何西阿書 9
1 以色列! 你不要高興，不要像異民一樣狂歡，因為你行了淫，離棄了你的天主，在所有的禾場上只是喜歡淫資。
Rejoice not, O Israel, Exult not, like the nations! For thou committest fornication, forsaking thy God! Thou lovest hire on every corn-floor.
2 禾場與榨酒也不再認識他們，新酒也要拒絕他們。
The floor and the vat shall not feed them, And the new wine shall deceive them.
3 他們必不能在上主的地方居住；厄弗辣因必要回到埃及，且要在亞述吃不潔之物。
They shall not dwell in the land of Jehovah; To Egypt shall Ephraim go back, And eat unclean things in Assyria.
4 他們不能向上主奠洒，也不能再向衪奉獻的祭品；他們的餅好似喪餅，凡吃這餅的，必受玷污；因為他們的餅只可為他們自用，不能帶進上主殿內。
They shall pour out no offerings of wine to Jehovah, Nor shall their sacrifices please him; They shall be to them as the bread of mourners; All that eat thereof shall be polluted. Their bread shall be for their own hunger; It shall not come into the house of Jehovah.
5 那麼你們在盛會之日，在上主火節日，可作什麼呢﹖
What will ye do in the festal day, In the day of the feast of Jehovah?
6 因為，看，他們由毀滅裏逃走，埃及要收集他們，摩夫要埋葬他們；他們的尊貴的銀器將為蒺藜所承受，他們的帳幕將被荊棘所佔有。
For, behold, they go forth from a wasted land; Egypt shall gather them; Memphis shall bury them; The precious places of their silver, Nettles shall possess them; Thorns shall spring up in their habitations.
7 懲罰的日子來了，報復的日子到了，以色列要喊說：先知是愚人，受靈感的人是瘋子! 是，這是因為你的過犯繁多，因為你的罪惡重大。
The days of visitation are come; The days of retribution are come— Israel shall know that the prophet was foolish, That the man of the spirit was mad— For the greatness of` thy iniquity, and thy great hatred.
8 厄弗辣因窺伺先知的帳幕，在他的路上處處佈下了羅網，在自己天主的殿內只敵視。
If Ephraim seek an answer from my God, The prophet is as the snare of the fowler in all his ways, A net in the house of his God.
9 他們窮凶已到了極點，就如在基貝亞的時日一樣；上主必不忘你們的罪孽，必要懲罰他們的邪惡。
They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their iniquity; He will requite their sins.
10 我發現了以色列，就如曠野中發現葡萄；看見你們的祖先，就如在無花果樹上看見初熱的果實；但當他們來到了巴耳培敖爾時，便將自己獻給了可憎之物，使自己也成了可憎惡的，如他們所善愛的邪神一樣。
I found Israel as grapes in the wilderness; As the early fruit on the fig-tree, at its first time of bearing, I saw your fathers. But they went to Baal Peor, And separated themselves to shame, And had abominable idols according to their love.
11 至於厄弗辣因，因他們的光榮，就如飛鳥飛去，必不生產，不懷胎，不妊娠。
The glory of Ephraim shall fly away as a bird; They shall not bring forth, nor bear in the womb, nor conceive;
12 既使他們把自己的子女養大，我也必使他們喪亡，一個不留；幾時我捨棄他們，他們才是有禍的。
Yea, if they bring up children, I will utterly bereave them; Yea, woe to them when I depart from them!
13 厄弗辣因，一如我所見的，必使自己的子女成為獵物；厄弗辣因必把自己的子女交出屠殺。
I have seen Ephraim planted, like Tyre, in a rich pasture, Yet shall Ephraim bring out his children to the murderer.
14 上主，求你賜給他們....賜給他們什麼呢﹖要使他們胎荒，乳乾!
Give them, O Jehovah! What wilt thou give them? Give them a miscarrying womb, And dry breasts!
15 他們所行的一切惡事，全在基耳加耳開始，因此，在那裏我就恨了他們；為了他們的惡行，我必將他們從我父的家趕出去；我不再喜愛他們，他們的首領全是叛徒
All their wickedness is in Gilgal; Yea, there have I hated them for the wickedness of their doings; I will drive them from my house; I will love them no more; All their princes are revolters.
16 厄弗辣因受了打擊，根子也乾枯了，再不能結果實；既使他們生了孩子，我也必將他們的寧馨兒殺死。
Ephraim is smitten; Their root is dried up; they shall bear no fruit; Yea, though they should beget children, I will destroy the beloved fruit of the womb.
17 我的天主必要拋棄他們，因為他們沒有聽從衪；他們必要在各民族中飄流。
My God shall cast them away, Because they have not hearkened to him, And they shall be wanderers among the nations.
