Hosea 9
1 Du behöfver icke fröjda dig, Israel, eller berömma dig öfver annor folk; ty din Gudstjenst är ett horeri emot din Gud, der du nytto med söker, att alla lador måga varda fulla med korn.
[You people of] Israel, do not shout joyfully [during your festivals] like [people of other] nations do! [I say that] because you have (not been faithful to/abandoned) me, your God. At every place where the people thresh grain you have [presented gifts to your idols like men] pay money to prostitutes.
2 Derföre skola ladorna och presserna intet föda dig; och vinet skall dig intet lyckas.
[But soon] there will not be enough grain [MTY, PRS] and wine [MTY, PRS] for you.
3 Och de skola icke blifva uti Herrans land; utan Ephraim måste åter in uti Egypten, och måste äta uti Assyrien det orent är.
And you people will not remain in the land that I, Yahweh, [gave to your ancestors]. You will be [captured and] taken to [Assyria], [where you will become slaves like your ancestors were] in Egypt; and in Assyria you will be forced to eat food that Yahweh has forbidden you to eat.
4 Der kunna de intet göra Herranom drickoffer af vin, eller eljest honom något till vilja; deras offer skall vara lika som de bedröfvades bröd, af hvilkom orene varda alle de som deraf äta; ty sitt bröd måste de äta för sig sjelf, och det skall intet varda buret in uti Herrans hus.
You Israelis will not [be able to] give wine offerings to him, or bring sacrifices to him. None of your other sacrifices will please him; they will be unacceptable to him, like [SIM] food that is touched by people at funerals, and everyone who eats that food will become unacceptable to him. They will be permitted to eat that food themselves, but they will not [be permitted to] bring it into the temple.
5 Hvad viljen I då göra uti årstidom, och Herrans högtidom?
At that time you will not [RHQ] be able to celebrate the feasts and sacred festivals.
6 Si, de måste bort för förderfvarenom, Egypten skall hemta dem tillhopa, och Moph skall begrafva dem; nässla skall växa, der nu deras lustiga afgudars silfver står; och törne uti deras hyddom.
And even if you escape and are not killed [by the Assyrians], you will be captured by [the army of] Egypt, and you will [die and] be buried in Memphis, [the capital of Egypt]. Briers will [grow up and] cover your treasures of silver, and thorns will grow in your [ruined] tents/houses.
7 Hemsökningstiden är kommen, vedergällelsetiden; det skall Israel väl förnimma; Propheterna äro galne, och de andelige äro ursinnige, för dina stora missgerning, och för det stora hetsliga afguderiets skull.
It is now the time for Yahweh to punish you, to pay you back for all the sins that you have committed. You people will [soon] know that. You have [committed] very many sins, and you very much hate Yahweh. You consider that the prophets are foolish, and you think that those who proclaim messages from him are crazy.
8 De väktare i Ephraim höllo sig ett skifte intill min Gud; men nu äro de Propheter, som lägga honom snaro på alla hans vägar, genom det hetsliga afguderi, uti sins guds hus.
My God appointed [me and the other] prophets to be [like] [MET] watchmen [to warn] you people of Israel, but everywhere that we go, [it is as though] people set traps for us and people are hostile [to us, even] in the temple of our God.
9 De gå allt för djupt deruti, och äro förderfvade, såsom i Gibea tid; derföre skall han komma deras ondsko ihåg, och hemsöka deras synder.
The sins that the Israeli people have committed are as awful as [what the men of] Gibeah did long ago; [so] God will not forget the wicked things that they have done; he will punish the Israelis for [all] those sins.
10 Jag fann Israel i öknene lika som vindrufvor, och såg edra fäder lika som de första fikon på fikonaträt; men derefter gingo de till Baal Peor, och lofvade sig till den skamliga afguden, och vordo ju så styggelige som deras bolar.
[Yahweh says], “When I first started [to do things to help] Israel, it seemed to me as though [SIM] I had found grapes in the desert. Your ancestors were [delightful], like [SIM] the first figs that grow on fig trees [each year]. But when they came to Peor [Mountain], they worshiped that disgusting idol Baal, and they became as disgusting as the idol that they loved.
11 Derföre måste Ephraims härlighet bortflyga såsom en fogel; så att de hvarken skola föda, hafvande vara, eller afla.
The things that cause Israel to be great will disappear like [SIM] a bird that flies away; [most of their women will] not become pregnant [DOU] or give birth to children.
12 Och om de än uppfödde sin barn, så vill jag dock göra dem arfvingalösa, så att de skola intet folk vara; och ve dem, när jag ifrå dem viken är.
Even if their children are born and start to grow up, I will cause all of them to die [while they are still young]. Terrible things will happen to them when I abandon them!
13 Ephraim, som mig synes, är planterad och skön lika som Tyrus; likväl måste han nu få dråparenom sin barn ut.
I have seen Israel become beautiful and prosperous like Tyre [city] was [before it was destroyed], but now the people of Israel will [be forced to] take their children to be slaughtered [by their enemies].”
14 Herre, gif dem; men hvad vill du gifva dem? gif dem ofruktsamma qveder, och försinade bröst.
Yahweh, [I do not know] [RHQ] what I should ask for my people. So I ask that you do this one thing: Cause the women who are pregnant to have miscarriages and unable [to nurse their babies].
15 All deras arghet sker i Gilgal; der hatar jag dem, och skall, får deras onda väsendes skull, drifva dem bort utu mitt hus, och ingen kärlek mer bevisa dem; ty alle deras Förstar äro affällige.
[Yahweh says], “Because of all the wicked things that my people did at Gilgal, that is where I started to hate them. [And now], because of [all] the sinful things that they have done, I will expel them from my country. I will not love them any longer; all their leaders rebel [against me].
16 Ephraim är slagen, hans rot är borttorkad så att de ingen frukt mer bära kunna; och om de än födde, så vill jag dock, den åstundada fruktena af deras lifve döda.
Israel is like [MET] a grapevine that is dried up; [like a vine] [MET] whose roots are withered and that produces no fruit. Even if the [women of Israel] give birth to [more] children, I will cause those children, whom they love, to die.
17 Min Gud skall förkasta dem, derföre att de icke ville höra honom; och de måste gå villeråda ibland Hedningarna.
The people of Israel have not obeyed me, their God, so I will reject them. [As a result], they will wander among the [other] nations, [searching for a place to live].”
