Hosea 6

1 'Come, and we turn back unto Jehovah, For He hath torn, and He doth heal us, He doth smite, and He bindeth us up.

來吧，我們歸向耶和華！ 他撕裂我們，也必醫治； 他打傷我們，也必纏裹。

2 He doth revive us after two days, In the third day He doth raise us up, And we live before Him.

過兩天他必使我們甦醒， 第三天他必使我們興起， 我們就在他面前得以存活。

3 And we know — we pursue to know Jehovah, As the dawn prepared is His going forth, And He cometh in as a shower to us, As gathered rain — sprinkling earth.'

我們務要認識耶和華， 竭力追求認識他。 他出現確如晨光； 他必臨到我們像甘雨， 像滋潤田地的春雨。

4 What do I do to thee, O Ephraim? What do I do to thee, O Judah? Your goodness [is] as a cloud of the morning, And as dew rising early — going.

主說：以法蓮哪，我可向你怎樣行呢？ 猶大啊，我可向你怎樣做呢？ 因為你們的良善如同早晨的雲霧， 又如速散的甘露。

5 Therefore I have hewed by prophets, I have slain them by sayings of My mouth, And My judgments to the light goeth forth.

因此，我藉先知砍伐他們， 以我口中的話殺戮他們； 我施行的審判如光發出。

6 For kindness I desired, and not sacrifice, And a knowledge of God above burnt-offerings.

我喜愛良善，不喜愛祭祀； 喜愛認識上帝，勝於燔祭。

7 And they, as Adam, transgressed a covenant, There they dealt treacherously against me.

他們卻如亞當背約， 在境內向我行事詭詐。

8 Gilead [is] a city of workers of iniquity, Slippery from blood.

基列是作孽之人的城， 被血沾染。

9 And as bands do wait for a man, A company of priests do murder — the way to Shechem, For wickedness they have done.

強盜成群，怎樣埋伏殺人， 祭司結黨，也照樣在示劍的路上殺戮， 行了邪惡。

10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing, There [is] the whoredom of Ephraim — defiled is Israel.

在以色列家，我見了可憎的事； 在以法蓮那裏有淫行， 以色列被玷污。

11 Also, O Judah, appointed is a harvest to thee, In My turning back [to] the captivity of My people!

猶大啊，我使被擄之民歸回的時候， 必有為你所命定的收場。