Hosea 12
1 Efraim menjaga angin, dan mengejar angin timur sehari suntuk, memperbanyak dusta dan pemusnahan; mereka mengadakan perjanjian dengan Asyur, dan membawa minyak kepada Mesir.
[The leaders of] Israel are constantly wavering [about seeking help from other countries]. [Seeking their help is as useless as] [MET] chasing the wind. They pile up their lies and violent acts. [First, ] they make a treaty with Assyria, and [then they] send olive oil to [the rulers of] Egypt [to seek their help].
2 TUHAN mempunyai perbantahan dengan Yehuda, Ia akan menghukum Yakub sesuai dengan tingkah lakunya, dan akan memberi balasan kepadanya sesuai dengan perbuatan-perbuatannya.
Yahweh [says that he] will bring accusations against [the leaders of] Judah, and that he will punish [the descendants of] Jacob for what they have done.
3 Di dalam kandungan ia menipu saudaranya, dan dalam kegagahannya ia bergumul dengan Allah.
[When Jacob was] in his mother’s womb, he grabbed his brother [Esau’s] heel [because he wanted to be born first]. When Jacob grew up, he wrestled with God.
4 Ia bergumul dengan Malaikat dan menang; ia menangis dan memohon belas kasihan kepada-Nya. Di Betel ia bertemu dengan Dia, dan di sanalah Dia berfirman kepadanya:
He struggled with [the one who had appeared to him in the form of] an angel, and Jacob defeated him, but [then] he cried and asked the angel to bless him. [Later], God came to Jacob at Bethel and talked with him there.
5 --yakni TUHAN, Allah semesta alam, TUHAN nama-Nya--
[That was] the Commander of the armies of angels whose name is Yahweh [who talked with him]!
6 "Engkau ini harus berbalik kepada Allahmu, peliharalah kasih setia dan hukum, dan nantikanlah Allahmu senantiasa."
But you [people of Israel] must return to your God! You must faithfully love [him], and you must do what is fair/just and always depend on him.
7 Sama seperti Kanaan, dengan neraca palsu di tangannya, dan suka memeras,
The merchants [among you] use scales that do not weigh correctly; they love/like to cheat people.
8 berkatalah Efraim: "Bukankah aku telah menjadi kaya, telah mendapat harta benda bagiku! Tetapi segala hasil jerih payahku tidak mendatangkan kesalahan yang merupakan dosa bagiku."
[The people of] Israel boast, saying “We are [very] rich [DOU]; and we got all that money by our own efforts, and without committing any sin.”
9 Tetapi Aku adalah TUHAN, Allahmu sejak di tanah Mesir; Aku masih mau membuat engkau diam kembali di kemah-kemah seperti di hari-hari pertemuan raya.
“I am Yahweh your God, [the one who brought your ancestors] out of Egypt. [And some day] I will force you to live in tents again [like your ancestors did] when [they celebrated] the Festival [of Living in Temporary Shelters].
10 Aku berbicara kepada para nabi dan banyak kali memberi penglihatan dan memberi perumpamaan dengan perantaraan para nabi.
[Many times] I spoke to the prophets, and I gave them many visions, and I gave them parables to tell [to the people].”
11 Bila di Gilead ada kejahatan, maka mereka menjadi kesia-siaan belaka; di Gilgal mereka mempersembahkan lembu-lembu jantan, maka mezbah-mezbah mereka juga menjadi seperti timbunan batu di alur-alur ladang.
[The people of] Gilead [city] are [RHQ] extremely wicked; they are worthless. The people sacrifice bulls in Gilgal [city], but their altars will [soon] become like [SIM] piles of stone [at the edge of] a plowed field.
12 Yakub melarikan diri ke tanah Aram, dan Israel memperhambakan diri untuk mendapat isteri, ya, untuk mendapat isteri ia menjadi gembala.
[Your ancestor] Jacob fled [from his brother Esau] and went to northwest Mesopotamia. He worked [for his uncle Laban for many years] to get a wife; he took care of [his uncle’s] sheep [to pay] for her.
13 Israel dituntun oleh TUHAN keluar dari Mesir dengan perantaraan seorang nabi, ya, ia dijaga oleh seorang nabi.
[Many years later, ] Yahweh enabled a prophet to bring the [ancestors of you] people of Israel here from Egypt; that prophet, [Moses], took care of them.
14 Efraim telah menimbulkan sakit hati-Nya secara pahit, maka Tuhannya akan membiarkan hutang darahnya menimpa dia, dan akan membalas celanya kepadanya.
[But now the people of] Israel have caused [Yahweh] to become very angry; Yahweh says that they deserve to die because they caused [many others] to die [MTY]; he will pay them back for the sins that they have committed against him and for insulting him.
