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 too loudly, Israel, like the nations, for you have commited adultery, being untrue to your God. You have loved a prostitute’s wages on every threshing floor.
2 禾場與榨酒也不再認識他們，新酒也要拒絕他們。
Threshing floor and wine vat won’t feed them, the new wine will fail 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 will not stay in the Lord’s land, but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and in Assyria they will eat what is unclean.
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 will not pour out libations of wine to the Lord, nor please him with their sacrifices. Their bread will be like the bread of mourners: all who eat it will defile themselves. For their bread will be only for their hunger, it will not come into the Lord’s temple.
5 那麼你們在盛會之日，在上主火節日，可作什麼呢﹖
What will you do on the day of the festival? Or on the day of the Lord’s feast?
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。
Even if they flee from destruction, Egypt will gather them, Memphis will bury them. Nettles will take possession of their treasure of silver, thorns will push into their tents.
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 punishment are come, the days of recompense are at hand, as soon the Israelites will know! ‘The prophet is a fool, the inspired man is raving mad!’ It is because of the greatness of your iniquity and the greatness of your 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。
Ephraim acts the spy with my God, a prophet finds the snares of a fowler are in all his ways. In the house of his God they lay hostile plots,
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 commit crimes as in the days of Gibeah, God will remember their iniquity. He will punish their sin.
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 like finding grapes in the wilderness. I saw your ancestors like they were the first fruit on a fig tree, but as soon as they came to Baal-peor, they consecrated themselves to shamefulness, and became as abominable as the object of 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。
Ephraim – like a bird his glory flies away. There will be no more birth, no more motherhood, no more conception.
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。
Even though they bring up their children, I will bereave them until not one is left. Woe to them when I turn away 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。
Ephraim – planted like Tyre in a meadow, But Ephraim too must lead forth their children to slaughter.
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, Lord – what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and shrivelled up 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 evil began in Gilgal, there I learned to hate them. Because of the evil of their deeds I will drive them out of my house. I will no longer love them, for all their princes are rebels.
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 blighted, their root withered. If they do bear children, I will slay the darlings of their 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 will reject them because they have not listened to him, and they will become wanderers among the nations.
