1 « قُولُوا لإخوَتِكُمْ ‹أنتُمْ شَعبِي،› وَقُولُوا لأخَواتِكُمْ ‹سَوفَ تُرحَمُونَ.›» رسالةُ اللهِ إلَى شَعبِه

“Say to your brothers, ‘My people!’ and to your sisters, ‘My loved one!’

2 « قَدِّمُوا قَضِيَّتِي لأُمِّكُمْ لأنَّها لَيسَت زَوجَتِي، وَأنا لَستُ زَوجَها. فَلتَتَوَقَّفْ عَنْ زِناها وَتُبعِدِ الذِّيِنَ تَزنِي مَعَهُمْ عَن صَدرِها.

Contend with your mother! Contend, for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her prostitution from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

3 و َإلّا فَإنِّي سَأُعَرِّيها وَأُوقِفُها عارِيَةً كَما وُلِدَتْ. سَأُحَوِّلُها إلَى بَرِّيَّةٍ وَسَأجعَلُها أرْضاً ناشِفَةً، وَسَأقتُلُها بِالعَطَشِ.

Lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.

4 ل َنْ أرحَمَ أولادَها لأنَّهُمْ أولادُ زِنَى.

Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy; for they are children of unfaithfulness;

5 ل ِذَلِكَ حَبِلَتْ بِهِمْ أُمُّهُمُ الزّانِيَةُ وَعَلَيها أن تَخجَلَ مِمّا عَمِلَت. قالَت: ‹سَألحَقُ بِمُحِبِيَّ الَّذِينَ يُعطُونَنِي طَعامِيَ وَمائِيَ وَصُوفِيَ وَكِتّانِيَ وَزَيتِيَ وَشَرابِيَ.›

For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; for she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’

6 ل ِذَلكَ سَأُسَيِّجُ طَرِيقَها بِالأشواكِ، وَسَأبنِي حائِطاً حَولَها فَلا تَستَطِيعُ أن تَجِدَ طَرِيقَها.

Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can’t find her way.

7 و َمَعَ أنَّها سَتَلحَقُ بِهِمْ، إلّا أنَّها لَن تَصِلَ إلَيْهِمْ. حِينَئِذٍ، سَتَقُولُ: ‹سَأرجِعُ إلَى زَوجِي الأوَّلِ، لأنَّ حالَتِي فِي ذَلِكَ اليَومِ كانَت أفضَلُ مِمّا هِيَ عَلَيهِ الآنَ.›

She will follow after her lovers, but she won’t overtake them; and she will seek them, but won’t find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.’

8 ل َكِنَّها لَمْ تَعرِفْ أنِّي أنا مَنْ أعطاها القَمحَ وَالنَّبيذَ وَالزَّيتَ. أعطَيتُها الكَثِيرَ مِنَ الفِضَّةِ وَالذَّهَبِ فَصَنَعَتْ مِنها تِمثالاً لِلبَعلِ.

For she did not know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

9 « لِذَلِكَ سَأعُودُ لأستَعِيدَ قَمحِي فِي وَقتِ حَصادِهِ، وَنَبيذِي فِي وَقتِ عَصرِهِ. سَأستَعِيدُ صُوفِي وَكِتّانِيَ الَّذَي تَستَخدِمهُ لِسِترِ عُريِها.

Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my new wine in its season, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.

10 س َأكشِفُ أعْمالَها المُخزِيَةَ أمامَ كُلِّ مُحِبِّيها. وَلَن يَستَطِيعَ أحَدٌ أن يُنقِذَها مِنْ يَدَيّ.

Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of my hand.

11 و َسَأُوقِفُ احتِفالاتِها وَأعيادَها أوائِلَ شُهُورِها وَسُبُوتِها وَكُلَّ مَواسِمِها.

I will also cause all her celebrations to cease: her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.

12 س َأُخَرِّبُ كُرُومَها وَأشجارَ التِّينِ الَّتِي قالَت عَنها: ‹هَذِهِ هَدايا أعطاها لِي مُحِبِيَّ.› وَسَأُحَوِّلُها إلَى غابَةٍ، وَسَتَأكُلُها الحَيواناتُ البَرِّيَّةُ.

I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, about which she has said, ‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest,’ and the animals of the field shall eat them.

13 س َأُعاقِبُها عَلَى الوَقتِ الَّذِي أحرَقَتْ فِيهِ البَخُورَ للبَعلِ حِينَ كانَت تَتَزَيَّنُ بِالحِلِيِّ وَالجَواهِرِ وَتَذهَبُ وَراءَ مُحِبِّيها، وَقَد نَسِيَتنِي، يَقُولُ اللهُ.

I will visit on her the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me,” says Yahweh.

14 « لِذَلِكَ سَأفْتِنُها وَأقُودُها إلَى البَرِّيَّةِ وَأُكَلِّمُ قَلَبَها.

“Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.

15 و َسَأُعطِيها كُرُومَها هُناكَ، وَسَيَصِيرُ وادِي عَخُورَ باباً للأمَلِ. وَسَتُجِيبُنِي هُناكَ كَما أجابَتنِي فِي أيّامِ شَبابِها حِينَ خَرَجَتْ مِنْ أرْضِ مِصْرَ.»

I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

16 ي َقُولُ اللهُ: «فِي ذَلِكَ الوَقتِ، سَتَدعِينَنِي ‹رَجُلِي،› وَلَن تَعُودِي تَدعِينَنِي ‹بَعلِي.›

It will be in that day,” says Yahweh, “that you will call me ‘my husband,’ and no longer call me ‘my master.’

17 و َسَأنزَعُ أسماءَ البَعلِ مِنْ فَمِها، فلا تَعُودُ تُذكَرُ فِيما بَعْدُ.

For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they will no longer be mentioned by name.

18 ف ِي ذَلِكَ الوَقتِ، سَأقطَعُ عَهداً لَهُمْ مَعَ الحَيواناتِ البَرِّيَّةِ وَطُيُورِ السَّماءِ وَالحَيواناتِ الزّاحِفَةِ، وَسَأُزِيلُ القَوسَ وَالسَّيفَ وَالقِتالَ مِنَ الأرْضِ، وَسَأجعَلُهُمْ يَنامُونَ بِأمانٍ.

In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the creeping things of the ground. I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle out of the land, and will make them lie down safely.

19 و َسَآخُذُكِ لِنَفسِي إلَى الأبَدِ. سَآخُذُكِ لِنَفسِي وَأُعامِلُكِ بِالبِرِّ وَالعَدلِ وَالمَحَبَّةِ وَالرَّحمَةِ.

I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.

20 س َآخُذُكِ لِنَفسِي وَأُعامِلُكِ بِأمانَةٍ وَسَتَعرِفِينَ اللهَ.

I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know Yahweh.

21 « فِي ذَلِكَ الوَقتِ، سَأستَجِيبُ. سَأستَجِيبُ للسَّماواتِ، وَالسَّماواتُ سَتَستَجِيبُ لِلأرْضِ.

It will happen in that day, I will respond,” says Yahweh, “I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth;

22 و َسَتَستَجِيبُ الأرْضُ بِأن تُعطِيَ قَمحاً وَنَبيذاً وَزَيتاً. وَهَذِهِ كُلُّها سَتَستَجِيبُ لِيَزْرَعِيلَ.

and the earth will respond to the grain, and the new wine, and the oil; and they will respond to Jezreel.

23 ل أنِّي سَأزرَعُها لِنَفسِي فِي الأرْضِ، وَسَأرحَمُ لُورُحامَةَ، وَسَأقُولُ لِلُوعَمِّي: ‹أنتَ شَعبِي› وَهُوَ سَيَقُولُ: ‹أنتَ إلَهِي.›»

I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’ and they will say, ‘My God!’”