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Tia baragumu kinywani mwako. Kama tai, anakuja juu ya nyumba ya Bwana; kwa sababu wamelihalifu agano langu, wameiasi sheria yangu.
Put the ram’s horn to your lips! An eagle looms over the house of the LORD, because the people have transgressed My covenant and rebelled against My law.
2
Watanililia, Mungu wangu, sisi Israeli tunakujua.
Israel cries out to Me, “O our God, we know You!”
3
Israeli ameyatupa yaliyo mema; adui watamfuatia.
But Israel has rejected good; an enemy will pursue him.
4
Wamesimamisha wafalme, lakini si kwa shauri langu; wamejifanyia wakuu, lakini nalikuwa sina habari; kwa fedha yao na dhahabu yao wamejifanyizia sanamu, kusudi wakatiliwe mbali.
They set up kings, but not by Me. They make princes, but without My approval. With their silver and gold they make themselves idols, to their own destruction.
5
Amemtupa ndama yako, Ee Samaria; hasira yangu imewaka juu yao; siku ngapi zitapita kabla ya hao kupata hali isiyo na hatia?
He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?
6
Maana katika Israeli kimetokea hata na kitu hiki; fundi ndiye aliyekifanya, nacho si mungu kamwe; naam, ndama ya Samaria itavunjika vipande vipande.
For this thing is from Israel—a craftsman made it, and it is not God. It will be broken to pieces, that calf of Samaria.
7
Kwa maana wao hupanda upepo, nao watavuna tufani; nafaka haina bua; machipuko yake hayatoi masuke; hata ikiwa yatoa, wageni watayameza.
For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.
8
Israeli amemezwa; sasa wamo miongoni mwa mataifa kama chombo kisichopendeza.
Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like a worthless vessel.
9
Kwa maana wamekwea kwenda Ashuru, mfano wa punda wa mwituni aliye peke yake; Efraimu ameajiri wapenzi.
For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.
10
Naam, ijapokuwa waajiri kati ya mataifa, sasa nitawakusanya; nao wanaanza kupunguka kwa sababu ya mzigo wa mfalme wa wakuu.
Though they hire allies among the nations, I will now round them up, and they will begin to diminish under the oppression of the king of princes.
11
Kwa kuwa Efraimu ameongeza madhabahu kwa dhambi, madhabahu zimekuwa dhambi kwake.
Though Ephraim multiplied the altars for sin, they became his altars for sinning.
12
Nijapomwandikia sheria yangu katika amri elfu kumi, zimehesabiwa kuwa ni kitu kigeni.
Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.
13
Kwa habari za dhabihu za matoleo yangu, hutoa dhabihu ya nyama na kuila; lakini Bwana hawakubali; sasa ataukumbuka uovu wao, na kuwapatiliza dhambi zao; watarudi kwenda Misri.
Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.
14
Maana Israeli amemsahau Muumba wake, naye amejenga nyumba za enzi; na Yuda ameongeza miji yenye maboma; lakini nitapeleka moto juu ya miji yake, nao utaziteketeza ngome zake.
Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has multiplied its fortified cities. But I will send fire upon their cities, and it will consume their citadels.