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1 以法蓮吃風,且追趕東風, 時常增添虛謊和強暴, 與亞述立約,把油送到埃及。
But Ephraim is an evil spirit, he has chased the east wind all the day: he has multiplied empty and vain things, and made a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil has gone in the way of traffic into Egypt.
2 耶和華與猶大爭辯, 必照雅各所行的懲罰他, 按他所做的報應他。
And the Lord [has] a controversy with Juda, in order to punish Jacob: according to his ways and according to his practices will he recompense him.
3 他在腹中抓住哥哥的腳跟, 壯年的時候與上帝較力,
He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and in his labours he had power with God.
4 與天使較力,並且得勝, 哭泣懇求, 在伯特利遇見耶和華。 耶和華-萬軍之上帝在那裏曉諭我們以色列人; 耶和華是他可記念的名。
And he prevailed with the angel and was strong: they wept, and intreated me: they found me in the house of On, and there [a word] was spoken to them.
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But the Lord God Almighty shall be his memorial.
6 所以你當歸向你的上帝, 謹守仁愛、公平,常常等候你的上帝。
Thou therefore shalt return to thy God: keep thou mercy and judgment, and draw nigh to thy God continually.
7 以法蓮是商人, 手裏有詭詐的天平,愛行欺騙。
[As for] Chanaan, in his hand is a balance of unrighteousness: he has loved to tyrannize.
8 以法蓮說: 我果然成了富足,得了財寶; 我所勞碌得來的, 人必不見有甚麼不義,可算為罪的。
And Ephraim said, Nevertheless I am rich, I have found refreshment to myself. None of his labours shall be found [available] to him, by reason of the sins which he has committed.
9 自從你出埃及地以來, 我就是耶和華-你的上帝; 我必使你再住帳棚,如在大會的日子一樣。
But I the Lord thy God brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: I will yet cause thee to dwell in tabernacles, according to the days of the feast.
10 我已曉諭眾先知, 並且加增默示, 藉先知設立比喻。
And I will speak to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and by the means of the prophets I was represented.
11 基列人沒有罪孽嗎? 他們全然是虛假的。 人在吉甲獻牛犢為祭, 他們的祭壇好像田間犂溝中的亂堆。
If Galaad exists not, then the chiefs in Galaad when they sacrificed were false, and their altars were as heaps on the ground of the field.
12 從前雅各逃到亞蘭地, 以色列為得妻服事人, 為得妻與人放羊。
And Jacob retreated into the plain of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and waited for a wife.
13 耶和華藉先知領以色列從埃及上來; 以色列也藉先知而得保存。
And the Lord brought Israel out of the land of Egypt by a prophet, and by a prophet was he preserve.
14 以法蓮大大惹動主怒, 所以他流血的罪必歸在他身上。 主必將那因以法蓮所受的羞辱歸還他。
Ephraim was angry and excited, therefore his blood shall be poured out upon him, and the Lord shall recompense to him his reproach.

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