< Hosea 4 >
1 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.
You Israeli people, listen to this message from Yahweh! He is accusing you people who live in this country, [saying] “The people are not faithfully [doing what pleases me], they are not kind [to others], and they do not [even] know me!
2 Hanya mengutuk, berbohong, membunuh, mencuri, berzinah, melakukan kekerasan dan penumpahan darah menyusul penumpahan darah.
Everywhere in this land they curse [others], they murder [others], they steal, and they commit adultery. They act violently toward others and commit one murder after another.
3 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.
It is because of their doing those things that there is no rain [MTY], the land has become dry, the people are mourning, and the people are dying [from hunger]. Even the wild animals and the birds and the fish in the sea are dying.
4 Hanya janganlah ada orang mengadu, dan janganlah ada orang menegor, sebab terhadap engkaulah pengaduan-Ku itu, hai imam!
But no one should accuse someone else and say it is his fault. It is you priests whom I am accusing.
5 Engkau akan tergelincir jatuh pada siang hari, juga nabi akan tergelincir jatuh bersama-sama engkau pada malam hari; dan Aku akan membinasakan ibumu.
So I will punish [MTY] you priests, night and day, and I will punish the prophets with you. I am going to destroy [Israel, the nation that is like] [MET] a mother to you.
6 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.
It is because my people do not know [about me] that they will be destroyed. And their not knowing about me is because you priests have refused [to teach them about me]; so I will no longer allow you to be my priests. You have forgotten the things that I taught you, so I will forget [to bless] your children.
7 Makin bertambah banyak mereka, makin berdosa mereka kepada-Ku, kemuliaan mereka akan Kutukar dengan kehinaan.
As there are more and more priests, they have sinned against me more and more. So I will no longer allow them to be honored; instead, I will cause them to be disgraced.
8 Mereka mendapat rezeki dari dosa umat-Ku dan mengharapkan umat-Ku itu berbuat salah.
The priests get food from [the offerings that the] people [bring in order to be forgiven for having sinned], [so] the priests want the people to sin more and more [in order that the people will bring them more and more offerings].
9 Maka seperti nasib rakyat demikianlah nasib imam: Aku akan menghukum dia karena tindakan-tindakannya dan Aku akan membalaskan perbuatan-perbuatannya kepadanya.
The priests [are as sinful] as the [other] people, and I will punish [all of] them for what they have done; I will pay them back for the [evil] things that they have done.
10 Mereka akan makan, tetapi tidak menjadi kenyang, mereka akan bersundal, tetapi tidak menjadi banyak, sebab mereka telah meninggalkan TUHAN untuk berpegang kepada sundal.
[The priests] will eat, but they will still be hungry; they will have sex with prostitutes, but they will not have any children, because they have abandoned [me], Yahweh,
11 Anggur dan air anggur menghilangkan daya pikir.
and they are devoting themselves to sleeping with prostitutes, and to [drinking] old wine and new wine, which results in their not being able to think clearly.”
12 Umat-Ku bertanya kepada pohonnya, dan tongkatnya akan memberitahu kepadanya, sebab roh perzinahan menyesatkan mereka, dan mereka berzinah meninggalkan Allah mereka.
“[You] my people request wooden idols [to tell you what you should do]! Like prostitutes who have left/abandoned their husbands,
13 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.
you have abandoned [me] your God, and you are chasing after [other gods] on the tops of hills and mountains; you burn incense under oak [trees], poplar [trees], and other trees where there is nice/pleasing shade. So your daughters have become prostitutes, and your daughters-in-law have committed adultery.
14 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.
But it is not [only] your daughters [whom I will punish] for having become prostitutes, and it is not [only] your daughters-in-law whom I will punish for committing adultery, because the men also are having sex with prostitutes, and they offer sacrifices with the prostitutes [who search for men at the] shrines [of the idols]. [They are all] foolish people, and they will [all] be ruined.
15 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!"
You Israeli [people] have abandoned me like [MET] those who commit adultery have abandoned their spouses. But do not cause [the people of] Judah to sin [also]. Do not go to Gilgal or go up to Beth-Aven [towns] [to worship idols there]. Do not make solemn promises [there, saying ‘Just as surely] as Yahweh lives, [I will do what I am promising].’
16 Sebab Israel degil seperti lembu yang degil, masakan sekarang TUHAN menggembalakan mereka, seperti domba di tanah lapang?
You [people of Israel] are as stubborn as [SIM] a young cow. So there is no way [RHQ] that [I], Yahweh, will [provide food for them] [like a shepherd provides food for his] lambs [by leading them] to a nice meadow.
17 Efraim bersekutu dengan berhala-berhala, biarkanlah dia!
The people of Israel have chosen to worship idols [MET], [so] allow them [to do what they want to do].
18 Persepakatan para pemabuk! mereka menyerahkan diri habis-habisan kepada persundalan; mereka lebih mencintai kehinaan dari pada kemasyhuran mereka.
When their rulers finish drinking [their wine], they go to find prostitutes; they love their disgraceful behavior.
19 Angin melingkupi mereka dalam sayap-sayapnya, dan mereka akan mendapat malu karena korban-korban mereka.
But they will disappear [as though] [MET] they were blown away by a whirlwind. They will become [very] ashamed because of their offering sacrifices [to idols].”