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,
我想醫治以色列的時候， 以法蓮的罪孽和撒馬利亞的罪惡就顯露出來。 他們行事虛謊， 內有賊人入室偷竊， 外有強盜成群騷擾。
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.
他們心裏並不思想我記念他們的一切惡； 他們所行的現在纏繞他們，都在我面前。
3 With their wickedness they make a king glad, And with their lies—princes.
他們行惡使君王歡喜， 說謊使首領喜樂。
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.
他們都是行淫的， 像火爐被烤餅的燒熱， 從摶麵到發麵的時候， 暫不使火着旺。
5 A day of our king! Princes have defiled themselves [with] the poison of wine, He has drawn out his hand with scorners.
在我們王宴樂的日子， 首領因酒的烈性成病； 王與褻慢人拉手。
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.
首領埋伏的時候，心中熱如火爐， 就如烤餅的整夜睡臥， 到了早晨火氣炎炎。
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.
眾民也熱如火爐， 燒滅他們的官長。 他們的君王都仆倒而死； 他們中間無一人求告我。
8 Ephraim! He mixes himself among peoples, Ephraim has been an unturned cake.
以法蓮與列邦人攙雜； 以法蓮是沒有翻過的餅。
9 Strangers have devoured his power, And he has not known, Also old age has sprinkled [itself] on him, And he has not known.
外邦人吞吃他勞力得來的，他卻不知道； 頭髮斑白，他也不覺得。
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.
以色列的驕傲當面見證自己， 雖遭遇這一切， 他們仍不歸向耶和華－他們的上帝， 也不尋求他。
11 And Ephraim is as a simple dove without heart, Egypt they called on—[to] Asshur they have gone.
以法蓮好像鴿子愚蠢無知； 他們求告埃及，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.
他們去的時候，我必將我的網撒在他們身上； 我要打下他們，如同空中的鳥。 我必按他們會眾所聽見的懲罰他們。
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,
他們因離棄我，必定有禍； 因違背我，必被毀滅。 我雖要救贖他們，他們卻向我說謊。
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.
他們並不誠心哀求我， 乃在床上呼號； 他們為求五穀新酒聚集， 仍然悖逆我。
15 And I instructed—I strengthened their arms, And concerning Me they think evil!
我雖教導他們，堅固他們的膀臂， 他們竟圖謀抗拒我。
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，卻不歸向至上者； 他們如同翻背的弓。 他們的首領必因舌頭的狂傲倒在刀下； 這在埃及地必作人的譏笑。
