Hosea 4
1 to hear: hear word LORD son: descendant/people Israel for strife to/for LORD with to dwell [the] land: country/planet for nothing truth: faithful and nothing kindness and nothing knowledge God in/on/with land: country/planet
Sikieni neno la Bwana, enyi Waisraeli, kwa sababu Bwana analo shtaka dhidi yenu ninyi mnaoishi katika nchi: “Hakuna uaminifu, hakuna upendo, hakuna kumjua Mungu katika nchi.
2 to swear and to deceive and to murder and to steal and to commit adultery to break through and blood in/on/with blood to touch
Kuna kulaani tu, uongo na uuaji, wizi na uzinzi, bila kuwa na mipaka, nao umwagaji damu mmoja baada ya mwingine.
3 upon so to mourn [the] land: country/planet and to weaken all to dwell in/on/with her in/on/with living thing [the] land: country and in/on/with bird [the] heaven and also fish [the] sea to gather
Kwa sababu hii nchi huomboleza, wote waishio ndani mwake wanadhoofika, wanyama wa kondeni, ndege wa angani na samaki wa baharini wanakufa.
4 surely man: anyone not to contend and not to rebuke man: anyone and people your like/as to contend priest
“Lakini mtu awaye yote na asilete shtaka, mtu yeyote na asimlaumu mwenzake, kwa maana watu wako ni kama wale waletao mashtaka dhidi ya kuhani.
5 and to stumble [the] day and to stumble also prophet with you night and to cease mother your
Unajikwaa usiku na mchana, nao manabii hujikwaa pamoja nawe. Kwa hiyo nitamwangamiza mama yako:
6 to cease people my from without [the] knowledge for you(m. s.) [the] knowledge to reject and to reject you from to minister to/for me and to forget instruction God your to forget son: child your also I
watu wangu wanaangamizwa kwa kukosa maarifa, “Kwa kuwa wewe umeyakataa maarifa, mimi nami nitakukataa wewe usiwe kuhani kwangu mimi; kwa kuwa umeacha kuijali sheria ya Mungu wako mimi nami sitawajali watoto wako.
7 like/as to multiply they so to sin to/for me glory their in/on/with dishonor to change
Kadiri makuhani walivyoongezeka, ndivyo walivyozidi kutenda dhambi dhidi yangu, walibadilisha utukufu wao kwa kitu cha aibu.
8 sin people my to eat and to(wards) iniquity: crime their to lift: trust soul: appetite his
Hujilisha dhambi za watu wangu na kupendezwa na uovu wao.
9 and to be like/as people like/as priest and to reckon: punish upon him way: conduct his and deed his to return: pay to/for him
Hata itakuwa: Kama walivyo watu, ndivyo walivyo makuhani. Nitawaadhibu wote wawili kwa ajili ya njia zao na kuwalipa kwa matendo yao.
10 and to eat and not to satisfy to fornicate and not to break through for [obj] LORD to leave: forsake to/for to keep: look at
“Watakula lakini hawatashiba; watajiingiza katika ukahaba lakini hawataongezeka, kwa sababu wamemwacha Bwana na kujiingiza wenyewe
11 fornication and wine and new wine to take: take heart
katika ukahaba, divai ya zamani na divai mpya, ambavyo huondoa ufahamu
12 people my in/on/with tree: wood his to ask and rod his to tell to/for him for spirit fornication to go astray and to fornicate from underneath: instead God their
wa watu wangu. Hutaka shauri kutoka kwa sanamu ya mti nao hujibiwa na fimbo ya mti. Roho ya ukahaba imewapotosha, hawana uaminifu kwa Mungu wao.
13 upon head: top [the] mountain: mount to sacrifice and upon [the] hill to offer: offer underneath: under oak and poplar and oak for pleasant shadow her upon so to fornicate daughter your and daughter-in-law: bride your to commit adultery
Wanatoa dhabihu juu ya vilele vya milima na sadaka za kuteketezwa juu ya vilima, chini ya mialoni, milibua na miela, ambako kuna vivuli vizuri. Kwa hiyo binti zenu wamegeukia ukahaba na wake za wana wenu uzinzi.
14 not to reckon: punish upon daughter your for to fornicate and upon daughter-in-law: bride your for to commit adultery for they(masc.) with [the] to fornicate to separate and with [the] cult prostitute to sacrifice and people not to understand to ruin
“Sitawaadhibu binti zenu wakati wanapogeukia ukahaba, wala wake za wana wenu wanapofanya uzinzi, kwa sababu wanaume wenyewe huandamana na malaya na kutambikia pamoja na makahaba wa mahali pa kuabudia miungu: watu wasiokuwa na ufahamu wataangamia!
15 if to fornicate you(m. s.) Israel not be guilty Judah and not to come (in): come [the] Gilgal and not to ascend: rise Beth-aven Beth-aven and not to swear alive LORD
“Ingawa umefanya uzinzi, ee Israeli, Yuda naye asije akawa na hatia. “Usiende Gilgali, usipande kwenda Beth-Aveni Wala usiape, ‘Hakika kama Bwana aishivyo!’
16 for like/as heifer to rebel to rebel Israel now to pasture them LORD like/as lamb in/on/with broad
Waisraeli ni wakaidi, kama mtamba wa ngʼombe ambaye ni mkaidi. Ni jinsi gani basi Bwana anaweza kuwachunga kama wana-kondoo katika shamba la majani?
17 to unite idol Ephraim to rest to/for him
Efraimu amejiunga na sanamu, ondokana naye!
18 to turn aside: depart liquor their to fornicate to fornicate to love: lover to love: lover dishonor shield her
Hata wakati wamemaliza vileo vyao wanaendelea na ukahaba wao, watawala wao hupenda sana njia za aibu.
19 to constrain spirit: breath [obj] her in/on/with wing her and be ashamed from sacrifice their
Kisulisuli kitawafagilia mbali na dhabihu zao zitawaletea aibu.
