Hosea 6

¹Uyai, tidzokera kuna Jehovha; nokuti akabvambura, asi achatipodzazve, akarova, asi achatisungazve patakakuvara.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.

²Kana mazuva maviri apera achatiraramisa, nezuva rechitatu achatimutsazve, tirarame pamberi pake.After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.

³Ngatimuzive, ngatishingaire kuziva Jehovha; kubuda kwake kwakatemwa sokwamangwanani; achauya kwatiri semvura, semvura yokuteverera inodiridza nyika.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.

⁴Aiwa, Efuremu, ndichakuitei? Aiwa, Judha ndichakuitei? Nokuti kunaka kwenyu kwakaita semhute yamangwanani, uye sedova rinokurumidza kuenda.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.

⁵Naizvozvo ndakavatema navaporofita; ndakavauraya namashoko omuromo wangu, zvandakatonga zvakaita sechiedza chinobuda.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.

⁶Nokuti ndinoda rudo, handidi zvibayiro, uye kuziva Mwari kupfuura zvipiriso zvinopiswa.For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

⁷Asi vakadarika sungano saAdhamu, ndipapo pavakandinyengera.But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

⁸Giriyadhi iguta ravanoita zvakaipa, rina makwapa eropa.Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.

⁹Sezvakaita makororo anovandira munhu, saizvozvo boka ravapirisiti rinouraya panzira inoenda Shekemi; zvirokwazvo, vakaita zvinonyadzisa.And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.

¹⁰Paimba yaIsiraeri ndakaona chinhu chinonyangadza kwazvo, pakati paEfuremu panohufeve, Isiraeri vakasvibiswa.I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

¹¹Newevo, Judha, wakagadzirirwa kukohwa, nenguva yandinodzosa kutapwa kwavanhu vangu.Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.