Hosea 12
1 एप्रैमले आफ्नो समय नष्ट गर्छ। “इस्राएल दिनभरि हावाको पछि पछि भागिहिंड्छ। प्रजाहरू ज्यादा भन्दा ज्यादा झूटो बोल्छन्, र चोरी गर्छन्। तिनीहरूले अश्शूरहरूसंग सन्धि गर्छन् अनि आफ्नो भद्राक्षको तेल मिश्र देश लिएर जान्छन्।
2 परमप्रभु भन्नुहुन्छ, “मेरो तर्क यहूदाको विरूद्धमा छ। याकुबलाई उसले गरेको कर्मका निम्ति दण्ड दिनुपर्छ। उसलाई उसले गरेको कु-कर्मका निम्ति निश्चय नै दण्ड दिनुपर्छ।
3 जब याकूब आफ्नो आमाको गर्भमा थियो, अनि गर्भमा हुँदै उसले आफ्नो दाज्यूलाई छल्न शुरू गर्यो। याकूब एकजना शक्तिशाली युवक थियो अनि त्यसै समय उसले परमेश्वरसँग कुश्ती लड्यो।
4 याकूबले परमेश्वरका स्वर्गदूतसित ऊ युद्ध गर्यो अनि विजय भयो। ऊ रोयो अनि दयाको निम्ति विन्ति गर्यो। यो घट्ना बेतेलमा भएको थियो, त्यहाँ उसले परमेश्वरसंग बातचीत गर्यो।
5 यहोवा सेनाहरूका परमेश्वर हुनुहुन्छ। उहाँको नाउँ यहोवा हो।
6 यसकारण आफ्नो परमेश्वरतिर आऊ। उहाँ प्रति साँचो होऊ। राम्रो कर्म गर। परमेश्वरमाथि सधैं निर्भर गर।
7 “याकूब एक व्यापारी हो। ऊ आफ्नो साथीहरू समेतलाई ठग्छ। उसको तराजु झूटो छ।
8 एप्रैम भन्छ, ‘म धनी छु। मैले साँचो धन प्राप्त गरेको छु। मेरो अपराधको बिषयमा कसैले पनि थहा पाउने छैन।’
9 “तर जबदेखि तिमी मिश्रदेशमा थियौ म त त्यही समयदेखि नै परमप्रभु तिम्रो परमेश्वर हुँ। म तिमीलाई भेट हुने पालका दिनहरूमा जस्तै पालमा राख्नेछु।
10 मैले अगमवक्तासित कुरा गरेकोछु र बारम्बार दर्शन दिएकोछु। मैले अगमवक्तालाई तिमीहरूको आफ्नो पाठ पढाउन धेरै तरीका पनि दिएकोछु।
11 तर गिलादमा फेरि पनि पाप छ। अनुपयोगी मूर्तिहरू धेरै छन्। गिलगालमा तिनीहरू गोरूहरू बलिको रूपमा चढाउँछन्। तिनीहरूका धेरै जस्ता वेदीहरू जोतेको खेतमा थुपारेको ढुङ्गाका थुप्राहरू जस्ता छन्।
12 “याकूब आरामको खेतमा भागेर गए। यस जग्गामा इस्राएलले पत्नीको निम्ति काम गरेको थियो। स्वास्नी पाउनको निम्ति उसले भेडाहरूको हेरचाह गर्यो।
13 तर परमप्रभुले एउटा अगमवक्ताद्वारा इस्राएललाई मिश्र देशबाट लिएर आउनुभयो। परमप्रभुले एकजना अगमवक्तद्वारा इस्राएललाई सुरक्षित राख्नुभयो।
14 तर एप्रैमले परमप्रभुलाई धेरै रिस उठाइदियो। एप्रैम मृत्यु-दण्ड पाउने अपराधको दोषी छ। यसैकारण उसलाई उसको अपराधको निम्ति दण्ड दिइनेछ। उसको मालिकले उसलाई लज्जित पार्नुहुनेछ।”
1 Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.
2 The Lord hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.
3 He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God:
4 Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Beth-el, and there he spake with us;
5 Even the Lord God of hosts; the Lord is his memorial.
6 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.
7 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
8 And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.
9 And I that am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.
10 I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.
11 Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
12 And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
13 And by a prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.
14 Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him.
1 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
2 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
3 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
5 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
6 To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
8 They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
9 And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
11 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
12 Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
14 They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.
21 Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
22 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
24 Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
26 When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
27 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
31 My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.