ホセア書 4
1 イスラエルの子輩よヱホバの言を聽けヱホバこの地に住る者と爭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
Hear the word of the LORD, all of you children of Israel: for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 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
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood touches blood.
3 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
Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwells therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
4 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爭ふ者の如くなれり
Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for your people are as they that strive with the priest.
5 汝は晝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
Therefore shall you fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with you in the night, and I will destroy your mother.
6 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律法を忘るるによりて我もなんぢの子等を忘れん
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall be no priest to me: seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
7 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變ん
As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.
8 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
They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.
9 このゆゑに民の遇ふ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
And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.
10 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
For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.
11 淫行と酒と新しき酒はその人の心をうばふ
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
12 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
My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declares unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms has caused them to go astray, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
13 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
They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.
14 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
I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that does not understand shall fall.
15 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
Though you, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not all of you unto Gilgal, neither go all of you up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD lives.
16 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
For Israel slides back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
17 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
Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
18 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
Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give all of you.
19 かれは風の翼につつまれかれらはその禮物によりて恥辱をかうむらん
The wind has bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
