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 cornet to thy mouth. [Let the enemy come] like the eagle against the house of the Lord: because they have transgressed my covenant, and against my law have they trespassed.
2 他們呼喊我說：以色列的天主! 我們認識你。
To me will they then cry, My God, we, Israel, know thee.
3 但以色列拋棄了善，所以敵人要迫害她。
[But] Israel did reject the good; so let the enemy 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 set up kings, but not my advice: they chose princes and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made themselves idols so that they will 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 caused thy rejection; my anger is kindled against them: how long will it be that they cannot cleanse themselves?
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 whom Israel did also that [idol] spring; an artisan made it, and no God is it: so then shall it become broken in splinters— that calf of Samaria.
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 the wind do they sow, and the whirlwind shall they reap: [their seed] bringeth no standing corn; the plant yieldeth no meal; but should it yield it, strangers would 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。
Swallowed up is Israel: now are they among the nations as a vessel without any value.
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 needs gone up to Assyria, they who like a wild ass should dwell alone: Ephraim spendeth lovers' gifts.
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。
But even though they should spend gifts among the nations, now will I gather them: and they shall be humbled a little through 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 multiplied altars to sin, the altars have been unto him the means of sinning.
12 雖然我為他們寫了許多法律，卻被看作陌生人的廢話。
I ever wrote down for him the great things of my law; but as a strange thing are they accounted.
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。
My sacrificial offerings they slay as common flesh that they may eat it; the Lord accepteth them not in favor: now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins; they shall indeed 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 forgot his Maker, and built palaces; and Judah multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire among his cities, and it shall devour their fine edifices.
