1 Sett basunen for din munn*! - Som en ørn kommer fienden over Herrens hus, fordi de har brutt pakten med mig og forsyndet sig mot min lov. / {* JES 58, 1.}
2 De skal rope til mig: Min Gud! Vi israelitter kjenner dig.
3 Israel har støtt det gode fra sig - fienden skal forfølge ham.
4 De har valgt sig konger, som ikke kom fra mig, de har satt inn fyrster, uten at jeg visste om det. Av sitt sølv og gull har de gjort sig avgudsbilleder, så de skulde bli utryddet.
5 Motbydelig er din kalv, Samaria! Min vrede er optendt mot dem. Hvor lenge skal renhet synes dem utålelig?
6 For et verk av Israel er den, en kunstner har gjort den, og den er ikke nogen gud; ja, til splinter skal den bli Samarias kalv.
7 For vind sår de, og storm skal de høste; deres korn får ikke aks, deres grøde gir ikke føde; om den gir noget, skal fremmede opsluke det.
8 Israel er opslukt; nu er de blandt folkene lik en ting som ingen bryr sig om;
9 for de drog op til Assur lik et villesel, som går sine egne veier; Efra'im tinger om elskov;
10 men om de enn tinger blandt folkene, vil jeg nu samle dem dit, og de skal begynne å bli færre under storkongens byrder.
11 Fordi Efra'im har gjort sig så mange alter til å synde med, er de blitt ham alter til synd.
12 Om jeg enn skriver ham mine lover i tusentall, så blir de allikevel aktet for noget fremmed.
13 Som offergaver til mig ofrer de kjøtt som de selv eter; Herren har ikke behag i dem. Nu vil han komme deres misgjerning i hu og hjemsøke dem for deres synder - de skal vende tilbake til Egypten.
14 Israel glemte sin skaper og bygget sig palasser, og Juda bygget mange faste byer; men jeg vil sende ild mot hans byer, og den skal fortære hans palasser.
1 Put the horn to your mouth. He comes like an eagle against the house of the Lord; because they have gone against my agreement, they have not kept my law.
2 They will send up to me a cry for help: We, Israel, have knowledge of you, O God of Israel.
3 Israel has given up what is good; his haters will go after him.
4 They have put up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, but I had no knowledge of it; they have made images of silver and gold, so that they may be cut off.
5 I will have nothing to do with your young ox, O Samaria; my wrath is burning against them; how long will it be before the children of Israel make themselves clean?
6 The workman made it, it is no god; the ox of Samaria will be broken into bits.
7 For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.
8 Israel has come to destruction; now they are among the nations like a cup in which there is no pleasure.
9 For they have gone up to Assyria like an ass going by himself; Ephraim has given money to get lovers.
10 But though they give money to the nations for help, still I will send them in all directions; and in a short time they will be without a king and rulers.
11 Because Ephraim has been increasing altars for sin, altars have become a cause of sin to him.
12 Though I put my law in writing for him in ten thousand rules, they are to him as a strange thing.
13 He gives the offerings of his lovers, and takes the flesh for food; but the Lord has no pleasure in them; now he will keep in mind their evil-doing and give them the punishment of their sins; they will go back to Egypt.
14 For Israel has no memory of his Maker, and has put up the houses of kings; and Judah has made great the number of his walled towns. But I will send a fire on his towns and put an end to his great houses.