Hosea 9
1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for you have gone a whoring from your God, you have loved a reward on every corn floor.
以色列啊，不要像外邦人歡喜快樂； 因為你行邪淫離棄你的上帝， 在各穀場上如妓女喜愛賞賜。
2 The floor and the wine press shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
穀場和酒醡都不夠以色列人使用； 新酒也必缺乏。
3 They shall not dwell in the LORD’s land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
他們必不得住耶和華的地； 以法蓮卻要歸回埃及， 必在亞述吃不潔淨的食物。
4 They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing to him: their sacrifices shall be to them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.
他們必不得向耶和華奠酒， 即便奠酒也不蒙悅納。 他們的祭物必如居喪者的食物， 凡吃的必被玷污； 因他們的食物只為自己的口腹， 必不奉入耶和華的殿。
5 What will you do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?
在大會的日子， 到耶和華的節期，你們怎樣行呢？
6 For, see, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.
看哪，他們逃避災難； 埃及人必收殮他們的屍首， 摩弗人必葬埋他們的骸骨。 他們用銀子做的美物上必長蒺藜； 他們的帳棚中必生荊棘。
7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of your iniquity, and the great hatred.
以色列人必知道降罰的日子臨近， 報應的時候來到。 民說：作先知的是愚昧； 受靈感的是狂妄， 皆因他們多多作孽，大懷怨恨。
8 The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.
以法蓮曾作我上帝守望的； 至於先知，在他一切的道上作為捕鳥人的網羅， 在他上帝的家中懷怨恨。
9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
以法蓮深深地敗壞， 如在基比亞的日子一樣。 耶和華必記念他們的罪孽， 追討他們的罪惡。
10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves to that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.
主說：我遇見以色列如葡萄在曠野； 我看見你們的列祖如無花果樹上春季初熟的果子。 他們卻來到巴力‧毗珥專拜那可羞恥的， 就成為可憎惡的， 與他們所愛的一樣。
11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
至於以法蓮人，他們的榮耀必如鳥飛去， 必不生產，不懷胎，不成孕。
12 Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yes, woe also to them when I depart from them!
縱然養大兒女， 我卻必使他們喪子，甚至不留一個。 我離棄他們，他們就有禍了。
13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.
我看以法蓮如泰爾栽於美地。 以法蓮卻要將自己的兒女帶出來， 交與行殺戮的人。
14 Give them, O LORD: what will you give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
耶和華啊，求你加給他們－ 加甚麼呢？ 要使他們胎墜乳乾。
15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house, I will love them no more: all their princes are rebels.
耶和華說：他們一切的惡事都在吉甲； 我在那裏憎惡他們。 因他們所行的惡， 我必從我地上趕出他們去， 不再憐愛他們； 他們的首領都是悖逆的。
16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yes, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.
以法蓮受責罰， 根本枯乾，必不能結果， 即或生產， 我必殺他們所生的愛子。
17 My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
我的上帝必棄絕他們， 因為他們不聽從他； 他們也必飄流在列國中。
