Hohea 2
1 Mea atu koutou ki o koutou tuakana, Ami; ki o koutou tuahine, Ruhama.
“Say to your brothers—Ammi, And to your sisters—Ruhamah.
2 Whakawakia to koutou whaea, whakawakia: ehara hoki ia i te wahine naku, ehara ano ahau i te tahu nana: na kia whakarerea e ia ona moepuku i tona aroaro, ona puremu i waenga i ona u.
Plead with your mother—plead (For she [is] not My wife, and I [am] not her husband), And she turns her whoredoms from before her, And her adulteries from between her breasts,
3 Kei tangohia ona e ahau, a ka noho tahanga ia, kei meinga ano ia kia rite ki te ra i whanau ai ia; kei meinga ia e ahau kia rite ki te koraha, kei waiho ia hei whenua waikore, a ka mate i te matewai.
Lest I strip her naked. And have set her up as [in] the day of her birth, And have made her as a wilderness, And have set her as a dry land, And have put her to death with thirst.
4 Ae ra, e kore ana tamariki e tohungia e ahau; no te mea he tamariki ratou na te moepuku.
And her sons I do not pity, For they [are] sons of whoredoms,
5 Kua kairau nei hoki to ratou whaea: he mahi whakama ta te wahine i whanau ai ratou; i mea hoki ia, Ka whaia e ahau te hunga i aroha ki ahau, i homai nei i te taro maku, i te wai moku, i te huruhuru hipi maku, i te muka maku, i te hinu maku, i te mea hei inu maku.
For their mother has gone whoring, Their conceiver has acted shamefully, For she has said, I go after my lovers, Those giving my bread and my water, My wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.
6 Mo reira tenei ahau te tutaki nei i tou ara ki te tataramoa, te hanga nei i te taiepa e kore ai ia e kite i ona ara.
Therefore, behold, I am hedging up your way with thorns, And I have made a wall for her, And her paths she does not find.
7 Ka whaia ano e ia ana i aroha ai, heoi e kore e mau i a ia; ka rapua ratou e ia, otiia e kore e kitea: katahi ia ka mea ake, Ka haere ahau ka hoki ki taku tahu tuatahi; nui ake hoki to reira pai ki ahau i to naianei.
And she has pursued her lovers, And she does not overtake them, And has sought them, and does not find [them], And she has said: I go, and I return to my first husband, For—better to me then than now.
8 Kihai ra hoki ia i mohio naku i hoatu te witi ki a ia, te waina, me te hinu, naku ano i whakanui te hiriwa mana, me te koura, ta ratou i mahi nei hei mea ma Paara.
And she did not know that I had given to her The grain, and the new wine, and the oil. Indeed, I multiplied silver to her, And the gold they prepared for Ba‘al.
9 Mo reira ka hoki ahau, ka tango i taku witi i tona wa ano, i taku waina i tona wa ano, ka riro ano i ahau taku huruhuru hipi me taku muka i hipokina ai ia i a ia e noho tahanga ana.
Therefore I return, And I have taken My grain in its season, And My new wine in its appointed time, And I have taken away My wool and My flax, covering her nakedness.
10 Na akuanei ka whakakitea e ahau tana mahi wairangi ki nga kanohi o ana i aroha ai, e kore ano tetahi tangata e whakaora i a ia i roto i toku ringa.
And now I reveal her dishonor before the eyes of her lovers, And none deliver her out of My hand.
11 Ka mutu katoa ano i ahau tona koa, ona ra hakari, ona kowhititanga marama, ona hapati, me ana huihui nunui katoa.
And I have caused all her joy to cease, Her festival, her new moon, and her Sabbath, Even all her appointed times,
12 Ka ururua ano i ahau ana waina, me ana piki, nga mea i ki ai ia, Ko oku utu enei, he mea homai na aku i aroha ai; a ka meinga e ahau hei ngahere, a ka kainga e nga kirehe o te parae.
And made desolate her vine and her fig tree, Of which she said, They [are] a wage to me, That my lovers have given to me, And I have made them for a forest, And a beast of the field has consumed them.
13 Ka whiua ano ia e ahau mo nga ra o nga Paarimi, mo era i tahu whakakakara ai ia ki a ratou; a whakapaipai ana i a ia ki ona whakakai, ki ana whakapaipai, haere ana ki te whai i ana i aroha ai, a wareware ake ki ahau, e ai ta Ihowa.
And I have charged on her the days of the Ba‘alim, To whom she makes incense, And puts on her ring and her ornament, And goes after her lovers, And forgot Me,” a declaration of YHWH.
14 Mo reira, nana, ka whakawai ahau i a ia, ka kawe i a ia ki te koraha, ka korero whakamarie ano ki a ia.
“Therefore, behold, I am enticing her, And have caused her to go to the wilderness, And I have spoken to her heart,
15 Ka hoatu ano e ahau etahi mara waina ki a ia i reira, me te raorao o Akoro hei kuwaha mo te tumanako: a ka whakahoki kupu ia ki reira, ka pera me to nga ra o tona tamarikitanga, me to te ra hoki i haere mai ai ia i te whenua o Ihipa.
And given to her her vineyards from there, And the Valley of Achor for an opening of hope, And she has responded there as in the days of her youth, And as in the day of her coming up out of the land of Egypt.
16 Na i taua ra, e ai ta Ihowa, ka karangatia ahau e koe, E Ihi; e kore hoki ahau e karangatia e koe, E Paari a muri ake nei.
And it has come to pass in that day,” A declaration of YHWH, “You call Me: My husband, And do not call Me anymore: My lord.
17 No te mea ka tangohia e ahau nga ingoa o nga Paarimi i roto i tona mangai, e kore ano ratou, o ratou ingoa, e maharatia a muri ake nei.
And I have turned aside the names of the lords from her mouth, And they are not remembered anymore by their name.
18 Ka whakaritea ano e ahau i taua ra he kawenata, he pai mo ratou, ki nga kirehe o te parae, ki nga manu o te rangi, ki nga mea ngokingoki o te oneone; ka whati ano i ahau te kopere, te hoari, te whawhai i runga i te whenua, a ka meinga ratou e ah au kia au te takoto.
And I have made a covenant for them in that day, With the beast of the field, And with the bird of the heavens, And the creeping thing of the ground, And bow, and sword, and war I break from off the land, And have caused them to lie down confidently.
19 Ka taumautia ano koe e ahau a ake ake; ina, ka taumautia koe e ahau maku i runga i te tika, i te whakarite whakawa, i te aroha, i te atawhai.
And I have betrothed you to Me for all time, And betrothed you to Me in righteousness, And in judgment, and kindness, and mercies,
20 Ka taumautia ano koe maku i runga i te pono, a ka mohio koe ki a Ihowa.
And betrothed you to Me in faithfulness, And you have known YHWH.
21 I taua ra ka whakarongo ahau, e ai ta Ihowa, ka whakarongo ahau ki nga rangi, ka whakarongo ratou ki te whenua;
And it has come to pass in that day, I answer,” A declaration of YHWH, “I answer the heavens, and they answer the earth.
22 Ka whakarongo ano te whenua ki te witi, ki te waina, ki te hinu: a ka whakarongo era ki a Ietereere.
And the earth answers the grain, And the new wine, and the oil, And they answer Jezreel.
23 Ka whakato ano ahau i a ia maku ki te whenua; ka tohu i tenei kihai nei i tohungia; ka ki atu ano ki te hunga ehara nei i te iwi naku, ko koe taku iwi, a ka mea era, Ko koe toku Atua.
And I have sowed her to Me in the land, And I have pitied Lo-Ruhamah, And I have said to Lo-Ammi, You [are] My people, And he says, My God!”
