Hosea 12
1 Ephraim is enjoying wind, And is pursuing an east wind, All the day lying and spoiling he multiplieth, And a covenant with Asshur they make, And oil to Egypt is carried.
以法蓮吃風，且追趕東風， 時常增添虛謊和強暴， 與亞述立約，把油送到埃及。
2 And a controversy hath Jehovah with Judah, To lay a charge on Jacob according to his ways, According to his doings He returneth to him.
耶和華與猶大爭辯， 必照雅各所行的懲罰他， 按他所做的報應他。
3 In the womb he took his brother by the heel, And by his strength he was a prince with God,
他在腹中抓住哥哥的腳跟， 壯年的時候與上帝較力，
4 Yea, he is a prince unto the Messenger, And he overcometh [by] weeping, And he maketh supplication to Him, At Bethel He doth find him, And there He doth speak with us,
與天使較力，並且得勝， 哭泣懇求， 在伯特利遇見耶和華。 耶和華－萬軍之上帝在那裏曉諭我們以色列人； 耶和華是他可記念的名。
5 Even Jehovah, God of the Hosts, Jehovah [is] His memorial.
6 And thou, through thy God, dost turn, Kindness and judgment keep thou, And wait on thy God continually.
所以你當歸向你的上帝， 謹守仁愛、公平，常常等候你的上帝。
7 Canaan! in his hand [are] balances of deceit! To oppress he hath loved.
以法蓮是商人， 手裏有詭詐的天平，愛行欺騙。
8 And Ephraim saith: 'Surely I have become rich, I have found wealth for myself, All my labours — they find not against me iniquity that [is] sin.'
以法蓮說： 我果然成了富足，得了財寶； 我所勞碌得來的， 人必不見有甚麼不義，可算為罪的。
9 And I — Jehovah thy God from the land of Egypt, Again do I turn thee back into tents, As in the days of the appointed time.
自從你出埃及地以來， 我就是耶和華－你的上帝； 我必使你再住帳棚，如在大會的日子一樣。
10 And I have spoken unto the prophets, And I have multiplied vision, And by the hand of the prophets I use similes.
我已曉諭眾先知， 並且加增默示， 藉先知設立比喻。
11 Surely Gilead [is] iniquity, Only, vanity they have been, In Gilead bullocks they have sacrificed, Also their altars [are] as heaps, on the furrows of a field.
基列人沒有罪孽嗎？ 他們全然是虛假的。 人在吉甲獻牛犢為祭， 他們的祭壇好像田間犂溝中的亂堆。
12 And Jacob doth flee to the country of Aram, And Israel doth serve for a wife, Yea, for a wife he hath kept watch.
從前雅各逃到亞蘭地， 以色列為得妻服事人， 為得妻與人放羊。
13 And by a prophet hath Jehovah brought up Israel out of Egypt, And by a prophet it hath been watched.
耶和華藉先知領以色列從埃及上來； 以色列也藉先知而得保存。
14 Ephraim hath provoked most bitterly, And his blood on himself he leaveth, And his reproach turn back to him doth his Lord!
以法蓮大大惹動主怒， 所以他流血的罪必歸在他身上。 主必將那因以法蓮所受的羞辱歸還他。
