Hoşea 8

¹Onların koynuna toprak gibi, Rab'bin evinin üzerine bir kartal gibi geliyor; çünkü antlaşmamı çiğnediler ve yasama karşı saygısızlık ettiler.

²Bana şöyle feryat edecekler: "Tanrı, seni tanıyoruz!"

³Çünkü İsrail iyi olanı reddetti, düşmanın peşine düştüler.

⁴Kendilerine krallar atadılar ama benim aracılığımla değil; önderler seçtiler ama bana bildirmediler. Yok edilsinler diye gümüşlerinden ve altınlarından kendilerine putlar yaptılar.

⁵Dananı reddet ey Samiriye! Öfkem onlara karşı alevlendi; İsrail'de arınmaya daha ne kadar güç yetiremeyecekler?

⁶Onu da bir usta yaptı, o bir tanrı değildir; çünkü senin danan ey Samiriye, sadece bir saptırıcıydı.

⁷Çünkü rüzgardan kurumuş ekin ektiler ve yıkım onları teslim alacak; un vermeye gücü olmayan bir başaktır bu; un verse bile yabancılar onu yiyip bitirecek.

⁸İsrail yutuldu; şimdi uluslar arasında yararsız bir kap gibi oldular.

⁹Çünkü kendileri Asurlulara gittiler; Efraim kendi başına yeşerdi, rüşvetleri sevdiler.

¹⁰Bu yüzden ulusların eline teslim edilecekler; şimdi onları bir araya toplayacağım ve kral ile önderleri meshetmekten bir süre için vazgeçecekler.

¹¹Efraim sunakları çoğalttığı için, o sevgili sunaklar onun için günaha dönüştü.

¹²Onun için yasalarımı ve kurallarımı çokça yazacağım, ancak o sevgili sunaklar yabancı bir şeymiş gibi sayıldı.

¹³Kurban sunup etini yeseler bile, Rab bunları kabul etmeyecektir; şimdi onların haksızlıklarını anacak ve günahlarını cezalandıracaktır. Kendileri Mısır'a döndüler ve Asurlular arasında kirli şeyler yiyecekler.

¹⁴İsrail kendini Yaratan'ı unuttu ve tapınaklar inşa etti; Yahuda da surlu kentlerini çoğalttı. Ama ben onun kentlerine ateş göndereceğim ve o ateş kentlerin temellerini yiyip bitirecek.

¹ΕΙΣ κόλπον αὐτῶν ὡς γῆ, ὡς ἀετὸς ἐπὶ οἶκον Κυρίου, ἀνθ᾿ ὧν παρέβησαν τὴν διαθήκην μου καὶ κατὰ τοῦ νόμου μου ἠσέβησαν.

²ἐμὲ κεκράξονται· ὁ Θεός, ἐγνώκαμέν σε.

³ὅτι ᾿Ισραὴλ ἀπεστρέψατο ἀγαθά, ἐχθρὸν κατεδίωξαν.

⁴ἑαυτοῖς ἐβασίλευσαν καὶ οὐ δι᾿ ἐμοῦ· ἦρξαν καὶ οὐκ ἐγνώρισάν μοι· τὸ ἀργύριον αὐτῶν καὶ τὸ χρυσίον αὐτῶν ἐποίησαν ἑαυτοῖς εἴδωλα, ὅπως ἐξολοθρευθῶσιν.

⁵ἀπότριψαι τὸν μόσχον σου, Σαμάρεια· παρωξύνθη ὁ θυμός μου ἐπ᾿ αὐτούς· ἕως τίνος οὐ μὴ δύνωνται καθαρισθῆναι ἐν τῷ ᾿Ισραήλ;

⁶καὶ αὐτὸ τέκτων ἐποίησε, καὶ οὐ θεός ἐστι· διότι πλανῶν ἦν ὁ μόσχος σου, Σαμάρεια.

⁷ὅτι ἀνεμόφθορα ἔσπειραν, καὶ ἡ καταστροφὴ αὐτῶν ἐκδέξεται αὐτά· δράγμα οὐκ ἔχον ἰσχὺν τοῦ ποιῆσαι ἄλευρον· ἐὰν δὲ καὶ ποιήσῃ, ἀλλότριοι καταφάγονται αὐτό.

⁸κατεπόθη ᾿Ισραήλ, νῦν ἐγένετο ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν ὡς σκεῦος ἄχρηστον,

⁹ὅτι αὐτοὶ ἀνέβησαν εἰς ᾿Ασσυρίους· ἀνέθαλε καθ᾿ ἑαυτὸν ᾿Εφραίμ, δῶρα ἠγάπησαν·

¹⁰διὰ τοῦτο παραδοθήσονται ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσι. νῦν εἰσδέξομαι αὐτούς, καὶ κοπάσουσι μικρὸν τοῦ χρίειν βασιλέα καὶ ἄρχοντας.

¹¹ὅτι ἐπλήθυνεν ᾿Εφραὶμ θυσιαστήρια, εἰς ἁμαρτίας ἐγένοντο αὐτῷ θυσιαστήρια ἠγαπημένα.

¹²καταγράψω αὐτῷ πλῆθος καὶ τὰ νόμιμα αὐτοῦ, εἰς ἀλλότρια ἐλογίσθησαν θυσιαστήρια τὰ ἠγαπημένα.

¹³διότι ἐὰν θύσωσι θυσίαν καὶ φάγωσι κρέα, Κύριος οὐ προσδέξεται αὐτά· νῦν μνησθήσεται τὰς ἀδικίας αὐτῶν καὶ ἐκδικήσει τὰς ἁμαρτίας αὐτῶν. αὐτοὶ εἰς Αἴγυπτον ἀπέστρεψαν καὶ ἐν ᾿Ασσυρίοις ἀκάθαρτα φάγονται.

¹⁴καὶ ἐπελάθετο ᾿Ισραὴλ τοῦ ποιήσαντος αὐτὸν καὶ ᾠκοδόμησαν τεμένη, καὶ ᾿Ιούδας ἐπλήθυνε πόλεις τετειχισμένας· καὶ ἐξαποστελῶ πῦρ εἰς τὰς πόλεις αὐτοῦ, καὶ καταφάγεται τὰ θεμέλια αὐτῶν.

¹[He shall come] into their midst as the land, as an eagle against the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed my covenant, and have sinned against my law.

²They shall soon cry out to me, [saying], O God, we know thee.

³For Israel has turned away from good things; they have pursued an enemy.

⁴They have made kings for themselves, but not by me: they have ruled, but they did not make it known to me: [of] their silver and their gold they have made images to themselves, that they might be destroyed.

⁵Cast off thy calf, O Samaria; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will they be unable to purge themselves in Israel?

⁶Whereas the workman made it, and it is not God; wherefore thy calf, Samaria, was a deceiver:

⁷for they sowed blighted [seed], and their destruction shall await them, a sheaf of corn that avails not to make meal; and even if it should produce it, strangers shall devour it.

⁸Israel is swallowed up: now is he become among the nations as a worthless vessel.

⁹For they have gone up to the Assyrians: Ephraim has been strengthened against himself; they loved gifts.

¹⁰Therefore shall they be delivered to the nations: now I will receive them, and they shall cease a little to anoint a king and princes.

¹¹Because Ephraim has multiplied altars, [his] beloved altars are become sins to him.

¹²I will write down a multitude [of commands] for him; but his statutes are accounted strange things, [even] the beloved altars.

¹³For if they should offer a sacrifice, and eat flesh, the Lord will not accept them: now will he remember their iniquities, and will take vengeance on their sins: they have returned to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things among the Assyrians.

¹⁴And Israel has forgotten him that made him, and they have built fanes, and Juda has multiplied walled cities: but I will send fire on his cities, and it shall devour their foundations.