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Hosea 7
Svenska 1917
Hosea 7
Svenska 1917
7 När jag vill hela Israel, då uppenbarar sig Efraims missgärning och Samariens ondska. Ty de öva falskhet, tjuvar göra inbrott, rövarskaror plundra på vägarna.
2 Och de betänka icke i sina hjärtan att jag lägger all deras ondska på minnet. De äro nu kringrända av sina egna gärningar, ty dessa hava kommit inför mitt ansikte.
3 Med sin ondska bereda de konungen glädje och med sina lögner furstarna.
4 Allasammans äro de äktenskapsbrytare; de likna en ugn, upphettad av bagaren, som när han har knådat degen, underlåter att elda, till dess att degen är syrad.
5 På vår konungs dag drucko sig furstarna febersjuka av vin; själv räckte han bespottarna handen.
6 När de med sina anslag hava eldat upp sitt hjärta likasom en ugn, sover bagaren hela natten; men om morgonen brinner elden i ljus låga.
7 Allasammans äro de heta såsom en ugn och förbränna så sina domare; ja, alla deras konungar falla, ty bland dem finnes ingen som åkallar mig.
8 Efraim beblandar sig med andra folk; Efraim har blivit lik en ovänd kaka.
9 Främlingar hava förtärt hans kraft, men han förstår intet; fastän han har fått grå hår, förstår han ändå intet.
10 Men Israels stolthet vittnar emot honom; de vända icke om till HERREN, sin Gud, och de söka honom ej, allt detta oaktat.
11 Efraim har blivit lik en duva, enfaldig, utan förstånd. Egypten påkalla de, till Assur gå de;
12 men bäst de gå där, breder jag ut mitt nät över dem och drager dem ned, såsom vore de fåglar under himmelen. Ja, jag skall tukta dem, såsom det redan har sports i deras församling.
13 Ve över dem, ty de hava flytt bort ifrån mig! Fördärv över dem, ty de hava avfallit från mig! Och jag skulle förlossa dem, dem som föra mot mig så lögnaktigt tal!
14 De ropa icke till mig av hjärtat, allenast jämra sig på sina läger; de hava ångest för sin säd och sitt vin, men de äro gensträviga mot mig.
15 Det var jag som undervisade dem och stärkte deras armar, men de hava ont i sinnet mot mig.
16 De vända om, men icke till den som är därovan; de äro lika en båge som sviker. Deras furstar skola falla genom svärd, därför att deras tungor äro så hätska. Då skall man bespotta dem i Egyptens land.
Hosea 7
Svenska Folkbibeln
Hosea 7
Svenska Folkbibeln
Efraims och Samariens ondska
7 När jag vill hela Israel, då avslöjas Efraims missgärning
och Samariens ondska.
Ty de handlar svekfullt,
tjuvar gör inbrott
och rövarskaror plundrar på vägarna.
2 I sina hjärtan tänker de inte på
att jag kommer ihåg all deras ondska.
De är nu omgivna av sina egna gärningar,
som är inför mitt ansikte.
3 Med sin ondska gläder de kungen
och med sina lögner furstarna.
4 Alla är de äktenskapsbrytare.
De liknar en ugn, som bagaren värmt upp.
När han har knådat degen upphör han att elda,
till dess att degen har jäst.
5 På vår kungs dag drack sig furstarna febersjuka av vin,
själv räckte han smädarna handen.
6 Ty de kommer honom nära.
Deras hjärtan är som en ugn
när de ligger i försåt.
Hela natten sover deras bagare,
men på morgonen brinner han som en flammande eld.
7 Alla är de heta som en ugn
och de förtär sina domare.
Alla deras kungar har fallit,
ingen bland dem åkallar mig.
8 Efraim blandar sig med andra folk.
Han är som en kaka
som inte har vänts.
9 Främlingar har förtärt hans kraft,
men han förstår det inte.
Trots att han har fått grått hår,
märker han det inte.
10 Israels stolthet vittnar emot honom.
De vänder inte om till Herren, sin Gud,
och söker inte hans hjälp trots allt detta.
11 Efraim har blivit som en dum duva utan förstånd.
De kallar på Egypten,
till Assur går de.
12 Men när de går
kastar jag ut mitt nät över dem,
som om de var fåglar under himlen
skall jag dra ner dem.
Jag skall straffa dem,
så som det är kungjort i deras församling.
13 Ve över dem,
ty de har flytt bort från mig!
Fördärv över dem,
ty de har avfallit från mig!
Jag ville friköpa dem,
men de har talat lögnaktigt mot mig.
14 De ropar inte till mig av hjärtat,
utan klagar på sina bäddar.
De oroar sig för sin säd och sitt vin,
men de vänder sig bort från mig.
15 Det var jag som undervisade dem
och stärkte deras armar,
men de har ont i sinnet mot mig.
16 De vänder om,
men inte till den som är därovan.
De är lika en båge som sviktar.
Deras furstar skall falla genom svärd,
därför att deras tungor är så hätska.
Detta skall bli dem till hån
i Egyptens land.
Hosea 7
New English Translation
Hosea 7
New English Translation
7 whenever I want to heal Israel,
the sin of Ephraim is revealed,
and the evil deeds of Samaria are exposed.
For they do what is wrong;
thieves break into houses,
and gangs rob people out in the streets.
2 They do not realize[a]
that I remember all their wicked deeds.
Their evil deeds have now surrounded them;
their sinful deeds are always before me.[b]
Political Intrigue and Conspiracy in the Palace
3 The royal advisers delight the king with their evil schemes,
the princes make him glad with their lies.
4 They are all like bakers,[c]
they[d] are like a smoldering oven;
they are like a baker who does not stoke the fire
until the kneaded dough is ready for baking.
5 At the celebration[e] of their king,[f]
his princes become inflamed[g] with wine;
they conspire[h] with evildoers.
6 They approach him, all the while plotting against him.
Their hearts are like an oven;
their anger smolders all night long,
but in the morning it bursts into a flaming fire.
7 All of them are blazing like an oven;
they devour their rulers.
All their kings fall,
and none of them call on me!
Israel Lacks Discernment and Refuses to Repent
8 Ephraim has mixed itself like flour[i] among the nations;
Ephraim is like a ruined cake of bread that is scorched on one side.[j]
9 Foreigners are consuming what his strenuous labor produced,[k]
but he does not recognize it.
His head is filled with gray hair,
but he does not realize it.
10 The arrogance of Israel testifies against him,
yet they refuse to return to the Lord their God.
In spite of all this they refuse to seek him.
Israel Turns to Assyria and Egypt for Help
11 Ephraim has been like a dove,
easily deceived and lacking discernment.
They called to Egypt for help;
they turned to Assyria for protection.
12 I will throw my bird net over them while they are flying;
I will bring them down like birds in the sky;
I will discipline them when I hear them flocking together.
Israel Has Turned Away from the Lord
13 Woe to them! For they have fled from me!
Destruction to them! For they have rebelled against me!
I want to deliver[l] them,
but they have lied to me.
14 They do not pray to me,[m]
but howl in distress on their beds;
they slash themselves[n] for grain and new wine,
but turn away from me.
15 Although I trained and strengthened them,[o]
they plot evil against me!
16 They turn to Baal;[p]
they are like an unreliable bow.
Their leaders will fall by the sword
because their prayers to Baal[q] have made me angry.
So people will disdain them in the land of Egypt.[r]
Footnotes
- Hosea 7:2 tn Heb “and they do not say in their heart”; cf. TEV “It never enters their heads.”
- Hosea 7:2 tn Heb “they [the sinful deeds] are before my face” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV); cf. NCV “they are right in front of me.”
- Hosea 7:4 tc The MT reads מְנָאֲפִים (menaʾafim, “adulterers”; Piel participle masculine plural from נָאַף, naʾaf, “to commit adultery”), which does not seem to fit the context. The original reading was probably אוֹפִים (ʾofim, “bakers”; Qal participle masculine plural from אָפַה, ʾafah, “to bake”), which harmonizes well with the baker/oven/fire motif in 7:4-7. The textual deviation was caused by: (1) confusion of נ (nun) and ו (vav), (2) metathesis of נ/ו (nun/vav) and א (alef), and (3) dittography of מ (mem) from the preceding word. Original כֻּלָּם אוֹפִים (kullam ʾofim, “all of them are bakers”) was confused for כֻּלָּם מְנָאֲפִים (“all of them are adulterers”). In spite of this most English versions follow the reading of the MT here.
- Hosea 7:4 tc The MT preserves the enigmatic כְּמוֹ תַנּוּר בֹּעֵרָה מֵ (kemo tannur boʿerah me, “Like a burning oven, from…?”). The adjectival participle בֹּעֵרָה (“burning”) is feminine while the noun תַנּוּר (tannur, “oven”) that it modifies is masculine. The BHS editors solve this problem by simply redividing the words: כְּמוֹ תַנּוּר בֹּעֵר הֵם (kemo tannur boʿer hem, “they are like a burning oven”). This solution is followed by many English versions (e.g., NCV, NRSV, NLT).
- Hosea 7:5 tn Heb “the day of” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV); cf. NIV “On the day of the festival of our king,” NLT “On royal holidays.”
- Hosea 7:5 tc The MT preserves the awkward first person common plural suffix reading מַלְכֵּנוּ (malakenu, “our king”). The BHS editors suggest reading the third person masculine plural suffix מַלְכָּם (malkam, “their king”; so CEV), as reflected in the Aramaic Targum.
- Hosea 7:5 tc The MT vocalizes the consonants החלו as הֶחֱלוּ a Hiphil perfect third person common plural from I חָלָה (“to become sick”). However, this is syntactically awkward. The BHS editors suggest revocalizing it as Hiphil infinitive construct + third person masculine singular suffix from חָלַל (khalal, “to begin”) or Hiphil perfect third person common plural from חָלַל. For a discussion of this textual problem, see D. Barthélemy, ed., Preliminary and Interim Report on the Hebrew Old Testament Text Project, 5:240.tn Heb “when their king began [to reign].”
- Hosea 7:5 tn Heb “he joined hands”; cf. NCV “make agreements.”
- Hosea 7:8 tn The words “like flour” are not in the Hebrew text but are implied by the imagery.
- Hosea 7:8 tn Heb “a cake of bread not turned.” This metaphor compares Ephraim to a ruined cake of bread that was not turned over in time to avoid being scorched and burned (see BDB 728 s.v. עֻגָה). Cf. NLT “as worthless as a half-baked cake.”
- Hosea 7:9 tn Heb “foreigners consume his strength”; cf. NRSV “devour (NIV “sap”) his strength.”
- Hosea 7:13 tn Heb “redeem” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); cf. NCV, TEV “save,” CEV “I would have rescued them.”
- Hosea 7:14 tn Heb “they do not cry out to me in their heart”; cf. NLT “with sincere hearts.”
- Hosea 7:14 tc The MT reads יִתְגּוֹרָרוּ (yitgoraru), which is either (1) Hitpolel imperfect third person masculine plural (“they assemble themselves”; so KJV, NASB) from I גּוּר (gur, “to sojourn”; BDB 157 s.v. I גּוּר) or (2) Hitpolel imperfect third person masculine plural (“they excite themselves”) from II גּוּר (gur, “to stir up”; BDB 158 s.v. II גּוּר). However, the Hebrew lexicographers suggest that both of these options are unlikely. Several other Hebrew mss preserve an alternate textual tradition of יִתְגּוֹדָדוּ (yitgodadu), which is a Hitpolel imperfect third person common plural (“they slash themselves”) from גָּדַד (gadad, “to cut”; BDB 151 s.v. גָּדַד), as also reflected in the LXX (cf. NAB “they lacerated themselves”; NRSV, TEV “gash themselves”; NLT “cut themselves”). This reflects the pagan Canaanite cultic practice of priests cutting themselves and draining their blood on the ground to elicit agricultural fertility by resurrecting the slain fertility god Baal from the underworld (Deut 14:1; 1 Kgs 18:28; Jer 16:6; 41:5; 47:5). Cf. CEV, which adds, “in the hope that Baal will bless their crops.”
- Hosea 7:15 tn Heb “their arms” (so NAB, NRSV).
- Hosea 7:16 tc The MT reads the enigmatic יָשׁוּבוּ לֹא עָל (yashuvu loʾ ʿal), which is taken variously: “they turn, but not upward” (NASB); “they do not turn to the Most High” (NIV); and “they return, but not to the most High” (KJV). The BHS editors suggest יָשׁוּבוּ לַבַּעַל (yashuvu labbaʿal, “they turn to Baal”; so RSV) or יָשׁוּבוּ לַבְּלִיַּעַל (yashuvu labbeliyyaʿal, “they turn to Belial”), which is reflected by the LXX.
- Hosea 7:16 tn Heb “because their tongue.” The term “tongue” is used figuratively as a metonymy of cause (tongue) for effect (prayers to Baal).
- Hosea 7:16 tn Heb “this [will] be for scorn in the land of Egypt”; cf. NIV “they will be ridiculed (NAB “shall be mocked”) in the land of Egypt.”
Hosea 7
New International Version
Hosea 7
New International Version
7 1 whenever I would heal Israel,
the sins of Ephraim are exposed
and the crimes of Samaria revealed.(A)
They practice deceit,(B)
thieves break into houses,(C)
bandits rob in the streets;(D)
2 but they do not realize
that I remember(E) all their evil deeds.(F)
Their sins engulf them;(G)
they are always before me.
3 “They delight the king with their wickedness,
the princes with their lies.(H)
4 They are all adulterers,(I)
burning like an oven
whose fire the baker need not stir
from the kneading of the dough till it rises.
5 On the day of the festival of our king
the princes become inflamed with wine,(J)
and he joins hands with the mockers.(K)
6 Their hearts are like an oven;(L)
they approach him with intrigue.
Their passion smolders all night;
in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
7 All of them are hot as an oven;
they devour their rulers.
All their kings fall,(M)
and none of them calls(N) on me.
8 “Ephraim mixes(O) with the nations;
Ephraim is a flat loaf not turned over.
9 Foreigners sap his strength,(P)
but he does not realize it.
His hair is sprinkled with gray,
but he does not notice.
10 Israel’s arrogance testifies against him,(Q)
but despite all this
he does not return(R) to the Lord his God
or search(S) for him.
11 “Ephraim is like a dove,(T)
easily deceived and senseless—
now calling to Egypt,(U)
now turning to Assyria.(V)
12 When they go, I will throw my net(W) over them;
I will pull them down like the birds in the sky.
When I hear them flocking together,
I will catch them.
13 Woe(X) to them,
because they have strayed(Y) from me!
Destruction to them,
because they have rebelled against me!
I long to redeem them
but they speak about me(Z) falsely.(AA)
14 They do not cry out to me from their hearts(AB)
but wail on their beds.
They slash themselves,[a] appealing to their gods
for grain and new wine,(AC)
but they turn away from me.(AD)
15 I trained(AE) them and strengthened their arms,
but they plot evil(AF) against me.
16 They do not turn to the Most High;(AG)
they are like a faulty bow.(AH)
Their leaders will fall by the sword
because of their insolent(AI) words.
For this they will be ridiculed(AJ)
in the land of Egypt.(AK)
Footnotes
- Hosea 7:14 Some Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts They gather together
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