< 何西阿书 6 >
1 来吧,我们归向耶和华! 他撕裂我们,也必医治; 他打伤我们,也必缠裹。
Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
2 过两天他必使我们苏醒, 第三天他必使我们兴起, 我们就在他面前得以存活。
After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
3 我们务要认识耶和华, 竭力追求认识他。 他出现确如晨光; 他必临到我们像甘雨, 像滋润田地的春雨。
Then shall we know, [if] we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter [and] former rain unto the earth.
4 主说:以法莲哪,我可向你怎样行呢? 犹大啊,我可向你怎样做呢? 因为你们的良善如同早晨的云雾, 又如速散的甘露。
O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness [is] as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.
5 因此,我借先知砍伐他们, 以我口中的话杀戮他们; 我施行的审判如光发出。
Therefore have I hewed [them] by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments [are as] the light [that] goeth forth.
6 我喜爱良善,不喜爱祭祀; 喜爱认识 神,胜于燔祭。
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
Gilead [is] a city of them that work iniquity, [and is] polluted with blood.
9 强盗成群,怎样埋伏杀人, 祭司结党,也照样在示剑的路上杀戮, 行了邪恶。
And as troops of robbers wait for a man, [so] the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
10 在以色列家,我见了可憎的事; 在以法莲那里有淫行, 以色列被玷污。
I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there [is] the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
11 犹大啊,我使被掳之民归回的时候, 必有为你所命定的收场。
Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.