Hosea 8
1 Put the horn to your mouth. He comes like an eagle against the house of the Lord; because they have gone against my agreement, they have not kept my law.
ラッパをあなたの口にあてよ、はげたかは主の家に臨む。彼らがわたしの契約を破り、わたしの律法を犯したからだ。
2 They will send up to me a cry for help: We, Israel, have knowledge of you, O God of Israel.
彼らはわたしに向かって叫ぶ、「わが神よ、われわれイスラエルはあなたを知る」と。
3 Israel has given up what is good; his haters will go after him.
イスラエルは善はしりぞけた。敵はこれを追うであろう。
4 They have put up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, but I had no knowledge of it; they have made images of silver and gold, so that they may be cut off.
彼らは王を立てた、しかし、わたしによって立てたのではない。彼らは君を立てた、しかし、わたしはこれを知らない。彼らは銀と金をもって、自分たちの滅びのために偶像を造った。
5 I will have nothing to do with your young ox, O Samaria; my wrath is burning against them; how long will it be before the children of Israel make themselves clean?
サマリヤよ、わたしはあなたの子牛を忌みきらう。わたしの怒りは彼らに向かって燃える。彼らはいつになればイスラエルで罪なき者となるであろうか。
6 The workman made it, it is no god; the ox of Samaria will be broken into bits.
これは工人の作ったもので、神ではない。サマリヤの子牛は砕けて粉となる。
7 For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.
彼らは風をまいて、つむじ風を刈り取る。立っている穀物は穂を持たず、また実らない。たとい実っても、他国人がこれを食い尽す。
8 Israel has come to destruction; now they are among the nations like a cup in which there is no pleasure.
イスラエルはのまれた。彼らは諸国民の間にあって、すでに無用な器のようになった。
9 For they have gone up to Assyria like an ass going by himself; Ephraim has given money to get lovers.
彼らはひとりさまよう野のろばのように、アッスリヤにのぼって行った。エフライムは物を贈って恋人を得た。
10 But though they give money to the nations for help, still I will send them in all directions; and in a short time they will be without a king and rulers.
たとい彼らが国々に物を贈って同盟者を得ても、わたしはまもなく彼らを集める。彼らはしばらくにして、王や君たちに油をそそぐことをやめる。
11 Because Ephraim has been increasing altars for sin, altars have become a cause of sin to him.
エフライムは多くの祭壇を造って罪を犯したゆえ、これは彼には罪を犯すための祭壇となった。
12 Though I put my law in writing for him in ten thousand rules, they are to him as a strange thing.
わたしは彼のために、あまたの律法を書きしるしたが、これはかえって怪しい物のように思われた。
13 He gives the offerings of his lovers, and takes the flesh for food; but the Lord has no pleasure in them; now he will keep in mind their evil-doing and give them the punishment of their sins; they will go back to Egypt.
彼らは犠牲を好み、肉をささげてこれを食べる。しかし主はこれを喜ばれない。今、彼らの不義を覚え、彼らの罪を罰せられる。彼らはエジプトに帰る。
14 For Israel has no memory of his Maker, and has put up the houses of kings; and Judah has made great the number of his walled towns. But I will send a fire on his towns and put an end to his great houses.
イスラエルは自分の造り主を忘れて、もろもろの宮殿を建てた。ユダは堅固な町々を多く増し加えた。しかしわたしは火をその町々に送って、もろもろの城を焼き滅ぼす。
