ホセア書 12

1 エフライムは風をくらひ東風をおひ日々に詐偽と暴逆とを増くはへアツスリヤと契約を結び油をエジプトに餽れり

Ephraim feedeth on the wind, and followeth the burning heat: all the day long he multiplied lies and desolation: and he hath made a covenant with the Assyrians, and carried oil into Egypt.

2 ヱホバはユダと争辨をなしたまふヤコブをその途にしたがひて罰しその行爲にしたがひて報いたまふ

Therefore there is a judgment of the Lord with Juda, and a visitation for Jacob: he will render to him according to his ways, and according to his devices.

3 ヤコブは胎にゐし時その兄弟の踵をとらへまた己が力をもて神と角力あらそへり

In the womb he supplanted his brother: and by his strength he had success with an angel.

4 かれは天の使と角力あらそひて勝ちなきて之に恩をもとめたり彼はベテルにて神にあへり其處にて神われらに語ひたまへり

And he prevailed over the angel, and was strengthened: he wept, and made supplication to him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us.

5 これは萬軍の神ヱホバなりヱホバは其記念の名なり

Even the Lord the God of hosts, the Lord is his memorial.

6 然ばなんぢの神にかへり衿恤と公義とをまもり恒になんぢの神を仰ぐべし

Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and hope in thy God always.

7 彼はカナン人(商賈)なりその手に脆詐の權衡をもち好であざむき取ことをなす

He is like Chanaan, there is a deceitful balance in his hand, he hath loved oppression.

8 エフライムはいふ誠にわれは富る者となれり我は身に財寳をえたり凡てわが労したることの中に罪をうべき不義を見いだす者なかるべし

And Ephraim said: But yet I am become rich, I have found me an idol: all my labours shall not find me the iniquity that I have committed.

9 我ヱホバはエジプトの國をいでしより以來なんぢらの神なり我いまも尚なんぢを幕屋にすまはせて節会の日のごとくならしめん

And I that am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt, will yet cause thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the feast.

10 我もろもろの預言者にかたり又これに益々おほく異象をしめしたり我もろもろの預言者に托して譬喩をまうく

And I have spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and I have used similitudes by the ministry of the prophets.

11 ギレアデは不義なる者ならずや彼らは全く虚しかれらはギルガルにて牛を犠牲に献ぐかれらの祭壇は圃の畝につみたる石の如し

If Galaad be an idol, then in vain were they in Galgal offering sacrifices with bullocks: for their altars also are as heaps in the furrows of the field.

12 ヤコブはアラムの野ににげゆけりイスラエルは妻を得んために人に事へ妻を得んために羊を牧へり

Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and was a keeper for a wife.

13 ヱホバ一人の預言者をもてイスラエルをエジプトより導きいだし一人の預言者をもて之を護りたまへり

But the Lord by a prophet brought Israel out of Egypt: and he was preserved by a prophet.

14 エフライムは怒を激ふること極てはなはだしその主かれが流しし血をかれが上にとどめその恥辱をかれに歸らせたまはん

Ephraim hath provoked me to wrath with his bitterness, and his blood shall come upon him, and his Lord will render his reproach unto him.