< Hosea 4 >

1 Oasr kas toasr lun LEUM GOD lain mwet su muta in acn se inge. Israel, porongo ma El fahk: “Wangin inse pwaye ku kulang fin acn uh, ac mwet uh tiana etu ke God.
to hear: hear word LORD son: descendant/people Israel for strife to/for LORD with to dwell [the] land: country/planet for nothing truth: faithful and nothing kindness and nothing knowledge God in/on/with land: country/planet
2 Elos orala wulela ac kunausla. Elos kikiap, akmas, pisrapasr ac kosro. Ma koluk uh yokelik, ac akmas uh fususeni.
to swear and to deceive and to murder and to steal and to commit adultery to break through and blood in/on/with blood to touch
3 Ke ma inge kof fin acn uh ac fah wanginla, ac ma nukewa fin acn uh ac fah misa. Kain kosro nukewa ac won uh, oayapa ik, ac fah misa.”
upon so to mourn [the] land: country/planet and to weaken all to dwell in/on/with her in/on/with living thing [the] land: country and in/on/with bird [the] heaven and also fish [the] sea to gather
4 LEUM GOD El fahk, “Kowos in tia sufan kutena mwet ku kaelos — kowos mwet tol pa nga lain uh.
surely man: anyone not to contend and not to rebuke man: anyone and people your like/as to contend priest
5 Kowos tukulkul na ke len ac fong, ac mwet palu elos oapana kowos, tukulkul na. Nga fah kunausla Israel, su nina kiowos.
and to stumble [the] day and to stumble also prophet with you night and to cease mother your
6 Mwet luk elos ac fah lisyukla mweyen wangin etu lalos keik. Kowos mwet tol, kowos tia pac eteyu, ac kowos pilesru luti luk. Ke ma inge, nga fah pilesrekowos ac nga fah tia akilen wen nutuwos su pangon mu elos mwet tol luk.
to cease people my from without [the] knowledge for you(m. s.) [the] knowledge to reject and to reject you from to minister to/for me and to forget instruction God your to forget son: child your also I
7 “Ke pisen mwet tol uh puseni, ma koluk lainyu uh yokelik pac; ke ma inge nga fah ekulla fulat lowos nu ke mwekin.
like/as to multiply they so to sin to/for me glory their in/on/with dishonor to change
8 Kowos kasrupi ke sripen ma koluk lun mwet luk, ouinge kowos lungse tuh ma koluk lalos in yokelik na.
sin people my to eat and to(wards) iniquity: crime their to lift: trust soul: appetite his
9 Mwe kai nu sin mwet uh ac fah orek pac nu suwos. Nga fah kai kowos ac kowos fah eis molin ma koluk lowos.
and to be like/as people like/as priest and to reckon: punish upon him way: conduct his and deed his to return: pay to/for him
10 Kowos fah mongo ac tia kihpi. Kowos fah orek kosro ke nien alu lun mwet pegan in oasr tulik nutuwos, tuh ac fah wangin tulik nutuwos, mweyen kowos forla likiyu in fahsr tukun god saya.”
and to eat and not to satisfy to fornicate and not to break through for [obj] LORD to leave: forsake to/for to keep: look at
11 LEUM GOD El fahk, “Wain mah ac wain sasu, kewa na akwelye nunak lun mwet luk.
fornication and wine and new wine to take: take heart
12 Elos sukok kas in kasru sin sie polosak! Ac elos nunku mu soko sikal sak ku in fahk nu selos ma elos ke etu. Elos sisyula. Oana sie mutan su orek kosro ac eis molin kosro lal, elos eisalosyang sifacna nu sin god ngia.
people my in/on/with tree: wood his to ask and rod his to tell to/for him for spirit fornication to go astray and to fornicate from underneath: instead God their
13 Elos oru kisa lalos ke nien alyalu fin mangon eol uh, ac esukak mwe keng yen lullul ye sak lulap fin inging uh. “Ke ma inge acn nutuwos elos orek kosro in eis molo, ac mutan kien wen nutuwos elos orek kosro.
upon head: top [the] mountain: mount to sacrifice and upon [the] hill to offer: offer underneath: under oak and poplar and oak for pleasant shadow her upon so to fornicate daughter your and daughter-in-law: bride your to commit adultery
14 Tusruk, nga ac fah tia kaelos ke ma elos oru inge, mweyen kowos sifacna fahsri mutan kosro ke nien alu lun mwet pegan ac orek kisa yorolos. Oana soakas se ma fahk mu, ‘Mutanfahl se ma wangin etauk la ac fah musalla.’
not to reckon: punish upon daughter your for to fornicate and upon daughter-in-law: bride your for to commit adultery for they(masc.) with [the] to fornicate to separate and with [the] cult prostitute to sacrifice and people not to understand to ruin
15 “Kowos mwet Israel finne tia inse pwaye nu sik, lela mwet Judah in tia tafongla ke lumah sac pacna. Nimet alu in acn Gilgal ku Bethaven, ku orek wulela we ke Inen LEUM GOD moul.
if to fornicate you(m. s.) Israel not be guilty Judah and not to come (in): come [the] Gilgal and not to ascend: rise Beth-aven Beth-aven and not to swear alive LORD
16 Mwet Israel elos srangesr lohng kas oana soko cow fusr. Nga ac ku in kitalos fuka oana sheep fusr in imae?
for like/as heifer to rebel to rebel Israel now to pasture them LORD like/as lamb in/on/with broad
17 Mwet Israel elos oan ye ku lun ma sruloala. Tari, sang lungse laltal.
to unite idol Ephraim to rest to/for him
18 Ke pacl elos arulana sruhila ke nim wain, elos orek pwar yurin mutan kosro su kukakin manolos; ouinge elos pilesrala fulat lalos ac sifacna akmwekinyalos.
to turn aside: depart liquor their to fornicate to fornicate to love: lover to love: lover dishonor shield her
19 Elos fah ukyukla oana ke ku lun eng uh okla ma uh, ac elos fah mwekin ke mwe kisa pegan ma elos oru.”
to constrain spirit: breath [obj] her in/on/with wing her and be ashamed from sacrifice their

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