Hosea 4
1 Hear the LORD’s word, you children of Israel, for the LORD has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
イスラエルの子輩よヱホバの言を聴けヱホバこの地に住る者と争辨たまふ其は此地には誠實なく愛情なく神を知る事なければなり
2 There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.
ただ詛偽凶殺盗姦淫のみにして互に相襲ひ血血につづき流る
3 Therefore the land will mourn, and everyone who dwells in it will waste away, with all living things in her, even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky; yes, the fish of the sea also die.
このゆゑにその地うれひにしづみ之にすむものはみな野のけもの空のとりとともにおとろへ海の魚もまた絶はてん
4 “Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let any man accuse; for your people are like those who bring charges against a priest.
されど何人もあらそふべからずいましむ可らず汝の民は祭司と争ふ者の如くなれり
5 You will stumble in the day, and the prophet will also stumble with you in the night; and I will destroy your mother.
汝は昼つまづき汝と偕なる預言者は夜つまづかん我なんぢの母を亡すべし
6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.
わが民は知識なきによりて亡さるなんぢ知識を棄つるによりて我もまた汝を棄ててわが祭司たらしめじ汝おのが神の作法を忘るるによりて我もなんぢの子等を忘れん
7 As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.
彼らは大なるにしたがひてますます我に罪を犯せば我かれらの榮を辱に変ん
8 They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.
彼らはわが民の罪をくらひ心をかたむけてその罪ををかすを願へり
9 It will be like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and will repay them for their deeds.
このゆゑに民の遇ところは祭司もまた同じわれその途をかれらにきたらせその行爲をもて之にむくゆべし
10 They will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; because they have abandoned listening to the LORD.
かれらは食へども飽ず淫行をなせどもその數まさずその心をヱホバにとむることを止ればなり
11 Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
淫行と酒と新しき洒はその人の心をうばふ
12 My people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to their God.
わが民木にむかひて事をとふその杖かれらに事をしめす是かれら淫行の霊にまよはされその神の下を離れて淫行を爲すなり
13 They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and burn incense on the hills, under oaks, poplars, and terebinths, because its shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the prostitute, and your brides commit adultery.
彼らは山々の巓にて犠牲を献げ岡の上にて香を焚き橡樹 楊樹 栗樹の下にてこの事をおこなふ此はその樹蔭の美しきによりてなりここをもてなんぢらの女子は淫行をなしなんぢらの兒婦は姦淫をおこなふ
14 I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, nor your brides when they commit adultery; because the men consort with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; so the people without understanding will come to ruin.
我なんぢらのむすめ淫行をなせども罰せずなんぢらの兒婦かんいんをおこなへども刑せじ其はなんぢらもみづから離れゆきて妓女とともに居り淫婦とともに献物をそなふればなり悟らざる民はほろぶべし
15 “Though you, Israel, play the prostitute, yet do not let Judah offend; and do not come to Gilgal, neither go up to Beth Aven, nor swear, ‘As the LORD lives.’
イスラエルよ汝淫行をなすともユダに罪を犯さする勿れギルガルに往なかれベテアベンに上るなかれヱホバは活くと曰て誓ふなかれ
16 For Israel has behaved extremely stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Then how will the LORD feed them like a lamb in a meadow?
イスラエルは頑強なる牛のごとくに頑強なり今ヱホバ恙羊をひろき野にはなてるが如くして之を牧はん
17 Ephraim is joined to idols. Leave him alone!
エフライムは偶像にむすびつらなれりその爲にまかせよ
18 Their drink has become sour. They play the prostitute continually. Her rulers dearly love their shameful way.
かれらの酒はくされかれらの淫行はやまずかれらの楯となるべき者等は恥を愛しいたく之を愛せり
19 The wind has wrapped her up in its wings; and they shall be disappointed because of their sacrifices.
かれは風の翼につつまれかれらはその礼物によりて恥辱をかうむらん
