Hosea 8
1 Put the ram’s horn to your lips! An eagle looms over the house of the LORD, because the people have transgressed My covenant and rebelled against My law.
Tia kelelo na monoko na yo! Lokola mpongo, pasi ekokitela Ndako ya Yawe, mpo ete babebisi boyokani na Ngai mpe batombokeli Mobeko na Ngai.
2 Israel cries out to Me, “O our God, we know You!”
Isalaele azali kobelela Ngai: « Oh Nzambe na biso, toyebi Yo! »
3 But Israel has rejected good; an enemy will pursue him.
Kasi Isalaele abwaki makambo malamu; yango wana, monguna akolanda ye.
4 They set up kings, but not by Me. They make princes, but without My approval. With their silver and gold they make themselves idols, to their own destruction.
Batunaki Ngai te tango batiaki bakonzi mpe baponaki bakambi. Bamisalelaki banzambe ya bikeko na palata mpe na wolo na bango mpo na libebi na bango moko.
5 He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?
Oh Samari, nzambe na yo ya ekeko ya mwana ngombe ya mobali ezali nkele! Kanda na Ngai epeli mpo na kobebisa bango. Kino tango nini bakokoka te kotambola na bopeto?
6 For this thing is from Israel— a craftsman made it, and it is not God. It will be broken to pieces, that calf of Samaria.
Ewuti na Isalaele! Ekeko wana ya mwana ngombe ya mobali, ezali monyangwisi bibende na moto nde asala yango; ezali Nzambe te. Bakobuka yango biteni-biteni, mwana ngombe wana ya Samari.
7 For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.
« Lokola baloni mopepe, bakobuka mopepe ya makasi. Nzete ya ble oyo ezanga moto ebimisaka farine te. Ezala soki ebimisi mito, ezali bapaya nde bakolia yango.
8 Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like a worthless vessel.
Isalaele abebisami; tala bango wana kati na bikolo, bazali komonana lokola biloko pamba!
9 For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.
Pamba te bakendeki na Asiri lokola ane ya zamba oyo ezali kotelengana yango moko. Efrayimi apesaki bakado epai ya bamakangu na ye.
10 Though they hire allies among the nations, I will now round them up, and they will begin to diminish under the oppression of the king of princes.
Ata apesaki bakado kati na bikolo, sik’oyo Ngai nakosangisa bango esika moko mpe bakobanda kosila kokufa na se ya minyoko ya mokonzi moko ya nguya.
11 Though Ephraim multiplied the altars for sin, they became his altars for sinning.
Ata Efrayimi atongi bitumbelo ebele mpo na kolongola masumu na ye, kasi bitumbelo yango ekomemisa ye kaka masumu.
12 Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.
Nakomelaki bango makambo ebele ya Mobeko na Ngai, kasi bamonaki yango lokola eloko moko ya mopaya.
13 Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.
Bazali kobonza bambeka lokola likabo mpo na Ngai, mpe bazali kolia misuni; kasi Yawe azali kosepela na bango te. Sik’oyo, akokanisa mabe na bango mpe akopesa bango etumbu mpo na masumu na bango: bakozonga na Ejipito.
14 Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has multiplied its fortified cities. But I will send fire upon their cities, and it will consume their citadels.
Isalaele abosani Mokeli na ye mpe atongi bandako ya kitoko; Yuda atongi bingumba ebele batonga makasi; kasi Ngai nakotinda moto kati na bingumba na bango, mpe ekotumba bandako na bango ya kitoko. »
