1 Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ru-hamah. 2 Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts; 3 Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. 4 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms. 5 For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.
6 ¶ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. 7 And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now. 8 For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal. 9 Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness. 10 And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand. 11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts. 12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them. 13 And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.
14 ¶ Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. 15 And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt. 16 And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali. 17 For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name. 18 And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely. 19 And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. 20 I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD. 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth; 22 And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel. 23 And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.
1 Isaneye Ovaisrael ovakweṋu mu tje “Tjiwaṋa tja Ndjambi”, nokutja “Mwa suverwa i Muhona”.
Gomer omuhaṱakama u ri otja Israel otjihaṱakama
2 Vanatje vandje, rondoreye nyoko, nandarire kutja eye kamukazendu wandje rukwao, nami kawami omurumendu we rukwao. Riyarikaṋeye ku ye kutja a ise oukorondu na ha katuka orukupo. 3 Nu tje ha tjitire nao, ami me mu hukura ozombanda kutja a kare muzu tjimuna meyuva ndi eye ma kwatwa. Ami me mu sanisa kehi nda kukuta nongaango, neye ma ṱu i onyota. 4-5 Ami hi nokuṱira ovanatje ve ondjenda; owo ovanatje vomukorondu ngu ha ṱohoṋi. Omukazendu omuini wa tja nai: “Ami me i kozombarise zandje, owo mave kendjipa ovikurya nomeva, nomainya wozonḓu notupera, nomaze womiṋinga nomavinu.”
6 Ami otji me mu patere movihwa vyomakuiya, nu me tungu orumbo ndu maru mu tjaere akuhe ku ma vanga okuyenda. 7 Eye ma tezere ozombarise ze, nungwari kemee kezevaza ko. Me ze paha, nungwari kemee kezemuna ko. Tjazumba otji ma tja nai: “Ami me yaruka komurumendu wandje ingwi omutenga, orondu ami ee kara nawa komeho yaindu tjinga ambi ri nambano.”
8 Omukazendu wandje ngwi kamaa itavere kutja owami ngwi nguye mu pe ovikokotwa nomavinu nomaze womiṋinga nosilveri nongoldo aihe okuungura po oviserekarera vya Baal. 9 Moruveze rwomakondero ami otji me kotora oviyandjewa vyovikokotwa novyomavinu, nu me mu yeka omainya wozonḓu notupera mbi mbe mu pa a ungure po ozombanda ze. 10 Ami me mu hukura ozombanda ze a sewe muzu momurungu wozombarise ze, nu kape na ngu ma yenene okumukutura momake wandje. 11 Ami me yandisa omayuva we aehe wOmatendameno wOmueze nomikandi vye vyOmasabata nomayuva we aehe warwe omanene.
12 Ami me nyono omivite nomikuyu vye eye mbya tjere wa pewa i ozombarise ze mena rokutja eye we ze karera. Me hapisa ovikunino vye vyomivite vi rire ehwa; novipuka vyokuti mavi vi nyono. 13 Ami me mu verere otuveze eye twe ndji zemba, indu tjaa twimisire Baal ovyomoro omuwa, nu tjaa zara oviwerawere vye kutja a kongorere ozombarise ze. OMuhona ongwa hungire.
Orusuvero rwa Ndjambi kotjiwaṋa tje
14 Ami otji me twara omukazendu wandje ngwi mokuti onguza rukwao; ingo ami me kemupopa nomambo worusuvero. 15 Ami me mu yarurire ovikunino vye vyomivite mbya ri na vyo, nu me rundurura Omukutu wOumba u rire Omuvero wOmaundjiro. Eye ma kapuratena ku ami koṋa ngo tjimuna tjaa tjiti indu tja ri omutanda tja zire kOengipte. 16 Tjazumba eye otji me ndji vara rukwao otja omurumendu we, nu ke nokuuhara ame ndji vara otja Baal we. 17 Ami hi nokumuyandjera ko kutja a tamune ena ra Baal rukwao.
18 Moruveze ndo ami me tjiti omerikutiropamwe novipuka vyokuti avihe nozonḓera azehe noupuka auhe mbu honahona pehi kokutja ovyo avi ha tjiti otjipo kotjiwaṋa tjandje. Ami wina me isa mo ovirwise avihe mehi, nomangaruvyo nomauta aehe, nu me hupisa otjiwaṋa tjandje mohange na mouṋingandu.
19 Israel, me ku vareke u rire omukazendu wandje; me kara nouatjiri nu me rire omuṱakame kove; me ku raisire orusuvero orukarerere ne ku ṱire otjari wina, nu mo rire owandje nga aruhe.
20 Ami me ṱakamisa omakwizikiro wandje, nove mo rire owandje, nu otji mo ndji tjiwa kutja owami ngu mbi ri Muhona.
21-22 Moruveze ndo ami me ziri ozongumbiro zotjiwaṋa tjandje tja Israel. Me rokisa ombura kombanda yehi, nehi mari hapisa ovikokotwa nomandjembere nozoṋinga.
23 Ami me turisa otjiwaṋa tjandje mehi, nu me tji ṋingaparisa. Me raisa orusuvero ku imba mbaa ve isanewa kutja “Vahasuverwa”, na ku imba mbaa ve isanewa kutja “Katjiwaṋa tjandje”. Ami me tja: “Oweṋe otjiwaṋa tjandje”, nowo mave ziri nai: “Oove Ndjambi wetu”.
