A Brief Repentance
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.
Njoni, tumrudie Bwana; maana yeye amerarua, na yeye atatuponya; yeye amepiga, na yeye atatufunga jeraha zetu.
2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
Baada ya siku mbili atatufufua; siku ya tatu atatuinua, nasi tutaishi mbele zake.
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.
Nasi na tujue, naam, tukaendelee kumjua Bwana; kutokea kwake ni yakini kama asubuhi; naye atatujilia kama mvua, kama mvua ya vuli iinyweshayo nchi.
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.
Ee Efraimu, nikutendee nini? Ee Yuda, nikutendee nini? Kwa maana fadhili zenu ni kama wingu la asubuhi na kama umande utowekao mapema.
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.
Kwa sababu hiyo nimewakata-kata kwa vinywa vya manabii; nimewaua kwa maneno ya kinywa changu; na hukumu yangu itatokea kama mwanga.
6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Maana nataka fadhili wala si sadaka; na kumjua Mungu kuliko sadaka za kuteketezwa.
7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
Lakini wao wamelivunja hilo agano kama Adamu; huko wamenitenda mambo ya hiana.
8 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
Gileadi ni mji wa hao watendao maovu, umetiwa rangi ya damu.
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.
Na kama vile makundi ya wanyang'anyi wamwoteavyo mtu, ndivyo kundi la makuhani wauavyo katika njia ielekeayo Shekemu; naam, wametenda mambo maovu sana.
10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
Katika nyumba ya Israeli nimeona jambo bovu kabisa; huko uzinzi umeonekana katika Efraimu; Israeli ametiwa unajisi.
11 Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.
Tena, Ee Yuda, wewe umeandikiwa mavuno, hapo nitakapowarudisha wafungwa wa watu wangu.
