Hoseas 6
1 »Kom, vi vil tilbage til HERREN! Han sønderrev, han vil og læge, han slog os, vil ogsaa forbinde.
Come, let us go back to the Lord; for he has given us wounds and he will make us well; he has given blows and he will give help.
2 Om to Dage gør han os levende, rejser os op den tredje; da lever vi for hans Aasyn.
After two days he will give us life, and on the third day he will make us get up, and we will be living before him.
3 Saa lad os da kende, jage efter at kende HERREN! Som Morgenrøden er hans Opgang vis. Da kommer han til os som Regn, som Vaarregn, der væder Jorden.«
And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.
4 Hvor kan jeg hjælpe dig, Efraim, hvor kan jeg hjælpe dig, Juda? Eders Kærlighed er Morgentaage, Dug, som aarle svinder!
O Ephraim, what am I to do to you? O Judah, what am I to do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew which goes early away.
5 Thi hugged jeg løs ved Profeter, dræbte med Ord af min Mund, min Ret straaler frem som Lys:
So I have had it cut in stones; I gave them teaching by the words of my mouth;
6 Ej Slagtoffer — Kærlighed vil jeg, ej Brændofre — Kendskab til Gud!
Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings.
7 De bryder Pagten i Adam, er mig utro der;
But like a man, they have gone against the agreement; there they were false to me.
8 Gilead er Udaadsmænds By, den er sølet i Blod.
Gilead is a town of evil-doers, marked with blood.
9 Som en Stimandsflok er Præsternes Flok, de myrder paa Vejen til Sikem, gør Niddingsværk.
And like a band of thieves waiting for a man, so are the priests watching secretly the way of those going quickly to Shechem, for they are working with an evil design.
10 Grufulde Ting har jeg set i Israels Hus, der har Efraim bolet, Israel blev uren.
In Israel I have seen a very evil thing; there false ways are seen in Ephraim, Israel is unclean;
11 Juda, ogsaa for dig er der fastsat en Høst, naar jeg vender mit Folks Skæbne, naar jeg læger Israel.
And Judah has put up disgusting images for himself.
