Hosea

1你们要称你们的弟兄为阿米，称你们的姊妹为路哈玛。

不贞的歌篾—不忠的以色列

2你们要与你们的母亲大大争辩； 因为她不是我的妻子， 我也不是她的丈夫。 叫她除掉脸上的淫像 和胸间的淫态，

3免得我剥她的衣服， 使她赤体，与才生的时候一样， 使她如旷野，如干旱之地， 因渴而死。

4我必不怜悯她的儿女， 因为他们是从淫乱而生的。

5他们的母亲行了淫乱， 怀他们的母做了可羞耻的事， 因为她说：我要随从所爱的； 我的饼、水、羊毛、麻、油、酒 都是他们给的。

6因此，我必用荆棘堵塞她的道， 筑墙挡住她， 使她找不着路。

7她必追随所爱的，却追不上； 她必寻找他们，却寻不见， 便说：我要归回前夫， 因我那时的光景比如今还好。

8她不知道是我给她五谷、新酒，和油， 又加增她的金银； 她却以此供奉巴力。

9因此到了收割的日子， 出酒的时候， 我必将我的五谷、新酒收回， 也必将她应当遮体的羊毛和麻夺回来。

10如今我必在她所爱的眼前显露她的丑态； 必无人能救她脱离我的手。

11我也必使她的宴乐、节期、月朔、安息日， 并她的一切大会都止息了。

12我也必毁坏她的葡萄树和无花果树， 就是她说「这是我所爱的给我为赏赐」的。 我必使这些树变为荒林， 为田野的走兽所吃。

13我必追讨她素日给诸巴力烧香的罪； 那时她佩带耳环和别样妆饰， 随从她所爱的，却忘记我。 这是耶和华说的。

神对他子民的爱

14后来我必劝导她，领她到旷野， 对她说安慰的话。

15她从那里出来，我必赐她葡萄园， 又赐她亚割谷作为指望的门。 她必在那里应声， 与幼年的日子一样， 与从埃及地上来的时候相同。

16耶和华说：「那日你必称呼我伊施，不再称呼我巴力；

17因为我必从我民的口中除掉诸巴力的名号，这名号不再提起。

18当那日，我必为我的民，与田野的走兽和空中的飞鸟，并地上的昆虫立约；又必在国中折断弓刀，止息争战，使他们安然躺卧。

19我必聘你永远归我为妻，以仁义、公平、慈爱、怜悯聘你归我；

20也以诚实聘你归我，你就必认识我—耶和华。

21耶和华说：那日我必应允， 我必应允天，天必应允地；

22地必应允五谷、新酒，和油， 这些必应允耶斯列民。

23我必将她种在这地。 素不蒙怜悯的，我必怜悯； 本非我民的，我必对他说： 你是我的民； 他必说：你是我的 神。」

24This translation does not include this passage.

1Say ye to your brethren: You are my people, and to your sister: Thou hast obtained mercy.

2Judge your mother, judge her: because she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her put away her fornications from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts.

3Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born: and I will make her as a wilderness, and will set her as a land that none can pass through, and will kill her with drought.

4And I will not have mercy on her children: for they are the children of fornications.

5For their mother hath committed fornication, she that conceived them is covered with shame: for she said: I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread, and my water, my wool, and my flax, my oil, and my drink.

6Wherefore behold I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will stop it up with a wall, and she shall not find her paths.

7And she shall follow after her lovers, and shall not overtake them: and she shall seek them, and shall not find, and she shall say: I will go, and return to my first husband, because it was better with me then, than now.

8And she did not know that I gave her corn and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver, and gold, which they have used in the service of Baal.

9Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in its season, and my wine in its season, and I will set at liberty my wool, and my flax, which covered her disgrace.

10And now I will lay open her folly in the eyes of her lovers: and no man shall deliver her out of my hand:

11And I will cause all her mirth to cease, her solemnities, her new moons, her sabbaths, and all her festival times.

12And I will destroy her vines, and her fig trees, of which she said: These are my rewards, which my lovers have given me: and I will make her as a forest, and the beasts of the field shall devour her.

13And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, to whom she burnt incense, and decked herself out with her earrings, and with her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith the Lord.

14Therefore, behold I will allure her, and will lead her into the wilderness: and I will speak to her heart.

15And I will give her vinedressers out of the same place, and the valley of Achor for an opening of hope: and she shall sing there according to the days of her youth, and according to the days of her coming up out of the land of Egypt.

16And it shall be in that day, saith the Lord, That she shall call me: My husband, and she shall call me no more Baali.

17And I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and she shall no more remember their name.

18And in that day I will make a covenant with them, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of the air, and with the creeping things of the earth: and I will destroy the bow, and the sword, and war out of the land: and I will make them sleep secure.

19And I will espouse thee to me for ever: and I will espouse thee to me in justice, and judgment, and in mercy, and in commiserations.

20And I will espouse thee to me in faith: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

21And it shall come to pass in that day: I will hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth.

22And the earth shall hear the core, and the wine, and the oil, and these shall hear Jezrahel.

23And I will sow her unto me in the earth, and I will have mercy on her that was without mercy.

24And I will say to that which was not my people: Thou art my people: and they shall say: Thou art my God.