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Hosea
1Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.2After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.3Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.4O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.5Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.6For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.7But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.8Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.9And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.10I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.11Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.
1هَلُمَّ نَرْجِعُ إِلَى الرَّبِّ لأَنَّهُ هُوَ افْتَرَسَ فَيَشْفِينَا، ضَرَبَ فَيَجْبِرُنَا.2يُحْيِينَا بَعْدَ يَوْمَيْنِ. فِي الْيَوْمِ الثَّالِثِ يُقِيمُنَا فَنَحْيَا أَمَامَهُ.3لِنَعْرِفْ فَلْنَتَتَبَّعْ لِنَعْرِفَ الرَّبَّ. خُرُوجُهُ يَقِينٌ كَالْفَجْرِ. يَأْتِي إِلَيْنَا كَالْمَطَرِ. كَمَطَرٍ مُتَأَخِّرٍ يَسْقِي الأَرْضَ.4مَاذَا أَصْنَعُ بِكَ يَا أَفْرَايِمُ. مَاذَا أَصْنَعُ بِكَ يَا يَهُوذَا. فَإِنَّ إِحْسَانَكُمْ كَسَحَابِ الصُّبْحِ، وَكَالنَّدَى الْمَاضِي بَاكِراً.5لِذَلِكَ أَقْرِضُهُمْ بِالأَنْبِيَاءِ أَقْتُلُهُمْ بِأَقْوَالِ فَمِي. وَالْقَضَاءُ عَلَيْكَ كَنُورٍ قَدْ خَرَجَ.6إِنِّي أُرِيدُ رَحْمَةً لاَ ذَبِيحَةً، وَمَعْرِفَةَ اللَّهِ أَكْثَرَ مِنْ مُحْرَقَاتٍ.7وَلَكِنَّهُمْ كَآدَمَ تَعَدَّوُا الْعَهْدَ. هُنَاكَ غَدَرُوا بِي.8جِلْعَادُ قَرْيَةُ فَاعِلِي الإِثْمِ مَدُوسَةٌ بِالدَّمِ.9وَكَمَا يُكْمِنُ لُصُوصٌ لإِنْسَانٍ، كَذَلِكَ زُمْرَةُ الْكَهَنَةِ فِي الطَّرِيقِ يَقْتُلُونَ نَحْوَ شَكِيمَ. إِنَّهُمْ قَدْ صَنَعُوا فَاحِشَةً.10فِي بَيْتِ إِسْرَائِيلَ رَأَيْتُ أَمْراً فَظِيعاً. هُنَاكَ زَنَى أَفْرَايِمُ. تَنَجَّسَ إِسْرَائِيلُ.11وَأَنْتَ أَيْضاً يَا يَهُوذَا قَدْ أُعِدَّ لَكَ حَصَادٌ، عِنْدَمَا أَرُدُّ سَبْيَ شَعْبِي.