Hosea 5
1 O ye Priestes, heare this, and hearken ye, O house of Israel, and giue ye eare, O house of the King: for iudgement is towarde you, because you haue bene a snare on Mizpah, and a net spred vpon Tabor.
眾祭司啊，要聽我的話！ 以色列家啊，要留心聽！ 王家啊，要側耳而聽！ 審判要臨到你們， 因你們在米斯巴如網羅， 在他泊山如鋪張的網。
2 Yet they were profounde, to decline to slaughter, though I haue bene a rebuker of them all.
這些悖逆的人肆行殺戮， 罪孽極深； 我卻斥責他們眾人。
3 I knowe Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for nowe, O Ephraim thou art become an harlot, and Israel is defiled.
以法蓮為我所知； 以色列不能向我隱藏。 以法蓮哪，現在你行淫了， 以色列被玷污了。
4 They will not giue their mindes to turne vnto their God: for the spirit of fornication is in the middes of them, and they haue not knowen the Lord.
他們所行的使他們不能歸向上帝； 因有淫心在他們裏面， 他們也不認識耶和華。
5 And the pride of Israel doth testifie to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquitie: Iudah also shall fall with them.
以色列的驕傲當面見證自己。 故此，以色列和以法蓮必因自己的罪孽跌倒； 猶大也必與他們一同跌倒。
6 They shall goe with their sheepe, and with their bullockes to seeke the Lord: but they shall not finde him: for he hath withdrawne himselfe from them.
他們必牽着牛羊去尋求耶和華，卻尋不見； 他已經轉去離開他們。
7 They haue transgressed against the Lord: for they haue begotte strange children: now shall a moneth deuoure them with their portions.
他們向耶和華行事詭詐，生了私子。 到了月朔，他們與他們的地業必被吞滅。
8 Blowe ye the trumpet in Gibeah, and the shaume in Ramah: crie out at Beth-auen, after thee, O Beniamin.
你們當在基比亞吹角， 在拉瑪吹號， 在伯‧亞文吹出大聲，說： 便雅憫哪，有仇敵在你後頭！
9 Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel haue I caused to knowe the trueth.
在責罰的日子，以法蓮必變為荒場； 我在以色列支派中，指示將來必成的事。
10 The princes of Iudah were like them that remoue the bounde: therefore will I powre out my wrath vpon them like water.
猶大的首領如同挪移地界的人， 我必將忿怒倒在他們身上，如水一般。
11 Ephraim is oppressed, and broken in iudgement, because he willingly walked after the commandement.
以法蓮因樂從人的命令， 就受欺壓，被審判壓碎。
12 Therefore wil I be vnto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Iudah as a rottennesse.
我使以法蓮如蟲蛀之物， 使猶大家如朽爛之木。
13 When Ephraim sawe his sickenes, and Iudah his wound, then went Ephraim vnto Asshur, and sent vnto King Iareb: yet coulde hee not heale you, nor cure you of your wound.
以法蓮見自己有病， 猶大見自己有傷， 他們就打發人往亞述去見耶雷布王， 他卻不能醫治你們， 不能治好你們的傷。
14 For I will be vnto Ephraim as a lyon, and as a lyons whelpe to the house of Iudah: I, euen I will spoyle, and goe away: I will take away, and none shall rescue it.
我必向以法蓮如獅子， 向猶大家如少壯獅子。 我必撕裂而去， 我要奪去，無人搭救。
15 I will go, and returne to my place, til they acknowledge their fault, and seeke me: in their affliction they will seeke me diligently.
我要回到原處， 等他們自覺有罪，尋求我面； 他們在急難的時候必切切尋求我。
