Hosea 6

1 Come, let us go back to the Lord; for he has given us wounds and he will make us well; he has given blows and he will give help.

来吧，我们归向耶和华！ 他撕裂我们，也必医治； 他打伤我们，也必缠裹。

2 After two days he will give us life, and on the third day he will make us get up, and we will be living before him.

过两天他必使我们苏醒， 第三天他必使我们兴起， 我们就在他面前得以存活。

3 And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.

我们务要认识耶和华， 竭力追求认识他。 他出现确如晨光； 他必临到我们像甘雨， 像滋润田地的春雨。

4 O Ephraim, what am I to do to you? O Judah, what am I to do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew which goes early away.

主说：以法莲哪，我可向你怎样行呢？ 犹大啊，我可向你怎样做呢？ 因为你们的良善如同早晨的云雾， 又如速散的甘露。

5 So I have had it cut in stones; I gave them teaching by the words of my mouth;

因此，我借先知砍伐他们， 以我口中的话杀戮他们； 我施行的审判如光发出。

6 Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings.

我喜爱良善，不喜爱祭祀； 喜爱认识 神，胜于燔祭。

7 But like a man, they have gone against the agreement; there they were false to me.

他们却如亚当背约， 在境内向我行事诡诈。

8 Gilead is a town of evil-doers, marked with blood.

基列是作孽之人的城， 被血沾染。

9 And like a band of thieves waiting for a man, so are the priests watching secretly the way of those going quickly to Shechem, for they are working with an evil design.

强盗成群，怎样埋伏杀人， 祭司结党，也照样在示剑的路上杀戮， 行了邪恶。

10 In Israel I have seen a very evil thing; there false ways are seen in Ephraim, Israel is unclean;

在以色列家，我见了可憎的事； 在以法莲那里有淫行， 以色列被玷污。

11 And Judah has put up disgusting images for himself.

犹大啊，我使被掳之民归回的时候， 必有为你所命定的收场。