Greek: Septuagint (LXX)
English: John Barach
English: John Barach
Chapter 2
Restoration of Names
| 1 εἴπατε τῷ ἀδελφῷ ὑμῶν λαός μου καὶ τῇ ἀδελφῇ ὑμῶν Ἠλεημένη. | 1 Say to your brother, "My People," and to your sister, "She who has been pitied." |
The Lawsuit against the Mother (Israel)
| 2 κρίθητε πρὸς τὴν μητέρα ὑμῶν κρίθητε, ὅτι αὐτὴ οὐ γυνή μου, καὶ ἐγὼ οὐκ ἀνὴρ αὐτῆς· καὶ ἐξαρῶ τὴν πορνείαν αὐτῆς ἐκ προσώπου μου καὶ τὴν μοιχείαν αὐτῆς ἐκ μέσου μαστῶν αὐτῆς, 3 ὅπως ἄν ἐκδύσω αὐτὴν γυμνὴν καὶ ἀποκαταστήσω αὐτὴν καθὼς ἡμέρᾳ γενέσεως αὐτῆς· καὶ θήσομαι αὐτὴν ὡς ἔρημον καὶ τάξω αὐτὴν ὡς γῆν ἄνυδρον καὶ ἀποκτενῶ αὐτὴν ἐν δίψει· | 2 Plead the case against your mother, plead it! For she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; and I will remove her whoredom from my face and her adultery from between her breasts, 3 so that I might strip her naked and restore her as she was on the day of her birth; and I will make her like a desert and set her like a waterless land and kill her with thirst. |
| 4 καὶ τὰ τέκνα αὐτῆς οὐ μὴ ἐλεήσω, ὅτι τέκνα πορνείας ἐστίν. 5 ὅτι ἐξεπόρνευσεν ἡ μήτηρ αὐτῶν, κατῄσχυνεν ἡ τεκοῦσα αὐτά· εἶπεν γάρ ἀκολουθήσω ὀπίσω τῶν ἐραστῶν μου τῶν διδόντων μοι τοὺς ἄρτους μου καὶ τὸ ὕδωρ μου καὶ τὰ ἱμάτιά μου καὶ τὰ ὀθόνιά μου καὶ τὸ ἔλαιόν μου καὶ πάντα ὅσα μοι καθήκει. | 4 And I will have no mercy on her children, because they are children of whoredom. 5 For their mother has committed whoredom; she who bore them has brought shame. For she said, "I will follow after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my clothes and my linens, my oil and everything that is proper for me." |
Judgment and Discipline
| 6 διὰ τοῦτο ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ φράσσω τὴν ὁδὸν αὐτῆς ἐν σκόλοψιν καὶ ἀνοικοδομήσω τὰς ὁδοὺς αὐτῆς, καὶ τὴν τρίβον αὐτῆς οὐ μὴ εὕρῃ· 7 καὶ καταδιώξεται τοὺς ἐραστὰς αὐτῆς καὶ οὐ μὴ καταλάβῃ αὐτούς· καὶ ζητήσει αὐτοὺς καὶ οὐ μὴ εὕρῃ αὐτούς· καὶ ἐρεῖ πορεύσομαι καὶ ἐπιστρέψω πρὸς τὸν ἄνδρα μου τὸν πρότερον, ὅτι καλῶς μοι ἦν τότε ἢ νῦν. 8 καὶ αὐτὴ οὐκ ἔγνω ὅτι ἐγὼ δέδωκα αὐτῇ τὸν σῖτον καὶ τὸν οἶνον καὶ τὸ ἔλαιον, καὶ ἀργύριον ἐπλήθυνα αὐτῇ· αὐτή δὲ ἀργυρᾶ καὶ χρυσᾶ ἐποίησεν τῇ Βάαλ. | 6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her way with thorns and I will build up her paths, and she shall not find her track. 7 And she will pursue her lovers and shall not overtake them; and she will seek them and shall not find them. And she will say, "I will go and return to my first husband, for it was better for me then than now." 8 And she did not know that it was I who gave her the grain and the wine and the oil, and I multiplied silver for her; but she made silver and gold things for Baal. |
| 9 διὰ τοῦτο ἐπιστρέψω καὶ κομιοῦμαι τὸν σῖτόν μου καθ' ὥραν αὐτοῦ καὶ τὸν οἶνόν μου ἐν καιρῷ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀφελοῦμαι τὰ ἱμάτιά μου καὶ τὰ ὀθόνιά μου τοῦ μὴ καλύπτειν τὴν ἀσχημοσύνην αὐτῆς· 10 καὶ νῦν ἀποκαλύψω τὴν ἀκαθαρσίαν αὐτῆς, ἐνώπιον τῶν ἐραστῶν αὐτῆς καὶ οὐδεὶς οὐ μὴ ἐξέληται αὐτὴν ἐκ χειρός μου· 11 καὶ ἀποστρέψω πάσας τὰς εὐφροσύνας αὐτῆς, ἑορτὰς αὐτῆς καὶ τὰς νουμηνίας αὐτῆς καὶ τὰ σάββατα αὐτῆς καὶ πάσας τὰς πανηγύρεις αὐτῆς· 12 καὶ ἀφανιῶ ἄμπελον αὐτῆς καὶ τὰς συκᾶς αὐτῆς, ὅσα εἶπεν μισθώματά μου ταῦτά ἐστιν ἃ ἔδωκάν μοι οἱ ἐρασταί μου, καὶ θήσομαι αὐτὰ εἰς μαρτύριον, καὶ καταφάγεται αὐτὰ τὰ θηρία τοῦ ἀγροῦ καὶ τὰ πετεινὰ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καὶ τὰ ἑρπετὰ τῆς γῆς· 13 καὶ ἐκδικήσω ἐπ' αὐτὴν τὰς ἡμέρας τῶν Βααλίμ, ἐν αἷς ἐπέθυεν αὐτοῖς καὶ περιετίθετο τὰ ἐνώτια αὐτῆς καὶ τὰ καθόρμια αὐτῆς καὶ ἐπορεύετο ὀπίσω τῶν ἐραστῶν αὐτῆς, ἐμοῦ δὲ ἐπελάθετο, λέγει κύριος. | 9 Therefore I will return and take away my grain in its season and my wine in its time, and I will take back my clothes and my linens so that they do not cover her nakedness. 10 And now I will reveal her uncleanness in the sight of her lovers, and no one shall rescue her from my hand. 11 And I will turn away all her joys, her feasts and her new moons and her sabbaths and all her festivals. 12 And I will lay waste her vineyard and her fig trees, of which she said, "These are my wages which my lovers gave me," and I will make them a testimony, and the wild animals of the field and the birds of the sky and the reptiles of the earth shall devour them. 13 And I will avenge upon her the days of the Baals, in which she offered incense to them and put on her earrings and her necklaces and went after her lovers, but forgot me, says the Lord. |
The Allurement in the Wilderness
| 14 διὰ τοῦτο ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ πλανῶ αὐτὴν καὶ τάξω αὐτὴν εἰς ἔρημον καὶ λαλήσω ἐπὶ τὴν καρδίαν αὐτῆς 15 καὶ δώσω αὐτῇ τὰ κτήματα αὐτῆς ἐκεῖθεν καὶ τὴν κοιλάδα Ἀχὼρ διανοῖξαι σύνεσιν αὐτῆς, καὶ ταπεινωθήσεται ἐκεῖ κατὰ τὰς ἡμέρας νηπιότητος αὐτῆς καὶ κατὰ τὰς ἡμέρας ἀναβάσεως αὐτῆς ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου. | 14 Therefore, behold, I will cause her to wander, and I will lead her into the desert and speak to her heart. 15 And I will give her her possessions from there, and the Valley of Achor to open up her understanding; and she shall be humbled there according to the days of her infancy and according to the days of her coming up out of the land of Egypt. |
The New Covenant and Betrothal
| 16 καὶ ἔσται ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ, λέγει κύριος, καλέσει με ὁ ἀνήρ μου, καὶ οὐ καλέσει με ἔτι Βααλίμ· 17 καὶ ἐξαρῶ τὰ ὀνόματα τῶν Βααλὶμ ἐκ στόματος αὐτῆς, καὶ οὐ μὴ μνησθῶσιν οὐκέτι τὰ ὀνόματα αὐτῶν. 18 καὶ διαθήσομαι αὐτοῖς ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ διαθήκην μετὰ τῶν θηρίων τοῦ ἀγροῦ καὶ μετὰ τῶν πετεινῶν τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καὶ μετὰ τῶν ἑρπετῶν τῆς γῆς· καὶ τόξον καὶ ῥομφαίαν καὶ πόλεμον συντρίψω ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς καὶ κατοικιῶ σὲ ἐπ' ἐλπίδι. | 16 And it shall be in that day, says the Lord, she will call me, "My husband," and she will no longer call me "Baals." 17 And I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and their names shall no longer be remembered. 18 And I will make for them a covenant in that day with the wild animals of the field and with the birds of the sky and with the reptiles of the earth; and bow and sword and war I will break from off the earth, and I will cause you to dwell in hope. |
| 19 καὶ μνηστεύσομαί σὲ ἐμαυτῷ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα καὶ μνηστεύσομαί σὲ ἐμαυτῷ ἐν δικαιοσύνῃ καὶ ἐν κρίματι καὶ ἐν ἐλέει καὶ ἐν οἰκτιρμοῖς 20 καὶ μνηστεύσομαί σὲ ἐμαυτῷ ἐν πίστει, καὶ ἐπιγνώσῃ τὸν κύριον. | 19 And I will betroth you to myself forever; and I will betroth you to myself in righteousness and in judgment, and in mercy and in compassions. 20 And I will betroth you to myself in faithfulness, and you shall know the Lord. |
Cosmic Harmony and Final Restoration
| 21 καὶ ἔσται ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ, λέγει κύριος, ἐπακούσομαι τῷ οὐρανῷ καὶ ὁ οὐρανός, ἐπακούσεται τῇ γῇ, 22 καὶ ἡ γῆ ἐπακούσεται τὸν σῖτον καὶ τὸν οἶνον καὶ τὸ ἔλαιον, καὶ αὐτὰ ἐπακούσεται τῷ Ἰεζραέλ. 23 καὶ σπερῶ αὐτὴν ἐμαυτῷ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς καὶ ἐλεήσω τὴν Οὐκ-ἠλεημένην καὶ ἐρῶ τῷ Οὐ-λαῷ-μου λαός μου εἶ σύ, καὶ αὐτὸς ἐρεῖ κύριος ὁ θεός μου εἶ σύ. | 21 And it shall be in that day, says the Lord, I will hearken to the heaven, and the heaven shall hearken to the earth; 22 and the earth shall hearken to the grain and the wine and the oil, and they shall hearken to Jezreel. 23 And I will sow her for myself upon the land and will have mercy on Not-pitied, and I will say to Not-my-people, "You are my people," and he shall say, "You are the Lord my God." |