Hosea 6

1 “Come, and let us return unto the Lord; for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind up our wounds.

來れわれらヱホバにかへるべし ヱホバわれらを抓劈たまひたれどもまた醫すことをなし我儕をうち給ひたれどもまたその傷をつつむことを爲したまふ可ればなり

2 He will revive us after two days: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his presence.

ヱホバは二日ののちわれらむ活かへし三日にわれらを起せたまはん 我らその前にて生ん

3 And let us feel it, that we may strive to know the Lord; bright as the morning-dawn is his rising; and he will come as the rain unto us, as the latter rain that maketh fruitful the earth.”

この故にわれらヱホバをしるべし切にヱホバを知ことを求むべしヱホバは晨光のごとく必ずあらはれいで雨のごとくわれらにのぞみ後の雨のごとく地をうるほし給ふ

4 What shall I do unto thee, O Ephraim? what shall I do unto thee, O Judah? for your piety is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away.

エフライムよ我なんぢに何をなさんやユダよ我なんぢに何をなさんやなんぢの愛情はあしたの雲のごとくまたただちにきゆる露のごとし

5 Therefore did I hew [them] down by means of the prophets; I slew them by the words of my mouth: and thy punishments go forth like the light.

このゆゑにわれ預言者等をもてかれらを撃ちわが口の言をもてかれらえを殺せりわが審判はあらはれいづる光明のごとし

6 For piety I desired, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God, more than burnt-offerings.

われは愛憎をよろこびて犠牲をよろこばず神をしるを悦ぶこと燔祭にまされり

7 But they, like an ordinary man, have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

然るに彼らはアダムのごとく誓をやぶりかしこにて不義をわれにおこなへり

8 Gil'ad is become a city of workers of wickedness, is full of traces of blood.

ギレアデは惡をおこなふものの邑にして血の足跡そのなかに徧し

9 And as troops that lie in wait for a man, so is the band of priests, they murder on the way in unison; for they commit scandalous deeds.

祭司のともがらは山賊の群のごとく伏伺して人をそこなひシケムに往く大路にて人をころす彼等はかくのごとき惡きことをおこなへり

10 On the house of Israel have I seen a horrible thing: there is lewdness in Ephraim, Israel is become defiled.

われイスラエルのいへに憎むべきことあるを見たりかの處にてエフライムは淫をおこなふイスフルは汚れたり

11 Also for thee, O Judah, will a harvest be prepared, when I bring back the captivity of my people.

ユダよ我わが民の俘囚をかへさんときまた汝のためにも穫刈をそなへん