Hoseya 9
1 Iwe Israeli, usakondwere; monga imachitira mitundu ina. Pakuti wakhala wosakhulupirika kwa Mulungu wako; umakonda malipiro a chiwerewere pa malo aliwonse opunthira tirigu.
Have no joy, O Israel, and do not be glad like the nations; for you have been untrue to your God; your desire has been for the loose woman's reward on every grain-floor.
2 Malo opunthira tirigu ndi malo opsinyira mphesa sadzadyetsa anthu; adzasowa vinyo watsopano.
The grain-floor and the place where the grapes are crushed will not give them food; there will be no new wine for them.
3 Sadzakhalanso mʼdziko la Yehova. Efereimu adzabwerera ku Igupto ndipo mudzadya chakudya chodetsedwa ku Asiriya.
They will have no resting-place in the Lord's land, but Ephraim will go back to Egypt, and they will take unclean food in Assyria.
4 Iwo sadzaperekanso chopereka cha chakumwa kwa Yehova, kapena nsembe zawo kuti akondweretse Yehovayo. Nsembe zotere zidzakhala kwa iwo ngati chakudya cha anamfedwa; onse akudya chakudya chimenechi adzakhala odetsedwa. Chakudya ichi chidzakhala chodya okha, sichidzalowa mʼnyumba ya Yehova.
They will give no wine offering to the Lord, they will not make offerings ready for him; their bread will be like the bread of those in sorrow; all who take it will be unclean, because their bread will be only for their desire, it will not come into the house of the Lord.
5 Kodi mudzachita chiyani pa tsiku la maphwando anu oyikika; pa masiku a zikondwerero za Yehova?
What will you do on the day of worship, and on the day of the feast of the Lord?
6 Ngakhale iwo atathawa chiwonongeko, Igupto adzawasonkhanitsa, ndipo Mefisi adzawayika mʼmanda. Khwisa adzamera pa ziwiya zawo zasiliva, ndipo minga idzamera mʼmatenti awo.
For see, they are going away into Assyria; Egypt will get them together, Memphis will be their last resting-place; their fair silver vessels will be covered over with field plants, and thorns will come up in their tents.
7 Masiku achilango akubwera, masiku obwezera ali pafupi. Israeli adziwe zimenezi. Chifukwa machimo anu ndi ochuluka kwambiri ndipo udani wanu pa Mulungu ndi waukulu kwambiri. Mneneri amamuyesa chitsiru, munthu wanzeru za kwa Mulungu ngati wamisala.
The days of punishment, the days of reward are come; Israel will be put to shame; the prophet is foolish, the man who has the spirit is off his head, because of your great sin.
8 Mneneri pamodzi ndi Mulungu wanga ndiwo alonda a Efereimu, koma mneneri amutchera misampha mʼnjira zake zonse, ndipo udani ukumudikira mʼnyumba ya Mulungu wake.
There is great hate against the watchman of Ephraim, the people of my God; as for the prophet, there is a net in all his ways, and hate in the house of his God.
9 Iwo azama mu zachinyengo monga masiku a Gibeya. Mulungu adzakumbukira zolakwa zawo ndipo adzawalanga chifukwa cha machimo awo.
They have gone deep in evil as in the days of Gibeah; he will keep in mind their wrongdoing, he will give them punishment for their sins.
10 “Pamene ndinamupeza Israeli zinali ngati kupeza mphesa mʼchipululu. Nditaona makolo anu, zinali ngati ndikuona nkhuyu zoyambirira kupsa. Koma atafika ku Baala Peori, anadzipereka ku fano lija lochititsa manyazi ndipo anakhala onyansa ngati chinthu chimene anachikondacho.
I made discovery of Israel as of grapes in the waste land; I saw your fathers as the first-fruits of the fig-tree in her early fruit time; but they came to Baal-peor, and made themselves holy to the thing of shame, and became disgusting like that to which they gave their love.
11 Ulemerero wa Efereimu udzawuluka ngati mbalame. Sipadzakhalanso kubereka ana, kuyembekezera kapena kutenga pathupi.
As for Ephraim, their glory will go in flight like a bird: there will be no birth and no one with child and no giving of life.
12 Ngakhale atalera ana ndidzachititsa kuti mwana aliyense amwalire. Tsoka kwa anthuwo pamene Ine ndidzawafulatira!
Even though their children have come to growth I will take them away, so that not a man will be there; for their evil-doing will be complete and they will be put to shame because of it.
13 Ndaona Efereimu ngati Turo, atadzalidwa pa nthaka ya chonde. Koma Efereimu adzatsogolera ana ake kuti akaphedwe.”
As I have seen a beast whose young have been taken from her, so Ephraim will give birth to children only for them to be put to death.
14 Inu Yehova, muwapatse. Kodi mudzawapatsa chiyani? Apatseni mimba yomangopita padera ndi mawere owuma.
O Lord, what will you give them? Give them bodies which may not give birth and breasts without milk.
15 “Chifukwa cha zoyipa zawo zonse ku Giligala, Ine ndinawada kumeneko. Chifukwa cha machitidwe awo auchimo, ndidzawapirikitsa mʼnyumba yanga. Sindidzawakondanso; atsogoleri awo onse ndi owukira.
All their evil-doing is in Gilgal; there I had hate for them; because of their evil-doing I will send them out of my house; they will no longer be dear to me; all their rulers are uncontrolled.
16 Efereimu wathedwa, mizu yake yauma sakubalanso zipatso. Ngakhale atabereka ana, Ine ndidzapha ana awo okondedwawo.”
The rod has come on Ephraim, their root is dry, let them have no fruit; even though they give birth, I will put to death the dearest fruit of their bodies.
17 Mulungu wanga adzawakana chifukwa sanamumvere Iye; adzakhala oyendayenda pakati pa anthu a mitundu ina.
My God will give them up because they did not give ear to him; they will be wandering among the nations.
