< 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.
“तुरही फुक्‍न तयार होओ! परमप्रभुको मन्‍दिरमाथि एउटा गरुड आउँदैछ, किनभने मानिसहरूले मेरो करार भङ्ग गरेका छन्, र मेरो व्यवस्थाको विरुद्ध बागी भएका छन् ।
2 Israel cries out to Me, “O our God, we know You!”
तिनीहरू मलाई पुकारा गर्छन्, ‘हे मेरा परमेश्‍वर, इस्राएलीमा हामी तपाईंलाई चिन्दछौं ।’
3 But Israel has rejected good; an enemy will pursue him.
तर इस्राएलले जे असल छ त्यो इन्‍कार गरेको छ, र सत्रुले त्यसलाई खेद्‍नेछ ।
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.
मैले नचुनेका राजाहरूलाई, तिनीहरूले स्थापित गरेका छन् । तिनीहरूले मलाई नसोधी राजकुमारहरू नियुक्‍त गरेका छन् । आफ्‍ना चाँदी र सुनले, आफ्नै निम्ति तिनीहरूले मूर्तिहरू बनाएका छन्, तर तिनीहरूको विनाश हुनलाई नै यसो भयो ।”
5 He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?
“ए समारिया, तेरो बाछो तिरस्‍कृत भएको छ । यी मानिसहरूका विरूद्धमा मेरो क्रोध जल्‍दैछ । किनकि कहिलेसम्म तिनीहरू दोषी रहनेछन्?
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.
किनकि यो मूर्ति इस्राएलबाट आएको हो । एउटा कारिगरले त्‍यो बनायो । त्यो परमेश्‍वर होइन! सामरियाको बाछोलाइ टुक्रा-टुक्रा पारिनेछ ।
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.
किनकि मानिसहरूले बतास छर्छन्, र आँधिको कटनी गर्छन् । खडा बालीमा बालाहरू छैनन्, र त्यसले केही फसल दिंदैन । त्यसमा फसल लाग्‍यो भने, परदेशीहरूले त्यो सखाप पार्नेछन् ।
8 Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like a worthless vessel.
इस्राएल निलिएको छ । अब जातिहरूमा बिचमा ती काम नलाग्‍ने वस्तुझैं रहन्‍छन् ।
9 For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.
किनकि वन-गधा एक्लै गएझैं, तिनीहरू अश्‍शूरसम्‍म गए । एफ्राइमले आफ्नै निम्ति प्रेमीहरू नियुक्‍त गरेको छ ।
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.
तिनीहरूले जातिहरूका बिचमा प्रेमीहरू नियुक्‍त गरे तापनि, अब तिनीहरूलाई म एकसाथ भेला गराउनेछु । राजकुमारहरूका राजाको दमनको कारणले, तिनीहरू दुःखी हुन लाग्‍नेछन् ।
11 Though Ephraim multiplied the altars for sin, they became his altars for sinning.
किनकि पापबलिहरूका निम्ति एफ्राइमले वेदीहरूको सङ्ख्या बढाएका छन्, तर झन् पाप गर्ने वेदीहरू ती भएका छन् ।
12 Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.
तिनीहरूका निम्ति मैले आफ्‍नो व्यवस्थालाई दस हजारपल्‍ट लेखे पनि, तिनीहरूले त्यसलाई कुनै नयाँ कुराजस्‍तो गरी हेर्छन् ।
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.
मेरा भेटीहरूका बलिदानको बारेमा, तिनीहरूले मासु चढाउँछन् र त्यो खान्‍छन्, तर म, परमप्रभुले त्यो ग्रहण गर्दिनँ । अब म तिनीहरूका अधर्मका बारेमा विचार गर्नेछु, र तिनीहरूका पापलाई दण्ड दिनेछु । तिनीहरू मिश्रदेशमा फर्कनेछन् ।
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.
इस्राएलले आफ्‍ना सृष्‍टिकर्ता, मलाई बिर्सेको छ, र दरबारहरू बनाएका छ । यहूदाले धेरै सहरहरूलाई किल्‍लाबन्‍दी गरेको छ, तर त्यसका सहरहरूमा म आगो पठाउनेछु, र त्यसले उसका किल्‍लाहरू भष्‍म पार्नेछ ।

< Hosea 8 >