Osee 1

1 The word of the Lord which came to Osee the son of Beeri, in the days of Ozias, and Joatham, and Achaz, and Ezekias, kings of Juda, and in the days of Jeroboam son of Joas, king of Israel.

[前編：歐瑟亞結婚的意義]一：烏齊雅、約堂、[阿哈次和希則克亞]為猶大王，約阿士的兒子雅洛貝罕為以色列王時，上主有話傳給貝厄黎的兒子歐瑟亞。

2 The beginning of the word of the Lord by Osee. And the Lord said to Osee, Go, take to yourself a wife of fornication, and children of fornication: for the land will surely go a-whoring in departing from the Lord.

上主開始藉歐瑟亞發言時，上主對歐瑟亞說：「你去娶一個娼婦為妻，讓她生淫亂的子女，因為此地淫亂放蕩，背離了上主。」

3 So he went and took Gomer, daughter of Debelaim; and she conceived, and bore him a son.

歐瑟亞便去娶了狄布拉因的女兒默爾為妻；她懷孕，給他生了一個兒子。

4 And the Lord said to him, Call his name Jezrael; for yet a little [while], and I will avenge the blood of Jezrael on the house of Juda, and will make to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.

上主對歐瑟亞說：「你要給他起名叫依次勒耳，因為過不久，我要向耶胡家追討依次勒耳的血債，要消滅以色列家的王室。

5 And it shall be, in that day, [that] I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezrael.

到那一天，我必要在依次勒耳山谷折斷以色列的弓。」

6 And she conceived again, and bore a daughter. And he said to him, Call her name, Unpitied: for I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, but will surely set myself in array against them.

哥默爾再懷孕，生了一個女兒，上主對歐瑟亞說：「你要給她起名叫羅魯阿瑪 (不受愛憐者，) 因為我不再愛憐以色列家，以致我不再寬宥他們。

7 But I will have mercy on the house of Juda, and will save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them with bow, nor with sword, nor by war, nor by horses, nor by horsemen.

但我要愛憐猶大家族，要拯救他們，因為我上主是他們的天主；但是我不以弓、弩、刀劍、戰爭、戰馬和騎士拯救他們。

8 And she weaned Unpitied; and she conceived again, and bore a son.

羅魯阿瑪斷奶之後，哥默爾又懷孕，生了一個兒子。

9 And he said, Call his name, Not my people: for you are not my people, and I am not your [God].

上主說：「你給他起名叫羅阿米 (非我人民)，因為你們已不是我的人民，我已也不是你們的的上主。」

10 Yet the number of the children of Israel was as the sand of the sea, which shall not be measured nor numbered: and it shall come to pass, [that] in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, even they shall be called the sons of the living God.

以色列子民的數目將如海邊的沙粒，不可斗量，不可勝數；在那裏人曾對他們說：「你們不是我的人民。」在那裏人也要對他們說：「你們是永生天主的人民。」

11 And the children of Juda shall be gathered, and the children of Israel together, and shall appoint themselves one head, and shall come up out of the land: for great [shall be] the day of Jezrael.

猶大子民和以色列子民將在一起，要為自己選定一個首領；他們要由此地擴展，因為依次勒耳的日子要成為偉大的。