Hosea 9 – NIRV & CCL

New International Reader’s Version

Hosea 9:1-17

Israel Will Be Punished

1Israel, don’t be joyful.

Don’t be glad as the other nations are.

You haven’t been faithful to your God.

You love to get paid for being a prostitute.

Your pay is the grain at every threshing floor.

2But soon there won’t be any grain or wine to feed you.

There won’t even be any fresh wine.

3You won’t remain in the Lord’s land.

Ephraim, you will return to Egypt.

You will eat “unclean” food in Assyria.

4You won’t pour out wine offerings to the Lord.

Your sacrifices won’t please him.

They’ll be like the bread people eat when someone dies.

Everyone who eats those sacrifices will be “unclean.”

They themselves will have to eat that kind of food.

They can’t bring it into the Lord’s temple.

5What will you do when your appointed feasts come?

What will you do on the Lord’s special days?

6Some of you will escape without being destroyed.

But you will die in Egypt.

Your bodies will be buried at Memphis.

Weeds will cover your treasures of silver.

Thorns will grow up in your tents.

7The time when God will punish you is coming.

The day when he will judge you is near.

I want Israel to know this.

You have committed many sins.

And you hate me very much.

That’s why you think the prophet is foolish.

You think the person the Lord speaks through is crazy.

8People of Ephraim, the prophet, along with my God,

is warning you of danger.

But you set traps for him everywhere he goes.

You hate him so much

you even wait for him in God’s house.

9You have sunk very deep into sin,

just as your people did at Gibeah long ago.

God will remember the evil things they have done.

He will punish them for their sins.

10The Lord says,

“When I first found Israel,

it was like finding grapes in the desert.

When I saw your people of long ago,

it was like seeing the early fruit on a fig tree.

But then they went to Baal Peor.

There they gave themselves to that shameful god named Baal.

They became as evil as the god they loved.

11Ephraim’s greatness and glory will be gone.

It will fly away like a bird.

Women will no longer have children.

They will not be able to get pregnant.

12But suppose they do have children.

Then I will kill every one of them.

How terrible it will be for them

when I turn away from them!

13Tyre is planted in a pleasant place.

And so is Ephraim.

But the Assyrians will kill

Ephraim’s children.”

14Lord, what should you do to Ephraim’s people?

Give them women whose babies die before they are born.

Give them women whose breasts have no milk.

15The Lord says,

“My people did many evil things in Gilgal.

That is why I hated them there.

They committed many sins.

So I will drive them out of my land.

I will not love them anymore.

All their leaders refuse to obey me.

16Ephraim is like a worthless plant.

Its roots are dried up.

It does not produce any fruit.

Suppose Ephraim’s people have children.

Then I will kill the children they love so much.”

17My God will turn his back on his people.

They have not obeyed him.

So they will wander among other nations.

Mawu a Mulungu mu Chichewa Chalero

Hoseya 9:1-17

Chilango cha Israeli

1Iwe Israeli, usakondwere;

monga imachitira mitundu ina.

Pakuti wakhala wosakhulupirika kwa Mulungu wako;

umakonda malipiro a chiwerewere

pa malo aliwonse opunthira tirigu.

2Malo opunthira tirigu ndi malo opsinyira mphesa sadzadyetsa anthu;

adzasowa vinyo watsopano.

3Sadzakhalanso mʼdziko la Yehova.

Efereimu adzabwerera ku Igupto

ndipo mudzadya chakudya chodetsedwa ku Asiriya.

4Iwo sadzaperekanso chopereka cha chakumwa kwa Yehova,

kapena nsembe zawo kuti akondweretse Yehovayo.

Nsembe zotere zidzakhala kwa iwo ngati chakudya cha anamfedwa;

onse akudya chakudya chimenechi adzakhala odetsedwa.

Chakudya ichi chidzakhala chodya okha,

sichidzalowa mʼnyumba ya Yehova.

5Kodi mudzachita chiyani pa tsiku la maphwando anu oyikika;

pa masiku a zikondwerero za Yehova?

6Ngakhale iwo atathawa chiwonongeko,

Igupto adzawasonkhanitsa,

ndipo Mefisi adzawayika mʼmanda.

Khwisa adzamera pa ziwiya zawo zasiliva,

ndipo minga idzamera mʼmatenti awo.

7Masiku achilango akubwera,

masiku obwezera ali pafupi.

Israeli adziwe zimenezi.

Chifukwa machimo anu ndi ochuluka kwambiri

ndipo udani wanu pa Mulungu ndi waukulu kwambiri.

Mneneri amamuyesa chitsiru,

munthu wanzeru za kwa Mulungu ngati wamisala.

8Mneneri pamodzi ndi Mulungu wanga

ndiwo alonda a Efereimu,

koma mneneri amutchera misampha mʼnjira zake zonse,

ndipo udani ukumudikira mʼnyumba ya Mulungu wake.

9Iwo azama mu zachinyengo

monga masiku a Gibeya.

Mulungu adzakumbukira zolakwa zawo

ndipo adzawalanga chifukwa cha machimo awo.

10“Pamene ndinamupeza Israeli

zinali ngati kupeza mphesa mʼchipululu.

Nditaona makolo anu,

zinali ngati ndikuona nkhuyu zoyambirira kupsa.

Koma atafika ku Baala Peori,

anadzipereka ku fano lija lochititsa manyazi

ndipo anakhala onyansa ngati chinthu chimene anachikondacho.

11Ulemerero wa Efereimu udzawuluka ngati mbalame.

Sipadzakhalanso kubereka ana, kuyembekezera kapena kutenga pathupi.

12Ngakhale atalera ana

ndidzachititsa kuti mwana aliyense amwalire.

Tsoka kwa anthuwo

pamene Ine ndidzawafulatira!

13Ndaona Efereimu ngati Turo,

atadzalidwa pa nthaka ya chonde.

Koma Efereimu adzatsogolera

ana ake kuti akaphedwe.”

14Inu Yehova, muwapatse.

Kodi mudzawapatsa chiyani?

Apatseni mimba yomangopita padera

ndi mawere owuma.

15“Chifukwa cha zoyipa zawo zonse ku Giligala,

Ine ndinawada kumeneko.

Chifukwa cha machitidwe awo auchimo,

ndidzawapirikitsa mʼnyumba yanga.

Sindidzawakondanso;

atsogoleri awo onse ndi owukira.

16Efereimu wathedwa,

mizu yake yauma

sakubalanso zipatso.

Ngakhale atabereka ana,

Ine ndidzapha ana awo okondedwawo.”

17Mulungu wanga adzawakana

chifukwa sanamumvere Iye;

adzakhala oyendayenda pakati pa anthu a mitundu ina.