何西阿書 5
1 眾祭司啊，要聽我的話！ 以色列家啊，要留心聽！ 王家啊，要側耳而聽！ 審判要臨到你們， 因你們在米斯巴如網羅， 在他泊山如鋪張的網。
“Hear this, priests! Pay attention, house of Israel! Listen, house of the king! For judgment is coming against you all. You have been a snare at Mizpah and a net spread over Tabor.
2 這些悖逆的人肆行殺戮， 罪孽極深； 我卻斥責他們眾人。
The rebels stand deep in slaughter, but I will punish all of them.
3 以法蓮為我所知； 以色列不能向我隱藏。 以法蓮哪，現在你行淫了， 以色列被玷污了。
I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me. Ephraim, now you have become like a prostitute; Israel is defiled.
4 他們所行的使他們不能歸向上帝； 因有淫心在他們裏面， 他們也不認識耶和華。
Their deeds will not allow them to turn to God, for the mind of adultery is in them, and they do not know Yahweh.
5 以色列的驕傲當面見證自己。 故此，以色列和以法蓮必因自己的罪孽跌倒； 猶大也必與他們一同跌倒。
The pride of Israel testifies against him; so Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their guilt; and Judah also will stumble with them.
6 他們必牽着牛羊去尋求耶和華，卻尋不見； 他已經轉去離開他們。
They will go with their flocks and herds to seek Yahweh, but they will not find him, for he has withdrawn himself from them.
7 他們向耶和華行事詭詐，生了私子。 到了月朔，他們與他們的地業必被吞滅。
They were unfaithful to Yahweh, for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon festivals will devour them with their fields.
8 你們當在基比亞吹角， 在拉瑪吹號， 在伯‧亞文吹出大聲，說： 便雅憫哪，有仇敵在你後頭！
Blow the horn in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah. Sound a battle cry at Beth Aven: 'We will follow you, Benjamin!'
9 在責罰的日子，以法蓮必變為荒場； 我在以色列支派中，指示將來必成的事。
Ephraim will become a desolation on the day of punishment. Among the tribes of Israel I have declared what is certain to happen.
10 猶大的首領如同挪移地界的人， 我必將忿怒倒在他們身上，如水一般。
The leaders of Judah are like those who move a boundary stone. I will pour my wrath on them like water.
11 以法蓮因樂從人的命令， 就受欺壓，被審判壓碎。
Ephraim is crushed; he is crushed in judgment, because he has willingly walked after idols.
12 我使以法蓮如蟲蛀之物， 使猶大家如朽爛之木。
So I will be like a moth to Ephraim, and like rot to the house of Judah.
13 以法蓮見自己有病， 猶大見自己有傷， 他們就打發人往亞述去見耶雷布王， 他卻不能醫治你們， 不能治好你們的傷。
When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and Judah sent messengers to the great king. But he was not able to cure you people or heal your wound.
14 我必向以法蓮如獅子， 向猶大家如少壯獅子。 我必撕裂而去， 我要奪去，無人搭救。
So I will be like a lion to Ephraim, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear and go away; I will carry them off, and there will be no one to rescue them.
15 我要回到原處， 等他們自覺有罪，尋求我面； 他們在急難的時候必切切尋求我。
I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face, until they earnestly seek me in their distress.”
