Hosea 7
1 WHEN I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.
當我著手醫治以色列時，厄弗辣因的罪孽就顯露出來，撒馬利亞的惡也顯露出來，因為他們行了詭詐的事：竊賊潛入內室，而外遇強盜；
2 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.
但他們並不存心細想：我記住他們的一切惡行。現今他們的行為圍繞著他們，一一擺在我眼前。
3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
他們使君王喜歡，是出於惡意，使首領快樂，是出於詭詐。
4 They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
個個燃起了怒火，像一座火爐，伙夫暫停煽火，直到和好的麵團發酵。
5 In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
在他們君王的慶日上，當官長們酒勁發作，不能支持的時候，君王便和惡徒勾結起來。
6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
他們的心雖因陰謀而焦慮得像火爐一樣，但他們的怒火卻整夜停息；一到早晨，卻又如烈火復燃。
7 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.
個個像火爐一樣，熾燃起來，吞噬了他們的官長；他們的君王都倒斃了，但沒有一個向我呼求。
8 Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
厄弗辣因想混雜在列邦之中，厄弗辣因成了一塊尚未翻過的烤餅。
9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.
外邦人耗盡了她的力量，她尚不自覺，頭上已佈滿了白髮，她還不知曉。
10 And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek him for all this.
[雖然如此，以色列的驕傲仍呈現在自己面上，他們仍不歸依，仍不尋求上主，他們的天主]。
11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
厄弗辣因像愚蠢無知的鴿子，一時求救埃及，一時又投奔亞述；
12 When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.
可是不論他們往何處去，我要向他們撒開我的羅網，使他們像天上的飛鳥跌下：一聽到他們聚齊待飛，我便將他們捕捉。
13 Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
他們有禍了! 因為他們遠離離了我；他們必遭受毀滅，因為他們背叛了我。我原想拯救他們，但他們卻對我撒謊，
14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.
並沒有真心呼求我，只是在祭壇旁悲歎；為了五榖和新酒，仍自割己身，仍背叛我。
15 Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.
我雖然加強了他們的手臂，然而他們仍圖謀邪惡反抗我。
16 They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.
他們歸向了虛無，變成了歪曲的弓；他們的首領因自己的狂言，必喪身刀下，且在埃及地為人恥笑。
