Hosea 8
1 Put a trumpet to your lips! An eagle swoops over the house of the Lord because they have broken my agreement and rebelled against 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 Israel calls out to me, “Our God, we know you!”
他們呼喊我說：以色列的天主! 我們認識你。
3 But Israel has rejected what is good. An enemy will chase after them.
但以色列拋棄了善，所以敵人要迫害她。
4 They appointed kings without my consent and chose princes without my knowledge. With their silver and gold they made idols for their own destruction.
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 Samaria, I reject this calf idol you have made! My anger burns against them! How long will you be incapable of being good?
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 This idol is from Israel! A craftsman made it—it's not God! The calf of Samaria will be broken in pieces!
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 Those who sow the wind will reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no head of grain; it will produce no flour. Even if it did produce grain, foreigners would swallow it all up.
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; among the nations they are like something nobody wants.
以色列疲吞滅了，今後在列邦中必成為一個無用的廢物。
9 They have gone up to Assyria like a donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired 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 Even though they have hired allies among the nations, I will gather them together. Then they will writhe under the burden of the great king.
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 Though Ephraim built many altars to make sin offerings, they instead became altars of 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 wrote down for them the many aspects of my law, but they looked on them 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 present me with their sacrifices, and they eat the meat, but I the Lord do not accept them. Now he will remember their wickedness, and punish them for their sins. They will 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 Israel has forgotten his maker, and built palaces; Judah has built many fortified cities. But I will rain fire down on their cities and burn up their fortresses.
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。
