Hoşea 4

¹Ey İsrail oğulları, RAB'bin sözünü dinleyin! Çünkü RAB'bin yeryüzünde yaşayanlara karşı bir davası var; zira yeryüzünde ne sadakat, ne merhamet, ne de Tanrı bilgisi kaldı.

²Lanet, yalan, cinayet, hırsızlık ve zina yeryüzüne boşaldı; kanı kanla karıştırıyorlar.

³Bu yüzden yeryüzü yas tutacak ve orada yaşayan herkesle birlikte, kırın yaban hayvanları, yerin sürüngenleri ve göğün kuşlarıyla birlikte eksilip azalacak; hatta denizin balıkları bile yok olup gidecek.

⁴Öyle ki hiç kimse ne dava etsin ne de bir başkasını suçlasın; zira benim halkım, kendisine karşı çıkılan bir kâhin gibidir.

⁵Bu yüzden gündüzün tökezleyeceksin, geceleyin seninle birlikte peygamber de tökezleyecek; anneni de geceleyin susturdum.

⁶Halkım bilgisi olmadığı için susturuldu; sen bilgiyi reddettiğin için, ben de seni bana kâhinlik yapmaktan menedeceğim. Sen Tanrın'ın yasasını unuttun, ben de senin çocuklarını unutacağım.

⁷Çoğaldıkça bana karşı daha çok günah işlediler; bu yüzden onların görkemini onursuzluğa çevireceğim.

⁸Halkımın günahlarıyla besleniyorlar ve onların haksızlıklarında kendi canlarını bulacaklar.

⁹Halk nasılsa kâhin de öyle olacak; onun yollarını cezalandıracak ve tasarılarının karşılığını kendisine ödeyeceğim.

¹⁰Yiyecekler ama doymayacaklar; fuhuş yaptılar ama yollarını doğrultamayacaklar; çünkü RAB'bi gözetmeyi terk ettiler.

¹¹Fuhuş, şarap ve sarhoş edici içki halkımın yüreğini esir aldı.

¹²Kendi sembollerine danışıyorlar, değnekleri onlara kehanette bulunuyor; çünkü fuhuş ruhu onları saptırdı ve Tanrılarından fuhuş yaparak uzaklaştılar.

¹³Dağların zirvelerinde kurban kesiyor, tepelerin üzerinde, meşe, akçakavak ve gölgesi güzel olan ağaçların altında kurban sunuyorlar; çünkü gölgeleri iyidir. Bu yüzden kızlarınız fuhuş yapıyor, gelinleriniz zina ediyor.

¹⁴Kızlarınız fuhuş yaptığında, gelinleriniz zina ettiğinde onları cezalandırmayacağım; çünkü erkeklerin kendileri fahişelerle kırıştırıyor, inisiyelerle birlikte kurban kesiyorlar; böylece anlamayan halk bir fahişeyle sarmaş dolaş oluyor.

¹⁵Sen ise ey İsrail, cahillik etme! Ey Yahuda, Gilgal'a gitmeyin, On Evi'ne çıkmayın ve "Yaşayan RAB'bin adıyla!" diyerek ant içmeyin.

¹⁶Çünkü İsrail, kudurmuş bir düve gibi kudurdu; şimdi RAB onları geniş bir alanda kuzu gibi nasıl otlatsın?

¹⁷Putların ortağı olan Efrayim, kendisi için tökezler koydu.

¹⁸Kenanlıları seçtiler; durmaksızın fuhuş yaptılar, kendi gururlu böbürlenmelerinden ötürü onursuzluğu sevdiler.

¹⁹Sen rüzgarın kanatlarında bir kasırgasın; sundukları kurban sunaklarından ötürü utandırılacaklar.

¹ΑΚΟΥΣΑΤΕ λόγον Κυρίου, υἱοὶ ᾿Ισραήλ, ὅτι κρίσις τῷ Κυρίῳ πρὸς τοὺς κατοικοῦντας τὴν γῆν, διότι οὐκ ἔστιν ἀλήθεια οὐδὲ ἔλεος οὐδὲ ἐπίγνωσις Θεοῦ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς.

²ἀρὰ καὶ ψεῦδος καὶ φόνος καὶ κλοπὴ καὶ μοιχεία κέχυται ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, καὶ αἵματα ἀφ᾿ αἵμασι μίσγουσι.

³διὰ τοῦτο πενθήσει ἡ γῆ καὶ σμικρυνθήσεται σὺν πᾶσι τοῖς κατοικοῦσιν αὐτήν, σὺν τοῖς θηρίοις τοῦ ἀγροῦ καὶ σὺν τοῖς ἑρπετοῖς τῆς γῆς καὶ σὺν τοῖς πετεινοῖς τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, καὶ οἱ ἰχθύες τῆς θαλάσσης ἐκλείψουσιν,

⁴ὅπως μηδεὶς μήτε δικάζηται μήτε ἐλέγχῃ μηδείς· ὁ δὲ λαός μου ὡς ἀντιλεγόμενος ἱερεύς.

⁵καὶ ἀσθενήσεις ἡμέρας, καὶ ἀσθενήσει ὁ προφήτης μετὰ σοῦ· νυκτὶ ὡμοίωσα τὴν μητέρα σου.

⁶ὡμοιώθη ὁ λαός μου ὡς οὐκ ἔχων γνῶσιν· ὅτι σὺ ἐπίγνωσιν ἀπώσω, κἀγὼ ἀπώσομαί σε τοῦ μὴ ἱερατεύειν μοι· καὶ ἐπελάθου νόμον Θεοῦ σου, κἀγὼ ἐπιλήσομαι τέκνων σου.

⁷κατὰ τὸ πλῆθος αὐτῶν οὕτως ἥμαρτόν μοι· τὴν δόξαν αὐτῶν εἰς ἀτιμίαν θήσομαι.

⁸ἁμαρτίας λαοῦ μου φάγονται καὶ ἐν ταῖς ἀδικίαις αὐτῶν λήψονται τὰς ψυχὰς αὐτῶν.

⁹καὶ ἔσται καθὼς ὁ λαὸς οὕτως καὶ ὁ ἱερεύς· καὶ ἐκδικήσω ἐπ᾿ αὐτὸν τὰς ὁδοὺς αὐτοῦ καὶ τὰ διαβούλια αὐτοῦ ἀνταποδώσω αὐτῷ.

¹⁰καὶ φάγονται καὶ οὐ μὴ ἐμπλησθῶσιν, ἐπόρνευσαν καὶ οὐ μὴ κατευθύνωσι, διότι τὸν Κύριον ἐγκατέλιπον τοῦ φυλάξαι. -

¹¹Πορνείαν καὶ οἶνον καὶ μέθυσμα ἐδέξατο καρδία λαοῦ μου.

¹²ἐν συμβόλοις ἐπηρώτων, καὶ ἐν ῥάβδοις αὐτοῦ ἀπήγγελλον αὐτῷ· πνεύματι πορνείας ἐπλανήθησαν καὶ ἐξεπόρνευσαν ἀπὸ τοῦ Θεοῦ αὐτῶν.

¹³ἐπὶ τὰς κορυφὰς τῶν ὀρέων ἐθυσίαζον καὶ ἐπὶ τοὺς βουνοὺς ἔθυον, ὑποκάτω δρυὸς καὶ λεύκης καὶ δένδρου συσκιάζοντος, ὅτι καλὸν σκέπη. διὰ τοῦτο ἐκπορνεύσουσιν αἱ θυγατέρες ὑμῶν, καὶ αἱ νύμφαι ὑμῶν μοιχεύσουσι·

¹⁴καὶ οὐ μὴ ἐπισκέψωμαι ἐπὶ τὰς θυγατέρας ὑμῶν, ὅταν πορνεύσωσι, καὶ ἐπὶ τὰς νύμφας ὑμῶν, ὅταν μοιχεύσωσιν· ὅτι αὐτοὶ μετὰ τῶν πορνῶν συνεφύροντο καὶ μετὰ τῶν τετελεσμένων ἔθυον, καὶ ὁ λαὸς ὁ συνίων συνεπλέκετο μετὰ πόρνης. -

¹⁵Σὺ δέ, ᾿Ισραήλ, μὴ ἀγνόει, καὶ ᾿Ιούδα, μὴ εἰσπορεύεσθε εἰς Γάλγαλα καὶ μὴ ἀναβαίνετε εἰς τὸν Οἶκον ῏Ων καὶ μὴ ὀμνύετε ζῶντα Κύριον.

¹⁶διότι ὡς δάμαλις παροιστρῶσα παροίστρησεν ᾿Ισραήλ· νῦν νεμήσει αὐτοὺς Κύριος ὡς ἀμνὸν ἐν εὐρυχώρῳ.

¹⁷μέτοχος εἰδώλων ᾿Εφραὶμ ἔθηκεν ἑαυτῷ σκάνδαλα,

¹⁸ἡρέτισε Χαναναίους· πορνεύοντες ἐξεπόρνευσαν, ἠγάπησαν ἀτιμίαν ἐκ φρυάγματος αὐτῶν.

¹⁹συστροφὴ πνεύματος σὺ εἶ ἐν ταῖς πτέρυξιν αὐτῆς, καὶ καταισχυνθήσονται ἐκ τῶν θυσιαστηρίων αὐτῶν.

¹Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord [has] a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

²Cursing, and lying, and murder, and theft, and adultery bound in the land, and they mingle blood with blood.

³Therefore shall the land mourn, and shall be diminished with all that dwell in it, with the wild beasts of the field, and the reptiles of the earth, and with the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea shall fail:

⁴that neither any one may plead, nor any one reprove [another]; but my people are as a priest spoken against.

⁵Therefore they shall fall by day, and the prophet with thee shall fall: I have compared thy mother unto night.

⁶My people are like as if they had no knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt not minister as priest to me: and [as] thou has forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.

⁷According to their multitude, so they sinned against me: I will turn their glory into shame.

⁸They will devour the sins of my people, and will set their hearts on their iniquities.

⁹And the priest shall be as the people: and I will avenge on them their ways, and I will recompense to them their counsels.

¹⁰And they shall eat, and shall not be satisfied: they have gone a-whoring, and shall by no means prosper: because they have left off to take heed to the Lord.

¹¹The heart of my people has gladly engaged in fornication and wine and strong drink.

¹²They asked counsel by [means of] signs, and they reported answer to them by their staves: they have gone astray in a spirit of whoredom, and gone grievously a-whoring from their God.

¹³They have sacrificed on the tops of the mountains, and on the hills they have sacrificed under the oak and poplar, and under the shady tree, because the shade was good: therefore your daughters shall go a-whoring, and your daughters-in-law shall commit adultery.

¹⁴And I will not visit upon your daughters when they shall commit fornication, nor your daughters-in-law when they shall commit adultery: for they themselves mingled themselves with harlots, and sacrificed with polluted ones, and the people that understood not entangled itself with a harlot.

¹⁵But thou, O Israel, be not ignorant, and go ye not, [men of] Juda, to Galgala; and go not up to the house of On, and swear not by the living Lord.

¹⁶For Israel was maddened like a mad heifer: now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a wide place.

¹⁷Ephraim, joined with idols, has laid stumbling-blocks in his own way.

¹⁸He has chosen the Chananites: they have grievously gone a-whoring: they have loved dishonour through her insolence.

¹⁹Thou art a blast of wind in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their altars.