Osee 4
1 Hear the word of the Lord, you children of Israel: for the Lord [has] a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
audite verbum Domini filii Israhel quia iudicium Domino cum habitatoribus terrae non est enim veritas et non est misericordia et non est scientia Dei in terra
2 Cursing, and lying, and murder, and theft, and adultery abound in the land, and they mingle blood with blood.
maledictum et mendacium et homicidium et furtum et adulterium inundaverunt et sanguis sanguinem tetigit
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and shall be diminished with all that dwell in it, with the wild beasts of the field, and the reptiles of the earth, and with the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea shall fail:
propter hoc lugebit terra et infirmabitur omnis qui habitat in ea in bestia agri et in volucre caeli sed et pisces maris congregabuntur
4 that neither any one may plead, nor any one reprove [another]; but my people are as a priest spoken against.
verumtamen unusquisque non iudicet et non arguatur vir populus enim tuus sicut hii qui contradicunt sacerdoti
5 Therefore they shall fall by day, and the prophet with you shall fall: I have compared your mother to night.
et corrues hodie et corruet etiam propheta tecum nocte tacere feci matrem tuam
6 My people are like as if they had no knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall not minister as priest to me: and [as] you has forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
conticuit populus meus eo quod non habuerit scientiam quia tu scientiam reppulisti repellam te ne sacerdotio fungaris mihi et oblita es legis Dei tui obliviscar filiorum tuorum et ego
7 According to their multitude, so they sinned against me: I will turn their glory into shame.
secundum multitudinem eorum sic peccaverunt mihi gloriam eorum in ignominiam commutabo
8 They will devour the sins of my people, and will set their hearts on their iniquities.
peccata populi mei comedent et ad iniquitatem eorum sublevabunt animas eorum
9 And the priest shall be as the people: and I will avenge on them their ways, and I will recompense to them their counsels.
et erit sicut populus sic sacerdos et visitabo super eum vias eius et cogitationes eius reddam ei
10 And they shall eat, and shall not be satisfied: they have gone a-whoring, and shall by no means prosper: because they have left off to take heed to the Lord.
et comedent et non saturabuntur fornicati sunt et non cessaverunt quoniam Dominum reliquerunt in non custodiendo
11 The heart of my people has gladly engaged in fornication and wine and strong drink.
fornicatio et vinum et ebrietas aufert cor
12 They asked counsel by [means of] signs, and they reported answer to them by their staves: they have gone astray in a spirit of whoredom, and gone grievously a-whoring from their God.
populus meus in ligno suo interrogavit et baculus eius adnuntiavit ei spiritus enim fornicationum decepit eos et fornicati sunt a Deo suo
13 They have sacrificed on the tops of the mountains, and on the hills they have sacrificed under the oak and poplar, and under the shady tree, because the shade was good: therefore your daughters shall go a-whoring, and your daughters-in-law shall commit adultery.
super capita montium sacrificabant et super colles accendebant thymiama subtus quercum et populum et terebinthum quia bona erat umbra eius ideo fornicabuntur filiae vestrae et sponsae vestrae adulterae erunt
14 And I will not visit upon your daughters when they shall commit fornication, nor your daughters-in-law when they shall commit adultery: for they themselves mingled themselves with harlots, and sacrificed with polluted ones, and the people that understood not entangled itself with a harlot.
non visitabo super filias vestras cum fuerint fornicatae et super sponsas vestras cum adulteraverint quoniam ipsi cum meretricibus versabantur et cum effeminatis sacrificabant et populus non intellegens vapulabit
15 But you, O Israel, be not ignorant, and go you not, [men of] Juda, to Galgala; and go not up to the house of On, and swear not by the living Lord.
si fornicaris tu Israhel non delinquat saltim Iuda et nolite ingredi in Galgala et ne ascenderitis in Bethaven neque iuraveritis vivit Dominus
16 For Israel was maddened like a mad heifer: now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a wide place.
quoniam sicut vacca lasciviens declinavit Israhel nunc pascet eos Dominus quasi agnum in latitudine
17 Ephraim, joined with idols, has laid stumbling blocks in his own way.
particeps idolorum Ephraim dimitte eum
18 He has chosen the Chananites: they have grievously gone a-whoring: they have loved dishonour through her insolence.
separatum est convivium eorum fornicatione fornicati sunt dilexerunt adferre ignominiam protectores eius
19 You are a blast of wind in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their altars.
ligavit spiritus eam in alis suis et confundentur a sacrificiis suis
