होशे 7

1 “जब म इस्राएललाई निको पार्छु, तब एप्रैमको दुष्टता र सामरियाको कुकर्म उदाङ्गो हुनेछन, किनभने तिनीहरूले दुर्रव्यवहार गरे। चोरहरूले घर फोर्छन् अनि लुटेराहरू बाटोमा लुटपाट गर्छन्।

2 तर म तिनीहरूका सबै दुष्टकाम याद राख्दछु भनी तिनीहरू आफ्ना हृदयमा विचार गर्दैनन्। अब तिनीहरूको आफ्नै कालले तिनीहरूलाई घेरेर राखेको छ। ती कामहरू मेरै सामने छन्।

3 तिनीहरू आफ्ना दुष्ट कामले राजालाई र मालिकहरूलाई झूटा कुराले खुशी तुल्याउँछन्।

4 तिनीहरू सबै व्यभिचारी हुन्। तिनीहरू रोटी पकाउनेले तातो पारेका तावा जस्तै छन्। त्यसले पीठो मुछेको समयदेखि त्यो रोटी नपाकुन्जेल आगो चलाउँदै मिलाउँदै चलाउँदै गर्छ।

5 हाम्रा राजाको उत्सवको दिनमा अगुवाहरू ज्यादै पिएर मात्छन्। अनि राजा गिल्ला गर्नेहरूसित मिल्नु हुन्छ।

6 ढुकेर बस्दा तिनीहरूको मन चुलो जस्तै जल्दछ, किनकि चुलो जस्तै तिनीहरूका हृदय छल-युक्तिले जल्दछ। रातभरि तिनीहरूका रिस दन्किरहन्छ, बिहान त्यो जल्दै गरेको आगोझैं हुन्छ।

7 तिनीहरू सबै चुलो झैं तातिन्छन् र आफ्ना शासकहरूलाई भस्म पार्छन्। तिनीहरूका सबै राजाहरू मारिए। तिनीहरू मध्ये कसैले पनि मेरो प्रार्थना गर्दैनन्।”

8 “एप्रैम चाँहि अन्यजातिका बीचमा मिसिन्छ। एप्रैम एकापटि मात्र पाकेको रोटी जस्तै छ।

9 पराई मानिसहरूले त्यसको बललाई नाश पारे, तर त्यसलाई यो याद छैन। त्यसका टाउकोमा फाट-फूट फूलेका केश देखिनलागे, तर त्यसलाई त्यो थाहा छैन।

10 इस्राएलको अहंकारले आफ्नै विरूद्धमा साक्षी दिन्छ, तापनि तिनीहरू परमप्रभु आफ्ना परमेश्वर तिर फर्कदैनन न त उहाँको खोजी गर्दछन्।

11 एप्रैम बुद्धि नभएको मूर्ख ढुकुर जस्तै छ। मिश्रदेशलाई तिनीहरू पुकारा गर्छन्, अश्शूरमा तिनीहरू जान्छन्।

12 जब तिनीहरू जान्छन्, म तिनीहरूमाथि आफ्नो जाल फिजाउँनेछु, म तिनीहरूलाई आकाशका चराहरूलाई जस्तै तल झार्नेछु। अरू राष्ट्रहरूसंग सन्धि गरेकोमा म तिनीहरूलाई दण्ड दिनेछु।

13 तिनीहरूलाई धिक्कार! किनभने तिनीहरू मबाट तर्किएर गए। तिनीहरूमाथि विनाश आओस्। किनभने तिनीहरू मेरो विरूद्धमा गए। मैले तिनीहरूलाई बचाउँने थिएँ, तर तिनीहरू मेरो विरूद्धमा ढाँट्छन्।

14 तिनीहरू हृदयबाट मलाई बोलाउँदैनन, तर तिनीहरू आफ्नो ओछ्यानमा विलाप गर्दछन्। तिनीहरू अन्न र दाखरसका निम्ति भेला हुन्छन् तर तिनीहरू मदेखि टाडा भाग्छन्।

15 यद्यपि मैले तिनीहरूलाई शिक्षा दिएँ र तिनीहरूका पाखुरा बलियो बनाएँ, तापनि तिनीहरू मेरो विरूद्धमा युक्ति गर्दछन्।

16 तिनीहरू “देवताहरूपट्टि फर्कन्छन् जो वास्तविक देवताहरू होइनन्। “तिनीहरू काठको प्रत्यावर्ती क्षेप्यास्त्र जस्तै हुन। तिनीहरूका अगुवाहरू तिनका क्रोघ पूर्जा वचनले गर्दा तरवारले मारिनेछन्। मिश्रदेशमा तिनीहरूलाई खिसी गरिइएको” कारण यही हो।

1 When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.

2 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.

3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

4 They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.

5 In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.

6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.

7 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.

8 Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.

10 And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek him for all this.

11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

12 When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.

13 Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.

15 Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.

16 They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

1 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.

2 The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.

3 And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the Lord.

4 Come to Beth-el, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years:

5 And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord God.

6 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.

7 And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.

8 So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.

9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.

10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.

11 I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.

12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.

13 For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The Lord, The God of hosts, is his name.