Hosea 8
1 Let there be a trumpet in your throat, like an eagle over the house of the Lord, on behalf of those who have transgressed my covenant and violated my law.
Tia kelelo na monoko na yo! Lokola mpongo, pasi ekokitela Ndako ya Yawe, mpo ete babebisi boyokani na Ngai mpe batombokeli Mobeko na Ngai.
2 They will call on me: “O my God, we, Israel, know you.”
Isalaele azali kobelela Ngai: « Oh Nzambe na biso, toyebi Yo! »
3 Israel has thrown away goodness; the enemy will overtake him.
Kasi Isalaele abwaki makambo malamu; yango wana, monguna akolanda ye.
4 They have reigned, but not by me. Leaders have emerged, and I did not recognize them. Their silver and their gold, they have made into idols for themselves, so that they might cross over.
Batunaki Ngai te tango batiaki bakonzi mpe baponaki bakambi. Bamisalelaki banzambe ya bikeko na palata mpe na wolo na bango mpo na libebi na bango moko.
5 Your calf, Samaria, has been rejected. My fury has been enraged against them. How long will they be incapable of being cleansed?
Oh Samari, nzambe na yo ya ekeko ya mwana ngombe ya mobali ezali nkele! Kanda na Ngai epeli mpo na kobebisa bango. Kino tango nini bakokoka te kotambola na bopeto?
6 For it is itself also from Israel: a workman made it, and it is not God. For the calf of Samaria will be used for the webs of spiders.
Ewuti na Isalaele! Ekeko wana ya mwana ngombe ya mobali, ezali monyangwisi bibende na moto nde asala yango; ezali Nzambe te. Bakobuka yango biteni-biteni, mwana ngombe wana ya Samari.
7 For they will sow wind and reap a whirlwind. It does not have a firm stalk; the bud will yield no grain. But if it does yield, strangers will eat it.
« Lokola baloni mopepe, bakobuka mopepe ya makasi. Nzete ya ble oyo ezanga moto ebimisaka farine te. Ezala soki ebimisi mito, ezali bapaya nde bakolia yango.
8 Israel has been devoured. Now, among the nations, it has become like an unclean vessel.
Isalaele abebisami; tala bango wana kati na bikolo, bazali komonana lokola biloko pamba!
9 For they have gone up to Assur, a wild ass alone by himself. Ephraim has given presents to his lovers.
Pamba te bakendeki na Asiri lokola ane ya zamba oyo ezali kotelengana yango moko. Efrayimi apesaki bakado epai ya bamakangu na ye.
10 But even when they will have brought the nations together for the sake of money, now I will assemble them. And they will rest for a little while from the burden of the king and the leaders.
Ata apesaki bakado kati na bikolo, sik’oyo Ngai nakosangisa bango esika moko mpe bakobanda kosila kokufa na se ya minyoko ya mokonzi moko ya nguya.
11 For Ephraim multiplied altars to sin, and sanctuaries have become an offense for him.
Ata Efrayimi atongi bitumbelo ebele mpo na kolongola masumu na ye, kasi bitumbelo yango ekomemisa ye kaka masumu.
12 I will write to him my intricate laws, which have been treated like strangers.
Nakomelaki bango makambo ebele ya Mobeko na Ngai, kasi bamonaki yango lokola eloko moko ya mopaya.
13 They will offer victims, they will immolate flesh and will eat, and the Lord will not accept them. For now he will remember their iniquity, and he will repay their sins: they will be turned back to Egypt.
Bazali kobonza bambeka lokola likabo mpo na Ngai, mpe bazali kolia misuni; kasi Yawe azali kosepela na bango te. Sik’oyo, akokanisa mabe na bango mpe akopesa bango etumbu mpo na masumu na bango: bakozonga na Ejipito.
14 And Israel has forgotten his Maker and has built shrines. And Judah has increased its fortified cities. And I will send fire upon his cities, and it will devour its structures.
Isalaele abosani Mokeli na ye mpe atongi bandako ya kitoko; Yuda atongi bingumba ebele batonga makasi; kasi Ngai nakotinda moto kati na bingumba na bango, mpe ekotumba bandako na bango ya kitoko. »
