何西阿書 4
1 以色列人哪，你們當聽耶和華的話。 耶和華與這地的居民爭辯， 因這地上無誠實， 無良善，無人認識上帝。
'Hear a word of Jehovah, sons of Israel, For a strife [is] to Jehovah with inhabitants of the land, For there is no truth, nor kindness, Nor knowledge of God, in the land,
2 但起假誓，不踐前言， 殺害，偷盜，姦淫，行強暴， 殺人流血，接連不斷。
Swearing, and lying, and murdering, And stealing, and committing adultery — have increased, And blood against blood hath touched.
3 因此，這地悲哀， 其上的民、田野的獸、 空中的鳥必都衰微， 海中的魚也必消滅。
Therefore mourn doth the land, And weak is every dweller in it, With the beast of the field, And with the fowl of the heavens, And the fishes of the sea — they are removed.
4 然而，人都不必爭辯，也不必指責， 因為這民與抗拒祭司的人一樣。
Only, let no one strive, nor reprove a man, And thy people [are] as those striving with a priest.
5 你這祭司必日間跌倒； 先知也必夜間與你一同跌倒； 我必滅絕你的母親。
And thou hast stumbled in the day, And stumbled hath also a prophet with thee in the night, And I have cut off thy mother.
6 我的民因無知識而滅亡。 你棄掉知識， 我也必棄掉你， 使你不再給我作祭司。 你既忘了你上帝的律法， 我也必忘記你的兒女。
Cut off have been My people for lack of knowledge, Because thou knowledge hast rejected, I reject thee from being priest to Me, And thou forgettest the law of thy God, I forget thy sons, I also!
7 祭司越發增多，就越發得罪我； 我必使他們的榮耀變為羞辱。
According to their abundance so they sinned against Me, Their honour into shame I change.
8 他們吃我民的贖罪祭， 滿心願意我民犯罪。
The sin of My people they do eat, And unto their iniquity lift up their soul.
9 將來民如何， 祭司也必如何； 我必因他們所行的懲罰他們， 照他們所做的報應他們。
And it hath been, like people, like priest, And I have charged on it its ways, And its habitual doings I return to it.
10 他們吃，卻不得飽； 行淫，而不得立後； 因為他們離棄耶和華， 不遵他的命。
And they have eaten, and are not satisfied, They have gone a-whoring, and increase not, For they have left off taking heed to Jehovah.
11 姦淫和酒，並新酒， 奪去人的心。
Whoredom, and wine, and new wine, take the heart,
12 我的民求問木偶， 以為木杖能指示他們； 因為他們的淫心使他們失迷， 他們就行淫離棄上帝， 不守約束，
My people at its staff asketh and its rod declareth to it, For a spirit of whoredoms hath caused to err, And they go a-whoring from under their God.
13 在各山頂，各高岡的橡樹、 楊樹、栗樹之下，獻祭燒香， 因為樹影美好。 所以，你們的女兒淫亂， 你們的新婦行淫。
On tops of the mountains they do sacrifice, And on the hills they make perfume, Under oak, and poplar, and terebinth, For good [is] its shade.
14 你們的女兒淫亂， 你們的新婦行淫， 我卻不懲罰她們； 因為你們自己離群與娼妓同居， 與妓女一同獻祭。 這無知的民必致傾倒。
Therefore commit whoredom do your daughters, And your spouses commit adultery, I do not see after your daughters when they commit whoredom, And after your spouses when they commit adultery, For they with the harlots are separated, And with the whores they do sacrifice, A people that doth not understand kicketh.
15 以色列啊，你雖然行淫， 猶大卻不可犯罪。 不要往吉甲去， 不要上到伯‧亞文， 也不要指着永生的耶和華起誓。
Though a harlot thou [art], O Israel, Let not Judah become guilty, And come not ye in to Gilgal, nor go up to Beth-Aven, Nor swear ye, Jehovah liveth.
16 以色列倔強， 猶如倔強的母牛； 現在耶和華要放他們， 如同放羊羔在寬闊之地。
For as a refractory heifer hath Israel turned aside, Now doth Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a large place.
17 以法蓮親近偶像， 任憑他吧！
Joined to idols [is] Ephraim, let him alone.
18 他們所喝的已經發酸， 他們時常行淫， 他們的官長最愛羞恥的事。
Sour [is] their drink, They have gone diligently a-whoring, Her protectors have loved shame thoroughly.
19 風把他們裹在翅膀裏； 他們因所獻的祭必致蒙羞。
Distressed her hath wind with its wings, And they are ashamed of their sacrifices!
