Hooseʼaa 8
1 “Malakata afaan keetti kaaʼadhu! Sababii namoonni kakuu koo cabsanii seera kootti fincilaniif risaan tokko mana Waaqayyootiin ol jira.
“To your mouth—a horn, As an eagle against the house of YHWH, Because they transgressed My covenant, And against My law they have rebelled.
2 Israaʼel, ‘Yaa Waaqa keenya nu si beekna!’ jedhee gara kootti iyyate.
To Me they cry, My God, we—Israel—have known You.
3 Taʼu iyyuu Israaʼel waan gaarii dideera; kanaafuu diinni isa ariʼa.
Israel has cast off good, an enemy pursues him.
4 Isaan walii galtee koo malee mootota moosifatan; utuu ani hin fudhatiniif ilmaan moototaa filatan. Isaan meetii fi warqee isaaniitiin badiisa isaaniitiif waaqota tolfamoo ofii isaaniitiif tolfatan.
They have made kings, and not by Me, They have made princes, and I have not known, Their silver and their gold they have made to them idols, So that they are cut off.
5 Yaa Samaariyaa, waaqa kee tolfamaa bifa jabbii sana baasii gati! Dheekkamsi koo isaanitti bobaʼa. Isaan hamma yoomiitti qulqullaaʼuu dadhabu?
Your calf has cast off, O Samaria, My anger has burned against them; Until when are they not capable of purity?
6 Isaan warra Israaʼel! Jabbii kana ogeessa hojii harkaatu tolche; inni Waaqa miti. Jabbiin Samaariyaa ni hurraaʼa.
For even it [is] of Israel; a craftsman made it, And it [is] not God, For the calf of Samaria is fragments!
7 “Isaan bubbee facaafatanii bubbee hamaa haammatu. Mukni isaa mataa hin qabu; daraaraas hin baasu. Utuu inni midhaan naqatee silaa namoonni ormaa ni nyaatu ture.
For wind they sow, and a windstorm they reap, Stalk it has none—a shoot not yielding grain, If so be it yield—strangers swallow it up.
8 Israaʼel liqimfameera; isaan amma saboota gidduutti akka waan faayidaa hin qabne tokkoo ti.
Israel has been swallowed up, Now they have been among nations, As a vessel in which is no delight.
9 Isaan akkuma harree diidaa kan asii fi achi kophaa jooruu gara Asooriitti ol baʼaniiruutii; Efreemis michootatti of gurgureera.
For they have gone up [to] Asshur, A wild donkey alone by himself [is] Ephraim, They have hired lovers!
10 Isaan saboota gidduutti yoo of gurguran iyyuu ani amma walitti isaan nan qaba. Isaan hacuuccaa mooticha jabaa jalatti ni sukkuumamu.
Also though they hire among nations, Now I gather them, and they are pained a little, From the burden of a king of princes.
11 “Efreem aarsaa cubbuutiif iddoo aarsaa hedduu yoo hojjete iyyuu, lafti sun iddoo aarsaa itti cubbuu hojjechuuf qopheessan taʼeera.
Because Ephraim multiplied altars to sin, They have been to him altars to sin.
12 Ani waaʼee seera koo waan baayʼee isaaniif barreesseera; isaan garuu akkuma waan alaa dhufe tokkootti ilaalu.
I write for him numerous things of My law, As a strange thing they have been reckoned.
13 Isaan aarsaa naaf kenname dhiʼeessu; foon sanas ni nyaatu; Waaqayyo garuu isaanitti hin gammanne. Inni amma hammina isaanii yaadatee cubbuu isaanii adaba: Isaan gara Gibxitti deebiʼu.
The sacrifices of My offerings! They sacrifice flesh, and they eat, YHWH has not accepted them, Now He remembers their iniquity, And inspects their sin, They return [to] Egypt.
14 Israaʼel Uumaa isaa irraanfatee masaraawwan mootummaa ijaare; Yihuudaan magaalaawwan hedduutti dallaa ijaare. Ani garuu ibidda daʼannoowwan isaanii barbadeessu magaalaawwan isaaniitti nan erga.”
And Israel forgets his Maker, and builds temples, And Judah has multiplied cities of defense, And I have sent a fire into his cities, And it has consumed their palaces!”
