何西阿書 8

1 你要把號角放你的口上，當作上主家的哨兵，因為百姓違背了我的盟約，，干犯了我的法律。

SET the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.

2 他們呼喊我說：以色列的天主! 我們認識你。

Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.

3 但以色列拋棄了善，所以敵人要迫害她。

Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.

4 他們自立了君王，卻沒有我的同意；他們自立了首領，卻沒有叫知道；他們用金錢為自己製造了偶像，給自己招來滅亡。

They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.

5 撒馬黎雅! 我必要除掉你的牛犢，我的怒火必要對牠燃起；以色列子民不能自新要到幾時呢﹖

Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?

6 牛犢是工匠製造的，牠並不是天主；撒馬黎雅的牛犢必定被粉碎!

For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

7 他們既播種了風，收的也必是風；麥子不抽穗，做不成麵粉；既使做出麵粉來，也必被外邦人吃掉。

For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.

8 以色列疲吞滅了，今後在列邦中必成為一個無用的廢物。

Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.

9 他們去投奔亞述──一匹孤獨的野驢──同時又給埃及送愛情的禮物。

For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

10 縱然他們在列邦中行賄，我現在就要分散他們，使他們暫時停止給君王和領袖傅油。

Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.

11 厄弗辣因建築了許多祭壇，但這些祭壇卻只有犯罪的用途。

Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.

12 雖然我為他們寫了許多法律，卻被看作陌生人的廢話。

I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.

13 讓他們奉獻燔祭，讓他們取吃祭肉；這一切上主都不喜歡；今後衪必記住他們的邪惡，必懲罰他們的罪孽；他們必要回到埃及去。

They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the Lord accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.

14 以色列忘了自己的造主，建立了許多宮殿，猶大也增建了許多堅固的城池；但是，我必要把火投在你們的1城中，吞滅城中的宮室。

For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.