Hosea 12

1 Ephraim tries to herd the wind, chasing after the east wind all day long. Their lies and violence keep on increasing. They make a treaty with Assyria, and send olive oil to Egypt.

エフライムは風をくらひ東風をおひ日々に詐偽と暴逆とを増くはへアツスリヤと契約を結び油をエジプトに餽れり

2 The Lord also has an accusation against Judah, and will punish Jacob for the way the people act; he will repay them for what they have done.

ヱホバはユダと争辨をなしたまふヤコブをその途にしたがひて罰しその行爲にしたがひて報いたまふ

3 Even in the womb he fought with his brother; when he became a man he fought with God.

ヤコブは胎にゐし時その兄弟の踵をとらへまた己が力をもて神と角力あらそへり

4 He fought with the angel, and he won. He wept, and begged him for a blessing. Jacob found God at Bethel, and spoke with him there—

かれは天の使と角力あらそひて勝ちなきて之に恩をもとめたり彼はベテルにて神にあへり其處にて神われらに語ひたまへり

5 the Lord God Almighty, the Lord is his memorable name!

これは萬軍の神ヱホバなりヱホバは其記念の名なり

6 You must return to your God. Act lovingly and do what is right, and always wait for your God.

然ばなんぢの神にかへり衿恤と公義とをまもり恒になんぢの神を仰ぐべし

7 A merchant who holds in his hands dishonest scales loves to swindle.

彼はカナン人(商賈)なりその手に脆詐の權衡をもち好であざむき取ことをなす

8 Ephraim says, “I'm rich! I've made myself wealthy! I've made so much from my work, and nobody can prove me guilty of doing wrong.”

エフライムはいふ誠にわれは富る者となれり我は身に財寳をえたり凡てわが労したることの中に罪をうべき不義を見いだす者なかるべし

9 But I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt. I will make you live again in tents like you do at the time of that particular festival.

我ヱホバはエジプトの國をいでしより以來なんぢらの神なり我いまも尚なんぢを幕屋にすまはせて節会の日のごとくならしめん

10 I spoke through the prophets. I myself gave many visions and parables through the prophets.

我もろもろの預言者にかたり又これに益々おほく異象をしめしたり我もろもろの預言者に托して譬喩をまうく

11 If Gilead is idolatrous, they will surely come to nothing. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls. Even their altars are like heaps of rocks in the furrows of the field.

ギレアデは不義なる者ならずや彼らは全く虚しかれらはギルガルにて牛を犠牲に献ぐかれらの祭壇は圃の畝につみたる石の如し

12 Jacob fled to the land of Aram; Israel worked there to gain a wife, earning a wife by looking after sheep.

ヤコブはアラムの野ににげゆけりイスラエルは妻を得んために人に事へ妻を得んために羊を牧へり

13 Through a prophet the Lord brought Israel up from Egypt, and by a prophet they were cared for.

ヱホバ一人の預言者をもてイスラエルをエジプトより導きいだし一人の預言者をもて之を護りたまへり

14 Ephraim has really upset the Lord, and the Lord will let them have the consequences of their bloodshed and pay them back for their contempt.

エフライムは怒を激ふること極てはなはだしその主かれが流しし血をかれが上にとどめその恥辱をかれに歸らせたまはん