Hosea 2
1 “Say to your brothers, ‘You are my people,’ and to your sister, ‘You have obtained mercy.’
あなたがたの兄弟に向かっては「アンミ（わが民）」と言い、あなたがたの姉妹に向かっては「ルハマ（あわれまれる者）」と言え。
2 Judge your mother, judge: for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove her fornications from before her face and her adulteries from between her breasts.
「あなたがたの母とあげつらえ、あげつらえ彼女はわたしの妻ではない、わたしは彼女の夫ではないそして彼女にその顔から淫行を除かせ、その乳ぶさの間から姦淫を除かせよ。
3 Otherwise, I may expose her nakedness and set her as on the day of her birth, and I may establish her as a wilderness and set her as an impassable land, and I may execute her with thirst.
そうでなければ、わたしは彼女の着物をはいで裸にし、その生れ出た日のようにし、また荒野のようにし、かわききった地のようにし、かわきによって彼女を殺す。
4 And I will not have mercy on her sons, for they are the sons of fornications.
わたしはその子らをあわれまない、彼らは淫行の子らだからである。
5 For their mother has been fornicating; she who conceived them has been brought to ruin. 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.’
彼らの母は淫行をなし、彼らをはらんだ彼女は恥ずべきことを行った。彼女は言った、『わたしはわが恋人たちについて行こう。彼らはパンと水と羊の毛と麻と油と飲み物とを、わたしに与える者である』と。
6 Because of this, behold, I will fence in your way with thorns, and I will surround it with a wall, and she will not find her paths.
それゆえ、わたしはいばらで彼女の道をふさぎ、かきをたてて、彼女にはその道がわからないようにする。
7 And she will pursue her lovers, but she will not obtain them, and she will seek them, but she will not find them, and she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband, because it was to some extent better for me then, than it is now.’
彼女はその恋人たちのあとを慕って行く、しかし彼らに追いつくことはない。彼らを尋ねる、しかし見いだすことはない。そこで彼女は言う、『わたしは行って、さきの夫に帰ろう。あの時は今よりもわたしによかったから』と。
8 And she did not know that I gave her grain and wine and oil, and that I increased her silver and gold, which they made into Baal.
彼女に穀物と酒と油とを与えた者、またバアルのために用いた銀と金とを多く彼女に与えた者は、わたしであったことを彼女は知らなかった。
9 For this reason, I will turn back, and I will take away my grain in its time and my wine in its time, and I will set free my wool and my flax, which had covered her disgrace.
それゆえ、わたしは穀物をその時になって奪い、ぶどう酒をその季節になって奪い、また彼女の裸をおおうために用いる羊の毛と麻とを奪い取る。
10 And now, I will reveal her foolishness by the eyes of her lovers, and no man will rescue her from my hand.
わたしは今、彼女のみだらなことをその恋人たちの目の前にあらわす。だれも彼女をわたしの手から救う者はない。
11 And I will cause all her joy to cease: her solemnities, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her feast dates.
わたしは彼女のすべての楽しみ、すなわち祝、新月、安息日、すべての祭をやめさせる。
12 And I will corrupt her vines and her fig trees, about which she said, ‘These rewards, they are mine, my lovers have given them to me.’ And I will place her in a narrow forest, and the beasts of the field will devour her.
わたしはまた彼女が先に『これはわたしの恋人らが、わたしに与えた報酬だ』と言った彼女のぶどうの木と、いちじくの木とを荒し、これを林とし、野の獣にこれを食わせる。
13 And I will inflict on her the days of the Baals, for whom she burned incense, and ornamented herself with earrings and necklace, and went after her lovers, and forgot about me,” says the Lord.
また彼女が耳輪と宝石で身を飾り、その恋人たちを慕って行って、わたしを忘れ、香をたいて仕えたバアルの祭の日のために、わたしは彼女を罰すると主は言われる。
14 “Because of this, behold, I will attract her, and I will lead her into the wilderness, and I will speak to her heart.
それゆえ、見よ、わたしは彼女をいざなって、荒野に導いて行き、ねんごろに彼女に語ろう。
15 And I will give to her, from the same place, her vinedressers, and the valley of Achor as a passage of hope. And she will sing there as in the days of her youth, and as in the days of her ascension from the land of Egypt.
その所でわたしは彼女にそのぶどう畑を与え、アコルの谷を望みの門として与える。その所で彼女は若かった日のように、エジプトの国からのぼって来た時のように、答えるであろう。
16 And it will be in that day,” says the Lord, “that she will call me, ‘My Husband,’ and she will no longer call me, ‘My Baal.’
主は言われる、その日には、あなたはわたしを『わが夫』と呼び、もはや『わがバアル』とは呼ばない。
17 And I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and she will no longer remember their name.
わたしはもろもろのバアルの名を彼女の口から取り除き、重ねてその名をとなえることのないようにする。
18 And in that day, I will strike a deal with them, with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the creatures of the earth. And I will crush the bow and the sword, and I will wipe away war from the earth. And I will let them sleep securely.
その日には、わたしはまたあなたのために野の獣、空の鳥および地の這うものと契約を結び、また弓と、つるぎと、戦争とを地から断って、あなたを安らかに伏させる。
19 And I will betroth you to me forever, and I will betroth you to me in justice and judgment, and in mercy and compassion.
またわたしは永遠にあなたとちぎりを結ぶ。すなわち正義と、公平と、いつくしみと、あわれみとをもってちぎりを結ぶ。
20 And I will wed you to me in faith, and you will know that I am the Lord.
わたしは真実をもって、あなたとちぎりを結ぶ。そしてあなたは主を知るであろう。
21 And this will happen in that day: I will listen closely,” says the Lord. “I will hear the heavens, and they will hear the earth.
主は言われる、その日わたしは天に答え、天は地に答える。
22 And the land will pay attention to the grain, and the wine, and the oil; and these will hear Jezreel.
地は穀物と酒と油とに答え、またこれらのものはエズレルに答える。
23 And I will plant her for me in the land, and I will have mercy on her, though she had been called Without Mercy. And I will say to Not My People, ‘You are my people,’ and they will say, ‘You are my God.’”
わたしはわたしのために彼を地にまき、あわれまれぬ者をあわれみ、わたしの民でない者に向かって、『あなたはわたしの民である』と言い、彼は『あなたはわたしの神である』と言う」。
