Hosea 2
1 Waambie ndugu zenu wanaume, 'Watu wangu!' na kwa dada zako, 'umeonyeshwa huruma.'”
So call your brothers, My People, and your sisters, Compassion.
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.
Accuse, accuse your mother: for she is not my wife, and I will not be her husband. Let her put her acts of infidelity out of her sight, and her lovers 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.
else I will strip her bare, expose her as she was on the day of her birth, make her like the wilderness, let her become like a parched land, and let her die of thirst.
4 Sitakuwa na rehema kwa watoto wake, kwa maana wao ni watoto wa ukahaba.
And on her children I will have no pity, since they are children of adultery,
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 become a prostitute, she who conceived them has behaved shamefully. She has said, “I will go after my lovers who gave me my bread and my water, my wool, 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.
That is why I am going to hedge up her ways with thorns, and build a wall about her, so that she cannot 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.”
She will pursue her lovers, but will not overtake them. She will seek them, but not find them. In time she will say, “I will go back to my first husband, I was better off 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.
She herself did not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the sweet wine, and the oil, who lavished on her silver and gold – that they used in worshipping 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.
So I will take back my grain at the harvest, and my sweet wine in its season. I will withdraw my wool and my flax, given to cover her nakedness;
10 Ndipo nitamvua nguo machoni pa wapenzi wake, wala hakuna mtu atakayemwokoa mkononi mwangu.
and so I will strip her naked before her lovers, and no one 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 end all her celebrations, her yearly feasts, her new moons, and her sabbaths, all her festivals.
12 Nitaharibu mizabibu yake na mtini wake, ambayo alisema, 'Hii ni mishahara ambayo wapenzi wangu walinipa.' Nitawafanya kuwa msitu, na wanyama wa shambani watakula.
I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, of which she says, “These are my wages which my lovers have given me.” I will make them a thicket, and the wild animals will 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.
In this way I will punish her for the days of the Baals, in which she made offerings to them, and decked herself with earrings and jewels, and went after her lovers, but forgot me, – declares the Lord.
14 Kwa hiyo nitaenda kumshawishi. Nitamleta jangwani na kumwambia kwa huruma.
So I am going to court her, bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly 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.
I will give her from there her vineyards, and the valley of Achor as a door of hope. There she will respond as in the days of her youth, as in the days when she came up from the land of Egypt.
16 “Itakuwa katika siku hiyo”-hili ndilo tamko la Bwana-”kwamba utaniita, 'Mume wangu,' na hutaniita tena mimi, 'Baal wangu.'
At that time, declares the Lord, you will call me your husband, and will no more call me your master.
17 Kwa maana nitaondoa majina ya Baali kinywani mwake; majina yao hayatakumbukwa tena.”
I will remove the name of the Baals from her mouth, their names never again uttered.
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.
On that day I will make for them a covenant with the wild animals, the birds of the sky, and the creatures that crawl on the earth. I will break the bow and the sword, banish battle from the land, and I will make them lie down in safety.
19 Nitakuwa mume wako milele. Nitakuwa mume wako katika haki, hukumu, uaminifu wa agano, na huruma.
I will take you for my wife forever, I will take you for my wife in righteousness, in justice, in kindness, and in mercy.
20 Nitakuwa mume wako kwa uaminifu. Nawe utanijua mimi, Bwana.
I will take you for my wife in faithfulness, and you will know the Lord.
21 Na siku ile, nitajibu”-hili ndilo tamko la Bwana. “Nitazijibu mbingu, nao watajibu dunia.
On that day I will answer – declares the Lord, I will answer the empty skies, and they will answer the dry earth.
22 Dunia itashughulikia nafaka, divai mpya na mafuta, na watajibu Yezreeli.
The earth will answer with grain, and new wine and oil, and they will 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 plant her in the land. I will have compassion to No-Compassion, I will say to Not-My-People, “You are my people,” and they will say, “You are my God.”
