何西阿書 7
1 當我著手醫治以色列時，厄弗辣因的罪孽就顯露出來，撒馬利亞的惡也顯露出來，因為他們行了詭詐的事：竊賊潛入內室，而外遇強盜；
When I have healed Israel, then shall the iniquity of Ephraim be revealed, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they have wrought falsehood: and a thief shall come in to him, [even] a robber spoiling in his way;
2 但他們並不存心細想：我記住他們的一切惡行。現今他們的行為圍繞著他們，一一擺在我眼前。
that they may concert together as [men] singing in their heart: I remember all their wickedness: now have their own counsels compassed them about; they came before my face.
3 他們使君王喜歡，是出於惡意，使首領快樂，是出於詭詐。
They gladdened kings with their wickedness, and princes with their lies.
4 個個燃起了怒火，像一座火爐，伙夫暫停煽火，直到和好的麵團發酵。
They are all adulterers, as an oven glowing with flame for hot-baking, on account of the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.
5 在他們君王的慶日上，當官長們酒勁發作，不能支持的時候，君王便和惡徒勾結起來。
[In] the days of our kings, the princes began to be inflamed with wine: he stretched out his hand with pestilent fellows.
6 他們的心雖因陰謀而焦慮得像火爐一樣，但他們的怒火卻整夜停息；一到早晨，卻又如烈火復燃。
Wherefore their hearts are inflamed as an oven, while they rage all the night: Ephraim is satisfied with sleep; the morning is come; he is burnt up as a flame of fire.
7 個個像火爐一樣，熾燃起來，吞噬了他們的官長；他們的君王都倒斃了，但沒有一個向我呼求。
They are all heated like an oven, and have devoured their judges: all their kings are fallen; there was not among them one that called on me.
8 厄弗辣因想混雜在列邦之中，厄弗辣因成了一塊尚未翻過的烤餅。
Ephraim is mixed among his people; Ephraim became a cake not turned.
9 外邦人耗盡了她的力量，她尚不自覺，頭上已佈滿了白髮，她還不知曉。
Strangers devoured his strength, and he knew [it] not; and grey hairs came upon him, and he knew [it] not.
10 [雖然如此，以色列的驕傲仍呈現在自己面上，他們仍不歸依，仍不尋求上主，他們的天主]。
And the pride of Israel shall be brought down before his face: yet they have not returned to the Lord their God, neither have they diligently sought him for all this.
11 厄弗辣因像愚蠢無知的鴿子，一時求救埃及，一時又投奔亞述；
And Ephraim was as a silly dove, not having a heart: he called to Egypt, and they went to the Assyrians.
12 可是不論他們往何處去，我要向他們撒開我的羅網，使他們像天上的飛鳥跌下：一聽到他們聚齊待飛，我便將他們捕捉。
Whenever they shall go, I will cast my net upon them; I will bring them down as the birds of the sky, I will chasten them with the rumor of their [coming] affliction.
13 他們有禍了! 因為他們遠離離了我；他們必遭受毀滅，因為他們背叛了我。我原想拯救他們，但他們卻對我撒謊，
Woe to them! for they have started aside from me: they are cowards; for they have sinned against me: yet I redeemed them, but they spoke falsehoods against me.
14 並沒有真心呼求我，只是在祭壇旁悲歎；為了五榖和新酒，仍自割己身，仍背叛我。
And their hearts did not cry to me, but they howled on their beds: they pined for oil and wine.
15 我雖然加強了他們的手臂，然而他們仍圖謀邪惡反抗我。
They were instructed by me, and I strengthened their arms; and they devised evils against me.
16 他們歸向了虛無，變成了歪曲的弓；他們的首領因自己的狂言，必喪身刀下，且在埃及地為人恥笑。
They turned aside to that which is not, they became as a bent bow: their princes shall fall by the sword, by reason of the unbridled state of their tongue: this is their setting at nought in the land of Egypt.
