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
Heare the worde of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord hath a controuersie with the inhabitants of the lande, because there is no trueth nor mercie nor knowledge of God in the lande.
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
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and whoring they breake out, and blood toucheth blood.
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 shall the land mourne, and euery one that dwelleth therein, shall be cut off, with the beasts of the fielde, and with the foules of the heauen, and also the fishes of the sea shall be taken away.
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
Yet let none rebuke, nor reproue another: for thy people are as they that rebuke the 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
Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the Prophet shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy 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 lacke of knowledge: because thou hast refused knowledge, I will also refuse thee, that thou shalt be no Priest to me: and seeing thou hast forgotten the Lawe of thy God, I will also forget thy 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
As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I chaunge their glorie into shame.
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 eate vp the sinnes of my people, and lift vp their mindes in their iniquitie.
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 there shalbe like people, like Priest: for I wil visite their wayes vpon them, and reward them their deedes.
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
For they shall eate, and not haue ynough: they shall commit adulterie, and shall not increase, because they haue left off to take heede to ye Lord.
11 淫行と酒と新しき酒はその人の心をうばふ
Whoredome, and wine, and newe wine take away their heart.
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 aske counsell at their stockes, and their staffe teacheth them: for the spirite of fornications hath caused them to erre, and they haue gone a whoring from vnder 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 vpon the toppes of ye mountaines, and burne incense vpon the hilles vnder the okes, and the poplar tree, and the elme, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall be harlots, and your spouses shall be whores.
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 visite your daughters when they are harlots: nor your spouses when they are whores: for they themselues are separated with harlots, and sacrifice with whores: therefore the people that doeth not vnderstand, shall fall.
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 thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Iudah sinne: come not ye vnto Gilgal, neither goe ye vp to Beth-auen, nor sweare, The Lord liueth.
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 rebellious as an vnruly heyfer. Nowe the Lord will feede them as a lambe in a large place.
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 ioyned to idoles: let 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
Their drunkennes stinketh: they haue committed whoredome: their rulers loue to say with shame, Bring ye.
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 winde hath bounde them vp in her wings, and they shalbe ashamed of their sacrifices.
