Hosea 2
1 Waambie ndugu zenu wanaume, 'Watu wangu!' na kwa dada zako, 'umeonyeshwa huruma.'”
Say ye to your brothers, Ammi, and to your sisters, Ruhamah.
2 Leteni mashtaka dhidi ya mama yenu, leteni mashtaka, kwa kuwa yeye si mke wangu, wala mimi si mumewe. Na auondoe uzinzi wake mbele yake, na matendo yake ya uzinzi kati ya matiti yake.
Contend with your mother. Contend, for she is not my wife, nor am I her husband. And let her put away her whoredoms from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts,
3 Ikiwa sio, nitamvua nguo na kumuonyesha uchi wake kama siku aliyozaliwa. Nami nitamfanya kama jangwa, kama nchi iliyoharibika, nami nitamfanya afe kutokana na kiu.
lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.
4 Sitakuwa na rehema kwa watoto wake, kwa maana wao ni watoto wa ukahaba.
Yea, I will have no mercy upon her sons, for they are sons of whoredom,
5 Maana mama yao amekuwa kahaba, na yeye aliye mimba amefanya mambo ya aibu. Alisema, “Nitawafuata wapenzi wangu, kwa maana wananipa mkate wangu na maji, sufu yangu na kitani, mafuta yangu na kinyweji.”
for their mother has played the harlot. She who conceived them has done shamefully, for she said, I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.
6 Kwa hiyo nitajenga ua wa kuzuia njia yake kwa miiba. Nitajenga ukuta dhidi yake ili asiweze kupata njia. Yeye atawafuatilia wapenzi wake, lakini yeye hatawafikia.
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she shall not find her paths.
7 Yeye atawatafuta, lakini hatawapata. Kisha atasema, “Nitarejea kwa mume wangu wa kwanza, kwa maana ilikuwa ni bora kwangu zamani kuliko sasa.”
And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them. And she shall seek them, but shall not find them. Then she shall say, I will go and return to my first husband, for it was better with me then than now.
8 Kwa maana hakujua kwamba mimi ndimi niliyempa nafaka, divai mpya na mafuta, na ambaye nilimwongezea fedha na dhahabu, ambazo walizitumia kwa Baali.
For she did not know that I gave her the grain, and the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
9 Kwa hiyo nitachukua nafaka yake wakati wa mavuno, na divai yangu mpya katika msimu wake. Nitachukua sufu yangu na kitambaa kilichotumiwa kufunika uchi wake.
Therefore I will take back my grain in the time of it, and my new wine in the season of it, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.
10 Ndipo nitamvua nguo machoni pa wapenzi wake, wala hakuna mtu atakayemwokoa mkononi mwangu.
And now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand.
11 Nitasitisha furaha yake yote- sikukuu zake, mwandamo wa mwezi, sabato zake na sikukuu zake zote zilizowekwa.
I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feasts, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.
12 Nitaharibu mizabibu yake na mtini wake, ambayo alisema, 'Hii ni mishahara ambayo wapenzi wangu walinipa.' Nitawafanya kuwa msitu, na wanyama wa shambani watakula.
And I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, of which she has said, These are my hire that my lovers have given me. And I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.
13 Nami nitamuadhibu kwa ajili ya Sikukuu ya Baali, alipowafukizia uvumba, akijipamba kwa pete zake na mavazi yake, naye akafuata wapenzi wake, akanisahau.” Hili ndilo tamko la Bwana.
And I will visit upon her the days of the Baalim, to which she burned incense when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, says Jehovah.
14 Kwa hiyo nitaenda kumshawishi. Nitamleta jangwani na kumwambia kwa huruma.
Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak soothingly to her.
15 Nami nitamrudishia mizabibu yake, na bonde la Akori kama mlango wa tumaini. Yeye atanijibu huko kama alivyofanya katika siku za ujana wake, kama katika siku ambazo alitoka katika nchi ya Misri.
And I will give her her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope. And she shall make answer there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
16 “Itakuwa katika siku hiyo”-hili ndilo tamko la Bwana-”kwamba utaniita, 'Mume wangu,' na hutaniita tena mimi, 'Baal wangu.'
And it shall be at that day, says Jehovah, that thou shall call me Ishi, and shall no more call me Baali.
17 Kwa maana nitaondoa majina ya Baali kinywani mwake; majina yao hayatakumbukwa tena.”
For I will take away the names of the Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be mentioned by their name.
18 “Siku hiyo nitafanya agano pamoja na wanyama katika mashamba kwa ajili yao, na ndege wa angani, na vitu vya kutambaa chini. Nitaondoa upinde, upanga, na vita katika nchi, nami nitakufanya ulale kwa usalama.
And in that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of the heavens, and with the creeping things of the ground. And I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the land, and will make them to lie down safely.
19 Nitakuwa mume wako milele. Nitakuwa mume wako katika haki, hukumu, uaminifu wa agano, na huruma.
And I will betroth thee to me forever. Yea, I will betroth thee to me in righteousness, and in justice, and in loving kindness, and in mercies.
20 Nitakuwa mume wako kwa uaminifu. Nawe utanijua mimi, Bwana.
I will even betroth thee to me in faithfulness, and thou shall know Jehovah.
21 Na siku ile, nitajibu”-hili ndilo tamko la Bwana. “Nitazijibu mbingu, nao watajibu dunia.
And it shall come to pass in that day, I will answer, says Jehovah. I will answer the heavens, and they shall answer the earth,
22 Dunia itashughulikia nafaka, divai mpya na mafuta, na watajibu Yezreeli.
and the earth shall answer the grain, and the new wine, and the oil, and they shall answer Jezreel.
23 Nitatampanda mwenyewe katika nchi kwa ajili yangu, na nitamhurumia Lo Ruhama. Nami nitamwambia Lo Ami, 'Wewe ni Ami Ata,' nao wataniambia, 'Wewe ni Mungu wangu.'”
And I will sow her to me in the earth. And I will have mercy upon her who had not obtained mercy. And I will say to those who were not my people, Thou are my people, and they shall say, My God.
