Osee 12
1 But Ephraim is an evil spirit, he has chased the east wind all the day: he has multiplied empty and vain things, and made a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil has gone in the way of traffic into Egypt.
以法莲吃风，且追赶东风， 时常增添虚谎和强暴， 与亚述立约，把油送到埃及。
2 And the Lord [has] a controversy with Juda, in order to punish Jacob: according to his ways and according to his practices will he recompense him.
耶和华与犹大争辩， 必照雅各所行的惩罚他， 按他所做的报应他。
3 He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and in his labours he had power with God.
他在腹中抓住哥哥的脚跟， 壮年的时候与 神较力，
4 And he prevailed with the angel and was strong: they wept, and entreated me: they found me in the house of On, and there [a word] was spoken to them.
与天使较力，并且得胜， 哭泣恳求， 在伯特利遇见耶和华。 耶和华—万军之 神在那里晓谕我们以色列人； 耶和华是他可记念的名。
5 But the Lord God Almighty shall be his memorial.
6 You therefore shall return to your God: keep you mercy and judgement, and draw near to your God continually.
所以你当归向你的 神， 谨守仁爱、公平，常常等候你的 神。
7 [As for] Chanaan, in his hand is a balance of unrighteousness: he has loved to tyrannize.
以法莲是商人， 手里有诡诈的天平，爱行欺骗。
8 And Ephraim said, Nevertheless I am rich, I have found refreshment to myself. None of his labours shall be found [available] to him, by reason of the sins which he has committed.
以法莲说： 我果然成了富足，得了财宝； 我所劳碌得来的， 人必不见有什么不义，可算为罪的。
9 But I the Lord your God brought you up out of the land of Egypt: I will yet cause you to dwell in tabernacles, according to the days of the feast.
自从你出埃及地以来， 我就是耶和华—你的 神； 我必使你再住帐棚，如在大会的日子一样。
10 And I will speak to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and by the means of the prophets I was represented.
我已晓谕众先知， 并且加增默示， 借先知设立比喻。
11 If Galaad exists not, then the chiefs in Galaad when they sacrificed were false, and their altars were as heaps on the ground of the field.
基列人没有罪孽吗？ 他们全然是虚假的。 人在吉甲献牛犊为祭， 他们的祭坛好像田间犁沟中的乱堆。
12 And Jacob retreated into the plain of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and waited for a wife.
从前雅各逃到亚兰地， 以色列为得妻服事人， 为得妻与人放羊。
13 And the Lord brought Israel out of the land of Egypt by a prophet, and by a prophet was he preserve.
耶和华借先知领以色列从埃及上来； 以色列也借先知而得保存。
14 Ephraim was angry and excited, therefore his blood shall be poured out upon him, and the Lord shall recompense to him his reproach.
以法莲大大惹动主怒， 所以他流血的罪必归在他身上。 主必将那因以法莲所受的羞辱归还他。
