1 حينما كنت اشفي اسرائيل أعلن اثم افرايم وشرور السامرة فانهم قد صنعوا غشا. السارق دخل والغزاة نهبوا في الخارج.2 ولا يفتكرون في قلوبهم اني قد تذكرت كل شرهم. الآن قد احاطت بهم افعالهم. صارت امام وجهي3 بشرّهم يفرّحون الملك وبكذبهم الرؤساء.4 كلهم فاسقون كتنور محمى من الخباز. يبطّل الايقاد من وقتما يعجن العجين الى ان يختمر.5 يوم ملكنا يمرض الرؤساء من سورة الخمر. يبسط يده مع المستهزئين.6 لانهم يقربون قلوبهم في مكيدتهم كالتنور. كل الليل ينام خبازهم وفي الصباح يكون محمى كنار ملتهبة.7 كلهم حامون كالتنور واكلوا قضاتهم. جميع ملوكهم سقطوا. ليس بينهم من يدعو اليّ8 افرايم يختلط بالشعوب. افرايم صار خبز ملّة لم يقلب.9 اكل الغرباء ثروته وهو لا يعرف وقد رشّ عليه الشيب وهو لا يعرف.10 وقد أذلّت عظمة اسرائيل في وجهه وهم لا يرجعون الى الرب الههم ولا يطلبونه مع كل هذا.11 وصار افرايم كحمامة رعناء بلا قلب. يدعون مصر. يمضون الى اشور.12 عندما يمضون ابسط عليهم شبكتي. القيهم كطيور السماء. أودّبهم بحسب خبر جماعتهم13 ويل لهم لانهم هربوا عني. تبّا لهم لانهم اذنبوا اليّ. انا افديهم وهم تكلموا عليّ بكذب.14 ولا يصرخون اليّ بقلوبهم حينما يولولون على مضاجعهم. يتجمعون لاجل القمح والخمر ويرتدّون عني.15 وانا انذرتهم وشددت اذرعهم وهم يفكرون عليّ بالشر.16 يرجعون ليس الى العلي. قد صاروا كقوس مخطئة. يسقط رؤساؤهم بالسيف من اجل سخط ألسنتهم. هذا هزؤهم في ارض مصر

1 When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief comes in, and the troop of robbers spoils without.2 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.4 They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceases from raising after he has kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.5 In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleeps all the night; in the morning it burns as a flaming fire.7 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calls to me.8 Ephraim, he has mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knows it not: yes, gray hairs are here and there on him, yet he knows not.10 And the pride of Israel testifies to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.12 When they shall go, I will spread my net on them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.13 Woe to them! for they have fled from me: destruction to them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.14 And they have not cried to me with their heart, when they howled on their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.15 Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.16 They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.