Bilingual reading

When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, but when he became guilty through Baal, he died.

Now they sin more and more, and have made themselves molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, ‘They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves.’

Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the dew that passes away early, like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and like the smoke out of the chimney.

“Yet I am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt; and you shall acknowledge no god but me, and besides me there is no savior.

I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.

Therefore I am like a lion to them. Like a leopard, I will lurk by the path.

I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the covering of their heart. There I will devour them like a lioness. The wild animal will tear them.

You are destroyed, Israel, because you are against me, against your helper.

Where is your king now, that he may save you in all your cities? And your judges, of whom you said, ‘Give me a king and princes’?

I have given you a king in my anger, and have taken him away in my wrath.

The guilt of Ephraim is stored up. His sin is stored up.

The sorrows of a travailing woman will come on him. He is an unwise son, for when it is time, he doesn’t come to the opening of the womb.

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? “Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.

Though he is fruitful among his brothers, an east wind will come, the breath of the LORD coming up from the wilderness; and his spring will become dry, and his fountain will be dried up. He will plunder the storehouse of treasure.

Samaria will bear her guilt, for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.”

حينَ تَكَلَّمَ أَفْرائيمُ أَلْقى الرُّعْب كانَ رَفيعَ الشَّأنِ في إِسْرائيل فأَثِمَ بِالبَعلِ ومات

والآنَ لا يَزالونَ يَخطَأُون ويَصنَعونَ لَهم صُوَرًا مَسْبوكة وبفِضَّتِهم على قَدْرِ حِذقِهم يَصنَعونَ أَصْنامًا كُلُّها أَعمالُ صُنَّاع وفي شأنِهم يُقال: رِجالٌ ذابِحونَ يُقَبِّلونَ عُجولًا

لِذٰلِك يَكونونَ كغَمامِ الصَّباح وكالنَّدى الَّذي يَزولُ باكِرًا وكالعُصافَةِ المَخْطوفَةِ مِنَ البَيدر وكالدُّخانِ مِنَ النَّافِذَة

لٰكِنِّي أَنا الرَّبُّ إِلٰهُكَ مِن أَرضِ مِصْر فلَستَ تَعرِفُ إِلٰهًا غَيري وما مِن مُخَلِّصٍ سِوايَ

إِنِّي عَرَفتُكَ في البَرِّيَّةِ في أَرضِ الظَّماء

عِندَ مَرْعاهم شَبِعوا وشَبِعوا فطَمَحَت قُلوبُهم ولِذٰلك نَسوني

فكُنتُ لَهم كالأَسَد وكالنَّمِرِ أَتَرَصَّدُهم على الطَّريق

هَجَمتُ علَيهم كالدُّبَّةِ الثَّاكِل ومَزَّقتُ حُجُبَ قُلوبِهم وٱلتَهَمتُهم هُناكَ كاللَّبُؤَة فمَزَّقَهم وَحشُ البَرِّيَّة

هَلَكتَ يا إِسْرائيل ولا عَونَ لَكَ إِلَّا فِيَّ

أَينَ مَلِكُكَ لِيُخَلِّصَكَ في جَميعِ مُدُنِكَ؟ أَينَ قُضاتُكَ الَّذينَ قُلتَ فيهم: «أَعطِني مَلِكًا ورُؤَساءَ؟»

أَعطَيتُكَ مَلِكًا في غَضَبي وأَستَرِدُّه في حَنَقي

ذَنْبُ أَفْرائيمَ مَصْرورٌ وخَطيئَتُه مُدَّخَرة

مَخاضُ الَّتي تَلِدُ يَحِلُّ بِه لٰكِنَّه ٱبنٌ غَيرُ حَكيم حانَ وَقتُه فلا يَخرُجُ مِن فُتحَةِ الرَّحِم

أَفأَفتَديهم مِن يَدِ مَثْوى الأَموات وأَفُكُّهم مِنَ المَوت؟ أَينَ أَوبِئَتُكَ أَيُّها المَوت وأَينَ آفَتُكَ يا مَثْوى الأَموات؟ إِنَّ الشَّفَقَةَ تَتَوارى عن عَينَيَّ

وإِن أَثمَرَ أَفْرائيمُ بَينَ إِخوَتِه تَأتي ريحُ الشَّرق تَطلَعُ ريحُ الرَّبِّ مِنَ البَرِّيَّة فيَجِفُّ يَنْبوعُه ويَنضُبُ مَعينُه وتَنهَبُ الرِّيحُ كَنزَ كُلِّ شَيءٍ ثَمين