Hosea 10
1 Israel is a branching vine, full of fruit; as his fruit is increased, so the number of his altars is increased; as the land is fair, so they have made fair pillars.
以色列是茂盛的葡萄樹，結果繁多。 果子越多，就越增添祭壇； 地土越肥美，就越造美麗的柱像。
2 Their mind is taken away; now they will be made waste: he will have their altars broken down, he will give their pillars to destruction.
他們心懷二意， 現今要定為有罪。 耶和華必拆毀他們的祭壇， 毀壞他們的柱像。
3 Now, truly, they will say, We have no king, we have no fear of the Lord; and the king, what is he able to do for us?
他們必說：我們沒有王， 因為我們不敬畏耶和華。 王能為我們做甚麼呢？
4 Their words are foolish; they make agreements with false oaths, so punishment will come up like a poison-plant in a ploughed field.
他們為立約說謊言，起假誓； 因此，災罰如苦菜滋生在田間的犂溝中。
5 The people of Samaria will be full of fear because of the ox of Beth-aven; its people will have sorrow for it, and its priests will give cries of grief for its glory, for the glory has gone in flight.
撒馬利亞的居民必因伯‧亞文的牛犢驚恐； 崇拜牛犢的民和喜愛牛犢的祭司 都必因榮耀離開它，為它悲哀。
6 And they will take it to Assyria and give it to the great king; shame will come on Ephraim, and Israel will be shamed because of its image.
人必將牛犢帶到亞述當作禮物， 獻給耶雷布王。 以法蓮必蒙羞； 以色列必因自己的計謀慚愧。
7 As for Samaria, her king is cut off, like mist on the water.
至於撒馬利亞，她的王必滅沒， 如水面的沫子一樣。
8 And the high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, will come to destruction; thorns and waste plants will come up on their altars; they will say to the mountains, Be a cover over us; and to the hills, Come down on us.
伯‧亞文的邱壇－ 就是以色列取罪的地方必被毀滅； 荊棘和蒺藜必長在他們的祭壇上。 他們必對大山說：遮蓋我們！ 對小山說：倒在我們身上！
9 O Israel, you have done evil from the days of Gibeah; there they took up their position, so that the fighting against the children of evil might not overtake them in Gibeah.
以色列啊， 你從基比亞的日子以來時常犯罪。 你們的先人曾站在那裏， 現今住基比亞的人 以為攻擊罪孽之輩的戰事臨不到自己。
10 I will come and give them punishment; and the peoples will come together against them when I give them the reward of their two sins.
我必隨意懲罰他們。 他們為兩樣的罪所纏； 列邦的民必聚集攻擊他們。
11 And Ephraim is a trained cow, taking pleasure in crushing the grain; but I have put a yoke on her fair neck; I will put a horseman on the back of Ephraim; Judah will be working the plough, Jacob will be turning up the earth.
以法蓮是馴良的母牛犢，喜愛踹穀， 我卻將軛加在牠肥美的頸項上， 我要使以法蓮拉套。 猶大必耕田； 雅各必耙地。
12 Put in the seed of righteousness, get in your grain in mercy, let your unploughed earth be turned up: for it is time to make search for the Lord, till he comes and sends righteousness on you like rain.
你們要為自己栽種公義， 就能收割慈愛。 現今正是尋求耶和華的時候； 你們要開墾荒地，等他臨到， 使公義如雨降在你們身上。
13 You have been ploughing sin, you have got in a store of evil, the fruit of deceit has been your food: for you put faith in your way, in the number of your men of war.
你們耕種的是奸惡， 收割的是罪孽， 吃的是謊話的果子。 因你倚靠自己的行為， 仰賴勇士眾多，
14 So a great outcry will go up from among your people, and all your strong places will be broken, as Beth-arbel was broken by Shalman in the day of war, as the mother was broken on the rocks with her children.
所以在這民中必有鬨嚷之聲， 你一切的保障必被拆毀， 就如沙勒幔在爭戰的日子拆毀伯‧亞比勒， 將其中的母子一同摔死。
15 So will Beth-el do to you because of your evil-doing; at dawn will the king of Israel be cut off completely.
因他們的大惡， 伯特利必使你們遭遇如此。 到了黎明，以色列的王必全然滅絕。
