Hosea 9
1 Rejoice not, O Israel for ioy as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God: thou hast loued a rewarde vpon euery corne floore.
以色列! 你不要高興，不要像異民一樣狂歡，因為你行了淫，離棄了你的天主，在所有的禾場上只是喜歡淫資。
2 The floore, and the wine presse shall not feede them, and the newe wine shall faile in her.
禾場與榨酒也不再認識他們，新酒也要拒絕他們。
3 They wil not dwel in the Lordes lande, but Ephraim will returne to Egypt, and they will eate vncleane things in Asshur.
他們必不能在上主的地方居住；厄弗辣因必要回到埃及，且要在亞述吃不潔之物。
4 They shall not offer wine to the Lord, neither shall their sacrifices be pleasant vnto him: but they shall be vnto them as the bread of mourners: al that eate thereof, shalbe polluted: for their bread for their soules shall not come into the house of the Lord.
他們不能向上主奠洒，也不能再向衪奉獻的祭品；他們的餅好似喪餅，凡吃這餅的，必受玷污；因為他們的餅只可為他們自用，不能帶進上主殿內。
5 What wil ye do then in the solemne day, and in the day of the feast of the Lord?
那麼你們在盛會之日，在上主火節日，可作什麼呢﹖
6 For loe, they are gone from destruction: but Egypt shall gather them vp, and Memphis shall burie them: the nettle shall possesse the pleasant places of their siluer, and the thorne shall be in their tabernacles.
因為，看，他們由毀滅裏逃走，埃及要收集他們，摩夫要埋葬他們；他們的尊貴的銀器將為蒺藜所承受，他們的帳幕將被荊棘所佔有。
7 The daies of visitation are come: the daies of recompence are come: Israel shall knowe it: the Prophet is a foole: the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquitie: therefore the hatred is great.
懲罰的日子來了，報復的日子到了，以色列要喊說：先知是愚人，受靈感的人是瘋子! 是，這是因為你的過犯繁多，因為你的罪惡重大。
8 The watchman of Ephraim shoulde bee with my God: but the Prophet is the snare of a fouler in all his waies, and hatred in the House of his God.
厄弗辣因窺伺先知的帳幕，在他的路上處處佈下了羅網，在自己天主的殿內只敵視。
9 They are deepely set: they are corrupt as in the daies of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquitie, he will visite their sinnes.
他們窮凶已到了極點，就如在基貝亞的時日一樣；上主必不忘你們的罪孽，必要懲罰他們的邪惡。
10 I found Israel like grapes in the wildernes: I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the figge tree at her first time: but they went to Baal-Peor, and separated themselues vnto that shame, and their abominations were according to their louers.
我發現了以色列，就如曠野中發現葡萄；看見你們的祖先，就如在無花果樹上看見初熱的果實；但當他們來到了巴耳培敖爾時，便將自己獻給了可憎之物，使自己也成了可憎惡的，如他們所善愛的邪神一樣。
11 Ephraim their glorie shall flee away like a birde: from the birth and from the wombe, and from the conception.
至於厄弗辣因，因他們的光榮，就如飛鳥飛去，必不生產，不懷胎，不妊娠。
12 Though they bring vp their children, yet I will depriue them from being men: yea, woe to them, when I depart from them.
既使他們把自己的子女養大，我也必使他們喪亡，一個不留；幾時我捨棄他們，他們才是有禍的。
13 Ephraim, as I sawe, is as a tree in Tyrus planted in a cottage: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murtherer.
厄弗辣因，一如我所見的，必使自己的子女成為獵物；厄弗辣因必把自己的子女交出屠殺。
14 O Lord, giue them: what wilt thou giue them? giue them a baren wombe and drie breasts.
上主，求你賜給他們....賜給他們什麼呢﹖要使他們胎荒，乳乾!
15 All their wickednesse is in Gilgal: for there doe I hate them: for the wickednesse of their inuentions, I will cast them out of mine House: I will loue them no more: all their princes are rebels.
他們所行的一切惡事，全在基耳加耳開始，因此，在那裏我就恨了他們；為了他們的惡行，我必將他們從我父的家趕出去；我不再喜愛他們，他們的首領全是叛徒
16 Ephraim is smitten, their roote is dried vp: they can bring no fruite: yea, though they bring foorth, yet will I slaie euen the dearest of their bodie.
厄弗辣因受了打擊，根子也乾枯了，再不能結果實；既使他們生了孩子，我也必將他們的寧馨兒殺死。
17 My God will cast them away, because they did not obey him: and they shall wander among the nations.
我的天主必要拋棄他們，因為他們沒有聽從衪；他們必要在各民族中飄流。
