1Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ru-hamah. 2.1 Ammi: that is, My people2.1 Ru-hamah: that is, Having obtained mercy 2Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts; 3Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. 4And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms. 5For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.2.5 drink: Heb. drinks
6¶ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.2.6 make…: Heb. wall a wall 7And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now. 8For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.2.8 wine: Heb. new wine2.8 which…: or, wherewith they made Baal 9Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.2.9 recover: or, take away 10And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.2.10 lewdness: Heb. folly, or, villany 11I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts. 12And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.2.12 destroy: Heb. make desolate 13And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.
14¶ Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.2.14 comfortably: or, friendly: Heb. to her heart 15And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt. 16And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali.2.16 Ishi: that is, My husband2.16 Baali: that is, My lord 17For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name. 18And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely. 19And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. 20I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD. 21And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth; 22And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel. 23And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.
1“Nena kwa abale ako kuti, ‘Ndinu anthu anga,’ kwa alongo ako kuti ‘Ndinu okondedwa anga.’ ”
Kulangidwa ndi Kubwezeretsedwa kwa Israeli
2“Dzudzulani amayi anu, adzudzuleni iwo,
pakuti si mkazi wanga,
ndipo ine sindine mwamuna wake.
Iyeyo achotse maonekedwe adama pa nkhope yake,
ndi kusakhulupirika pa mawere ake.
3Akapanda kutero ndidzamuvula,
ndipo adzakhala wamaliseche monga tsiku limene anabadwa;
ndidzamuwumitsa ngati chipululu,
adzakhala ngati dziko lopanda madzi,
ndi kumupha ndi ludzu.
4Sindidzaonetsa chikondi changa pa ana ake,
chifukwa ndi ana a mʼchiwerewere.
5Amayi awo akhala akuchita zachiwerewere
ndipo anawabereka anawo akuchita zinthu zochititsa manyazi.
Iwo anati, ‘Ine ndidzatsatira zibwenzi zanga,
zimene zimandipatsa chakudya ndi madzi,
ubweya ndi thonje, mafuta ndi chakumwa.’
6Choncho njira yake ndidzayitseka ndi minga;
ndidzamuzinga ndi khoma kotero kuti sadzapezanso njira yotulukira.
7Adzathamangira zibwenzi zake koma sadzazipeza;
adzazifunafuna koma sadzazipeza.
Pamenepo iye adzati,
‘Ndibwerera kwa mwamuna wanga woyamba uja,
pakuti ndinali pabwino ndi iyeyo kusiyanitsa ndi pano.’
8Iye sanazindikire kuti ndine amene
ndinkamupatsa tirigu, vinyo watsopano ndi mafuta.
Ndine amene ndinkamukhuthulira siliva ndi golide,
zimene ankapangira mafano a Baala.
9“Choncho Ine ndidzamulanda tirigu wanga pa nthawi yokolola,
ndi vinyo wanga watsopano pa nthawi yopsinya mphesa.
Ndidzamulanda ubweya ndi thonje langa,
zomwe akanaphimba nazo umaliseche wake.
10Motero tsopano ndidzaonetsa maliseche ake
pamaso pa zibwenzi zake;
palibe ndi mmodzi yemwe adzamupulumutse mʼmanja mwanga.
11Ndidzathetsa zikondwerero zake zonse:
zikondwerero zake za chaka ndi chaka, za mwezi watsopano,
za pa masiku a Sabata ndi maphwando ake onse a pa masiku okhazikitsidwa.
12Ndidzawononga mitengo yake ya mpesa ndi mitengo yake yamkuyu,
imene iye ankanena kuti inali malipiro ake ochokera kwa zibwenzi zake.
Ndidzayisandutsa chithukuluzi,
ndipo zirombo zakuthengo zidzadya zipatsozo.
13Ndidzamulanga chifukwa cha masiku
amene anafukiza lubani kwa Abaala;
anadzikongoletsa povala mphete ndi mikanda yamtengowapatali
ndipo anathamangira zibwenzi zake,
koma Ine anandiyiwala,”
akutero Yehova.
14“Koma tsopano ndidzamukopa mkaziyo;
ndidzapita naye ku chipululu
ndipo ndidzamuyankhula mwachikondi.
15Kumeneko ndidzamubwezera minda yake ya mpesa,
ndipo ndidzasandutsa Chigwa cha Akori kukhala khomo la chiyembekezo.
Kumeneko iye adzayimba nyimbo monga mʼmasiku a ubwana wake,
monga tsiku limene anatuluka ku Igupto.
16“Tsiku limeneli,” Yehova akuti,
“udzandiyitana kuti, ‘Amuna anga;’
sudzandiyitananso kuti, ‘Mbuye wanga.’
17Ndidzachotsa mayina a Abaala pakamwa pake;
sadzatchulanso mayina awo popemphera.
18Tsiku limenelo ndidzachita pangano
ndi zirombo zakuthengo ndi mbalame zamumlengalenga
ndiponso zolengedwa zokwawa pansi kuti ziyanjane ndi anthu anga.
Ndidzachotsa mʼdzikomo uta,
lupanga ndi zida zonse zankhondo,
kuti onse apumule mwamtendere.
19Ndidzakutomera kuti ukhale mkazi wanga mpaka muyaya;
ndidzakutomera mwachilungamo, mwaungwiro,
mwachikondi ndi mwachifundo.
20Ndidzakutomera mokhulupirika
ndipo udzadziwa Yehova.
21“Tsiku limenelo Ine ndidzayankha,”
akutero Yehova.
“Ndidzayankha mlengalenga pempho lake lofuna mitambo
ndipo mvula idzagwa pa dziko lapansi;
22ndipo nthaka idzamvera kupempha kwa tirigu,
vinyo ndi mafuta,
ndipo zidzamvera Yezireeli.
23Ndidzadzala Israeli mʼdziko kuti akhale wanga:
ndidzaonetsa chikondi changa kwa anthu amene ndinkawatchula dzina loti, ‘Sakondedwa.’
Ndidzawawuza amene ndinkawatchula dzina loti, ‘Si anthu anga,’ kuti, ‘Ndinu anthu wanga;’
ndipo adzanena kuti, ‘ndinu Mulungu wathu,’ ”
