Hosea 4
New King James Version
God’s Charge Against Israel
4 Hear the word of the Lord,
You children of Israel,
For the Lord brings a (A)charge[a] against the inhabitants of the land:
“There is no truth or mercy
Or (B)knowledge of God in the land.
2 By swearing and lying,
Killing and stealing and committing adultery,
They break all restraint,
With bloodshed [b]upon bloodshed.
3 Therefore (C)the land will mourn;
And (D)everyone who dwells there will waste away
With the beasts of the field
And the birds of the air;
Even the fish of the sea will be taken away.
4 “Now let no man contend, or rebuke another;
For your people are like those (E)who contend with the priest.
5 Therefore you shall stumble (F)in the day;
The prophet also shall stumble with you in the night;
And I will destroy your mother.
6 (G)My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I also will reject you from being priest for Me;
(H)Because you have forgotten the law of your God,
I also will forget your children.
7 “The more they increased,
The more they sinned against Me;
(I)I[c] will change [d]their glory into shame.
8 They eat up the sin of My people;
They set their [e]heart on their iniquity.
9 And it shall be: (J)like people, like priest.
So I will punish them for their ways,
And [f]reward them for their deeds.
10 For (K)they shall eat, but not have enough;
They shall commit harlotry, but not increase;
Because they have ceased obeying the Lord.
The Idolatry of Israel
11 “Harlotry, wine, and new wine (L)enslave the heart.
12 My people ask counsel from their (M)wooden idols,
And their [g]staff informs them.
For (N)the spirit of harlotry has caused them to stray,
And they have played the harlot against their God.
13 (O)They offer sacrifices on the mountaintops,
And burn incense on the hills,
Under oaks, poplars, and terebinths,
Because their shade is good.
(P)Therefore your daughters commit harlotry,
And your brides commit adultery.
14 “I will not punish your daughters when they commit harlotry,
Nor your brides when they commit adultery;
For the men themselves go apart with harlots,
And offer sacrifices with a (Q)ritual harlot.
Therefore people who do not understand will be trampled.
15 “Though you, Israel, play the harlot,
Let not Judah offend.
(R)Do not come up to Gilgal,
Nor go up to (S)Beth[h] Aven,
(T)Nor swear an oath, saying, ‘As the Lord lives’—
16 “For Israel (U)is stubborn
Like a stubborn calf;
Now the Lord will let them forage
Like a lamb in [i]open country.
17 “Ephraim is joined to idols,
(V)Let him alone.
18 Their drink [j]is rebellion,
They commit harlotry continually.
(W)Her [k]rulers [l]dearly love dishonor.
19 (X)The wind has wrapped her up in its wings,
And (Y)they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
Footnotes
- Hosea 4:1 A legal complaint
- Hosea 4:2 Lit. touching
- Hosea 4:7 So with MT, LXX, Vg.; scribal tradition, Syr., Tg. They will change
- Hosea 4:7 So with MT, LXX, Syr., Tg., Vg.; scribal tradition My glory
- Hosea 4:8 Desires
- Hosea 4:9 repay
- Hosea 4:12 Diviner’s rod
- Hosea 4:15 Lit. House of Idolatry or Wickedness
- Hosea 4:16 Lit. a large place
- Hosea 4:18 Or has turned aside
- Hosea 4:18 Lit. shields
- Hosea 4:18 Heb. difficult; a Jewish tradition shamefully love, ‘Give!’
Ос 4
Священное Писание (Восточный перевод), версия для Таджикистана
Обвинение против Исроила
4 Народ Исроила, слушайте слово Вечного,
потому что у Вечного тяжба с вами,
жители этой земли:
– В этой стране нет ни верности, ни любви,
ни познания Всевышнего.
2 Есть лишь проклятие, ложь и убийство,
воровство и разврат.
Они переходят все границы,
кровопролитие следует за кровопролитием.
3 Поэтому земля высыхает,
и все, кто живёт в ней, изнемогают.
Гибнут дикие звери, птицы небесные
и рыбы морские.
4 Но пусть никто не судится,
пусть один не обвиняет другого;
Я вас обвиняю, священнослужители![a]
5 Вы спотыкаетесь днём и ночью,
и пророки спотыкаются вместе с вами.
Итак, Я истреблю вашу мать[b] –
6 Мой народ будет истреблён из-за недостатка знания.
Как вы отвергли знание,
так и Я отвергну вас, Мои священнослужители.
Как вы забыли Закон вашего Бога,
так и Я забуду ваших детей.
7 Чем больше становилось священнослужителей,
тем больше они грешили против Меня.
Я поменяю их славу[c] на нечто постыдное.
8 Они питаются жертвами за грехи Моего народа,
потому и желают их беззаконий.[d]
9 Что будет с народом, то и со священнослужителями.
Я накажу их за грехи их
и воздам им по делам их.
10 Они будут есть, но не насытятся,
будут блудить, но останутся бездетными,
потому что они оставили Вечного
и предали себя
11 разврату,
вину старому и молодому,
которые отнимают понимание
12 у Моего народа.
Они просят совета у деревяшки,
и палка даёт им ответ.
Они сбились с пути, следуя за ложными богами,
и, развратившись, отдалились от своего Бога.
13 Они приносят жертвы на вершинах гор
и сжигают приношения на холмах,
под дубом, тополем и теревинфом[e],
потому что их тень приятна.
Поэтому ваши дочери блудят,
а ваши невестки нарушают супружескую верность.
14 Я не накажу ваших дочерей,
когда они будут блудить,
и не накажу ваших невесток,
когда они будут нарушать супружескую верность,
потому что мужчины сами уединяются с блудницами
и приносят жертвы с блудницами храмовыми[f].
Невежественный народ погибнет!
15 Хотя ты и блудишь, Исроил,
пусть хоть Иудея не грешит.
Не ходите в Гилгал,
не поднимайтесь в Бет-Авен («дом зла»)[g].
Не клянитесь там: «Верно, как и то, что жив Вечный!»
16 Исроильтяне упираются,
как упрямая телица.
Как же тогда Вечный сможет пасти их,
словно овец на просторном пастбище?
17 Ефраим[h] привязался к идолам –
оставь его!
18 Даже когда у них кончается вино,
они продолжают блудить.
Их правители любят постыдные пути.
19 Сильный ветер сметёт их,
и им будет стыдно за свои жертвы.
Footnotes
- Ос 4:4 Или: «ваш народ подобен тем, кто спорит со священнослужителями».
- Ос 4:5 То есть Исроил.
- Ос 4:7 Или: «Они сменили свою славу»; или: «Они сменили свою Славу (Вечного)».
- Ос 4:8 См. Лев. 6:26.
- Ос 4:13 Теревинф – невысокое дерево (до пяти метров) с широкой кроной. Распространено в тёплых сухих местах в самом Исроиле и в соседних районах.
- Ос 4:14 Храмовые блудницы – имеются в виду «жрицы любви», которые были неотъемлемой частью весьма распространённых в те дни языческих культов плодородия.
- Ос 4:15 Бет-Авен («дом зла») – прозвище, данное Вефилю, чьё название значит «дом Всевышнего». См. также 5:8 и 10:5.
- Ос 4:17 Ефраим – так часто называли Северное царство, Исроил, где наиболее влиятельным был род Ефраима.
Hosea 4
1599 Geneva Bible
4 A complaint against the people and the priests of Israel.
1 Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord [a]hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and whoring, they break out, and [b]blood toucheth blood.
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and everyone that dwelleth therein shall be cut off, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of the heaven, and also the fishes of the sea shall be taken away.
4 Yet [c]let none rebuke, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that rebuke the Priest.
5 Therefore shalt thou fall in the [d]day, and the Prophet shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy [e]mother.
6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because [f]thou hast refused knowledge, I will also refuse thee that thou shalt be no Priest to me: and seeing [g]thou hast forgotten the Law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
7 As they were [h]increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.
8 [i]They eat up the sins of my people, and lift up their minds in their iniquity.
9 And there shall be like people like [j]priest: for I will visit their ways upon them, and reward them their deeds.
10 For they shall eat, and not have enough, they shall [k]commit adultery, and shall not increase, because they have left off to take heed to the Lord.
11 [l]Whoredom, and wine, and new wine take away their heart.
12 My [m]people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff teacheth them: for the [n]spirit of fornications hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills under the oaks, and the poplar tree, and the elm, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall be [o]harlots, and your spouses shall be whores.
14 I will not [p]visit your daughters when they are harlots: nor your spouses, when they are whores: for they themselves are separated with harlots, and sacrifice with whores: therefore the people that doth not understand, shall fall.
15 Though thou Israel, play the harlot, yet [q]let not Judah sin: come not ye unto [r]Gilgal, neither go ye up to [s]Beth Aven, nor swear, The Lord liveth.
16 For Israel is rebellious as an unruly heifer. Now the Lord will feed them as a [t]lamb in a large place.
17 Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
18 Their drunkenness stinketh: they have committed whoredom: their rulers love to say with shame, [u]Bring ye.
19 The wind hath [v]bound them up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed of their sacrifices.
Footnotes
- Hosea 4:1 Because the people would not obey the admonitions of the Prophet, he citeth them before the judgment seat of God, against whom they chiefly offended, Isa. 7:13; Zech. 12:10; Mic. 6:1, 2.
- Hosea 4:2 In every place appeareth a liberty to most heinous vices, so that one followeth in the neck of another.
- Hosea 4:4 As though he would say that it were in vain to rebuke them: for no man can abide it: yea, they will speak against the prophets and priests whose office it is chiefly to rebuke them.
- Hosea 4:5 Ye shall perish all together the one because he would not obey, and the other, because he would not admonish.
- Hosea 4:5 That is, the Synagogue wherein thou boastest.
- Hosea 4:6 That is, the Priests shall be cast off, because that for lack of knowledge, they are not able to execute their charge, and instruct others, Deut. 33:3; Mal. 2:7.
- Hosea 4:6 Meaning, the whole body of the people, which were weary with hearing the word of God.
- Hosea 4:7 The more I was beneficial unto them.
- Hosea 4:8 To wit, the Priests seek to eat the people’s offerings, and flatter them in their sins.
- Hosea 4:9 Signifying, that as they have sinned together, so shall they be punished together.
- Hosea 4:10 Showing that their wickedness shall be punished on all sorts: for though they think by the multitude of wives to have many children, yet they shall be deceived of their hope.
- Hosea 4:11 In giving themselves to pleasures, they become like brute beasts.
- Hosea 4:12 Thus he speaketh by derision in calling them his people, which now for their sins they were not: for they sought help of stocks and sticks.
- Hosea 4:12 They are carried away with a rage.
- Hosea 4:13 Because they take away God’s honor, and give it to idols: therefore he will give them up to their lusts, that they shall dishonor their own bodies, Rom. 1:28.
- Hosea 4:14 I will not correct your shame to bring you to amendment, but let you run headlong to your own damnation.
- Hosea 4:15 God complaineth that Judah is infected, and willeth them to learn to return in time.
- Hosea 4:15 For albeit the Lord had honored this place in time past by his presence, yet because it was abused by their idolatry, he would not that his people should resort thither.
- Hosea 4:15 He calleth Bethel, that is, the house of God, Beth Aven, that is, the house of iniquity, because of their abominations set up there, signifying that no place is holy, where God is not purely worshipped.
- Hosea 4:16 God will so disperse them, that they shall not remain in any certain place.
- Hosea 4:18 They are so impudent in receiving bribes, that they will command men to bring them unto them.
- Hosea 4:19 To carry them suddenly away.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Central Asian Russian Scriptures (CARST)
Священное Писание, Восточный Перевод
Copyright © 2003, 2009, 2013 by IMB-ERTP and Biblica, Inc.®
Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
Geneva Bible, 1599 Edition. Published by Tolle Lege Press. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without written permission from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations in articles, reviews, and broadcasts.
