何西阿書 2
1 你們稱呼你們的弟兄為「我的人民」吧! 稱呼你們的姊妹為「蒙受愛憐者」吧!
“Say of your brothers, ‘My people,’ and of your sisters, ‘My loved one.’
2 你們譴責你們的母親! 因為她不是我的妻子，我也不是她的丈夫；望她從自己的臉上除去自己的色相，從a勺胸間去掉淫亂，
Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adultery from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.
3 免得我剝去她的衣服，使她裸露，像她出生之日；使她相似曠野，使她有如旱地，叫她渴死。
Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst.
4 至於她的子女，我也不愛憐，因為是由淫亂生的子女。
I will have no compassion on her children, because they are the children of adultery.
5 實在，他們的母親放蕩賣淫，那懷妊他們的，荒淫無恥，因為她曾說：我要追隨那些給我餅、水、羊毛、麻布、油和飲料的情人。
For their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me bread and water, wool and linen, oil and drink.’
6 因此，看，我要以荊棘杜塞她的去路，築一道牆壁，使她尋不著她的途徑；
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.
7 她要追隨她的情人，也追不上；要尋找他們，也尋不著。那時她要說：我願回去，回到我的前夫那裏去，因為那時為我比現在好得多。
She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; she will seek them but not find them. Then she will say, ‘I will return to my first husband, for then I was better off than now.’
8 她不肯承認是我賜給了她五穀、美酒和油；反之她把我廣施給她的金銀，都獻給了巴耳；
For she does not acknowledge that it was I who gave her grain, new wine, and oil, who lavished on her silver and gold— which they crafted for Baal.
9 因此等時期一到，我必要奪回我的五穀；時機一來，我必要奪回我的美酒，受回我用以遮蔽她的毛衣和麻布；
Therefore I will take back My grain in its time and My new wine in its season; I will take away My wool and linen, which were given to cover her nakedness.
10 我要這樣在她情人們眼前揭露她的羞恥，誰也不能由我手中救出她來。
And then I will expose her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of My hands.
11 我要使她的歡樂停止，她再沒有節日、安息日和一切的盛會。
I will put an end to all her exultation: her feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths— all her appointed feasts.
12 我要摧殘她的葡萄園和無花果園，因她曾說：「這就是我的情人給我的身價。」我必要使它們成為山林，叫野獸來吃盡。
I will destroy her vines and fig trees, which she thinks are the wages paid by her lovers. So I will make them into a thicket, and the beasts of the field will devour them.
13 我要為了她敬拜巴耳的日子，懲罰她，就是她向他們燒香，以鼻環和項鍊修飾自己去追隨她的情人，而忘卻了我的的那些日子──上主的斷語。
I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she decked herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot,”
14 為此，看，我要誘她，領她到曠野和她談心。
“Therefore, behold, I will allure her and lead her to the wilderness, and speak to her tenderly.
15 從此我仍要將葡萄園賜給她，仍將阿苛爾山谷作為她的希望之門；她要上到那裏，就如她幼年時，就如她從埃及地上來的那一天一樣。
There I will give back her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor into a gateway of hope. There she will respond as she did in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt.
16 到那一天──上主的斷語──她要稱呼我為「依士」(我的丈夫)，不再稱呼我為「巴里」(我主)。
In that day,” declares the LORD, “you will call Me ‘my Husband,’ and no longer call Me ‘my Master.’
17 我必要從她的口中把巴耳的名號除掉，使他們再也不提起他們的姓名。
For I will remove from her lips the names of the Baals; no longer will their names be invoked.
18 到那一天，為了他們，我要同田間的野獸，天空的飛鳥和地上的爬蟲訂立盟約，並且我要從地上將弓弩、刀劍和戰爭毀滅，使他們安居樂業。
On that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the creatures that crawl on the ground. And I will abolish bow and sword and weapons of war in the land, and will make them lie down in safety.
19 我要永遠聘娶妳，以公義、公平、慈愛、憐憫聘娶妳；
So I will betroth you to Me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in loving devotion and compassion.
20 以忠實聘娶妳，使妳知道我是上主。
And I will betroth you in faithfulness, and you will know the LORD.”
21 到那一天，我必要應允──上主的斷語──我要應允高天，高天要應允大地，
“On that day I will respond—” declares the LORD— “I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth.
22 大地要應允五榖、酒、油，五榖、酒、油也要應允依次勒耳。
And the earth will respond to the grain, to the new wine and oil, and they will respond to Jezreel.
23 我要為我把她種在這地上，我要愛憐羅魯阿瑪(不蒙愛憐者)，我要對羅阿米(非我人民)說：「妳是我的人民。」而她要說：「你是我的天主。」
And I will sow her as My own in the land, and I will have compassion on ‘No Compassion.’ I will say to those called ‘Not My People,’ ‘You are My people,’ and they will say, ‘You are my God.’”
