ホセア書 6

1 來れわれらヱホバにかへるべし ヱホバわれらを抓劈たまひたれどもまた醫すことをなし我儕をうち給ひたれどもまたその傷をつつむことを爲したまふ可ればなり

Come, let us go back to the Lord; for he has given us wounds and he will make us well; he has given blows and he will give help.

2 ヱホバは二日ののちわれらむ活かへし三日にわれらを起せたまはん 我らその前にて生ん

After two days he will give us life, and on the third day he will make us get up, and we will be living before him.

3 この故にわれらヱホバをしるべし切にヱホバを知ことを求むべしヱホバは晨光のごとく必ずあらはれいで雨のごとくわれらにのぞみ後の雨のごとく地をうるほし給ふ

And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.

4 エフライムよ我なんぢに何をなさんやユダよ我なんぢに何をなさんやなんぢの愛情はあしたの雲のごとくまたただちにきゆる露のごとし

O Ephraim, what am I to do to you? O Judah, what am I to do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew which goes early away.

5 このゆゑにわれ預言者等をもてかれらを撃ちわが口の言をもてかれらえを殺せりわが審判はあらはれいづる光明のごとし

So I have had it cut in stones; I gave them teaching by the words of my mouth;

6 われは愛憎をよろこびて犠牲をよろこばず神をしるを悦ぶこと燔祭にまされり

Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings.

7 然るに彼らはアダムのごとく誓をやぶりかしこにて不義をわれにおこなへり

But like a man, they have gone against the agreement; there they were false to me.

8 ギレアデは惡をおこなふものの邑にして血の足跡そのなかに徧し

Gilead is a town of evil-doers, marked with blood.

9 祭司のともがらは山賊の群のごとく伏伺して人をそこなひシケムに往く大路にて人をころす彼等はかくのごとき惡きことをおこなへり

And like a band of thieves waiting for a man, so are the priests watching secretly the way of those going quickly to Shechem, for they are working with an evil design.

10 われイスラエルのいへに憎むべきことあるを見たりかの處にてエフライムは淫をおこなふイスフルは汚れたり

In Israel I have seen a very evil thing; there false ways are seen in Ephraim, Israel is unclean;

11 ユダよ我わが民の俘囚をかへさんときまた汝のためにも穫刈をそなへん

And Judah has put up disgusting images for himself.