Osee Propheta 4
1 Audite verbum Domini filii Israel, quia iudicium Domino cum habitatoribus terræ: non est enim veritas, et non est misericordia, et non est scientia Dei in terra.
You Israeli people, listen to this message from Yahweh! He is accusing you people who live in this country, [saying] “The people are not faithfully [doing what pleases me], they are not kind [to others], and they do not [even] know me!
2 Maledictum, et mendacium, et homicidium, et furtum, et adulterium inundaverunt, et sanguis sanguinem tetigit.
Everywhere in this land they curse [others], they murder [others], they steal, and they commit adultery. They act violently toward others and commit one murder after another.
3 Propter hoc lugebit terra, et infirmabitur omnis, qui habitat in ea, in bestia agri, et in volucre cæli: sed et pisces maris congregabuntur.
It is because of their doing those things that there is no rain [MTY], the land has become dry, the people are mourning, and the people are dying [from hunger]. Even the wild animals and the birds and the fish in the sea are dying.
4 Verumtamen unusquisque non iudicet: et non arguatur vir: populus enim tuus sicut hi, qui contradicunt sacerdoti.
But no one should accuse someone else and say it is his fault. It is you priests whom I am accusing.
5 Et corrues hodie, et corruet etiam propheta tecum: nocte tacere feci matrem tuam.
So I will punish [MTY] you priests, night and day, and I will punish the prophets with you. I am going to destroy [Israel, the nation that is like] [MET] a mother to you.
6 Conticuit populus meus, eo quod non habuerit scientiam: quia tu scientiam repulisti, repellam te, ne sacerdotio fungaris mihi: et oblita es legis Dei tui, obliviscar filiorum tuorum et ego.
It is because my people do not know [about me] that they will be destroyed. And their not knowing about me is because you priests have refused [to teach them about me]; so I will no longer allow you to be my priests. You have forgotten the things that I taught you, so I will forget [to bless] your children.
7 Secundum multitudinem eorum sic peccaverunt mihi: gloriam eorum in ignominiam commutabo.
As there are more and more priests, they have sinned against me more and more. So I will no longer allow them to be honored; instead, I will cause them to be disgraced.
8 Peccata populi mei comedent, et ad iniquitatem eorum sublevabunt animas eorum.
The priests get food from [the offerings that the] people [bring in order to be forgiven for having sinned], [so] the priests want the people to sin more and more [in order that the people will bring them more and more offerings].
9 Et erit sicut populus, sic sacerdos: et visitabo super eum vias eius, et cogitationes eius reddam ei.
The priests [are as sinful] as the [other] people, and I will punish [all of] them for what they have done; I will pay them back for the [evil] things that they have done.
10 Et comedent, et non saturabuntur: fornicati sunt, et non cessaverunt: quoniam Dominum dereliquerunt in non custodiendo.
[The priests] will eat, but they will still be hungry; they will have sex with prostitutes, but they will not have any children, because they have abandoned [me], Yahweh,
11 Fornicatio, et vinum, et ebrietas auferunt cor.
and they are devoting themselves to sleeping with prostitutes, and to [drinking] old wine and new wine, which results in their not being able to think clearly.”
12 Populus meus in ligno suo interrogavit, et baculus eius annunciavit ei: spiritus enim fornicationum decepit eos, et fornicati sunt a Deo suo.
“[You] my people request wooden idols [to tell you what you should do]! Like prostitutes who have left/abandoned their husbands,
13 Super capita montium sacrificabant, et super colles ascendebant thymiama: subtus quercum, et populum, et terebinthum, quia bona erat umbra eius: ideo fornicabuntur filiæ vestræ, et sponsæ vestræ adulteræ erunt.
you have abandoned [me] your God, and you are chasing after [other gods] on the tops of hills and mountains; you burn incense under oak [trees], poplar [trees], and other trees where there is nice/pleasing shade. So your daughters have become prostitutes, and your daughters-in-law have committed adultery.
14 Non visitabo super filias vestras cum fuerint fornicatæ, et super sponsas vestras cum adulteraverint: quoniam ipsi cum meretricibus conversabantur, et cum effeminatis sacrificabant, et populus non intelligens vapulabit.
But it is not [only] your daughters [whom I will punish] for having become prostitutes, and it is not [only] your daughters-in-law whom I will punish for committing adultery, because the men also are having sex with prostitutes, and they offer sacrifices with the prostitutes [who search for men at the] shrines [of the idols]. [They are all] foolish people, and they will [all] be ruined.
15 Si fornicaris tu Israel, non delinquat saltem Iuda: et nolite ingredi in Galgala, et ne ascenderitis in Bethaven, neque iuraveritis: Vivit Dominus.
You Israeli [people] have abandoned me like [MET] those who commit adultery have abandoned their spouses. But do not cause [the people of] Judah to sin [also]. Do not go to Gilgal or go up to Beth-Aven [towns] [to worship idols there]. Do not make solemn promises [there, saying ‘Just as surely] as Yahweh lives, [I will do what I am promising].’
16 Quoniam sicut vacca lasciviens declinavit Israel: nunc pascet eos Dominus, quasi agnum in latitudine.
You [people of Israel] are as stubborn as [SIM] a young cow. So there is no way [RHQ] that [I], Yahweh, will [provide food for them] [like a shepherd provides food for his] lambs [by leading them] to a nice meadow.
17 Particeps idolorum Ephraim, dimitte eum.
The people of Israel have chosen to worship idols [MET], [so] allow them [to do what they want to do].
18 Separatum est convivium eorum, fornicatione fornicati sunt: dilexerunt afferre ignominiam protectores eius.
When their rulers finish drinking [their wine], they go to find prostitutes; they love their disgraceful behavior.
19 Ligavit eum spiritus in alis suis, et confundentur a sacrificiis suis.
But they will disappear [as though] [MET] they were blown away by a whirlwind. They will become [very] ashamed because of their offering sacrifices [to idols].”
