Hosea 4
1 Hear the word of Yahweh, ye sons of Israel, —that, a controversy, hath Yahweh with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no faithfulness, nor lovingkindness, nor knowledge of God, in the land:
イスラエルの子輩よヱホバの言を聴けヱホバこの地に住る者と争辨たまふ其は此地には誠實なく愛情なく神を知る事なければなり
2 Cursing and lying, and killing and stealing, and committing adultery, have broken forth, and, blood-shedding, unto blood-shedding, doth extend.
ただ詛偽凶殺盗姦淫のみにして互に相襲ひ血血につづき流る
3 For this cause, shall the land mourn, and everyone who dwelleth therein shall languish, with the wild beast of the field and with the bird of the heavens, —moreover also, the fishes of the sea, shall be withdrawn.
このゆゑにその地うれひにしづみ之にすむものはみな野のけもの空のとりとともにおとろへ海の魚もまた絶はてん
4 Howbeit let, no man, contend, nor let him rebuke another, —since, thy people, are as they who contend against a priest:
されど何人もあらそふべからずいましむ可らず汝の民は祭司と争ふ者の如くなれり
5 So shouldst thou stumble in the daytime, and even the prophet stumble with thee, in the night, —and I should destroy thine own mother.
汝は昼つまづき汝と偕なる預言者は夜つまづかん我なんぢの母を亡すべし
6 My people, are destroyed, for lack of knowledge, —Because, thou, hast rejected knowledge, therefore will I reject thee from ministering as priest unto me, and, because thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also, will forget thy children.
わが民は知識なきによりて亡さるなんぢ知識を棄つるによりて我もまた汝を棄ててわが祭司たらしめじ汝おのが神の作法を忘るるによりて我もなんぢの子等を忘れん
7 As they were magnified, so, they sinned against me, —My glory—for what was contemptible, did they exchange.
彼らは大なるにしたがひてますます我に罪を犯せば我かれらの榮を辱に変ん
8 The sin of my people, they do eat, —and. unto their iniquity, lift they up every man his desire.
彼らはわが民の罪をくらひ心をかたむけてその罪ををかすを願へり
9 So doth it come to be—like people, like priest, —therefore will I visit upon him his ways, and, his doings, will I bring back to him;
このゆゑに民の遇ところは祭司もまた同じわれその途をかれらにきたらせその行爲をもて之にむくゆべし
10 And they shall eat, and not be satisfied, they have encouraged unchastity, yet have not been making increase, —for unto, Yahweh, have they left off giving heed: —
かれらは食へども飽ず淫行をなせどもその數まさずその心をヱホバにとむることを止ればなり
11 Unchastity, and wine, and new wine, take away the heart.
淫行と酒と新しき洒はその人の心をうばふ
12 My people, of their Wood, do ask, —Let, their Staff, then tell them, —for, the spirit of unchastity, hath led them astray, and they have unchastely departed from under their God.
わが民木にむかひて事をとふその杖かれらに事をしめす是かれら淫行の霊にまよはされその神の下を離れて淫行を爲すなり
13 On the headlands of the mountains, they sacrifice, and, on the hills, burn they incense, under oak and poplar and terebinth, because, pleasant, is the shade thereof: For this cause, do your daughters, become unchaste, and, your brides, commit adultery.
彼らは山々の巓にて犠牲を献げ岡の上にて香を焚き橡樹 楊樹 栗樹の下にてこの事をおこなふ此はその樹蔭の美しきによりてなりここをもてなんぢらの女子は淫行をなしなんぢらの兒婦は姦淫をおこなふ
14 I do not bring punishment upon your daughters when they become unchaste, nor upon your brides, when they commit adultery, for, the men themselves, with unchaste women, do seclude themselves, and, with the common women of the shrine, do offer sacrifice, —and, a people who will not discern, must be ruined.
我なんぢらのむすめ淫行をなせども罰せずなんぢらの兒婦かんいんをおこなへども刑せじ其はなんぢらもみづから離れゆきて妓女とともに居り淫婦とともに献物をそなふればなり悟らざる民はほろぶべし
15 Though unchaste art thou, O Israel, let not Judah, become guilty, neither let them enter Gilgal, nor go up to Beth-aven, and [then] swear, By the life of Yahweh!
イスラエルよ汝淫行をなすともユダに罪を犯さする勿れギルガルに往なかれベテアベンに上るなかれヱホバは活くと曰て誓ふなかれ
16 For, as a heifer that is stubborn, hath Israel, been stubborn, —Now, can Yahweh, turn them out to pasture, like a young ram in a wide place?
イスラエルは頑強なる牛のごとくに頑強なり今ヱホバ恙羊をひろき野にはなてるが如くして之を牧はん
17 Mated with idols, is Ephraim, let him alone.
エフライムは偶像にむすびつらなれりその爲にまかせよ
18 Their drinking-bout, having passed, —they became, unchaste, they loved wildly, a contempt, became her great men.
かれらの酒はくされかれらの淫行はやまずかれらの楯となるべき者等は恥を愛しいたく之を愛せり
19 The wind hath bound her up in its wings, —that they may be ashamed, because of their sacrifices.
かれは風の翼につつまれかれらはその礼物によりて恥辱をかうむらん
