1 Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. 2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. 3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
4 ¶ O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. 5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth. 6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. 7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me. 8 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood. 9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness. 10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled. 11 Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.
Baiziraela banodang'wa kuti bashanduke
1 Buyani, ngatishandukileni kuna Yahwe,
ngoti ndibo bakatimwawulanya, ngono banowotipodza,
bakatikubadza, ngono banowozwimba mabanga edu.
2 Shule kwe mazhuba mabili banowotimusidzila
mu zhuba le butatu banowotimusa,
kuti titjilile pabali.
3 Ngatizibeni Yahwe,
ngatimuseni meya kuziba Yahwe.
Kuzha kwabo ku malebeswa se kubhuda kwe zhuba,
banowozha kutili se vula,
se vula ye tjibodza mashanga mu shango.
Yahwe banoshandula
4 Ndingashingani nawe kene Ifureimi?
Ndingashingani nawe kene Juda?
Ludo gugo gofanana ne fulele inotjimbidza pela,
gonga khawa ye mangwanana inoshashamuka.
5 Ndizo wali ndowomuthubulila nge balebesambeli
ndikamubulaya nge matama e nlomo wangu,
kusumikilisa kwangu kozha ku muli se lupenyo.
6 Ngoti tjandinoshaka ludo gusingazunguzike, kusi tjibhayilo
kuziba Ndzimu pana kupinda zwipo zwinopisiwa.
7 Koga bakatjinya tjidumano sa Adamu,
bakandishetela kugalabgwe ikweno.
8 Giliyadi nzi nkulu we bathu babiibi
unashambgwa ye matshambo azhele malopa.
9 Se batoleli bebgwatilila nthu,
makoko e bapirisiti anothamabo saikoko.
Banobulaya mu zila ye Shekemu
bethama milandu inobhatisa shoni.
10 Ndakabona tjakabipa
mu bathu be Iziraela.
Ikweno Ifureimi wakazwipa mu bufukula
ngono Iziraela yatemapala.
11 Nawebo, iwe Juda,
nsi we kuvuna wakawubigigwa.
Ndowobe ndibgwiliza makombolelo e bathu bangu.