Hosea 8
1 To thy mouth, with a horn! Like an eagle, on the house of Yahweh, —because they have violated my covenant, and, against my law, have they transgressed.
你要把號角放你的口上，當作上主家的哨兵，因為百姓違背了我的盟約，，干犯了我的法律。
2 Unto me, shall they make outcry, My God! we acknowledge thee—[we], Israel!
他們呼喊我說：以色列的天主! 我們認識你。
3 Israel hath cast away what is good, —an enemy, shall pursue him.
但以色列拋棄了善，所以敵人要迫害她。
4 They, have appointed kings, but not from me, have made rulers, but I have not acknowledged them: of their silver and their gold, they made themselves idols, to the end they might be cut off.
他們自立了君王，卻沒有我的同意；他們自立了首領，卻沒有叫知道；他們用金錢為自己製造了偶像，給自己招來滅亡。
5 He hath cast away thy calf, O Samaria, kindled is mine anger upon them, —How long shall they not endure to be innocent?
撒馬黎雅! 我必要除掉你的牛犢，我的怒火必要對牠燃起；以色列子民不能自新要到幾時呢﹖
6 For, of Israel, is even that thing! A craftsman, made it, and, a No-god, it is! For, into fragments, shall the Calf of Samaria be broken.
牛犢是工匠製造的，牠並不是天主；撒馬黎雅的牛犢必定被粉碎!
7 For, to the wind, they sow, and, to the whirlwind, they reap: stalk, hath it none, That which shooteth forth, shall yield no meal, If so be it yield, foreigners, swallow it lip,
他們既播種了風，收的也必是風；麥子不抽穗，做不成麵粉；既使做出麵粉來，也必被外邦人吃掉。
8 Swallowed up, is Israel; Now, have they gone among the nations, like a vessel in which no man taketh, delight.
以色列疲吞滅了，今後在列邦中必成為一個無用的廢物。
9 For, they, have gone up to Assyria, A wild ass going alone for himself, is Ephraim! They have hired lovers!
他們去投奔亞述──一匹孤獨的野驢──同時又給埃及送愛情的禮物。
10 Even though they hire them among the nations, at once, will I gather them, when they have begun to be diminished by reason of the burden of the king of rulers.
縱然他們在列邦中行賄，我現在就要分散他們，使他們暫時停止給君王和領袖傅油。
11 Because Ephraim hath multiplied altars sinfully, they have become to him the altars of sin.
厄弗辣因建築了許多祭壇，但這些祭壇卻只有犯罪的用途。
12 I have been wont to write for him the myriad things of my law, —Like something alien, have they been accounted.
雖然我為他們寫了許多法律，卻被看作陌生人的廢話。
13 My sacrificial gifts, have they been sacrificing as [common] flesh, and have eaten, Yahweh, hath not accepted them, —Now, will he call to mind their iniquity, that he may punish their sin, they, to Egypt, will return.
讓他們奉獻燔祭，讓他們取吃祭肉；這一切上主都不喜歡；今後衪必記住他們的邪惡，必懲罰他們的罪孽；他們必要回到埃及去。
14 And so Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and hath built temples, and, Judah, hath multiplied fortified cities, —Therefore will I send a fire upon his cities, and it shall consume the palaces thereof.
以色列忘了自己的造主，建立了許多宮殿，猶大也增建了許多堅固的城池；但是，我必要把火投在你們的1城中，吞滅城中的宮室。
