Hosea 6
1 “Njoo, turudi kwa Bwana. Kwa maana ametuvunja vipande vipande, lakini atatuponya; ametujeruhi, lakini atatufunga majeraha yetu.
In their affliction they will rise early to me: Come, and let us return to the Lord:
2 Baada ya siku mbili atatufufua; siku ya tatu atatuinua, na tutaishi mbele yake.
For he hath taken us, and he will heal us: he will strike, and he will cure us.
3 Nasi tumjue Bwana; tukaendelee kumjua Bwana. Kuja kwake ni hakika kama asubuhi; atakuja kwetu kama mvua, kama mvua ya vuli ambayo huinyeshea ardhi.”
He will revive us after two days: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. We shall know, and we shall follow on, that we may know the Lord. His going forth is prepared as the morning light, and he will come to us as the early and the latter rain to the earth.
4 Efuraimu, nikufanyie nini? Yuda, nikufanyie nini? Uaminifu wako ni kama wingu la asubuhi, kama umande unaoondoka mapema.
What shall I do to thee, O Ephraim? what shall I do to thee, O Juda? your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that goeth away in the morning.
5 Kwa hiyo nimewavunja vipande vipande kwa vinywa vya manabii, nimewaua kwa maneno ya kinywa changu. Maagizo yako ni kama nuru inayoangaza.
For this reason have I hewed them by the prophets, I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments shall go forth as the light.
6 Kwa maana natamani uaminifu wala si dhabihu, na kumjua Mungu kuliko sadaka za kuteketezwa.
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than holocausts.
7 Kama Adamu wamevunja agano; hawakuwa waaminifu kwangu.
But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant, there have they dealt treacherously against me.
8 Gileadi ni jiji la wahalifu wenye miguu ya damu.
Galaad is a city of workers of idols, supplanted with blood.
9 Kama makundi ya wanyang'anyi wanaomngojea mtu, hivyo makuhani hujiunga pamoja kufanya mauaji kwa njia ya Shekemu; wamefanya uhalifu wa aibu.
And like the jaws of highway robbers, they conspire with the priests who murder in the way those that pass out Sichem: for they have wrought wickedness.
10 Katika nyumba ya Israeli nimeona jambo baya; Uzinzi wa Efraimu ukopale, na Israeli ametiwa unajisi.
I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: the fornications of Ephraim there: Israel is defiled.
11 Kwa maana wewe, Yuda, mavuno yameteuliwa, nitakaporudisha urithi wa watu wangu.
And thou also, O Juda, set thee a harvest, when I shall bring back captivity of my people.
