Hosea 2
1 Say vnto your brethren, Ammi, and to your sisters, Ruhamah,
你們稱呼你們的弟兄為「我的人民」吧! 稱呼你們的姊妹為「蒙受愛憐者」吧!
2 Plead with your mother: plead with her: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: but let her take away her fornications out of her sight, and her adulteries from betweene her breasts.
你們譴責你們的母親! 因為她不是我的妻子，我也不是她的丈夫；望她從自己的臉上除去自己的色相，從a勺胸間去掉淫亂，
3 Lest I strippe her naked, and set her as in the day that shee was borne, and make her as a wildernes, and leaue her like a drie land, and slaie her for thirst.
免得我剝去她的衣服，使她裸露，像她出生之日；使她相似曠野，使她有如旱地，叫她渴死。
4 And I wil haue no pitie vpon her children: for they be the children of fornications.
至於她的子女，我也不愛憐，因為是由淫亂生的子女。
5 For their mother hath plaied the harlot: she that conceiued them, hath done shamefully: for shee said, I will goe after my louers that giue me my bread and my water, my wooll and my flaxe, mine oyle and my drinke.
實在，他們的母親放蕩賣淫，那懷妊他們的，荒淫無恥，因為她曾說：我要追隨那些給我餅、水、羊毛、麻布、油和飲料的情人。
6 Therefore beholde, I will stoope thy way with thornes, and make an hedge, that shee shall not finde her pathes.
因此，看，我要以荊棘杜塞她的去路，築一道牆壁，使她尋不著她的途徑；
7 Though shee follow after her louers, yet shall shee not come at them: though shee seeke them, yet shall shee not finde them: then shall she say, I will goe and returne to my first husband: for at that time was I better then nowe.
她要追隨她的情人，也追不上；要尋找他們，也尋不著。那時她要說：我願回去，回到我的前夫那裏去，因為那時為我比現在好得多。
8 Nowe she did not knowe that I gaue her corne, and wine, and oyle, and multiplied her siluer and golde, which they bestowed vpon Baal.
她不肯承認是我賜給了她五穀、美酒和油；反之她把我廣施給她的金銀，都獻給了巴耳；
9 Therefore wil I returne, and take away my corne in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recouer my wool and my flaxe lent, to couer her shame.
因此等時期一到，我必要奪回我的五穀；時機一來，我必要奪回我的美酒，受回我用以遮蔽她的毛衣和麻布；
10 And now will I discouer her lewdnes in the sight of her louers, and no man shall deliuer her out of mine hand.
我要這樣在她情人們眼前揭露她的羞恥，誰也不能由我手中救出她來。
11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast daies, her newe moones, and her Sabbathes, and all her solemne feasts.
我要使她的歡樂停止，她再沒有節日、安息日和一切的盛會。
12 And I wil destroy her vines and her figtrees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my louers haue giuen mee: and I will make them as a forest, and the wilde beasts shall eate them.
我要摧殘她的葡萄園和無花果園，因她曾說：「這就是我的情人給我的身價。」我必要使它們成為山林，叫野獸來吃盡。
13 And I wil visit vpon her the daies of Baalim, wherein shee burnt incense to them: and shee decked her selfe with her earings and her iewels, and shee folowed her louers, and forgate me, saith the Lord.
我要為了她敬拜巴耳的日子，懲罰她，就是她向他們燒香，以鼻環和項鍊修飾自己去追隨她的情人，而忘卻了我的的那些日子──上主的斷語。
14 Therefore beholde, I will allure her, and bring her into the wildernesse, and speake friendly vnto her.
為此，看，我要誘她，領她到曠野和她談心。
15 And I will giue her her vineyardes from thence, and the valley of Achor for the doore of hope, and shee shall sing there as in the daies of her youth, and as in the daies when shee came vp out of the land of Egypt.
從此我仍要將葡萄園賜給她，仍將阿苛爾山谷作為她的希望之門；她要上到那裏，就如她幼年時，就如她從埃及地上來的那一天一樣。
16 And at that day, sayeth the Lord, thou shalt call me Ishi, and shalt call me no more Baali.
到那一天──上主的斷語──她要稱呼我為「依士」(我的丈夫)，不再稱呼我為「巴里」(我主)。
17 For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall be no more remembred by their names.
我必要從她的口中把巴耳的名號除掉，使他們再也不提起他們的姓名。
18 And in that day wil I make a couenant for them, with the wilde beasts, and with the foules of the heauen, and with that that creepeth vpon the earth: and I will breake the bowe, and the sworde and the battell out of the earth, and will make them to sleepe safely.
到那一天，為了他們，我要同田間的野獸，天空的飛鳥和地上的爬蟲訂立盟約，並且我要從地上將弓弩、刀劍和戰爭毀滅，使他們安居樂業。
19 And I wil marry thee vnto me for euer: yea, I will marry thee vnto me in righteousnes, and in iudgement, and in mercy and in compassion.
我要永遠聘娶妳，以公義、公平、慈愛、憐憫聘娶妳；
20 I will euen marry thee vnto me in faithfulnes, and thou shalt knowe the Lord.
以忠實聘娶妳，使妳知道我是上主。
21 And in that day I wil heare, saith the Lord, I will euen heare the heauens, and they shall heare the earth,
到那一天，我必要應允──上主的斷語──我要應允高天，高天要應允大地，
22 And the earth shall heare the corne, and the wine, and the oyle, and they shall heare Izreel.
大地要應允五榖、酒、油，五榖、酒、油也要應允依次勒耳。
23 And I will sowe her vnto me in the earth, and I will haue mercie vpon her, that was not pitied, and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people. And they shall say, Thou art my God.
我要為我把她種在這地上，我要愛憐羅魯阿瑪(不蒙愛憐者)，我要對羅阿米(非我人民)說：「妳是我的人民。」而她要說：「你是我的天主。」
