Hosea’s Reconciliation With His Wife
1The Lord said to me, “Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another man and is an adulteress. Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes.”
2So I bought her for fifteen shekels3:2 That is, about 6 ounces or about 170 grams of silver and about a homer and a lethek3:2 A homer and a lethek possibly weighed about 430 pounds or about 195 kilograms. of barley. 3Then I told her, “You are to live with me many days; you must not be a prostitute or be intimate with any man, and I will behave the same way toward you.”
4For the Israelites will live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred stones, without ephod or household gods. 5Afterward the Israelites will return and seek the Lord their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the Lord and to his blessings in the last days.
Upatanisho Wa Hosea Na Mkewe
13:1 Hos 1:2; 2Sam 6:19Bwana akaniambia, “Nenda, ukaonyeshe upendo wako kwa mke wako tena, ingawa amependwa na mwingine naye ni mzinzi. Mpende kama Bwana apendavyo Waisraeli, ingawa wanageukia miungu mingine na kupenda mikate mitamu ya zabibu kavu iliyowekwa wakfu.”
2Basi nilimnunua huyo mwanamke kwa shekeli kumi na tano3:2 Shekeli 15 za fedha ni sawa na gramu 170. za fedha, pia kwa kiasi kama cha homeri moja na nusu3:2 Homeri moja na nusu ni kama lita 330. ya shayiri. 33:3 Kum 21:23Kisha nilimwambia, “Utaishi nami kwa siku nyingi, hupaswi kuwa kahaba au kuwa na uhusiano wa karibu na mtu yeyote, nami nitaishi na wewe.”
43:4 Hos 2:11; 13:11; Dan 11:31; Amu 18:14-17, 23-24; Mao 2:9; Kum 28:6; Zek 10:2; Kut 25:7Kwa maana Waisraeli wataishi siku nyingi bila kuwa na mfalme wala mkuu, bila kuwa na dhabihu wala mawe matakatifu, bila kisibau wala sanamu. 53:5 1Sam 13:14; Eze 34:23-24; Kum 4:30; Yer 50:4-5; Isa 9:13; 10:20; Hos 5:15; Mik 4:1-2; Za 18:45Baadaye Waisraeli watarudi na kumtafuta Bwana Mungu wao na Daudi mfalme wao. Watakuja wakitetemeka kwa Bwana na kwa baraka zake katika siku za mwisho.
