Hosea 6
1 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.
“Mommra, momma yɛnsane nkɔ Awurade nkyɛn. Wɔatete yɛn mu asinasini nanso ɔbɛsa yɛn yadeɛ. Wapirapira yɛn nanso ɔbɛkyekyere yɛn apirakuro.
2 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.
Nnanu akyiri, ɔbɛma yɛanya ahoɔden; nansa so, ɔde yɛn bɛsi yɛn siberɛ na yɛanya nkwa wɔ nʼanim.
3 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.
Momma yɛnnye Awurade nto mu; momma yɛn nkɔ so nnye no nto mu. Sɛdeɛ awia pue da biara no, ɔbɛpue; ɔbɛba yɛn nkyɛn te sɛ osuo a ɛtɔ awɔberɛ mu anaa osutɔberɛ mu nsuo a ɛfɔ asase.”
4 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.
“Ɛdeɛn na mɛtumi de wo ayɛ, Efraim? Ɛdeɛn na mɛtumi de wo ayɛ, Yuda? Mo dɔ te sɛ anɔpa bɔ, ɛte sɛ anɔpa bosuo a ɛtu yera.
5 So I have had it cut in stones; I gave them teaching by the words of my mouth;
Mede mʼadiyifoɔ twitwaa mo mu asinasini, mede mʼanum nsɛm kunkumm mo; mʼatemmuo baa mo so sɛ anyinam.
6 Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings.
Mepɛ ahummɔborɔ na ɛnyɛ afɔrebɔ, mepɛ Onyankopɔn ho nimdeɛ sene ɔhyeɛ afɔdeɛ.
7 But like a man, they have gone against the agreement; there they were false to me.
Wɔabu apam no so sɛdeɛ Adam yɛeɛ. Wɔanni me nokorɛ wɔ hɔ.
8 Gilead is a town of evil-doers, marked with blood.
Gilead yɛ atirimuɔdenfoɔ kuropɔn a mogya anammɔn akeka hɔ.
9 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.
Sɛdeɛ akwanmukafoɔ ka ɛkwan mu no saa ara na asɔfo kuo no nso yɛ; wɔdi awu wɔ Sekem kwantempɔn so yɛ nnebɔne a ɛyɛ animguaseɛ.
10 In Israel I have seen a very evil thing; there false ways are seen in Ephraim, Israel is unclean;
Mahunu ahodwiredeɛ wɔ Israel fie. Ɛhɔ, Efraim kɔ adwamammɔ mu Israel gu ne ho fi.
11 And Judah has put up disgusting images for himself.
“Na wo Yuda nso, wɔahyɛ otwa berɛ ama wo. “Ɛberɛ biara a mede me nkurɔfoɔ ahonya asane ama wɔn,
