1 "Put the trumpet to your lips!
Something like an eagle is over Yahweh’s house,
because they have broken my covenant
and rebelled against my law.
2 They cry to me, ‘My God, we, Israel, acknowledge you!’
3 Israel has cast off that which is good.
The enemy will pursue him.
4 They have set up kings, but not by me.
They have made princes, and I didn’t approve.
Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols,
that they may be cut off.
5 Let Samaria throw out his calf idol!
My anger burns against them!
How long will it be until they are capable of purity?
6 For this is even from Israel!
The workman made it, and it is no God;
indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
7 For they sow the wind,
and they will reap the whirlwind.
He has no standing grain.
The stalk will yield no head.
If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.
8 Israel is swallowed up.
Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.
9 For they have gone up to Assyria,
like a wild donkey wandering alone.
Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.
10 But although they sold themselves among the nations,
I will now gather them;
and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mighty ones.
11 Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning,
they became for him altars for sinning.
12 I wrote for him the many things of my law,
but they were regarded as a strange thing.
13 As for the sacrifices of my offerings,
they sacrifice meat and eat it,
but Yahweh doesn’t accept them.
Now he will remember their iniquity,
and punish their sins.
They will return to Egypt.
14 For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces;
and Judah has multiplied fortified cities;
but I will send a fire on his cities,
and it will devour its fortresses."
1 Die basuin aan jou mond! Soos 'n arend skiet dit neer op die huis van die HERE! Omdat hulle my verbond oortree het en teen my wet gesondig het.
2 My roep hulle toe: My God, ons, Israel, ken U.
3 Israel het die goeie verwerp -- die vyand sal hom agtervolg!
4 Hulle het konings aangestel, maar nie uit My nie; hulle het vorste gekies, maar sonder my wete; van hul silwer en goud het hulle vir hul afgode gemaak tot hulle verderf.
5 Jou kalf, o Samar¡a, is afskuwelik; my toorn is teen hulle ontvlam. Hoe lank sal hulle tot reinheid onbekwaam wees?
6 Want dit is ook uit Israel: 'n smid het dit gemaak, en dit is geen god nie; maar tot splinters sal dit word -- die kalf van Samar¡a.
7 Want hulle saai wind, maar hulle sal storm maai; dit het geen halm nie; wat uitspruit, lewer geen meel op nie; selfs as dit iets oplewer, sou vreemdelinge dit verslind.
8 Israel is verslind; alreeds is hulle onder die volke soos iets wat waardeloos is.
9 Want hulle het opgetrek na Assur -- 'n wilde-esel wat eiesinnig rondloop, is Efraim! -- hulle het onwettige bondgenootskappe gewerf.
10 Ook al werf hulle onder die volke, Ek sal hulle nou saamraap, en hulle sal begin minder word weens die laste deur die koning van die vorste opgelê.
11 Want Efraim het die altare vermenigvuldig om te sondig -- die altare het vir hom tot sonde geword.
12 Ek het hom tien duisende leringe van my wet voorgeskrywe, maar dit word as iets vreemds geag.
13 Slagoffers, My aangebied, offer hulle -- vleis is dit, en hulle eet; die HERE het geen behae daarin nie. Nou sal Hy aan hulle ongeregtigheid dink en oor hulle sondes besoeking doen; hulle sal teruggaan na Egipte.
14 Omdat Israel sy Maker vergeet en paleise gebou het, en Juda 'n menigte versterkte stede, daarom sal Ek 'n vuur in sy stede slinger wat sy paleise sal verteer.