Hosea 1
1 [I am] Hosea, the son of Beeri. Yahweh gave me these messages [at various times] during the years that Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah were the kings of Judah, and Jeroboam the son of Jehoash was the King of Israel.
[前編：歐瑟亞結婚的意義]一：烏齊雅、約堂、[阿哈次和希則克亞]為猶大王，約阿士的兒子雅洛貝罕為以色列王時，上主有話傳給貝厄黎的兒子歐瑟亞。
2 When Yahweh first [began to] give messages to me [to tell to the people of Israel], he said to me, “Go and marry a prostitute. But [some of] her children will be born as a result of her having sex with men to whom she is not married. That will illustrate how the people of Israel have turned away from me and worship (idols/other gods).”
上主開始藉歐瑟亞發言時，上主對歐瑟亞說：「你去娶一個娼婦為妻，讓她生淫亂的子女，因為此地淫亂放蕩，背離了上主。」
3 So I married Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim. She became pregnant and gave birth to my son.
歐瑟亞便去娶了狄布拉因的女兒默爾為妻；她懷孕，給他生了一個兒子。
4 Yahweh said to me, “Give him the name Jezreel, [which means ‘God scatters’], because I will soon punish the descendants [MTY] of [King] Jehu [by scattering them], because he killed many of my people at Jezreel [town]. [Some day] I will end the kingdom of Israel,
上主對歐瑟亞說：「你要給他起名叫依次勒耳，因為過不久，我要向耶胡家追討依次勒耳的血債，要消滅以色列家的王室。
5 by destroying the power [MTY] of [the army of] Israel in Jezreel Valley.”
到那一天，我必要在依次勒耳山谷折斷以色列的弓。」
6 [Later] Gomer became pregnant [again], and she gave birth to a daughter. Yahweh said to me “Give her the name Lo-ruhamah, [which means ‘not loved],’ because I will no longer [show that I] love the people [MET] of Israel, and I will not forgive them [for the sins that they have committed].
哥默爾再懷孕，生了一個女兒，上主對歐瑟亞說：「你要給她起名叫羅魯阿瑪 (不受愛憐者，) 因為我不再愛憐以色列家，以致我不再寬宥他們。
7 But I will [show that I] love the people [MTY] of Judah [by saving them from their enemies]. However, it will not be by weapons and armies or horses and chariots that I will save them. Instead, it will be by [the power that I], Yahweh their God, [have].”
但我要愛憐猶大家族，要拯救他們，因為我上主是他們的天主；但是我不以弓、弩、刀劍、戰爭、戰馬和騎士拯救他們。
8 After Gomer had (weaned/stopped breast-feeding) Lo-ruhamah, she became pregnant again, and she gave birth to another son.
羅魯阿瑪斷奶之後，哥默爾又懷孕，生了一個兒子。
9 Yahweh said “Give him the name Lo-ammi, [which means 'not my people', ] because the people of Israel are no [longer my people], and I am not their God.
上主說：「你給他起名叫羅阿米 (非我人民)，因為你們已不是我的人民，我已也不是你們的的上主。」
10 But [some day] the people of Israel will be [as numerous] as [SIM] the [grains of] sand on the seashore; no one will be able to count them. Now [I] am saying to them, ‘You are not my people,’ but then people will say to them, ‘[You are the] children of God who is all-powerful.’
以色列子民的數目將如海邊的沙粒，不可斗量，不可勝數；在那裏人曾對他們說：「你們不是我的人民。」在那裏人也要對他們說：「你們是永生天主的人民。」
11 [At that time], the people of Judah and the people of Israel will unite. They will appoint one leader for all of them, and they will return from the countries [to which they have been (exiled/forced to go)]. That will be a great time; Jezreel [also means ‘God plants’, and it will be as though God will plant them in this country again].”
猶大子民和以色列子民將在一起，要為自己選定一個首領；他們要由此地擴展，因為依次勒耳的日子要成為偉大的。
