Hosea 5
1 Give ear to this, O priests; give attention, O Israel, and you, family of the king; for you are to be judged; you have been a deceit at Mizpah and a net stretched out on Tabor.
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。
2 They have gone deep in the evil ways of Shittim, but I am the judge of all.
這些悖逆的人肆行殺戮， 罪孽極深； 我卻斥責他們眾人。
3 I have knowledge of Ephraim, and Israel is not secret from me; for now, O Ephraim, you have been false to me, Israel has become unclean.
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。
4 Their works will not let them come back to their God, for a false spirit is in them and they have no knowledge of the Lord.
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。
5 And the pride of Israel gives an answer to his face; and Ephraim will have a fall through his sins, and the fall of Judah will be the same as theirs.
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。
6 They will go, with their flocks and their herds, in search of the Lord, but they will not see him; he has taken himself out of their view.
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。
7 They have been false to the Lord; they have given birth to strange children; now the new moon will make them waste with their fields.
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。
8 Let the horn be sounded in Gibeah and in Ramah; give a loud cry in Beth-aven, They are after you, O Benjamin.
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！
9 Ephraim will become a waste in the day of punishment; I have given knowledge among the tribes of Israel of what is certain.
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。
10 The rulers of Judah are like those who take away a landmark; I will let loose my wrath on them like flowing water.
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。
11 Ephraim is troubled; he is crushed by his judges, because he took pleasure in walking after deceit.
以法蓮因樂從人的命令， 就受欺壓，被審判壓碎。
12 And so to Ephraim I am like a wasting insect, and a destruction to the children of Judah.
我使以法蓮如蟲蛀之物， 使猶大家如朽爛之木。
13 When Ephraim saw his disease and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria and sent to the great king; but he is not able to make you well or give you help for your wound.
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。
14 For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the children of Judah; I, even I, will give him wounds and go away; I will take him away, and there will be no helper.
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。
15 I will go back to my place till they are made waste; in their trouble they will go after me early and will make search for me.
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。
