何西阿書 7
1 我想醫治以色列的時候， 以法蓮的罪孽和撒馬利亞的罪惡就顯露出來。 他們行事虛謊， 內有賊人入室偷竊， 外有強盜成群騷擾。
When I was about to deliver my people from captivity, When I would have healed Israel, Then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, And the wickedness of Samaria; For they practise fraud, And the thief entereth in, And the band of robbers spoileth without.
2 他們心裏並不思想我記念他們的一切惡； 他們所行的現在纏繞他們，都在我面前。
And they think not in their hearts, That I remember all their wickedness. Now shall their doings encompass them; They are before my face.
3 他們行惡使君王歡喜， 說謊使首領喜樂。
With their wickedness they gladden the king, And with their falsehoods the princes; All of them are adulterers;
4 他們都是行淫的， 像火爐被烤餅的燒熱， 從摶麵到發麵的時候， 暫不使火着旺。
They are as an oven heated by the baker; He ceaseth to stir the fire, Until the dough which he hath kneaded be leavened.
5 在我們王宴樂的日子， 首領因酒的烈性成病； 王與褻慢人拉手。
On the feast-day of our king, the princes are sick with the heat of wine, And he stretcheth out his hand with revilers.
6 首領埋伏的時候，心中熱如火爐， 就如烤餅的整夜睡臥， 到了早晨火氣炎炎。
For they make ready their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait; All night the baker sleepeth; In the morning it gloweth like a flaming fire.
7 眾民也熱如火爐， 燒滅他們的官長。 他們的君王都仆倒而死； 他們中間無一人求告我。
They all glow as an oven; They have devoured their judges; All their kings have fallen; And none among them calleth upon me.
8 以法蓮與列邦人攙雜； 以法蓮是沒有翻過的餅。
Ephraim hath mixed himself with the nations; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
9 外邦人吞吃他勞力得來的，他卻不知道； 頭髮斑白，他也不覺得。
Strangers have devoured his strength, And he knoweth it not; Yea, gray hairs are sprinkled upon him, Yet he knoweth it not.
10 以色列的驕傲當面見證自己， 雖遭遇這一切， 他們仍不歸向耶和華－他們的上帝， 也不尋求他。
The pride of Israel testifieth to his face; Yet do not they return to Jehovah their God, Nor seek him, for all this.
11 以法蓮好像鴿子愚蠢無知； 他們求告埃及，投奔亞述。
Ephraim is like a silly dove, without understanding; They call upon Egypt; they go to Assyria.
12 他們去的時候，我必將我的網撒在他們身上； 我要打下他們，如同空中的鳥。 我必按他們會眾所聽見的懲罰他們。
When they go, I will spread my net over them; As birds of heaven will I bring them down. I will chastise them, as hath been proclaimed in their congregation.
13 他們因離棄我，必定有禍； 因違背我，必被毀滅。 我雖要救贖他們，他們卻向我說謊。
Woe to them, for they have wandered from me! Destruction upon them, for they have rebelled against me! Though I myself would redeem them, they speak falsely to me.
14 他們並不誠心哀求我， 乃在床上呼號； 他們為求五穀新酒聚集， 仍然悖逆我。
They cry not to me from their heart, But howl upon their beds; For corn and wine they assemble themselves; They rebel against me.
15 我雖教導他們，堅固他們的膀臂， 他們竟圖謀抗拒我。
I have chastened them; I have also strengthened their arms; Yet do they devise evil against me.
16 他們歸向，卻不歸向至上者； 他們如同翻背的弓。 他們的首領必因舌頭的狂傲倒在刀下； 這在埃及地必作人的譏笑。
They return, but not to the Most High; They are like a deceitful bow; Their princes shall fall by the sword for the haughtiness of their tongues; This shall be their reproach in the land of Egypt.
