Hosea 14

1 Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.

イスラエルよ汝の神ヱホバに歸れよ汝は不義のために仆れたり

2 Bring your confessions and return to the LORD. Say to Him: “Take away all our iniquity and receive us graciously, that we may present the fruit of our lips.

汝ら言詞をたづさへ來りヱホバに歸りていへ諸の不義は赦して善ところを受納れたまへ斯て我らは唇をもて牛のごとくに汝に献げん

3 Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’ to the work of our own hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”

アッスリヤはわれらを授けじ我らは馬に騎らじまたふたたび我儕みづからの手にて作れる者にむかひわが神なりと言じ孤兒は爾によりて憐憫を得べければなりと

4 I will heal their apostasy; I will freely love them, for My anger has turned away from them.

我かれらの反逆を醫し悦びて之を愛せん我が怒はかれを離れ去たり

5 I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.

我イスラエルに對しては露のごとくならん彼は百合花のごとく花さきレバノンのごとく根をはらん

6 His shoots will sprout, and his splendor will be like the olive tree, his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon.

その枝は茂りひろがり其美麗は橄欖の樹のごとくその芬芳はレバノンのごとくならん

7 They will return and dwell in his shade; they will grow grain and blossom like the vine. His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.

その蔭に住む者かへり來らんかれらは穀物の如く活かへり葡萄樹のごとく花さきその馨香はレバノンの酒のごとくなるべし

8 O Ephraim, what have I to do anymore with idols? It is I who answer and watch over him. I am like a flourishing cypress; your fruit comes from Me.

エフライムはいふ我また偶像と何のあづかる所あらんやと我これに應へたり我かれを顧みん我は蒼翠の松のごとし汝われより果を得ん

9 Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right, and the righteous walk in them but the rebellious stumble in them.

誰か智慧ある者ぞその人はこの事を暁らん誰か頴悟ある者ぞその人は之を知んヱホバの道は凡て直し義者は之を歩む然ど罪人は之に躓かん