| 1 «حِينَمَا كُنْتُ أَشْفِي إِسْرَائِيلَ، أُعْلِنَ إِثْمُ أَفْرَايِمَ وَشُرُورُ السَّامِرَةِ، فَإِنَّهُمْ قَدْ صَنَعُوا غِشًّا. السَّارِقُ دَخَلَ وَالْغُزَاةُ نَهَبُوا فِي الْخَارِجِ. | 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 cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without. |
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| 2 وَلاَ يَفْتَكِرُونَ فِي قُلُوبِهِمْ أَنِّي قَدْ تَذَكَّرْتُ كُلَّ شَرِّهِمْ. اَلآنَ قَدْ أَحَاطَتْ بِهِمْ أَفْعَالُهُمْ. صَارَتْ أَمَامَ وَجْهِي. | 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. |
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| 3 «بِشَرِّهِمْ يُفَرِّحُونَ الْمَلِكَ، وَبِكَذِبِهِمِ الرُّؤَسَاءَ. | 3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. |
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| 4 كُلُّهُمْ فَاسِقُونَ كَتَنُّورٍ مُحْمًى مِنَ الْخَبَّازِ. يُبَطِّلُ الإِيقَادَ مِنْ وَقْتِمَا يَعْجِنُ الْعَجِينَ إِلَى أَنْ يَخْتَمِرَ. | 4 They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened. |
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5 يَوْمُ مَلِكِنَا يَمْرَضُ الرُّؤَسَاءُ مِنْ سَوْرَةِ الْخَمْرِ. يَبْسُطُ يَدَهُ مَعَ الْمُسْتَهْزِئِينَ.  | 5 In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners. |
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| 6 لأَنَّهُمْ يُقَرِّبُونَ قُلُوبَهُمْ فِي مَكِيدَتِهِمْ كَالتَّنُّورِ. كُلَّ اللَّيْلِ يَنَامُ خَبَّازُهُمْ، وَفِي الصَّبَاحِ يَكُونُ مُحْمًى كَنَارٍ مُلْتَهِبَةٍ. | 6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire. |
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| 7 كُلُّهُمْ حَامُونَ كَالتَّنُّورِ وَأَكَلُوا قُضَاتَهُمْ. جَمِيعُ مُلُوكِهِمْ سَقَطُوا. لَيْسَ بَيْنَهُمْ مَنْ يَدْعُو إِلَيَّ. | 7 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me. |
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| 8 «أَفْرَايِمُ يَخْتَلِطُ بِالشُّعُوبِ. أَفْرَايِمُ صَارَ خُبْزَ مَلَّةٍ لَمْ يُقْلَبْ. | 8 Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned. |
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| 9 أَكَلَ الْغُرَبَاءُ ثَرْوَتَهُ وَهُوَ لاَ يَعْرِفُ، وَقَدْ رُشَّ عَلَيْهِ الشَّيْبُ وَهُوَ لاَ يَعْرِفُ. | 9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not. |
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| 10 وَقَدْ أُذِلَّتْ عَظَمَةُ إِسْرَائِيلَ فِي وَجْهِهِ، وَهُمْ لاَ يَرْجِعُونَ إِلَى الرَّبِّ إِلهِهِمْ وَلاَ يَطْلُبُونَهُ مَعَ كُلِّ هذَا. | 10 And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this. |
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| 11 وَصَارَ أَفْرَايِمُ كَحَمَامَةٍ رَعْنَاءَ بِلاَ قَلْبٍ. يَدْعُونَ مِصْرَ. يَمْضُونَ إِلَى أَشُّورَ. | 11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria. |
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| 12 عِنْدَمَا يَمْضُونَ أَبْسُطُ عَلَيْهِمْ شَبَكَتِي. أُلْقِيهِمْ كَطُيُورِ السَّمَاءِ. أُؤَدِّبُهُمْ بِحَسَبِ خَبَرِ جَمَاعَتِهِمْ. | 12 When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard. |
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| 13 «وَيْلٌ لَهُمْ لأَنَّهُمْ هَرَبُوا عَنِّي. تَبًّا لَهُمْ لأَنَّهُمْ أَذْنَبُوا إِلَيَّ. أَنَا أَفْدِيهِمْ وَهُمْ تَكَلَّمُوا عَلَيَّ بِكَذِبٍ. | 13 Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me. |
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| 14 وَلاَ يَصْرُخُونَ إِلَيَّ بِقُلُوبِهِمْ حِينَمَا يُوَلْوِلُونَ عَلَى مَضَاجِعِهِمْ. يَتَجَمَّعُونَ لأَجْلِ الْقَمْحِ وَالْخَمْرِ، وَيَرْتَدُّونَ عَنِّي. | 14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me. |
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| 15 وَأَنَا أَنْذَرْتُهُمْ وَشَدَّدْتُ أَذْرُعَهُمْ، وَهُمْ يُفَكِّرُونَ عَلَيَّ بِالشَّرِّ. | 15 Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me. |
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| 16 يَرْجِعُونَ لَيْسَ إِلَى الْعَلِيِّ. قَدْ صَارُوا كَقَوْسٍ مُخْطِئَةٍ. يَسْقُطُ رُؤَسَاؤُهُمْ بِالسَّيْفِ مِنْ أَجْلِ سَخَطِ أَلْسِنَتِهِمْ. هذَا هُزْؤُهُمْ فِي أَرْضِ مِصْرَ. | 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. |
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