Hosea 8

1 Set the trumpet to thy mouth: he shall come as an eagle against the House of the Lord, because they haue transgressed my couenant, and trespassed against my Lawe.

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 shall crie vnto me, My God, we know thee.

他們呼喊我說：以色列的天主! 我們認識你。

3 Israel hath cast off ye thing that is good: the enemie shall pursue him.

但以色列拋棄了善，所以敵人要迫害她。

4 They haue set vp a King, but not by me: they haue made princes, and I knew it not: of their siluer and their gold haue they made them idoles: therefore shall they be destroyed.

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 calfe, O Samaria, hath cast thee off: mine anger is kindled against them: howe long will they be without innocencie!

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 it came euen from Israel: the workeman made it, therefore it is not God: but the calfe of Samaria shall 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 For they haue sowne the winde, and they shall reape the whirlewind: it hath no stalke: the budde shall bring foorth no meale: if so be it bring forth, the strangers shall deuoure 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 deuoured, now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessell wherein is no pleasure.

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 vp to Asshur: they are as a wilde asse alone by himselfe: Ephraim hath hired louers.

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 Yet though they haue hired among the nations, nowe will I gather them, and they shall sorowe a litle, for 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 sinne, his altars shalbe to sinne.

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 haue written to them the great things of my Lawe: but they were counted as a strange thing.

雖然我為他們寫了許多法律，卻被看作陌生人的廢話。

13 They sacrifice flesh for ye sacrifices of mine offerings, and eate it: but the Lord accepteth them not: now will he remember their iniquitie, and visite their sinnes: they shall returne 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 For Israel hath forgotten his maker, and buildeth Temples, and Iudah hath increased strong cities: but I will sende a fire vpon his cities, and it shall deuoure the palaces 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。