Israeli Kuvuna Kisulisuli
18:1 Kum 28:49; Yer 4:13; 11:10; Hos 4:6; 6:7; Hes 10:2; Eze 33:3“Wekeni tarumbeta midomoni mwenu!
Tai yuko juu ya nyumba ya Bwana
kwa sababu watu wamevunja Agano langu,
wameasi dhidi ya sheria yangu.
28:2 Za 78:34; Mt 7:21Israeli ananililia,
‘Ee Mungu wetu, tunakukubali!’
38:3 Mt 7:23; Tit 1:16Lakini Israeli amekataa lile lililo jema,
adui atamfuatia.
48:4 Hos 2:8; 13:1-2, 10; Mt 7:21; 1Fal 12:16-20; 2Fal 15:13, 17, 25Wanaweka wafalme bila idhini yangu,
wamechagua wakuu bila kibali changu.
Kwa fedha zao na dhahabu
wamejitengenezea sanamu kwa ajili
ya maangamizi yao wenyewe.
58:5 Hos 10:5; Yer 13:27; Hos 8:6Ee Samaria, tupilieni mbali sanamu yenu ya ndama!
Hasira yangu inawaka dhidi yao.
Watakuwa najisi mpaka lini?
68:6 Yer 16:20; Hos 14:3; Kut 32:4Zimetoka katika Israeli!
Ndama huyu: ametengenezwa na fundi, si Mungu.
Atavunjwa vipande vipande,
yule ndama wa Samaria.
78:7 Ay 4:8; Gal 6:8; Hos 2:9; 7:9; 10:11-12; Mit 22:8; Isa 17:11; 66:15“Wanapanda upepo
na kuvuna upepo wa kisulisuli.
Bua halina suke,
halitatoa unga.
Kama lingetoa nafaka,
wageni wangeila yote.
88:8 Yer 22:28; 51:34; 2Fal 17:6; Yer 22:28; 48:38Israeli amemezwa;
sasa yupo miongoni mwa mataifa
kama kitu kisicho na thamani.
98:9 Yer 2:18; 22:20; Mwa 16:12; Eze 23:5; Hos 5:13Kwa kuwa wamepanda kwenda Ashuru
kama punda-mwitu anayetangatanga peke yake.
Efraimu amejiuza mwenyewe
kwa wapenzi.
108:10 Eze 16:37; 22:20; Yer 42:2; Dan 2:34Ingawa wamejiuza wenyewe miongoni mwa mataifa,
sasa nitawakusanya pamoja.
Wataanza kudhoofika chini ya uonevu
wa mfalme mwenye nguvu.
118:11 Hos 10:1; 12:11“Ingawa Efraimu alijenga madhabahu nyingi
kwa ajili ya sadaka za dhambi,
hizi zimekuwa madhabahu
za kufanyia dhambi.
128:12 Hos 8:1; Kum 4:6; Za 119:18; 147:19-20Nimeandika kwa ajili yao mambo mengi
kuhusu sheria yangu,
lakini wameziangalia
kama kitu cha kigeni.
138:13 Yer 6:20; 7:21; Neh 9:13-14; Hos 4:9; 9:3-9; Ay 21:14Wanatoa dhabihu nilizopewa mimi
nao wanakula hiyo nyama,
lakini Bwana hapendezwi nao.
Sasa ataukumbuka uovu wao
na kuadhibu dhambi zao:
Watarudi Misri.
148:14 Kum 32:18; Isa 17:10; Yer 5:17; Amo 2:5; 1Fal 12:31; Hos 2:13; Za 95:6Israeli amemsahau Muumba wake
na kujenga majumba ya kifalme,
Yuda amejengea miji mingi ngome.
Lakini nitatuma moto kwenye miji yao
utakaoteketeza ngome zao.”
Israel Will Harvest a Windstorm
1The Lord said to me,
“Put a trumpet to your lips!
Give a warning to my people!
Assyria is like an eagle.
It is ready to attack my land.
My people have broken the covenant I made with them.
They have refused to obey my law.
2Israel shouts to me,
‘We recognize you as our God!’
3But they have turned away from what is good.
So an enemy will chase them.
4My people appoint kings I do not want.
They choose princes without my permission.
They use their silver and gold
to make statues of gods.
That is how they destroy themselves.”
5The Lord says, “People of Samaria,
throw out your god that looks like a calf!
I am very angry with them.
How long will it be until they are able
to remain faithful to me?
6Their calf is not God.
A skilled worker from Israel made it.
But that calf of Samaria will be broken to pieces.”
7The Lord says,
“Worshiping other gods is like worshiping the wind.
It is like planting worthless seeds.
Assyria is like a windstorm.
That is all my people will harvest.
There are no heads of grain
on the stems that will come up.
So they will not produce any flour.
Even if they did produce grain,
the Assyrians would eat all of it up.
8So the people of Israel are swallowed up.
Now they are among the nations
like something no one wants.
9They have gone up to Assyria for help.
They are like a wild donkey
that wanders around by itself.
Ephraim’s people have sold themselves
to their Assyrian lovers.
10They have sold themselves to the nations
to get their help.
But now I will gather them together.
They will get weaker and weaker.
The mighty kings of Assyria will crush them.
11“Ephraim built many altars where they sacrificed
sin offerings to other gods.
So their altars have become
places where they commit sin.
12In my law I wrote down many things for their good.
But they considered those things as something strange.
13They offer sacrifices as gifts to me.
They eat the meat of the animals they bring.
But the Lord is not pleased with any of this.
He will remember the evil things they have done.
He will punish them for their sins.
And they will return to Egypt.
14Israel has forgotten the God who made them.
They have built palaces for themselves.
Judah has built forts in many towns.
But I will send down fire on their cities.
It will burn up their forts.”
