何西阿书 2
1 你们要称你们的弟兄为阿米，称你们的姊妹为路哈玛。
"Say to your brothers, 'My People.' and to your sisters, 'Compassion.'
2 你们要与你们的母亲大大争辩； 因为她不是我的妻子， 我也不是她的丈夫。 叫她除掉脸上的淫像 和胸间的淫态，
Contend with your mother. Contend, for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her prostitution from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
3 免得我剥她的衣服， 使她赤体，与才生的时候一样， 使她如旷野，如干旱之地， 因渴而死。
Lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.
4 我必不怜悯她的儿女， 因为他们是从淫乱而生的。
Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy; for they are children of unfaithfulness;
5 他们的母亲行了淫乱， 怀他们的母做了可羞耻的事， 因为她说：我要随从所爱的； 我的饼、水、羊毛、麻、油、酒 都是他们给的。
For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; for she said, 'I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.'
6 因此，我必用荆棘堵塞她的道， 筑墙挡住她， 使她找不着路。
Therefore, look, I will hedge up her way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can't find her way.
7 她必追随所爱的，却追不上； 她必寻找他们，却寻不见， 便说：我要归回前夫， 因我那时的光景比如今还好。
She will follow after her lovers, but she won't overtake them; and she will seek them, but won't find them. Then she will say, 'I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.'
8 她不知道是我给她五谷、新酒，和油， 又加增她的金银； 她却以此供奉巴力。
For she did not know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
9 因此到了收割的日子， 出酒的时候， 我必将我的五谷、新酒收回， 也必将她应当遮体的羊毛和麻夺回来。
Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my new wine in its season, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.
10 如今我必在她所爱的眼前显露她的丑态； 必无人能救她脱离我的手。
Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of my hand.
11 我也必使她的宴乐、节期、月朔、安息日， 并她的一切大会都止息了。
I will also cause all her celebrations to cease: her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.
12 我也必毁坏她的葡萄树和无花果树， 就是她说“这是我所爱的给我为赏赐”的。 我必使这些树变为荒林， 为田野的走兽所吃。
I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, about which she has said, 'These are my wages that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest,' and the animals of the field shall eat them.
13 我必追讨她素日给诸巴力烧香的罪； 那时她佩带耳环和别样妆饰， 随从她所爱的，却忘记我。 这是耶和华说的。
I will visit on her the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me," says YHWH.
14 后来我必劝导她，领她到旷野， 对她说安慰的话。
"Therefore, look, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.
15 她从那里出来，我必赐她葡萄园， 又赐她亚割谷作为指望的门。 她必在那里应声， 与幼年的日子一样， 与从埃及地上来的时候相同。
I will give her vineyards from there, and the Valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
16 耶和华说：“那日你必称呼我伊施，不再称呼我巴力；
It will be in that day," says YHWH, "that you will call me 'my husband,' and no longer call me 'my master.'
17 因为我必从我民的口中除掉诸巴力的名号，这名号不再提起。
For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they will no longer be mentioned by name.
18 当那日，我必为我的民，与田野的走兽和空中的飞鸟，并地上的昆虫立约；又必在国中折断弓刀，止息争战，使他们安然躺卧。
In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the crawling creatures of the ground. I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle out of the land, and will make them lie down safely.
19 我必聘你永远归我为妻，以仁义、公平、慈爱、怜悯聘你归我；
I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.
20 也以诚实聘你归我，你就必认识我—耶和华。
I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know YHWH.
21 耶和华说：那日我必应允， 我必应允天，天必应允地；
It will happen in that day, I will respond," says YHWH, "I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth;
22 地必应允五谷、新酒，和油， 这些必应允耶斯列民。
and the earth will respond to the grain, and the new wine, and the oil; and they will respond to Jezreel.
23 我必将她种在这地。 素不蒙怜悯的，我必怜悯； 本非我民的，我必对他说： 你是我的民； 他必说：你是我的 神。”
And I will sow her for myself in the land; and I will compassion on No Compassion; and I will say to Not My People, 'You are my people;' and they will say, 'My God.'"
