Hosea 4
Ang Salita ng Dios (Tagalog Contemporary Bible)
Ang Paratang ng Panginoon Laban sa Israel at sa Kanyang mga Pari
4 Kayong mga Israelitang naninirahan sa lupain ng Israel, pakinggan ninyo ang paratang ng Panginoon laban sa inyo: “Wala ni isa man sa inyong lupain ang tapat, nagmamahal, at kumikilala sa akin. 2 Sa halip, laganap ang paggawa ng masama sa kapwa, pagsisinungaling, pagpatay, pagnanakaw at pangangalunya. Laganap ito kahit saan, at sunud-sunod ang patayan. 3 Dahil dito, natutuyo ang inyong lupain at ang mga naninirahan doon ay namamatay, pati mga hayop – ang lumalakad, lumilipad, at ang lumalangoy.
4 “Pero walang dapat sisihin at usigin kundi kayong mga pari. 5 Kayo at ang mga propeta ay mapapahamak sa araw man o sa gabi pati ang inyong mga ina.[a]
6 “Napapahamak ang aking mga mamamayan dahil kulang ang kaalaman nila tungkol sa akin. Sapagkat kayo mismong mga pari ay tinanggihan ang kaalamang ito, kaya tinatanggihan ko rin kayo bilang mga pari ko. Kinalimutan ninyo ang Kautusan ko kaya kalilimutan ko rin ang mga anak ninyo. 7 Habang dumarami kayong mga pari, dumarami rin ang mga kasalanan ninyo sa akin. Kaya ang inyong ipinagmamalaki ay gagawin kong kahihiyan.[b] 8 Gusto ninyong magkasala ang aking mga mamamayan para makakain kayo mula sa kanilang mga handog sa paglilinis.[c] 9 Kaya kung paano ko parurusahan ang mga mamamayan, parurusahan ko rin kayong mga pari.[d] Parurusahan ko kayo dahil sa inyong mga gawa. 10 Kumakain nga kayo pero hindi kayo nabubusog. Sumasamba kayo sa mga dios-diosan[e] para magkaanak kayo. Pero hindi kayo magkakaanak dahil itinakwil ninyo ako 11 upang sumamba sa mga dios-diosan.
Isinusumpa ng Dios ang Pagsamba sa mga Dios-diosan
“Mga mamamayan ko, ang bago at lumang alak ay nakakasira ng inyong pang-unawa. 12 Sumasangguni kayo sa dios-diosang kahoy, at ayon na rin sa inyo, sumasagot ito. Iniligaw kayo ng mga espiritung tumutulak sa inyo para sumamba sa mga dios-diosan, kaya tinalikuran ninyo ako tulad ng babaeng nangalunya. 13 Naghahandog kayo sa tuktok ng mga bundok at mga burol, sa ilalim ng matataas at mayayabong na mga kahoy, dahil masarap lumilim doon. Kaya ang inyong mga anak na babae ay nakikipagsiping sa mga lalaki at ang inyong mga manugang na babae ay nangangalunya. 14 Pero hindi ko sila parurusahan sa kanilang ginagawang masama, dahil kayong mga lalaki ay nakikipagsiping din sa mga babaeng bayaran sa templo at kasama pa nilang naghahandog sa mga dios-diosan. Kaya dahil kayoʼy mga mangmang sa katotohanan, mapapahamak kayo.
15 “Mga taga-Israel, kahit na akoʼy tinalikuran ninyo tulad ng babaeng nangalunya, huwag na ninyong idamay ang mga taga-Juda.
“At kayong mga taga-Juda, huwag kayong pumunta sa Gilgal at sa Bet Aven[f] para sumamba sa akin o gumawa ng mga pangako sa aking pangalan. 16 Sapagkat matigas ang ulo ng mga taga-Israel katulad ng dumalagang baka na ayaw sumunod. Kaya paano ko sila mababantayan tulad ng mga tupang nasa pastulan? 17 Sumamba sila[g] sa mga dios-diosan kaya pabayaan na lang sila. 18 Pagkatapos nilang uminom ng inuming nakakalasing, nakikipagsiping sila sa mga babae. Gustong-gusto ng kanilang mga pinuno ang gumawa ng mga nakahihiyang bagay. 19 Kaya lilipulin sila na parang tinatangay ng malakas na hangin, at mapapahiya sila dahil sa kanilang paghahandog sa mga dios-diosan.”
Footnotes
- 4:5 mga ina: o, ina, na ang ibig sabihin, ang bansang Israel.
- 4:7 Kaya … kahihiyan: o, Ipinagpalit ninyo ang inyong maluwalhating Dios sa nakakahiyang Mga dios-diosan.
- 4:8 Ayon sa Lev. 6:26; 10:17, may bahagi ang mga pari sa ganitong uri ng handog.
- 4:9 Kaya … pari: o, Kung gaano kasama ang mga pari, ganoon din ang mga mamamayan.
- 4:10 Sumasamba kayo sa mga dios-diosan: sa literal, Nangangalunya kayo. Ganito ang ginagawa ni Gomer na asawa ni Hoseas. At itong si Gomer ay kumakatawan sa bansang Israel.
- 4:15 Bet Aven: Ang ibig sabihin, bahay ng kasamaan. Ito ang tawag sa lugar ng Betel bilang pagkutya. Ang ibig sabihin ng Betel ay “bahay ng Dios.”
- 4:17 sila: sa Hebreo, Efraim. Isa ito sa mga lahi sa kaharian ng Israel, pero sa aklat na ito ang tinutukoy ay ang buong kaharian ng Israel.
Hosea 4
New International Version
The Charge Against Israel
4 Hear the word of the Lord, you Israelites,
    because the Lord has a charge(A) to bring
    against you who live in the land:(B)
“There is no faithfulness,(C) no love,
    no acknowledgment(D) of God in the land.(E)
2 There is only cursing,[a] lying(F) and murder,(G)
    stealing(H) and adultery;(I)
they break all bounds,
    and bloodshed follows bloodshed.(J)
3 Because of this the land dries up,(K)
    and all who live in it waste away;(L)
the beasts of the field, the birds in the sky
    and the fish in the sea are swept away.(M)
4 “But let no one bring a charge,
    let no one accuse another,
for your people are like those
    who bring charges against a priest.(N)
5 You stumble(O) day and night,
    and the prophets stumble with you.
So I will destroy your mother(P)—
6     my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.(Q)
“Because you have rejected knowledge,
    I also reject you as my priests;
because you have ignored the law(R) of your God,
    I also will ignore your children.
7 The more priests there were,
    the more they sinned against me;
    they exchanged their glorious God[b](S) for something disgraceful.(T)
8 They feed on the sins of my people
    and relish their wickedness.(U)
9 And it will be: Like people, like priests.(V)
    I will punish both of them for their ways
    and repay them for their deeds.(W)
10 “They will eat but not have enough;(X)
    they will engage in prostitution(Y) but not flourish,
because they have deserted(Z) the Lord
    to give themselves 11 to prostitution;(AA)
old wine(AB) and new wine
    take away their understanding.(AC)
12 My people consult a wooden idol,(AD)
    and a diviner’s rod speaks to them.(AE)
A spirit of prostitution(AF) leads them astray;(AG)
    they are unfaithful(AH) to their God.
13 They sacrifice on the mountaintops
    and burn offerings on the hills,
under oak,(AI) poplar and terebinth,
    where the shade is pleasant.(AJ)
Therefore your daughters turn to prostitution(AK)
    and your daughters-in-law to adultery.(AL)
14 “I will not punish your daughters
    when they turn to prostitution,
nor your daughters-in-law
    when they commit adultery,
because the men themselves consort with harlots(AM)
    and sacrifice with shrine prostitutes(AN)—
    a people without understanding(AO) will come to ruin!(AP)
15 “Though you, Israel, commit adultery,
    do not let Judah become guilty.
“Do not go to Gilgal;(AQ)
    do not go up to Beth Aven.[c](AR)
    And do not swear, ‘As surely as the Lord lives!’(AS)
16 The Israelites are stubborn,(AT)
    like a stubborn heifer.(AU)
How then can the Lord pasture them
    like lambs(AV) in a meadow?
17 Ephraim is joined to idols;
    leave him alone!
18 Even when their drinks are gone,
    they continue their prostitution;
    their rulers dearly love shameful ways.
19 A whirlwind(AW) will sweep them away,
    and their sacrifices will bring them shame.(AX)
Footnotes
- Hosea 4:2 That is, to pronounce a curse on
- Hosea 4:7 Syriac (see also an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition); Masoretic Text me; / I will exchange their glory
- Hosea 4:15 Beth Aven means house of wickedness (a derogatory name for Bethel, which means house of God).
Hosea 4
King James Version
4 Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord 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 committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
4 Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.
5 Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.
6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
7 As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.
8 They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.
9 And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.
10 For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the Lord.
11 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
12 My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms 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 oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.
14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.
15 Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear, The Lord liveth.
16 For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
17 Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
18 Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.
19 The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
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