< Hosea 12 >

1 Ephraim feeds on wind, and follows after the east wind: he daily increases lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.
以法蓮吃風，且追趕東風， 時常增添虛謊和強暴， 與亞述立約，把油送到埃及。
2 The LORD has also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.
耶和華與猶大爭辯， 必照雅各所行的懲罰他， 按他所做的報應他。
3 He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God:
他在腹中抓住哥哥的腳跟， 壯年的時候與上帝較力，
4 Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us;
與天使較力，並且得勝， 哭泣懇求， 在伯特利遇見耶和華。 耶和華－萬軍之上帝在那裏曉諭我們以色列人； 耶和華是他可記念的名。
5 Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD is his memorial.
6 Therefore turn you to your God: keep mercy and judgment and wait on your God continually.
所以你當歸向你的上帝， 謹守仁愛、公平，常常等候你的上帝。
7 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loves to oppress.
以法蓮是商人， 手裏有詭詐的天平，愛行欺騙。
8 And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.
以法蓮說： 我果然成了富足，得了財寶； 我所勞碌得來的， 人必不見有甚麼不義，可算為罪的。
9 And I that am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt will yet make you to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.
自從你出埃及地以來， 我就是耶和華－你的上帝； 我必使你再住帳棚，如在大會的日子一樣。
10 I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.
我已曉諭眾先知， 並且加增默示， 藉先知設立比喻。
11 Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
基列人沒有罪孽嗎？ 他們全然是虛假的。 人在吉甲獻牛犢為祭， 他們的祭壇好像田間犂溝中的亂堆。
12 And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
從前雅各逃到亞蘭地， 以色列為得妻服事人， 為得妻與人放羊。
13 And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.
耶和華藉先知領以色列從埃及上來； 以色列也藉先知而得保存。
14 Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his LORD return unto him.
以法蓮大大惹動主怒， 所以他流血的罪必歸在他身上。 主必將那因以法蓮所受的羞辱歸還他。

< Hosea 12 >