Koseya 8
1 “Ffuwa ekkondeere. Empungu eri ku nnyumba ya Mukama kubanga abantu bamenye endagaano yange ne bajeemera amateeka gange.
Let there be a trumpet in thy throat like an eagle upon the house of the Lord: because they have transgressed my covenant, and have violated my law.
2 Isirayiri bankaabira nga boogera nti, ‘Katonda waffe, tukumanyi.’
They shall call upon me: O my God, we, Israel, know thee.
3 Naye Isirayiri baleseeyo ekirungi; omulabe kyaliva abayigganya.
Israel hath cast off the thing that is good, the enemy shall pursue him.
4 Balonda bakabaka nga sikkirizza, balonda abakulembeze be sikakasizza. Beekolera ebifaananyi ebyole mu ffeeza yaabwe ne mu zaabu yaabwe ebiribaleetera okuzikirira.
They have reigned, but not by me: they have been princes, and I knew not: of their silver, and their gold they have made idols to themselves, that they might perish.
5 Kanyuga ebweru ekifaananyi ky’ennyana yo, ggwe Samaliya. Obusungu bwange bubabuubuukirako. Balituusa ddi okuba abatali batuukirivu?
Thy calf, O Samaria, is cast off, my wrath is kindled against them. How long will they be incapable of being cleansed?
6 Bava mu Isirayiri. Ennyana eyo omuntu eyakuguka mu by’okuweesa, ye yagikola so si Katonda. Era ennyana eyo eya Samaliya eribetentebwa.
For itself also is the invention of Israel: a workman made it, and it is no god: for the calf of Samaria shall be turned to spiders’ webs.
7 “Basiga empewo, ne bakungula embuyaga. Ekikolo olw’obutaba na mutwe, kyekiriva kirema okubala ensigo. Naye ne bwe kyandibaze, bannaggwanga bandigiridde.
For they shall sow wind, and reap a whirlwind, there is no standing stalk in it, the bud shall yield no meal; and if it should yield, strangers shall eat it.
8 Isirayiri amaliddwawo; ali wakati mu mawanga ng’ekintu ekitagasa.
Israel is swallowed up: now is he become among the nations like an unclean vessel.
9 Bambuse ne bagenda eri Obwasuli, ng’endogoyi ey’omu nsiko eri yokka. Efulayimu aguliridde abaganzi.
For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath given gifts to his lovers.
10 Newaakubadde nga beetunze eri amawanga, ndibakuŋŋaanya, era ndibawaayo eri okubonaabona nga banyigirizibwa kabaka ow’amaanyi.
But even though they shall have hired the nations, now will I gather them together: and they shall rest a while from the burden of the king, and the princes.
11 “Newaakubadde nga Efulayimu baazimba ebyoto bingi eby’ebiweebwayo olw’ekibi, bifuuse byoto bya kukolerako bibi.
Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin: altars are become to him unto sin.
12 Nabawandiikira ebintu bingi mu mateeka gange, naye ne babifuula ekintu ekigwira.
I shall write to him my manifold laws, which have been accounted as foreign.
13 Bawaayo ebiweebwayo gye ndi, ne balya ennyama yaabyo, Mukama tabasanyukira. Kaakano alijukira obutali butuukirivu bwabwe n’ababonereza olw’ebibi byabwe: Baliddayo e Misiri.
They shall offer victims, they shall sacrifice flesh, and shall eat it, and the Lord will not receive them: now will he remember their iniquity, and will visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.
14 Isirayiri yeerabidde omutonzi we, n’azimba embiri, ne Yuda ne yeeyongera okuzimba ebibuga ebiriko bbugwe; naye ndisindika omuliro ku bibuga byabwe, ne gwokya ebigo byabwe.”
And Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and hath built temples: and Juda hath built many fenced cities: and I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the houses thereof.
