1 ا سْتَمِعْنَ إلَى هَذِهِ الرِّسالَةِ يا بَقَراتِ باشان: أنْتُنّ تَظلِمنَ شَعبِيَ الذَّلِيلَ وَتَسْحَقْنَ المَساكِينَ. تَقُلْنَ لأسْيادِكُنَّ: «أحْضِرُوا لَنا ما نَشرَبُهُ!»

¶ Hear this word, ye cows of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.

2 أ قسَمَ الرَّبُّ الإلَهُ بِقَداسَتِهِ: «سَيَأتِي عَلَيكُنَّ وَقْتٌ حِينَ تُؤسَرْنَ بِالكَلالِيبِ، وَيَؤخَذُ أطفالُكُنَّ بِصَنانِيرِ السَّمَكِ.

The Lord GOD has sworn by his holiness that, behold, the days shall come upon you that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity in fishing boats.

3 س َتخرُجُنَ مِنَ ثَغَراتِ سُورِ المَدِينَةِ، وَسَتُطرَدْنَ إلَى الخارِجِ بِاتِّجاهِ حَرمُونَ،» يَقُولُ اللهُ:

And ye shall go forth by the breaches one after another, and ye shall be cast out of the palace, saith the LORD.

4 « اذهَبُوا إلَى بَيتِ إيلَ وَأخطِئُوا! اذهَبُوا إلَى الجِلْجالِ وَأخطِئُوا أكثَرَ! أحْضِرُوا ذَبائِحَكُمْ فِي كُلِّ صَباحٍ، وَعُشُورَكُمْ كُلَّ ثَلاثَةِ أيّامٍ.

Go to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal increase the rebellion; and bring your sacrifices early in the morning and your tithes every three years:

5 أ حْضِرُوا خُبزاً مُختَمِراً كَتَقدِمَةِ شُكرٍ، وَأعلِنُوا تَقْدِماتِكُمُ الاختِيارِيَّةَ بِافْتِخارٍ، لأنَّكُمْ تُحِبُّونَ عَمَلَ هَذا يا بَني إسْرائِيلَ.» هَذا هُوَ ما يَقُولُهُ الرَّبُّ الإلَهُ.

and offer a sacrifice of praise with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free will offerings for this is the way you like it, O ye sons of Israel, said the Lord GOD.

6 « حَتَّى إنَّنِي أعطَيتُكُمْ أسناناً نَظِيفَةً بِسَبَبِ الجُوعِ فِي كُلِّ مُدُنِكُمْ، وَقَلَّةِ الطَعامِ فِي كُلِّ مَناطِقِكُمْ، وَلَكِنَّكُمْ لَمْ تَعُودُوا إلَيَّ،» يَقُولُ اللهُ.

¶ I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities and want of bread in all your places: yet ye have not returned unto me, said the LORD.

7 « حَجَزتُ المَطَرَ عَنكُمْ، مَعَ أنَّهُ بَقِيَ هُناكَ ثَلاثَةَ شُهُورٍ عَلَى الحَصادِ. وَكُنتُ أُرسِلُ مَطَراً عَلَى مَدِينَةٍ، وَلا أُرسِلُهُ عَلَى أُخْرَى. كانَ المَطَرُ يَنزِلُ عَلَى حَقلٍ دُونَ آخَرَ فَيَجِفَّ.

And also I have withheld the rain from you when there were yet three months to the harvest, and I caused it to rain upon one city and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece upon which it did not rain withered.

8 ي َذهَبُ النّاسُ مِنْ مَدِينَتَينِ أوْ ثَلاثِ مُدُنٍ إلَى أُخْرَى لِيَشرَبُوا ماءً وَلا يَجِدُونَ كِفايَتَهُمْ. وَمَعَ كُلِّ هَذا لَمْ تَرجِعُوا إلَيَّ،» يَقُولُ اللهُ.

So two or three cities wandered unto one city to drink water, but they were not satisfied, yet ye have not returned unto me, said the LORD.

9 « ضَرَبتُكُمْ بِرِيحِ الصَّحراءِ وَبِالعَفَنِ، فَجَفَّتْ حَدائِقُكُمْ وَكُرُومُكُمْ. أكَلَ الجَرادُ تِينِكُمْ وَزَيتُونِكُمْ، وَمَعَ هَذا لَمْ تَرجِعُوا إلَيَّ،» يَقُولُ اللهُ.

I have smitten you with the east wind and with the caterpillar; your many gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees were devoured by the locust; yet ye have never returned unto me, said the LORD.

10 « أرسَلتُ عَلَيكُمْ وَبَأً كَما عَمِلتُ فِي مِصرَ، قَتَلتُ شَبابَكُمْ بِالسَّيفِ، وَخُيُولُكُمْ سُبِيَتْ. أصعَدتُ رائِحَةَ الجُثَثِ فِي مُخَيَّماتِكُمْ إلَى أُنُوفِكُمْ، وَمَعَ هَذا لَمْ تَرجِعُوا إلَيَّ،» يَقُولُ اللهُ.

I have sent among you the pestilence in the way to Egypt; your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils; and ye never returned unto me, said the LORD.

11 « دَمَّرتُكُمْ كَما دَمَّرْتُ سَدُومَ وَعَمُورَةَ، وَكُنتُمْ كَعِصِيٍّ انتُزِعَتْ مِنَ النّارِ، وَمَعَ هَذا لَمْ تَرجِعُوا إلَيَّ،» يَقُولُ الله.

I have overthrown some of you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the fire; and ye never returned unto me, said the LORD.

12 « وَلِذَلِكَ سَأُعاقِبُكُمْ يا إسْرائِيلُ، فَاسْتَعِدُّوا لِلِقاءِ إلَهِكُمُ الَّذِي سَيَحكُمُ عَلَيكُمْ.»

Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel; and because I must do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.

13 ف َهُوَ الَّذِي يَصنَعُ الجِبالَ، وَيَخلِقُ الرِّيحَ، وَيُخبِرُ البَشَرَ عَمّا يُرِيدُ فِعلَهُ. يُحَوِّلُ الفَجرَ إلَى ظُلمَةٍ، وَيَسِيرُ عَلَى جِبالِ الأرْضِ. اسْمُهُ يهوه ، الإلَهُ القَدِيرُ.

For, behold, he that forms the mountains and creates the wind and declares unto man what is his thought, that makes the darkness into morning and treads above the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of the hosts, is his name.