ホセア書 2
1 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。
Say to your brothers, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.
2 「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。
Take up the cause against your mother, take it up, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; let her put away her loose ways from her face, and her false ways from between her breasts;
3 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。
For fear that I may take away her robe from her, making her uncovered as in the day of her birth; making her like a waste place and a dry land, causing her death through need of water.
4 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。
And I will have no mercy on her children, for they are the children of her loose ways.
5 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。
For their mother has been untrue; she who gave them birth has done things of shame, for she said, I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my wine.
6 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。
For this cause I will put thorns in her road, building up a wall round her so that she may not go on her way.
7 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。
And if she goes after her lovers she will not overtake them; if she makes search for them she will not see them; then will she say, I will go back to my first husband, for then it was better for me than now.
8 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。
For she had no knowledge that it was I who gave her the grain and the wine and the oil, increasing her silver and gold which they gave to the Baal.
9 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。
So I will take away again my grain in its time and my wine, and I will take away my wool and my linen with which her body might have been covered.
10 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。
And now I will make her shame clear before the eyes of her lovers, and no one will take her out of my hand.
11 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。
And I will put an end to all her joy, her feasts, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her regular meetings.
12 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。
And I will make waste her vines and her fig-trees, of which she has said, These are the payments which my lovers have made to me; and I will make them a waste of trees, and the beasts of the field will take them for food.
13 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。
And I will give her punishment for the days of the Baals, to whom she has been burning perfumes, when she made herself fair with her nose-rings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, giving no thought to me, says the Lord.
14 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。
For this cause I will make her come into the waste land and will say words of comfort to her.
15 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。
And I will give her vine-gardens from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will give her answer there as in the days when she was young, and as in the time when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
16 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。
And in that day, says the Lord, you will say to me, Ishi; and you will never again give me the name of Baali;
17 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。
For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and never again will she say their names.
18 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。
And in that day I will make an agreement for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven and the things which go low on the earth; I will put an end to the bow and the sword and war in all the land, and will make them take their rest in peace.
19 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。
And I will take you as my bride for ever; truly, I will take you as my bride in righteousness and in right judging, in love and in mercies.
20 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。
I will take you as my bride in good faith, and you will have knowledge of the Lord.
21 主は言われる、その日わたしは天に答え、天は地に答える。
And it will be, in that day, says the Lord, that I will give an answer to the heavens, and the heavens to the earth;
22 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。
And the earth will give its answer to the grain and the wine and the oil, and they will give an answer to Jezreel;
23 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」。
And I will put her as seed in the earth, and I will have mercy on her to whom no mercy was given; and I will say to those who were not my people, You are my people, and they will say, My God.
