Prophetia Osee, 13
1. Loquente Ephraim, horror factus est; dux erat in Israel. Et deliquit in Baal et mortuus est.
1. When E'phraim spoke, men trembled; he was exalted in Israel; but he incurred guilt through Ba'al and died.
2. Et nunc addunt ad peccandum faciuntque sibi conflatile de argento suo, secundum intellegentiam suam simulacra; factura artificum totum est. “His — ipsi dicunt — immolate!”. Homines vitulos osculantur.
2. And now they sin more and more, and make for themselves molten images, idols skilfully made of their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. Sacrifice to these, they say. Men kiss calves!
3. Idcirco erunt quasi nubes matutina et sicut ros matutinus praeteriens, sicut palea turbine rapta ex area et sicut fumus de fumario.
3. Therefore they shall be like the morning mist or like the dew that goes early away, like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor or like smoke from a window.
4. “Ego autem Dominus, Deus tuus ex terra Aegypti; et Deum absque me nescies, et salvator non est praeter me.
4. I am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior.
5. Ego pavi te in deserto, in terra ardenti solitudinis.
5. It was I who knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought;
6. Iuxta pascua sua saturati sunt et saturati elevaverunt cor suum, propterea obliti sunt mei.
6. but when they had fed to the full, they were filled, and their heart was lifted up; therefore they forgot me.
7. Et ego ero eis quasi leaena, sicut pardus iuxta viam insidiabor.
7. So I will be to them like a lion, like a leopard I will lurk beside the way.
8. Occurram eis quasi ursa, raptis catulis, et dirumpam claustrum cordis eorum: et consumam eos ibi quasi leo; bestia agri scindet eos.
8. I will fall upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs, I will tear open their breast, and there I will devour them like a lion, as a wild beast would rend them.
9. Perdo te, Israel; quis est auxiliator tuus?
9. I will destroy you, O Israel; who can help you?
10. Ubinam est rex tuus, ut salvet te in omnibus urbibus tuis, et iudices tui, de quibus dixisti: “Da mihi regem et principes”?
10. Where now is your king, to save you; where are all your princes, to defend you -- those of whom you said, "Give me a king and princes"?
11. Do tibi regem in furore meo et aufero in indignatione mea.
11. I have given you kings in my anger, and I have taken them away in my wrath.
12. Colligata est iniquitas Ephraim, absconditum peccatum eius.
12. The iniquity of E'phraim is bound up, his sin is kept in store.
13. Dolores parturientis venient ei; erit filius non sapiens: suo enim tempore non stabit in ore vulvae.
13. The pangs of childbirth come for him, but he is an unwise son; for now he does not present himself at the mouth of the womb.
14. De manu inferni liberabo eos, de morte redimam eos? Ubi pestilentiae tuae, o mors? Ubi pestis tua, inferne? Consolatio abscondita est ab oculis meis”.
14. Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from Death? O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your destruction? Compassion is hid from my eyes.
15. Dum ipse inter fratres fructificat, veniet ventus urens, ventus Domini de deserto ascendens, et siccabit venas eius et desolabit fontem eius. Ipse diripiet thesaurum, omne vas desiderabile.
15. Though he may flourish as the reed plant, the east wind, the wind of the LORD, shall come, rising from the wilderness; and his fountain shall dry up, his spring shall be parched; it shall strip his treasury of every precious thing.
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16. Sama'ria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword, their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.
