何西阿書 6

1 「來，我們回到上主那裏去，因為衪撕碎了我們，也必要治愈；衪打傷了我們，也必要包紮。

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 兩天後衪必使田復生，第三天衪必使我們興起，生活在衪的慈顏下。

After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.

3 讓我們認識上主，讓我們努力認識上主! 衪定要像曙光一樣出現，衪要來到我們中間，有如秋雨，有如滋潤田地的春雨。」

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 厄弗辣因，我可對你們作什麼﹖因為你們的仁愛有如旱晨的浮雲，有如易於消散的朝露。

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 因此，我藉先知們砍伐了他們，以我口中的言語殺死戳了他們；我的的裁判出現有如光明：

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 因為我喜歡仁慈勝過祭獻，喜歡人認識天主勝過全燔祭。

For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

7 但是他們在阿當就犯了罪，在那裏已背叛了我。

But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

8 基肋阿得是座作惡的城池，滿了血跡。

Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.

9 一隊司祭就如埋伏的強盜，在往舍根的路上行兇；的確，他們行了可恥的事

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 在貝特耳我見了可惡的事：在那裏厄弗辣因行了淫，以色列玷污了自己

I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

11 當我轉變我百姓的命運時，猶大啊! 為你也注定了一個收割期。

Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.