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。
Put the trumpet to thy mouth! Like an eagle cometh an enemy against the house of Jehovah, Because they have transgressed my covenant, And have rebelled against my law.
2 他們呼喊我說：以色列的天主! 我們認識你。
They shall say to me, My God, we know thee, we, thine Israel!
3 但以色列拋棄了善，所以敵人要迫害她。
Israel hath cast away what 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 themselves idols, That they may be brought to destruction.
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﹖
An abomination is thy calf, O Samaria! Mine anger is kindled against them; How long will it be ere they can attain to 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 from Israel it came; The workman made it, and it is no God; Yea, into fragments shall the calf of Samaria be broken.
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。
They have sown the wind, And they shall reap the whirlwind. They shall have no standing harvest; The ear shall yield no meal; If perchance it yield, strangers shall devour it.
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; Soon shall they become among the nations As a vessel which no one desireth.
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 Assyria, Like a solitary wild-ass; Ephraim hireth 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。
But though they hire among the nations, Soon will I gather the nations against them; Then shall they rest a little while from the burden of their king, and their 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。
Ephraim hath built many altars for sin, Therefore shall he have altars for sin.
12 雖然我為他們寫了許多法律，卻被看作陌生人的廢話。
Though I write for him many laws, They are accounted 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。
As to the sacrifices which they should offer me, they slay flesh and eat it; Jehovah hath no pleasure in them. Now will he remember their iniquity, And punish their sins; To Egypt shall they return.
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 builded palaces, And Judah hath multiplied fenced cities; But I will send a fire upon his cities, And it shall devour his palaces.
