Hosea 8
1 'Unto thy mouth — a trumpet, As an eagle against the house of Jehovah, Because they transgressed My covenant, And against My law they have rebelled.
你用口吹角吧！ 敌人如鹰来攻打耶和华的家； 因为这民违背我的约， 干犯我的律法。
2 To Me they cry, 'My God, we — Israel — have known Thee.'
他们必呼叫我说： 我的 神啊，我们以色列认识你了。
3 Cast off good hath Israel, an enemy pursueth him.
以色列丢弃良善； 仇敌必追逼他。
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.
他们立君王，却不由我； 他们立首领，我却不认。 他们用金银为自己制造偶像， 以致被剪除。
5 Cast off hath thy calf, O Samaria, Burned hath Mine anger against them, Till when are they not capable of purity?
撒马利亚啊，耶和华已经丢弃你的牛犊； 我的怒气向拜牛犊的人发作。 他们到几时方能无罪呢？
6 For even it [is] of Israel; an artificer made it, And it [is] not God, For the calf of Samaria is fragments!
这牛犊出于以色列， 是匠人所造的，并不是神。 撒马利亚的牛犊必被打碎。
7 For wind they sow, and a hurricane they reap, Stalk it hath none — a shoot not yielding grain, If so be it yield — strangers do swallow it up.
他们所种的是风，所收的是暴风； 所种的不成禾稼，就是发苗也不结实； 即便结实，外邦人必吞吃。
8 Israel hath been swallowed up, Now they have been among nations, As a vessel in which is no delight.
以色列被吞吃； 现今在列国中，好像人不喜悦的器皿。
9 For they — they have gone up [to] Asshur, A wild ass alone by himself [is] Ephraim, They have hired lovers!
他们投奔亚述，如同独行的野驴； 以法莲贿买朋党。
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.
他们虽在列邦中贿买人， 现在我却要聚集惩罚他们； 他们因君王和首领所加的重担日渐衰微。
11 Because Ephraim did multiply altars to sin, They have been to him altars to sin.
以法莲增添祭坛取罪； 因此，祭坛使他犯罪。
12 I write for him numerous things of My law, As a strange thing they have been reckoned.
我为他写了律法万条， 他却以为与他毫无关涉。
13 The sacrifices of Mine offerings! They sacrifice flesh, and they eat, Jehovah hath not accepted them, Now doth He remember their iniquity, And inspect their sin, They — [to] Egypt they turn back.
至于献给我的祭物， 他们自食其肉， 耶和华却不悦纳他们。 现在必记念他们的罪孽， 追讨他们的罪恶； 他们必归回埃及。
14 And forget doth Israel his Maker, and buildeth temples, And Judah hath multiplied cities of defence, And I have sent a fire into his cities, And it hath consumed their palaces!
以色列忘记造他的主，建造宫殿； 犹大多造坚固城， 我却要降火焚烧他的城邑， 烧灭其中的宫殿。
