何西阿書 6

1 來吧，我們歸向耶和華！ 他撕裂我們，也必醫治； 他打傷我們，也必纏裹。

Come, and let vs returne to the Lord: for he hath spoyled, and he will heale vs: he hath wounded vs, and he will binde vs vp.

2 過兩天他必使我們甦醒， 第三天他必使我們興起， 我們就在他面前得以存活。

After two dayes will he reuiue vs, and in the third day he will raise vs vp, and we shall liue in his sight.

3 我們務要認識耶和華， 竭力追求認識他。 他出現確如晨光； 他必臨到我們像甘雨， 像滋潤田地的春雨。

Then shall we haue knowledge, and indeuour our selues to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning, and he shall come vnto vs as the raine, and as the latter raine vnto the earth.

4 主說：以法蓮哪，我可向你怎樣行呢？ 猶大啊，我可向你怎樣做呢？ 因為你們的良善如同早晨的雲霧， 又如速散的甘露。

O Ephraim, what shall I doe vnto thee? O Iudah, how shall I intreate thee? for your goodnesse is as a morning cloude, and as the morning dewe it goeth away.

5 因此，我藉先知砍伐他們， 以我口中的話殺戮他們； 我施行的審判如光發出。

Therefore haue I cut downe by the Prophets: I haue slaine them by the wordes of my mouth, and thy iudgements were as the light that goeth forth.

6 我喜愛良善，不喜愛祭祀； 喜愛認識上帝，勝於燔祭。

For I desired mercie, and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more then burnt offrings.

7 他們卻如亞當背約， 在境內向我行事詭詐。

But they like men haue transgressed the couenant: there haue they trespassed against me.

8 基列是作孽之人的城， 被血沾染。

Gilead is a citie of them that worke iniquitie, and is polluted with blood.

9 強盜成群，怎樣埋伏殺人， 祭司結黨，也照樣在示劍的路上殺戮， 行了邪惡。

And as the eues waite for a man, so the companie of Priestes murder in the way by consent: for they worke mischiefe.

10 在以色列家，我見了可憎的事； 在以法蓮那裏有淫行， 以色列被玷污。

I haue seene vileny in the house of Israel: there is ye whoredome of Ephraim: Israel is defiled.

11 猶大啊，我使被擄之民歸回的時候， 必有為你所命定的收場。

Yea, Iudah hath set a plant for thee, whiles I woulde returne ye captiuitie of my people.