Hosea 8
1 “To your mouth—a horn, As an eagle against the house of YHWH, Because they transgressed My covenant, And against My law they have rebelled.
你用口吹角吧！ 敵人如鷹來攻打耶和華的家； 因為這民違背我的約， 干犯我的律法。
2 To Me they cry, My God, we—Israel—have known You.
他們必呼叫我說： 我的上帝啊，我們以色列認識你了。
3 Israel has cast off good, an enemy pursues him.
以色列丟棄良善； 仇敵必追逼他。
4 They have made kings, and not by Me, They have made princes, and I have not known, Their silver and their gold they have made to them idols, So that they are cut off.
他們立君王，卻不由我； 他們立首領，我卻不認。 他們用金銀為自己製造偶像， 以致被剪除。
5 Your calf has cast off, O Samaria, My anger has burned against them; Until when are they not capable of purity?
撒馬利亞啊，耶和華已經丟棄你的牛犢； 我的怒氣向拜牛犢的人發作。 他們到幾時方能無罪呢？
6 For even it [is] of Israel; a craftsman made it, And it [is] not God, For the calf of Samaria is fragments!
這牛犢出於以色列， 是匠人所造的，並不是神。 撒馬利亞的牛犢必被打碎。
7 For wind they sow, and a windstorm they reap, Stalk it has none—a shoot not yielding grain, If so be it yield—strangers swallow it up.
他們所種的是風，所收的是暴風； 所種的不成禾稼，就是發苗也不結實； 即便結實，外邦人必吞吃。
8 Israel has been swallowed up, Now they have been among nations, As a vessel in which is no delight.
以色列被吞吃； 現今在列國中，好像人不喜悅的器皿。
9 For they have gone up [to] Asshur, A wild donkey alone by himself [is] Ephraim, They have hired lovers!
他們投奔亞述，如同獨行的野驢； 以法蓮賄買朋黨。
10 Also though they hire among nations, Now I gather them, and they are pained a little, From the burden of a king of princes.
他們雖在列邦中賄買人， 現在我卻要聚集懲罰他們； 他們因君王和首領所加的重擔日漸衰微。
11 Because Ephraim multiplied altars to sin, They have been to him altars to sin.
以法蓮增添祭壇取罪； 因此，祭壇使他犯罪。
12 I write for him numerous things of My law, As a strange thing they have been reckoned.
我為他寫了律法萬條， 他卻以為與他毫無關涉。
13 The sacrifices of My offerings! They sacrifice flesh, and they eat, YHWH has not accepted them, Now He remembers their iniquity, And inspects their sin, They return [to] Egypt.
至於獻給我的祭物， 他們自食其肉， 耶和華卻不悅納他們。 現在必記念他們的罪孽， 追討他們的罪惡； 他們必歸回埃及。
14 And Israel forgets his Maker, and builds temples, And Judah has multiplied cities of defense, And I have sent a fire into his cities, And it has consumed their palaces!”
以色列忘記造他的主，建造宮殿； 猶大多造堅固城， 我卻要降火焚燒他的城邑， 燒滅其中的宮殿。
