Hosea 12
1 “Ephraim is enjoying wind, And is pursuing an east wind, All the day he multiplies lying and spoiling, And they make a covenant with Asshur, And oil is carried to Egypt.
以法莲吃风，且追赶东风， 时常增添虚谎和强暴， 与亚述立约，把油送到埃及。
2 And YHWH has a controversy with Judah, To lay a charge on Jacob according to his ways, He returns to him according to his doings.
耶和华与犹大争辩， 必照雅各所行的惩罚他， 按他所做的报应他。
3 In the womb he took his brother by the heel, And by his strength he was a prince with God,
他在腹中抓住哥哥的脚跟， 壮年的时候与 神较力，
4 Indeed, he is a prince to the Messenger, And he overcomes [by] weeping, And he makes supplication to Him, At Bethel He finds him, And there He speaks with us,
与天使较力，并且得胜， 哭泣恳求， 在伯特利遇见耶和华。 耶和华—万军之 神在那里晓谕我们以色列人； 耶和华是他可记念的名。
5 Even YHWH, God of the Hosts, YHWH [is] His memorial.
6 And you, through your God, turn, Keep kindness and judgment, And wait on your God continually.
所以你当归向你的 神， 谨守仁爱、公平，常常等候你的 神。
7 Canaan! In his hand [are] balances of deceit! He has loved to oppress.
以法莲是商人， 手里有诡诈的天平，爱行欺骗。
8 And Ephraim says, Surely I have become rich, I have found wealth for myself, All my labors—they do not find against me iniquity that [is] sin.
以法莲说： 我果然成了富足，得了财宝； 我所劳碌得来的， 人必不见有什么不义，可算为罪的。
9 And I—your God YHWH from the land of Egypt, Again I turn you back into tents, As in the days of the appointed time.
自从你出埃及地以来， 我就是耶和华—你的 神； 我必使你再住帐棚，如在大会的日子一样。
10 And I have spoken to the prophets, And I have multiplied vision, And by the hand of the prophets I use allegories.
我已晓谕众先知， 并且加增默示， 借先知设立比喻。
11 Surely Gilead [is] iniquity, They have been only vanity, In Gilead they have sacrificed bullocks, Also their altars [are] as heaps, on the furrows of a field.
基列人没有罪孽吗？ 他们全然是虚假的。 人在吉甲献牛犊为祭， 他们的祭坛好像田间犁沟中的乱堆。
12 And Jacob flees to the country of Aram, And Israel serves for a wife, Indeed, he has kept watch for a wife.
从前雅各逃到亚兰地， 以色列为得妻服事人， 为得妻与人放羊。
13 And by a prophet has YHWH brought up Israel out of Egypt, And by a prophet it has been watched.
耶和华借先知领以色列从埃及上来； 以色列也借先知而得保存。
14 Ephraim has most bitterly provoked, And he leaves his blood on himself, And his Lord turns his reproach back to him!”
以法莲大大惹动主怒， 所以他流血的罪必归在他身上。 主必将那因以法莲所受的羞辱归还他。
