Prophetia Osee, 11

1. Cum puer esset Israel, dilexi eum et ex Aegypto vocavi filium meum.

1. When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.

2. Quanto magis vocabam eos, tanto recesserunt a facie mea; ipsi Baalim immolabant et simulacris sacrificabant.

2. The more I called them, the more they went from me; they kept sacrificing to the Ba'als, and burning incense to idols.

3. Et ego dirigebam gressus Ephraim, portabam eos in brachiis meis, et nescierunt quod curarem eos.

3. Yet it was I who taught E'phraim to walk, I took them up in my arms; but they did not know that I healed them.

4. In funiculis humanitatis trahebam eos, in vinculis caritatis; et fui eis, quasi qui elevant infantem ad maxillas suas, et declinavi ad eum, ut vesceretur.

4. I led them with cords of compassion, with the bands of love, and I became to them as one, who eases the yoke on their jaws, and I bent down to them and fed them.

5. Revertetur in terram Aegypti, et Assur ipse rex eius, quoniam noluerunt converti.

5. They shall return to the land of Egypt, and Assyria shall be their king, because they have refused to return to me.

6. Saeviet gladius in civitatibus eius et consumet garrulos eius et comedet eos propter consilia eorum.

6. The sword shall rage against their cities, consume the bars of their gates, and devour them in their fortresses.

7. Populus meus pendet ad praevaricandum contra me; vocant eum ad altum, sed simul non erigunt eum.

7. My people are bent on turning away from me; so they are appointed to the yoke, and none shall remove it.

8. Quomodo dabo te, Ephraim, tradam te, Israel? Quomodo dabo te sicut Adama, ponam te ut Seboim? Convertitur in me cor meum, simul exardescit miseratio mea.

8. How can I give you up, O E'phraim! How can I hand you over, O Israel! How can I make you like Admah! How can I treat you like Zeboi'im! My heart recoils within me, my compassion grows warm and tender.

9. Non faciam furorem irae meae, non convertar, ut disperdam Ephraim, quoniam Deus ego et non homo, in medio tui Sanctus et non veniam in terrore.

9. I will not execute my fierce anger, I will not again destroy E'phraim; for I am God and not man, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come to destroy.

10. Post Dominum ambulabunt; quasi leo rugiet, quia ipse rugiet, et in tremore accurrent filii ab occidente.

10. They shall go after the LORD, he will roar like a lion; yea, he will roar, and his sons shall come trembling from the west;

11. Et avolabunt quasi avis ex Aegypto et quasi columba de terra Assyriae; et collocabo eos in domibus suis, dicit Dominus.

11. they shall come trembling like birds from Egypt, and like doves from the land of Assyria; and I will return them to their homes, says the LORD.

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12. E'phraim has encompassed me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit; but Judah is still known by God, and is faithful to the Holy One.