to the Assyrians.

¹²Whenever they shall go, I will cast my net upon them; I will bring them down as the birds of the sky, I will chasten them with the rumor of their [coming] affliction.

¹³Woe to them! for they have started aside from me: they are cowards; for they have sinned against me: yet I redeemed them, but they spoke falsehoods against me.

¹⁴And their hearts did not cry to me, but they howled on their beds: they pined for oil and wine.

¹⁵They were instructed by me, and I strengthened their arms; and they devised evils against me.

¹⁶They turned aside to that which is not, they became as a bent bow: their princes shall fall by the sword, by reason of the unbridled state of their tongue: this is their setting at nought in the land of Egypt.