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.
“Ffuwa ekkondeere. Empungu eri ku nnyumba ya Mukama kubanga abantu bamenye endagaano yange ne bajeemera amateeka gange.
2 They will send up to me a cry for help: We, Israel, have knowledge of you, O God of Israel.
Isirayiri bankaabira nga boogera nti, ‘Katonda waffe, tukumanyi.’
3 Israel has given up what is good; his haters will go after him.
Naye Isirayiri baleseeyo ekirungi; omulabe kyaliva abayigganya.
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.
Balonda bakabaka nga sikkirizza, balonda abakulembeze be sikakasizza. Beekolera ebifaananyi ebyole mu ffeeza yaabwe ne mu zaabu yaabwe ebiribaleetera okuzikirira.
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?
Kanyuga ebweru ekifaananyi ky’ennyana yo, ggwe Samaliya. Obusungu bwange bubabuubuukirako. Balituusa ddi okuba abatali batuukirivu?
6 The workman made it, it is no god; the ox of Samaria will be broken into bits.
Bava mu Isirayiri. Ennyana eyo omuntu eyakuguka mu by’okuweesa, ye yagikola so si Katonda. Era ennyana eyo eya Samaliya eribetentebwa.
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.
“Basiga empewo, ne bakungula embuyaga. Ekikolo olw’obutaba na mutwe, kyekiriva kirema okubala ensigo. Naye ne bwe kyandibaze, bannaggwanga bandigiridde.
8 Israel has come to destruction; now they are among the nations like a cup in which there is no pleasure.
Isirayiri amaliddwawo; ali wakati mu mawanga ng’ekintu ekitagasa.
9 For they have gone up to Assyria like an ass going by himself; Ephraim has given money to get lovers.
Bambuse ne bagenda eri Obwasuli, ng’endogoyi ey’omu nsiko eri yokka. Efulayimu aguliridde abaganzi.
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.
Newaakubadde nga beetunze eri amawanga, ndibakuŋŋaanya, era ndibawaayo eri okubonaabona nga banyigirizibwa kabaka ow’amaanyi.
11 Because Ephraim has been increasing altars for sin, altars have become a cause of sin to him.
“Newaakubadde nga Efulayimu baazimba ebyoto bingi eby’ebiweebwayo olw’ekibi, bifuuse byoto bya kukolerako bibi.
12 Though I put my law in writing for him in ten thousand rules, they are to him as a strange thing.
Nabawandiikira ebintu bingi mu mateeka gange, naye ne babifuula ekintu ekigwira.
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.
Bawaayo ebiweebwayo gye ndi, ne balya ennyama yaabyo, Mukama tabasanyukira. Kaakano alijukira obutali butuukirivu bwabwe n’ababonereza olw’ebibi byabwe: Baliddayo e Misiri.
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.
Isirayiri yeerabidde omutonzi we, n’azimba embiri, ne Yuda ne yeeyongera okuzimba ebibuga ebiriko bbugwe; naye ndisindika omuliro ku bibuga byabwe, ne gwokya ebigo byabwe.”
