Israeli Asiye Mwaminifu
13:1 Kum 24:1-4; Lk 15:16, 24; Mwa 3; 17; 2Fal 16; 7; Yer 2:25; Eze 16:26; Hos 2:5, 12“Kama mtu akimpa talaka mkewe,
naye akamwacha na akaolewa na mtu mwingine,
je, huyo mume aweza kumrudia tena?
Je, hiyo nchi haitanajisika kabisa?
Lakini umeishi kama kahaba na wapenzi wengi:
je, sasa utanirudia tena?”
asema Bwana.
23:2 Mwa 38:14; Eze 16:25; Kum 12:2; Hes 15:39; Isa 1:21“Inua macho utazame miinuko iliyo kame na uone.
Je, pana mahali ambapo hawajalala nawe?
Uliketi kando ya barabara ukiwasubiri wapenzi,
ukakaa kama yeye ahamahamaye jangwani.
Umeinajisi nchi
kwa ukahaba wako na uovu wako.
33:3 Law 26:19; Kum 11:14; Amo 4; 7; Sef 3:5; Yer 5:25; 14:4; Yoe 1:10; Eze 16:30Kwa hiyo mvua imezuiliwa,
nazo mvua za vuli hazikunyesha.
Hata hivyo, una uso usio na haya kama wa kahaba;
unakataa kutahayari kwa aibu.
43:4 Kum 32:6; Hos 2:15; Za 89:26; Isa 63:16; Yer 31:9Je, wewe hujaniita hivi punde tu:
‘Baba yangu, rafiki yangu tangu ujana wangu,
53:5 Isa 57:19; Za 103:9je, utakasirika siku zote?
Je, ghadhabu yako itaendelea milele?’
Hivi ndivyo unavyozungumza,
lakini unafanya maovu yote uwezayo.”
Wito Kwa Ajili Ya Toba
63:6 Kum 12:2; Hos 4:13; Yer 2:20; 1Nya 3:14; Isa 24:16; Yer 31:22; Eze 20:28Wakati wa utawala wa Mfalme Yosia, Bwana aliniambia, “Umeona kile Israeli asiye mwaminifu amekifanya? Amepanda juu ya kila kilima kirefu, na chini ya kila mti uliotanda na amefanya uzinzi huko. 73:7 Eze 16:46; 2Fal 17:13; Amo 4:8Mimi nilifikiri kuwa baada ya kuyafanya yote haya angelinirudia, lakini hakurudi, naye dada yake Yuda mdanganyifu aliona hili. 83:8 Eze 16:47; 23:11; Yer 11:10; Kum 4:27Nilimpa Israeli asiye mwaminifu hati yake ya talaka, na kumfukuza kwa ajili ya uzinzi wake wote. Hata hivyo nikaona kuwa Yuda dada yake mdanganyifu hakuogopa. Yeye pia alitoka na kufanya uzinzi. 93:9 Law 17:7; Isa 1:21; 57:6; Yer 7:22Kwa sababu uasherati wa Israeli haukuwa kitu kwake, Yuda aliinajisi nchi kwa kuzini na mawe na miti. 103:10 Yer 12:2; Eze 33:31; Hos 7:14; Isa 31:6; Amo 4:9; Hag 2:17; 2Fal 17:19Pamoja na hayo yote, Yuda dada yake mdanganyifu hakunirudia kwa moyo wake wote, bali kwa kujifanya tu,” asema Bwana.
113:11 Eze 16:52; 23:11; Yer 2:19Bwana akaniambia, “Israeli asiye mwaminifu ana haki kuliko Yuda mdanganyifu. 123:12 Isa 44:22; 2Fal 17:3-6; Kum 4:30; Za 86:15; Yer 31:21; Eze 14:6; 1Fal 3:26Nenda, ukatangaze ujumbe huu kuelekea kaskazini:
“ ‘Rudi, Israeli usiye mwaminifu,’ asema Bwana,
‘sitakutazama tena kwa uso uliokunjamana,
kwa kuwa mimi ni mwenye huruma,’ asema Bwana,
‘Sitashika hasira yangu milele.
133:13 Law 26:40-44; Yer 31:18-20; Lk 15:18-21; 1Yn 1:9; Yer 2:2, 5; Kum 12:2; Yer 14; 20Ungama dhambi zako tu:
kwamba umemwasi Bwana Mungu wako,
umetapanya wema wako kwa miungu ya kigeni
chini ya kila mti unaotanda,
nawe hukunitii mimi,’ ”
asema Bwana.
143:14 Rum 11:5; Ay 22:23; Hos 2:19; Isa 54:5“Rudini, enyi watu msio waaminifu, kwa kuwa mimi ni mume wenu,” asema Bwana. “Nitawachagua ninyi, mmoja kutoka kwenye mji, na wawili kutoka kwenye ukoo, nami nitawaleta Sayuni. 153:15 Isa 31:4; Mdo 20:28; Efe 4:10; Mdo 13:22Kisha nitawapeni wachungaji wanipendezao moyo wangu, ambao watawaongoza kwa maarifa na ufahamu. 163:16 Isa 65:17; Yn 4:21-24; Hes 3:31; 1Nya 15:25Katika siku hizo, idadi yenu itakapokuwa imeongezeka sana katika nchi, watu hawatasema tena, ‘Sanduku la Agano la Bwana,’ ” asema Bwana. “Halitaingia tena kwenye mawazo yao wala kukumbukwa, hawatalihitaji wala halitatengenezwa jingine. 173:17 Za 47:8; Eze 43:7; Za 22:23; 81:12; Yer 18:12; 17:12; 33:16Wakati huo, wataita Yerusalemu kuwa Kiti cha Enzi cha Bwana, nayo mataifa yote watakusanyika Yerusalemu kuliheshimu jina la Bwana. Hawatafuata tena ukaidi wa mioyo yao miovu. 183:18 Amo 9:15; Eze 37:19; Yer 16:15; Isa 11:13; Hos 1:11; Yer 30:3; 50:4; Kum 31:7; Kut 4:22Katika siku hizo, nyumba ya Yuda itaungana na nyumba ya Israeli, wao kwa pamoja watakuja kutoka nchi ya kaskazini hadi nchi niliyowapa baba zenu kama urithi.
193:19 Kut 4:22; Isa 63:16; 2Sam 7:14; Za 106:24; Eze 20:6“Mimi mwenyewe nilisema,
“ ‘Tazama jinsi nitakavyowatunza kwa furaha kama wana
na kuwapa nchi nzuri,
urithi ulio mzuri kuliko wa taifa jingine lolote.’
Nilidhani mngeniita ‘Baba,’
na msingegeuka, mkaacha kunifuata.
20Lakini kama mwanamke asiye mwaminifu kwa mumewe,
vivyo hivyo mmekosa uaminifu kwangu pia, ee nyumba ya Israeli,”
asema Bwana.
213:21 Yer 31:18; Isa 57:11Kilio kinasikika juu ya miinuko iliyo kame,
kulia na kuomboleza kwa watu wa Israeli,
kwa sababu wamepotoka katika njia zao
na wamemsahau Bwana Mungu wao.
223:22 Hos 14:4; Ay 22:23; Isa 30:26; Hos 6:1; Yer 33:6; 2:19“Rudini, enyi watu msio waaminifu,
nami nitawaponya ukengeufu wenu.”
“Naam, tutakuja kwako,
kwa maana wewe ni Bwana Mungu wetu.
233:23 Yer 17:14; Za 3:8; Yer 2:20Hakika zile ghasia za kuabudu sanamu kwenye vilima
na milimani ni udanganyifu;
hakika katika Bwana, Mungu wetu,
uko wokovu wa Israeli.
243:24 Yer 11:13; Hos 9:10Tangu ujana wetu miungu ya aibu imeyala
matunda ya kazi za baba zetu:
makundi yao ya kondoo na ngʼombe,
wana wao na binti zao.
253:25 Eze 6:9; Dan 9:7; Za 25:7; Yer 22:21; 31:19; Amu 10:10; 1Fal 8:47; Yer 14:20Sisi na tulale chini katika aibu yetu,
na fedheha yetu itufunike.
Tumetenda dhambi dhidi ya Bwana Mungu wetu,
sisi na mababa zetu;
tangu ujana wetu hadi leo
hatukumtii Bwana Mungu wetu.”
1“If a man divorces his wife
and she leaves him and marries another man,
should he return to her again?
Would not the land be completely defiled?
But you have lived as a prostitute with many lovers—
would you now return to me?”
declares the Lord.
2“Look up to the barren heights and see.
Is there any place where you have not been ravished?
By the roadside you sat waiting for lovers,
sat like a nomad in the desert.
You have defiled the land
with your prostitution and wickedness.
3Therefore the showers have been withheld,
and no spring rains have fallen.
Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute;
you refuse to blush with shame.
4Have you not just called to me:
‘My Father, my friend from my youth,
5will you always be angry?
Will your wrath continue forever?’
This is how you talk,
but you do all the evil you can.”
Unfaithful Israel
6During the reign of King Josiah, the Lord said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree and has committed adultery there. 7I thought that after she had done all this she would return to me but she did not, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it. 8I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear; she also went out and committed adultery. 9Because Israel’s immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood. 10In spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” declares the Lord.
11The Lord said to me, “Faithless Israel is more righteous than unfaithful Judah. 12Go, proclaim this message toward the north:
“ ‘Return, faithless Israel,’ declares the Lord,
‘I will frown on you no longer,
for I am faithful,’ declares the Lord,
‘I will not be angry forever.
13Only acknowledge your guilt—
you have rebelled against the Lord your God,
you have scattered your favors to foreign gods
under every spreading tree,
and have not obeyed me,’ ”
declares the Lord.
14“Return, faithless people,” declares the Lord, “for I am your husband. I will choose you—one from a town and two from a clan—and bring you to Zion. 15Then I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will lead you with knowledge and understanding. 16In those days, when your numbers have increased greatly in the land,” declares the Lord, “people will no longer say, ‘The ark of the covenant of the Lord.’ It will never enter their minds or be remembered; it will not be missed, nor will another one be made. 17At that time they will call Jerusalem The Throne of the Lord, and all nations will gather in Jerusalem to honor the name of the Lord. No longer will they follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts. 18In those days the people of Judah will join the people of Israel, and together they will come from a northern land to the land I gave your ancestors as an inheritance.
19“I myself said,
“ ‘How gladly would I treat you like my children
and give you a pleasant land,
the most beautiful inheritance of any nation.’
I thought you would call me ‘Father’
and not turn away from following me.
20But like a woman unfaithful to her husband,
so you, Israel, have been unfaithful to me,”
declares the Lord.
21A cry is heard on the barren heights,
the weeping and pleading of the people of Israel,
because they have perverted their ways
and have forgotten the Lord their God.
22“Return, faithless people;
I will cure you of backsliding.”
“Yes, we will come to you,
for you are the Lord our God.
23Surely the idolatrous commotion on the hills
and mountains is a deception;
surely in the Lord our God
is the salvation of Israel.
24From our youth shameful gods have consumed
the fruits of our ancestors’ labor—
their flocks and herds,
their sons and daughters.
25Let us lie down in our shame,
and let our disgrace cover us.
We have sinned against the Lord our God,
both we and our ancestors;
from our youth till this day
we have not obeyed the Lord our God.”
