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。
“To your mouth—a horn, As an eagle against the house of YHWH, Because they transgressed My covenant, And against My law they have rebelled.
2 他們呼喊我說：以色列的天主! 我們認識你。
To Me they cry, My God, we—Israel—have known You.
3 但以色列拋棄了善，所以敵人要迫害她。
Israel has cast off good, an enemy pursues 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 made kings, and not by Me, They have made princes, and I have not known, Their silver and their gold they have made to them idols, So that they are 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﹖
Your calf has cast off, O Samaria, My anger has burned against them; Until when are they not capable of purity?
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 even it [is] of Israel; a craftsman made it, And it [is] not God, For the calf of Samaria is fragments!
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 wind they sow, and a windstorm they reap, Stalk it has none—a shoot not yielding grain, If so be it yield—strangers 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 has been swallowed up, Now they have been among nations, As a vessel in which is no delight.
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 have gone up [to] Asshur, A wild donkey alone by himself [is] Ephraim, They have 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。
Also though they hire among nations, Now I gather them, and they are pained a little, From the burden of a 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 multiplied altars to sin, They have been to him altars 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 write for him numerous things of My law, As a strange thing they have been reckoned.
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。
The sacrifices of My offerings! They sacrifice flesh, and they eat, YHWH has not accepted them, Now He remembers their iniquity, And inspects their sin, They 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。
And Israel forgets his Maker, and builds temples, And Judah has multiplied cities of defense, And I have sent a fire into his cities, And it has consumed their palaces!”
