何西阿书 7
1 我想医治以色列的时候， 以法莲的罪孽和撒马利亚的罪恶就显露出来。 他们行事虚谎， 内有贼人入室偷窃， 外有强盗成群骚扰。
When I have healed Israel, then shall the iniquity of Ephraim be revealed, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they have wrought falsehood: and a thief shall come in to him, [even] a robber spoiling in his way;
2 他们心里并不思想我记念他们的一切恶； 他们所行的现在缠绕他们，都在我面前。
that they may concert together as [men] singing in their heart: I remember all their wickedness: now have their own counsels compassed them about; they came before my face.
3 他们行恶使君王欢喜， 说谎使首领喜乐。
They gladdened kings with their wickedness, and princes with their lies.
4 他们都是行淫的， 像火炉被烤饼的烧热， 从抟面到发面的时候， 暂不使火着旺。
They are all adulterers, as an oven glowing with flame for hot-baking, on account of the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.
5 在我们王宴乐的日子， 首领因酒的烈性成病； 王与亵慢人拉手。
[In] the days of our kings, the princes began to be inflamed with wine: he stretched out his hand with pestilent fellows.
6 首领埋伏的时候，心中热如火炉， 就如烤饼的整夜睡卧， 到了早晨火气炎炎。
Therefore their hearts are inflamed as an oven, while they rage all the night: Ephraim is satisfied with sleep; the morning is come; he is burnt up as a flame of fire.
7 众民也热如火炉， 烧灭他们的官长。 他们的君王都仆倒而死； 他们中间无一人求告我。
They are all heated like an oven, and have devoured their judges: all their kings are fallen; there was not among them one that called on me.
8 以法莲与列邦人搀杂； 以法莲是没有翻过的饼。
Ephraim is mixed among his people; Ephraim became a cake not turned.
9 外邦人吞吃他劳力得来的，他却不知道； 头发斑白，他也不觉得。
Strangers devoured his strength, and he knew [it] not; and grey hairs came upon him, and he knew [it] not.
10 以色列的骄傲当面见证自己， 虽遭遇这一切， 他们仍不归向耶和华—他们的 神， 也不寻求他。
And the pride of Israel shall be brought down before his face: yet they have not returned to the Lord their God, neither have they diligently sought him for all this.
11 以法莲好像鸽子愚蠢无知； 他们求告埃及，投奔亚述。
And Ephraim was as a silly dove, not having a heart: he called to Egypt, and they went to the Assyrians.
12 他们去的时候，我必将我的网撒在他们身上； 我要打下他们，如同空中的鸟。 我必按他们会众所听见的惩罚他们。
Whenever they shall go, I will cast my net upon them; I will bring them down as the birds of the sky, I will chasten them with the rumor of their [coming] affliction.
13 他们因离弃我，必定有祸； 因违背我，必被毁灭。 我虽要救赎他们，他们却向我说谎。
Woe to them! for they have started aside from me: they are cowards; for they have sinned against me: yet I redeemed them, but they spoke falsehoods against me.
14 他们并不诚心哀求我， 乃在床上呼号； 他们为求五谷新酒聚集， 仍然悖逆我。
And their hearts did not cry to me, but they howled on their beds: they pined for oil and wine.
15 我虽教导他们，坚固他们的膀臂， 他们竟图谋抗拒我。
They were instructed by me, and I strengthened their arms; and they devised evils against me.
16 他们归向，却不归向至上者； 他们如同翻背的弓。 他们的首领必因舌头的狂傲倒在刀下； 这在埃及地必作人的讥笑。
They turned aside to that which is not, they became as a bent bow: their princes shall fall by the sword, by reason of the unbridled state of their tongue: this is their setting at nothing in the land of Egypt.
