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 us return to the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

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 days will he revive us: in the third day will he raise us up, and we shall live 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 know, [if] we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he will come to us as the rain, as the latter [and] former rain to 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 do to thee? O Judah, what shall I do to thee? for your goodness [is] as the morning cloud, and as the early dew 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 have I hewed [them] by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments [are 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 mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.

7 他們卻如亞當背約， 在境內向我行事詭詐。

But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

8 基列是作孽之人的城， 被血沾染。

Gilead [is] a city of them that work iniquity, [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 troops of robbers wait for a man, [so] the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.

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 have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: there [is] the prostitution 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。

Also, O Judah, he hath set a harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.