< 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.
Dengarlah firman TUHAN, hai orang Israel, sebab TUHAN mempunyai perkara dengan penduduk negeri ini, sebab tidak ada kesetiaan dan tidak ada kasih, dan tidak ada pengenalan akan Allah di negeri ini.
2 Cursing, and lying, and murder, and theft, and adultery abound in the land, and they mingle blood with blood.
Hanya mengutuk, berbohong, membunuh, mencuri, berzinah, melakukan kekerasan dan penumpahan darah menyusul penumpahan darah.
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:
Sebab itu negeri ini akan berkabung, dan seluruh penduduknya akan merana; juga binatang-binatang di padang dan burung-burung di udara, bahkan ikan-ikan di laut akan mati lenyap.
4 that neither any one may plead, nor any one reprove [another]; but my people are as a priest spoken against.
Hanya janganlah ada orang mengadu, dan janganlah ada orang menegor, sebab terhadap engkaulah pengaduan-Ku itu, hai imam!
5 Therefore they shall fall by day, and the prophet with you shall fall: I have compared your mother to night.
Engkau akan tergelincir jatuh pada siang hari, juga nabi akan tergelincir jatuh bersama-sama engkau pada malam hari; dan Aku akan membinasakan ibumu.
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.
Umat-Ku binasa karena tidak mengenal Allah; karena engkaulah yang menolak pengenalan itu maka Aku menolak engkau menjadi imam-Ku; dan karena engkau melupakan pengajaran Allahmu, maka Aku juga akan melupakan anak-anakmu.
7 According to their multitude, so they sinned against me: I will turn their glory into shame.
Makin bertambah banyak mereka, makin berdosa mereka kepada-Ku, kemuliaan mereka akan Kutukar dengan kehinaan.
8 They will devour the sins of my people, and will set their hearts on their iniquities.
Mereka mendapat rezeki dari dosa umat-Ku dan mengharapkan umat-Ku itu berbuat salah.
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.
Maka seperti nasib rakyat demikianlah nasib imam: Aku akan menghukum dia karena tindakan-tindakannya dan Aku akan membalaskan perbuatan-perbuatannya kepadanya.
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.
Mereka akan makan, tetapi tidak menjadi kenyang, mereka akan bersundal, tetapi tidak menjadi banyak, sebab mereka telah meninggalkan TUHAN untuk berpegang kepada sundal.
11 The heart of my people has gladly engaged in fornication and wine and strong drink.
Anggur dan air anggur menghilangkan daya pikir.
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.
Umat-Ku bertanya kepada pohonnya, dan tongkatnya akan memberitahu kepadanya, sebab roh perzinahan menyesatkan mereka, dan mereka berzinah meninggalkan Allah mereka.
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.
Mereka mempersembahkan korban di puncak gunung-gunung dan membakar korban di atas bukit-bukit, di bawah pohon besar dan pohon hawar dan pohon rimbun, sebab naungannya baik. Itulah sebabnya anak-anakmu perempuan berzinah dan menantu-menantumu perempuan bersundal.
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.
Aku tidak akan menghukum anak-anak perempuanmu sekalipun mereka berzinah, atau menantu-menantumu perempuan, sekalipun mereka bersundal; sebab mereka sendiri mengasingkan diri bersama-sama dengan perempuan-perempuan sundal dan mempersembahkan korban bersama-sama dengan sundal-sundal bakti, dan umat yang tidak berpengertian akan runtuh.
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.
Jika engkau ini berzinah, hai Israel, janganlah Yehuda turut bersalah! Janganlah pergi ke Gilgal, dan janganlah naik ke Bet-Awen, dan janganlah bersumpah: "Demi TUHAN yang hidup!"
16 For Israel was maddened like a mad heifer: now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a wide place.
Sebab Israel degil seperti lembu yang degil, masakan sekarang TUHAN menggembalakan mereka, seperti domba di tanah lapang?
17 Ephraim, joined with idols, has laid stumbling blocks in his own way.
Efraim bersekutu dengan berhala-berhala, biarkanlah dia!
18 He has chosen the Chananites: they have grievously gone a-whoring: they have loved dishonor through her insolence.
Persepakatan para pemabuk! mereka menyerahkan diri habis-habisan kepada persundalan; mereka lebih mencintai kehinaan dari pada kemasyhuran mereka.
19 You are a blast of wind in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their altars.
Angin melingkupi mereka dalam sayap-sayapnya, dan mereka akan mendapat malu karena korban-korban mereka.

< Osee 4 >