ホセア書 4
1 イスラエルの子輩よヱホバの言を聽けヱホバこの地に住る者と爭辨たまふ其は此地には誠實なく愛情なく神を知る事なければなり
Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God in the land!
2 ただ詛偽凶殺盗姦淫のみにして互に相襲ひ血血につづき流る
Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.
3 このゆゑにその地うれひにしづみ之にすむものはみな野のけもの空のとりとともにおとろへ海の魚もまた絶はてん
Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air; even the fish of the sea disappear.
4 されど何人もあらそふべからずいましむ可らず汝の民は祭司と爭ふ者の如くなれり
But let no man contend; let no man offer reproof; for your people are like those who contend with a priest.
5 汝は晝つまづき汝と偕なる預言者は夜つまづかん我なんぢの母を亡すべし
You will stumble by day, and the prophet will stumble with you by night; so I will destroy your mother—
6 わが民は知識なきによりて亡さるなんぢ知識を棄つるによりて我もまた汝を棄ててわが祭司たらしめじ汝おのが神の律法を忘るるによりて我もなんぢの子等を忘れん
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
7 彼らは大なるにしたがひてますます我に罪を犯せば我かれらの榮を辱に變ん
The more they multiplied, the more they sinned against Me; they exchanged their Glory for a thing of disgrace.
8 彼らはわが民の罪をくらひ心をかたむけてその罪ををかすを願へり
They feed on the sins of My people and set their hearts on iniquity.
9 このゆゑに民の遇ふところは祭司もまた同じわれその途をかれらにきたらせその行爲をもて之にむくゆべし
And it shall be like people, like priest. I will punish both of them for their ways and repay them for their deeds.
10 かれらは食へども飽ず淫行をなせどもその數まさずその心をヱホバにとむることを止ればなり
They will eat but not be satisfied; they will be promiscuous but not multiply. For they have stopped obeying the LORD.
11 淫行と酒と新しき酒はその人の心をうばふ
Promiscuity, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
12 わが民木にむかひて事をとふその杖かれらに事をしめす是かれら淫行の霊にまよはされその神の下を離れて淫行を爲すなり
My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God.
13 彼らは山々の巓にて犠牲を献げ岡の上にて香を焚き橡樹 楊樹 栗樹の下にてこの事をおこなふ此はその樹蔭の美しきによりてなりここをもてなんぢらの女子は淫行をなしなんぢらの兒婦は姦淫をおこなふ
They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery.
14 我なんぢらのむすめ淫行をなせども罰せずなんぢらの兒婦かんいんをおこなへども刑せじ其はなんぢらもみづから離れゆきて妓女とともに居り淫婦とともに献物をそなふればなり悟らざる民はほろぶべし
I will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go off with prostitutes and offer sacrifices with shrine prostitutes. So a people without understanding will come to ruin.
15 イスラエルよ汝淫行をなすともユダに罪を犯さする勿れギルガルに往なかれベテアベンに上るなかれヱホバは活くと曰て誓ふなかれ
Though you prostitute yourself, O Israel, may Judah avoid such guilt! Do not journey to Gilgal, do not go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear on oath, ‘As surely as the LORD lives!’
16 イスラエルは頑強なる牛のごとくに頑強なり今ヱホバ恙羊をひろき野にはなてるが如くして之を牧はん
For Israel is as obstinate as a stubborn heifer. Can the LORD now shepherd them like lambs in an open meadow?
17 エフライムは偶像にむすびつらなれりその爲にまかせよ
Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone!
18 かれらの酒はくされかれらの淫行はやまずかれらの楯となるべき者等は恥を愛しいたく之を愛せり
When their liquor is gone, they turn to prostitution; their rulers dearly love disgrace.
19 かれは風の翼につつまれかれらはその禮物によりて恥辱をかうむらん
The whirlwind has wrapped them in its wings, and their sacrifices will bring them shame.
