ホセア書 14

1 イスラエルよ汝の神ヱホバに歸れよ汝は不義のために仆れたり

Return, O Israel, to the Lord thy God: for thou hast fallen down by thy iniquity.

2 汝ら言詞をたづさへ來りヱホバに歸りていへ諸の不義は赦して善ところを受納れたまへ斯て我らは唇をもて牛のごとくに汝に献げん

Take with you words, and return to the Lord, and say to him: Take away all iniquity, and receive the good: and we will render the calves of our lips.

3 アツスリヤはわれらを授けじ我らは馬に騎らじまたふたたび我儕みづからの手にて作れる者にむかひわが神なりと言じ孤児は爾によりて憐憫を得べければなりと

Assyria shall not save us, we will not ride upon horses, neither will we say any more: The works of our hands are our gods, for thou wilt have mercy on the fatherless that is in thee.

4 我かれらの反逆を醫し悦びて之を愛せん我が怒はかれを離れ去たり

I will heal their breaches, I will love them freely: for my wrath is turned away from them.

5 我イスラエルに対しては露のごとくならん彼は百合花のごとく花さきレバノンのごとく根をはらん

I will be as the dew, Israel shall spring as the lily, and his root shall shoot forth as that of Libanus.

6 その枝は茂りひろがり其美麗は橄欖の樹のごとくその芬芳はレバノンのごとくならん

His branches shall spread, and his glory shall be as the olive tree: and his smell as that of Libanus.

7 その蔭に往む者かへり來らんかれらは穀物の如く活かへり葡萄樹のごとく花さきその馨香はレバノンの酒のごとくなるべし

They shall be converted that sit under his shadow: they shall live upon wheat, and they shall blossom as a vine: his memorial shall be as the wine of Libanus.

8 エフライムはいふ我また偶像と何のあづかる所あらんやと我これに應へたり我かれを顧みん我は蒼翠の松のごとし汝われより果を得ん

Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I will hear him, and I will make him flourish like a green fir tree: from me is thy fruit found.

9 誰か智慧ある者ぞその人はこの事を暁らん誰か頴悟ある者ぞその人は之を知んヱホバの道は凡て直し義者は之をむ然ど罪人は之に躓かん

Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know these things? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall in them.