Hosea 14 – NEN & NIRV

Kiswahili Contemporary Version (Neno: Bibilia Takatifu)

Hosea 14:1-9

Toba Iletayo Baraka

114:1 Hos 5:5; 9:7; 12:6; Yer 3:12; Isa 19:22Rudi, ee Israeli, kwa Bwana Mungu wako.

Dhambi zako zimekuwa

ndilo anguko lako!

214:2 Rum 8:26; Za 51:16-17; Mik 7:18-19; Ebr 13:15; Kut 34:9Chukueni maneno pamoja nanyi,

mkamrudie Bwana.

Mwambieni:

“Samehe dhambi zetu zote

na utupokee kwa neema,

ili tuweze kutoa matunda yetu

kama sadaka za mafahali.

314:3 Mik 5:10; Isa 31:1; Hos 5:13; 8:6; Yer 49:11; Za 10:14; 33:17Ashuru hawezi kutuokoa,

hatutapanda farasi wa vita.

Kamwe hatutasema tena ‘Miungu yetu’

kwa kile ambacho mikono yetu wenyewe imetengeneza,

kwa kuwa kwako wewe yatima hupata huruma.”

414:4 Isa 30:26; 55:1; Hos 6:1; Yer 2:19; 31:20; Sef 3:17; Ay 13:16“Nitaponya ukaidi wao

na kuwapenda kwa hiari yangu,

kwa kuwa hasira yangu imeondoka kwao.

514:5 Wim 2:1; Isa 18:4; 35:2; Ay 29:19; Mwa 27:28Nitakuwa kama umande kwa Israeli;

atachanua kama yungiyungi.

Kama mwerezi wa Lebanoni

atashusha mizizi yake chini;

614:6 Za 52:8; 92:12; Yer 11:16; Wim 4:11matawi yake yatatanda.

Fahari yake itakuwa kama mti wa mzeituni,

harufu yake nzuri kama mwerezi wa Lebanoni.

714:7 Za 91:1-4; Hos 2:22; Eze 17:23; Mwa 40:10Watu wataishi tena kwenye kivuli chake.

Atastawi kama nafaka.

Atachanua kama mzabibu,

nao umaarufu wake utakuwa

kama divai itokayo Lebanoni.

814:8 Yer 31:18; Yak 1:17; Isa 37:24Ee Efraimu, nina shughuli gani tena na sanamu?

Nitamjibu na kumtunza.

Mimi ni kama msunobari wenye majani mabichi;

kuzaa kwako matunda kunatoka kwangu.”

914:9 Za 107:43; Mit 10:29; Dan 12:10; Sef 3:5; Mdo 13:10; Isa 1:28; 26:7Ni nani mwenye hekima? Atayatambua mambo haya.

Ni nani mwenye ufahamu? Huyu atayaelewa.

Njia za Bwana ni adili;

wenye haki huenda katika njia hizo,

lakini waasi watajikwaa ndani yake.

New International Reader’s Version

Hosea 14:1-9

The Lord Blesses Those Who Turn Away From Sin

1Israel, return to the Lord your God.

Your sins have destroyed you!

2Tell the Lord you are turning away from your sins.

Return to him.

Say to him,

“Forgive us for all our sins.

Please be kind to us.

Welcome us back to you.

Then our lips will offer you our praise.

3Assyria can’t save us.

We won’t trust in our war horses.

Our own hands have made statues of gods.

But we will never call them our gods again.

We are like children whose fathers have died.

But you show us your tender love.”

4Then the Lord will answer,

“My people always wander away from me.

But I will put an end to that.

My anger has turned away from them.

Now I will love them freely.

5I will be like the dew to Israel.

They will bloom like a lily.

They will send their roots down deep

like a cedar tree in Lebanon.

6They will spread out like new branches.

They will be as beautiful as an olive tree.

They will smell as sweet as the cedar trees in Lebanon.

7Once again my people will live

in the safety of my shade.

They will grow like grain.

They will bloom like vines.

And Israel will be as famous

as wine from Lebanon.

8Ephraim will have nothing more to do with other gods.

I will answer the prayers of my people.

I will take good care of them.

I will be like a healthy juniper tree to them.

All the fruit they bear will come from me.”

9If someone is wise, they will realize

that what I’ve said is true.

If they have understanding,

they will know what it means.

The ways of the Lord are right.

People who are right with God live the way he wants them to.

But those who refuse to obey him trip and fall.