Hosea 9
1 Don’t rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; for you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.
Nni ahurusi, Israel; nsɛpɛw wo ho te sɛ aman a aka no. Efisɛ woanni wo Nyankopɔn nokware, wʼani gye aguamammɔ ho wɔ awiporowbea nyinaa so.
2 The threshing floor and the wine press won’t feed them, and the new wine will fail her.
Awiporowbea ne nsakyiamoa rentumi mma nnipa no aduan; nsa foforo nso bɛbɔ wɔn.
3 They won’t dwell in Yahweh’s land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.
Wɔrentena Awurade asase no so bio; Efraim bɛsan akɔ Misraim na wadi aduan a ɛho ntew wɔ Asiria.
4 They won’t pour out wine offerings to Yahweh, neither will they be pleasing to him. Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat of it will be polluted; for their bread will be for their appetite. It will not come into Yahweh’s house.
Wɔremmɔ ahwiesa afɔre mma Awurade, na wɔn afɔrebɔ nso nsɔ nʼani. Saa afɔrebɔ yi bɛyɛ sɛ asufo brodo de ama wɔn; wɔn a wodi nyinaa ho begu fi. Saa aduan no bɛyɛ wɔn ankasa dea na wɔrentumi mmfa nkɔ Awurade asɔredan mu.
5 What will you do in the day of solemn assembly, and in the day of the feast of Yahweh?
Dɛn na mobɛyɛ wɔ mo aponto da no ne Awurade afahyɛnna no nso?
6 For, behold, when they flee destruction, Egypt will gather them up. Memphis will bury them. Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver. Thorns will be in their tents.
Mpo sɛ woguan fi ɔsɛe mu a Misraim bɛboaboa wɔn ano, na Memfis besie wɔn. Wɔn dwetɛ ahonyade befuw wura, na wɔn ntamadan adan nsɔe.
7 The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great.
Asotwe nna no reba, akontaabu nna no adu; ma Israel nhu eyi. Esiane mo bɔne bebrebe ne mo akokoakoko a adɔɔso nti mofa no sɛ odiyifo yɛ kwasea, na nea honhom akanyan no no yɛ ɔbɔdamfo.
8 A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God. A fowler’s snare is on all of his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.
Odiyifo no ne me Nyankopɔn yɛ Efraim so wɛmfo, nanso wɔasum no afiri wɔ nʼakwan nyinaa so, na ɔtan ahyɛ ne Nyankopɔn fi ma.
9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will punish them for their sins.
Wɔadu porɔwee bun mu, sɛnea na ɛte wɔ Gibea nna no mu. Onyankopɔn bɛkae wɔn atirimɔden na watwe wɔn aso wɔ wɔn bɔne ho.
10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.
“Bere a mihuu Israel no, na ɛte sɛ nea mahu bobe wɔ nweatam so; bere a mihuu mo agyanom no, na ɛte sɛ nea mahu borɔdɔma aba a edi kan wɔ ne dua so. Nanso bere a wɔbaa Baal-Peor nkyɛn no wodwiraa wɔn ho maa ohoni nimguaseni no. Wɔn ho yɛɛ nwini te sɛ ohoni a wɔdɔ no no ara.
11 As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception.
Efraim anuonyam betu akɔ sɛ anomaa, nyinsɛn ne awo nni ne mu.
12 Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!
Mpo sɛ wɔtetew mmofra a, mɛma mmofra no awuwu wɔ wɔn nsa mu. Wonnue, sɛ miyi mʼani fi wɔn so a!
13 I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.
Mahu Efraim te sɛ Tiro, a ɛda baabi a eye. Nanso Efraim de ne mma bɛbrɛ okumfo no.”
14 Give them—Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Fa ma wɔn, Awurade, dɛn na wode bɛma wɔn? Ma wɔn ɔyafunu a ɛpɔn ne nufu a nufusu nni mu.
15 “All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds, I will drive them out of my house! I will love them no more. All their princes are rebels.
“Wɔn atirimɔdensɛm nyinaa a wodii wɔ Gilgal nti, mefaa wɔn ho tan wɔ hɔ. Wɔn nnebɔne nti mɛpam wɔn afi me fi. Merennɔ wɔn bio; efisɛ wɔn ntuanofo nyinaa yɛ atuatewfo.
16 Ephraim is struck. Their root has dried up. They will bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb.”
Efraim agyigya, wɔn ntin akisa, nti wɔnsow aba. Sɛ wɔwo mma mpo a, mekunkum wɔn mma a wɔdɔ wɔn no.”
17 My God will cast them away, because they didn’t listen to him; and they will be wanderers among the nations.
Me Nyankopɔn bɛpo wɔn, efisɛ, wɔanyɛ osetie amma no; Wobekyinkyin aman no mu.
