Hosea · Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Hosea 2 Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
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Notes on this text (2)
- The Old Testament is translated from the Hebrew, not from the Septuagint read in the Orthodox Church; there are no deuterocanonical books.
- Katharevousa (learned 19th-century Greek), as in the CrossWire module (text from theword.gr).
1 Είπατε προς τους αδελφούς σας, Αμμί, και προς τας αδελφάς σας, Ρουχαμμά.
1 “Say to your brothers, ‘My people!’ and to your sisters, ‘My loved one!’
2 Κρίθητε μετά της μητρός σας, κρίθητε· διότι αύτη δεν είναι γυνή μου και εγώ δεν είμαι ανήρ αυτής· ας αφαιρέση λοιπόν τας πορνείας αυτής απ' έμπροσθεν αυτής και τας μοιχείας αυτής εκ μέσου των μαστών αυτής·
2 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 μήποτε εκδύσας γυμνώσω αυτήν και αποκαταστήσω αυτήν καθώς εν τη ημέρα της γεννήσεως αυτής, και θέσω αυτήν ως έρημον και καταστήσω αυτήν ως γην άνυδρον και θανατώσω αυτήν εν δίψη.
3 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 Και δεν θέλω ελεήσει τα τέκνα αυτής· επειδή είναι τέκνα πορνείας.
4 Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy, for they are children of unfaithfulness.
5 Διότι η μήτηρ αυτών επόρνευσεν· η συλλαβούσα αυτά έπραξεν αισχύνην· διότι είπε, Θέλω υπάγει κατόπιν των εραστών μου, οίτινες μοι δίδουσι τον άρτον μου και το ύδωρ μου, το μαλλίον μου και το λινάριόν μου, το έλαιόν μου και τα ποτά μου.
5 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 Διά τούτο, ιδού, εγώ θέλω φράξει την οδόν σου με ακάνθας και οικοδομήσει φραγμόν, διά να μη εύρη τας οδούς αυτής.
6 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 Και θέλει τρέξει κατόπιν των εραστών αυτής και δεν θέλει φθάσει αυτούς, και θέλει ζητήσει αυτούς και δεν θέλει ευρεί· τότε θέλει ειπεί, Θέλω υπάγει και επιστρέψει προς τον πρώτόν μου άνδρα· διότι καλήτερον ήτο τότε εις εμέ παρά τώρα.
7 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 it was better with me than now.’
8 Και αυτή δεν εγνώριζεν ότι εγώ έδωκα εις αυτήν τον σίτον και τον οίνον και το έλαιον, και επλήθυνα το αργύριον εις αυτήν και το χρυσίον, με τα οποία κατεσκεύασαν τον Βάαλ.
8 For she didn’t 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 Διά τούτο θέλω επιστρέψει και λάβει τον σίτόν μου εν τω καιρώ αυτού και τον οίνόν μου εν τω διωρισμένω καιρώ αυτού, και θέλω αφαιρέσει το μαλλίον μου και το λινάριόν μου, τα οποία είχε διά να σκεπάζη την γύμνωσιν αυτής.
9 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 Και τώρα θέλω αποκαλύψει την ακαθαρσίαν αυτής έμπροσθεν των εραστών αυτής, και ουδείς θέλει λυτρώσει αυτήν εκ της χειρός μου.
10 Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of my hand.
11 Και θέλω καταπαύσει πάσαν την ευφροσύνην αυτής, τας εορτάς αυτής, τας νεομηνίας αυτής και τα σάββατα αυτής και πάσας τας πανηγύρεις αυτής.
11 I will also cause all her celebrations to cease: her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.
12 Και θέλω αφανίσει τας αμπέλους αυτής και τας συκάς αυτής, περί των οποίων είπε, Μισθώματά μου είναι ταύτα, τα οποία μοι έδωκαν οι ερασταί μου· και θέλω καταστήσει αυτάς δάσος, και τα θηρία του αγρού θέλουσι κατατρώγει αυτάς.
12 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 Και θέλω επισκεφθή επ' αυτήν τας ημέρας των Βααλείμ, καθ' ας εθυμίαζεν εις αυτούς και εστολίζετο με τα ενώτια αυτής και τα περιδέραια αυτής και επορεύετο κατόπιν των εραστών αυτής, εμέ δε ελησμόνησε, λέγει Κύριος.
13 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 Διά τούτο, ιδού, εγώ θέλω εφελκύσει αυτήν και θέλω φέρει αυτήν εις την έρημον και θέλω λαλήσει προς την καρδίαν αυτής.
14 “Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.
15 Και εκείθεν θέλω δώσει εις αυτήν τους αμπελώνας αυτής και την κοιλάδα του Αχώρ διά θύραν ελπίδος· και θέλει ψάλλει εκεί ως εν ταις ημέραις της νεότητος αυτής και ως εν τη ημέρα της αναβάσεως αυτής από γης Αιγύπτου.
15 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 Και εν τη ημέρα εκείνη, λέγει Κύριος, θέλεις με καλέσει, Ο ανήρ μου· και δεν θέλεις με καλέσει πλέον, Ο Βάαλ μου·
16 It will be in that day,” says Yahweh, “that you will call me ‘my husband,’ and no longer call me ‘my master.’
17 διότι θέλω αφαιρέσει τα ονόματα των Βααλείμ από του στόματος αυτής και δεν θέλουσιν αναφέρεσθαι πλέον τα ονόματα αυτών.
17 For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they will no longer be mentioned by name.
18 Και εν τη ημέρα εκείνη θέλω κάμει διαθήκην υπέρ αυτών προς τα θηρία του αγρού και προς τα πετεινά του ουρανού και τα ερπετά της γής· τόξον δε και ρομφαίαν και πόλεμον θέλω συντρίψει εκ της γης και θέλω κατοικίσει αυτούς εν ασφαλεία.
18 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 Και θέλω σε μνηστευθή εις εμαυτόν εις τον αιώνα· και θέλω σε μνηστευθή εις εμαυτόν εν δικαιοσύνη και εν κρίσει και εν ελέει και εν οικτιρμοίς·
19 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 και θέλω σε μνηστευθή εις εμαυτόν εν πίστει· και θέλεις γνωρίσει τον Κύριον.
20 I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know Yahweh.
21 Και εν εκείνη τη ημέρα θέλω αποκριθή, λέγει Κύριος, θέλω αποκριθή προς τους ουρανούς, και αυτοί θέλουσιν αποκριθή προς την γήν·
21 It will happen in that day, that I will respond,” says Yahweh. “I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth;
22 και η γη θέλει αποκριθή προς τον σίτον και τον οίνον και το έλαιον· και ταύτα θέλουσιν αποκριθή προς τον Ιεζραέλ.
22 and the earth will respond to the grain, and the new wine, and the oil; and they will respond to Jezreel.
23 Και θέλω σπείρει αυτήν δι' εμαυτόν επί της γής· και θέλω ελεήσει την ουκ ηλεημένην· και θέλω ειπεί προς τον ου λαόν μου, Λαός μου είσαι· και αυτοί θέλουσιν ειπεί, Θεός μου είσαι.
23 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, ‘You are My God!’”
Cross references (23)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 1 Peter 2:10; Romans 11:30–31; 1 Timothy 1:13; Hosea 2:23; Ezekiel 37:27
- 2 Isaiah 50:1; Ezekiel 23:45; Jeremiah 3:13; Ezekiel 16:25; Jeremiah 3:1
- 3 Ezekiel 16:22; Isaiah 32:13–14; Amos 8:11–13; Ezekiel 19:13; Jeremiah 13:22
- 4 Ezekiel 8:18; James 2:13; Hosea 1:2; Jeremiah 13:14; Hosea 1:6
- 5 Jeremiah 44:17–18; Hosea 3:1; Isaiah 1:21; Hosea 2:8; Jeremiah 3:1–9
- 6 Job 19:8; Lamentations 3:7–9; Job 3:23; Luke 19:43
- 7 Jeremiah 2:2; Luke 15:17–20; Jeremiah 14:22; Hosea 5:13; Ezekiel 23:22
- 8 Isaiah 1:3; Hosea 8:4; Romans 1:28; Hosea 4:11; Ezekiel 16:16–19
- 9 Isaiah 17:10–11; Malachi 1:4; Hosea 2:3; Haggai 1:6–11; Ezekiel 23:26
- 10 Ezekiel 23:29; Luke 12:2–3; Hosea 2:3; Isaiah 3:17; Hosea 13:7–8
- 11 Isaiah 1:13–14; Amos 5:21; Amos 8:5; Jeremiah 7:34; Jeremiah 16:9
- 12 Isaiah 5:5; Isaiah 7:23; Hosea 2:5; Hosea 13:8; Jeremiah 8:13
- 13 Judges 3:7; Hosea 13:6; Hosea 13:1; Hosea 11:2; Jeremiah 7:9
- 14 Isaiah 40:1–2; Ezekiel 20:35–36; Revelation 12:6; Isaiah 30:18; Genesis 34:3
- 15 Jeremiah 2:2; Ezekiel 28:26; Hosea 11:1; Joshua 7:26; Ezekiel 16:60
- 16 Isaiah 54:5; Hosea 2:7; Revelation 19:7; Jeremiah 3:14; John 3:29
- 17 Exodus 23:13; Psalm 16:4; Joshua 23:7; Zechariah 13:2; Jeremiah 10:11
- 18 Ezekiel 34:25; Ezekiel 39:9–10; Psalm 46:9; Isaiah 11:6–9; Jeremiah 23:6
- 19 2 Corinthians 11:2; Revelation 21:2; Isaiah 54:14; Isaiah 54:8–10; John 3:29
- 20 John 17:3; 1 John 4:6; 1 John 5:20; Jeremiah 24:7; Colossians 1:10
- 21 Zechariah 8:12; Isaiah 65:24; Matthew 6:33; Isaiah 55:10; Romans 8:32
- 22 Joel 2:19; Hosea 1:11; Hosea 1:4; Jeremiah 31:12
- 23 Romans 9:25–26; 1 Peter 2:9–10; Zechariah 13:9; Hosea 1:9–10; Romans 3:29
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
And what are the nuptial pledges of the Virgin, the holy bride? And I will betroth thee unto Me in faithfulness.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)