Hosea

1众祭司啊，要听我的话！ 以色列家啊，要留心听！ 王家啊，要侧耳而听！ 审判要临到你们， 因你们在米斯巴如网罗， 在他泊山如铺张的网。

2这些悖逆的人肆行杀戮， 罪孽极深； 我却斥责他们众人。

3以法莲为我所知； 以色列不能向我隐藏。 以法莲哪，现在你行淫了， 以色列被玷污了。

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4他们所行的使他们不能归向 神； 因有淫心在他们里面， 他们也不认识耶和华。

5以色列的骄傲当面见证自己。 故此，以色列和以法莲必因自己的罪孽跌倒； 犹大也必与他们一同跌倒。

6他们必牵着牛羊去寻求耶和华，却寻不见； 他已经转去离开他们。

7他们向耶和华行事诡诈，生了私子。 到了月朔，他们与他们的地业必被吞灭。

犹大和以色列的战争

8你们当在基比亚吹角， 在拉玛吹号， 在伯·亚文吹出大声，说： 便雅悯哪，有仇敌在你后头！

9在责罚的日子，以法莲必变为荒场； 我在以色列支派中，指示将来必成的事。

10犹大的首领如同挪移地界的人， 我必将忿怒倒在他们身上，如水一般。

11以法莲因乐从人的命令， 就受欺压，被审判压碎。

12我使以法莲如虫蛀之物， 使犹大家如朽烂之木。

13以法莲见自己有病， 犹大见自己有伤， 他们就打发人往亚述去见耶雷布王， 他却不能医治你们， 不能治好你们的伤。

14我必向以法莲如狮子， 向犹大家如少壮狮子。 我必撕裂而去， 我要夺去，无人搭救。

15我要回到原处， 等他们自觉有罪，寻求我面； 他们在急难的时候必切切寻求我。

1Hear ye this, O priests, and hearken, O ye house of Israel, and give ear, O house of the king: for there is a judgment against you, because you have been a snare to them whom you should have watched over, and a net spread upon Thabor.

2And you have turned aside victims into the depth: and I am, the teacher of them all.

3I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now Ephraim hath committed fornication, Israel is defiled.

4They will not set their thoughts to return to their God: for the spirit of fornication is in the midst of them, and they have not known the Lord.

5And the pride of Israel shall answer in his face: and Israel and Ephraim shall fall in their iniquity, Juda also shall fall with them.

6With their flocks, and with their herds, they shall go to seek the Lord, and shall not find him: he is withdrawn from them.

7They have transgressed against the Lord, for they have begotten children that are strangers: now shall a month devour them with their portions.

8Blow ye the cornet in Gabaa, the trumpet in Rama: howl ye in Bethaven, behind thy back, O Benjamin.

9Ephraim shall be in desolation in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel I have shewn that which shall surely be.

10The princes of Juda are become as they that take up the bound: I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.

11Ephraim is under oppression, and broken in judgment: because he began to go after filthiness.

12And I will be like a moth to Ephraim: and like rottenness to the house of Juda.

13And Ephraim saw his sickness, and Juda his band: and Ephraim went to the Assyrian, and sent to the avenging king: and he shall not be able to heal you, neither shall he be able to take off the band from you.

14For I will be like a lioness to Ephraim, and like a lion’s whelp to the house of Juda: I, I will catch, and go: I will take away, and there is none that can rescue.

15I will go and return to my place: until you are consumed, and seek my face.