Hosea 7
1 “When I give healing to Israel, Then the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed, And the wickedness of Samaria, For they have worked falsehood, And a thief comes in, A troop has stripped off in the street,
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 do not say to their heart, [That] I have remembered all their evil, Now their doings have surrounded them, They have been 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 With their wickedness they make a king glad, And with their lies—princes.
他們使君王喜歡，是出於惡意，使首領快樂，是出於詭詐。
4 All of them [are] adulterers, Like a burning oven of a baker, He ceases from stirring up after kneading the dough, until its leavening.
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 A day of our king! Princes have defiled themselves [with] the poison of wine, He has drawn 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 drawn near, Their heart [is] as an oven In their lying in wait—their baker sleeps all night, Morning! He is burning 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 All of them are warm as an oven, And they have devoured their judges, All their kings have fallen, There is none calling to Me among them.
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 mixes himself among peoples, Ephraim has been an unturned cake.
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 power, And he has not known, Also old age has sprinkled [itself] on him, And he has not known.
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 excellence of Israel has been humbled to his face, And they have not turned back to their God YHWH, Nor have they sought 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 And Ephraim is as a simple dove without heart, Egypt they called on—[to] Asshur they have gone.
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 go I spread over them My net, As the bird of the heavens I bring them down, I discipline them as their congregation has 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 to them, for they wandered from Me, Destruction to them, for they transgressed against Me, And I ransom them, and 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 have not cried to Me with their heart, but howl on their beds; They assemble themselves for grain and new wine, They turn aside 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 And I instructed—I strengthened their arms, And concerning Me they think evil!
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 turn back—not to the Most High, They have been as a deceitful bow, Their princes fall by sword, From the insolence of their tongue, This [is] 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。
