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!
“On that day you will call your brothers Ammi, and you will call your sisters Ruhamah.
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，
Condemn your mother, condemn her because she is not my wife and I am not her husband. Tell her to stop looking like a prostitute—get rid of the makeup and the provocative clothing.
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 as the day she was born, and make her like a desert, a barren land, and 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 pity on her children because they are children of prostitution.
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 was a prostitute who conceived them in a shameful way. She said, ‘I'll run after my lovers who give me my food and water, my wool and flax and olive oil, and my 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；
That is why I am going to block her path with thorn bushes, and build a stone wall to stop her so she won't 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。
When she runs after her lovers she won't catch up with them; she'll look for them but she won't find them. Then she'll say, ‘Let me go back to my former husband, because it was better for me then 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；
She doesn't consider that it was me who gave her grain, new wine, and olive oil; the silver and the gold which I gave her abundantly that they made into an idol of 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；
So I will take back my ripened grain and my new wine I gave at harvest time. I will take back my wool and my flax I provided 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。
I will strip her naked while her lovers watch; no one will be able to rescue her from me.
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 a stop to all her festivities: her feasts, new moon celebrations, special Sabbaths—all her festivals.
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 that she said were given to her as payment for being a prostitute. I will turn them into scrub-land; only wild animals will eat the remaining fruit.
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 all the times she offered incense to Baal, dressing herself up, putting on rings and jewelry, going after her lovers, but forgetting about me, declares the Lord.
14 為此，看，我要誘她，領她到曠野和她談心。
See what I'm going to do! I will win her back, taking her into the desert where I will speak to her heart-to-heart.
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 return her vineyards to her and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. There she will respond to me as she did when she was young, as in the time when she left the land 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)。
Then on that day, says the Lord, you will call me ‘my husband’ and not ‘my Baal.’
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。
I will stop her appealing to the Baals—their names won't be mentioned ever again.
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。
At that time I will make a solemn agreement with the wild animals and the birds of the sky and the creeping things of the ground. I will do away with the bow and the sword; I will abolish war from the land so you can lie down in safety.
19 我要永遠聘娶妳，以公義、公平、慈愛、憐憫聘娶妳；
I will make you my wife forever; I will make you my wife in goodness and justice and love and mercy.
20 以忠實聘娶妳，使妳知道我是上主。
I will be faithful to you, my wife, and you will know me as 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, declares the Lord, I will answer the heavens and they will answer the earth.
22 大地要應允五榖、酒、油，五榖、酒、油也要應允依次勒耳。
The earth will answer the grain, and the new wine, and the olive oil, and they shall answer, ‘Jezreel’ (God sows).
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。」
I will ‘sow’ her for myself in the earth. I will love Lo-ruhamah (unloved) and I will say ‘you are my people’ to Lo-ammi (not my people), and they will say ‘You are my God.’”
