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 a word of YHWH, sons of Israel, For a strife [is] to YHWH with inhabitants of the land, For there is no truth, nor kindness, Nor 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
Swearing, and lying, and murdering, And stealing, and committing adultery—have increased, And blood has touched against 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 the land mourns, And every dweller is weak in it, With the beast of the field, And with the bird of the heavens, And the fishes of the sea—they are removed.
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
Only, let no one strive, nor reprove a man, And your people [are] as those striving 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
And you have stumbled in the day, And a prophet has also stumbled with you in the night, And I have cut off 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 have been cut off for lack of knowledge, Because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being priest to Me, And you forget the Law of your God—I forget your sons, I also!
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
According to their abundance so they sinned against Me, I change their glory 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
The sin of My people they eat, And to their iniquity lift up their soul.
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 has been, like people, like priest, And I have charged on it its ways, And its habitual doings I return to it.
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
And they have eaten, and are not satisfied, They have gone whoring, and do not increase, For they have left off taking heed to YHWH.
11 淫行と酒と新しき酒はその人の心をうばふ
Whoredom, and wine, and new wine, take the 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 at its staff asks and its rod declares to it, For a spirit of whoredoms has caused to err, And they go whoring from under 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
On tops of the mountains they sacrifice, And on the hills they make incense, Under oak, and poplar, and terebinth, For good [is] its shade.
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
Therefore your daughters commit whoredom, And your spouses commit adultery, I do not see after your daughters when they commit whoredom, And after your spouses when they commit adultery, For they with the harlots are separated, And with the whores they sacrifice, A people that does not understand kicks.
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 [are] a harlot, O Israel, Do not let Judah become guilty, And do not come to Gilgal, nor go up to Beth-Aven, Nor swear, YHWH 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 has turned aside as a stubborn heifer, Now YHWH feeds them as a lamb 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 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
Sour [is] their drink, They have gone whoring diligently, Her protectors have thoroughly loved shame.
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
Wind has distressed her with its wings, And they are ashamed of their sacrifices!”
