Hosea 8

1 Let there be a trumpet in thy throat like an eagle upon the house of the Lord: because they have transgressed my covenant, and have violated my law.

你要把號角放你的口上，當作上主家的哨兵，因為百姓違背了我的盟約，，干犯了我的法律。

2 They shall call upon me: O my God, we, Israel, know thee.

他們呼喊我說：以色列的天主! 我們認識你。

3 Israel hath cast off the thing that is good, the enemy shall pursue him.

但以色列拋棄了善，所以敵人要迫害她。

4 They have reigned, but not by me: they have been princes, and I knew not: of their silver, and their gold they have made idols to themselves, that they might perish.

他們自立了君王，卻沒有我的同意；他們自立了首領，卻沒有叫知道；他們用金錢為自己製造了偶像，給自己招來滅亡。

5 Thy calf, O Samaria, is cast off, my wrath is kindled against them. How long will they be incapable of being cleansed?

撒馬黎雅! 我必要除掉你的牛犢，我的怒火必要對牠燃起；以色列子民不能自新要到幾時呢﹖

6 For itself also is the invention of Israel: a workman made it, and it is no god: for the calf of Samaria shall be turned to spiders’ webs.

牛犢是工匠製造的，牠並不是天主；撒馬黎雅的牛犢必定被粉碎!

7 For they shall sow wind, and reap a whirlwind, there is no standing stalk in it, the bud shall yield no meal; and if it should yield, strangers shall eat it.

他們既播種了風，收的也必是風；麥子不抽穗，做不成麵粉；既使做出麵粉來，也必被外邦人吃掉。

8 Israel is swallowed up: now is he become among the nations like an unclean vessel.

以色列疲吞滅了，今後在列邦中必成為一個無用的廢物。

9 For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath given gifts to his lovers.

他們去投奔亞述──一匹孤獨的野驢──同時又給埃及送愛情的禮物。

10 But even though they shall have hired the nations, now will I gather them together: and they shall rest a while from the burden of the king, and the princes.

縱然他們在列邦中行賄，我現在就要分散他們，使他們暫時停止給君王和領袖傅油。

11 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin: altars are become to him unto sin.

厄弗辣因建築了許多祭壇，但這些祭壇卻只有犯罪的用途。

12 I shall write to him my manifold laws, which have been accounted as foreign.

雖然我為他們寫了許多法律，卻被看作陌生人的廢話。

13 They shall offer victims, they shall sacrifice flesh, and shall eat it, and the Lord will not receive them: now will he remember their iniquity, and will visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.

讓他們奉獻燔祭，讓他們取吃祭肉；這一切上主都不喜歡；今後衪必記住他們的邪惡，必懲罰他們的罪孽；他們必要回到埃及去。

14 And Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and hath built temples: and Juda hath built many fenced cities: and I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the houses thereof.

以色列忘了自己的造主，建立了許多宮殿，猶大也增建了許多堅固的城池；但是，我必要把火投在你們的1城中，吞滅城中的宮室。