Hosea

何西阿宣布以色列受懲罰

1以色列啊，不要像外邦人歡喜快樂； 因為你行邪淫離棄你的上帝， 在各穀場上如妓女喜愛賞賜。

2穀場和酒醡都不夠以色列人使用； 新酒也必缺乏。

3他們必不得住耶和華的地； 以法蓮卻要歸回埃及， 必在亞述吃不潔淨的食物。

4他們必不得向耶和華奠酒， 即便奠酒也不蒙悅納。 他們的祭物必如居喪者的食物， 凡吃的必被玷污； 因他們的食物只為自己的口腹， 必不奉入耶和華的殿。

5在大會的日子， 到耶和華的節期，你們怎樣行呢？

6看哪，他們逃避災難； 埃及人必收殮他們的屍首， 摩弗人必葬埋他們的骸骨。 他們用銀子做的美物上必長蒺藜； 他們的帳棚中必生荊棘。

7以色列人必知道降罰的日子臨近， 報應的時候來到。 民說：作先知的是愚昧； 受靈感的是狂妄， 皆因他們多多作孽，大懷怨恨。

8以法蓮曾作我上帝守望的； 至於先知，在他一切的道上作為捕鳥人的網羅， 在他上帝的家中懷怨恨。

9以法蓮深深地敗壞， 如在基比亞的日子一樣。 耶和華必記念他們的罪孽， 追討他們的罪惡。

以色列的罪及其後果

10主說：我遇見以色列如葡萄在曠野； 我看見你們的列祖如無花果樹上春季初熟的果子。 他們卻來到巴力‧毗珥專拜那可羞恥的， 就成為可憎惡的， 與他們所愛的一樣。

11至於以法蓮人，他們的榮耀必如鳥飛去， 必不生產，不懷胎，不成孕。

12縱然養大兒女， 我卻必使他們喪子，甚至不留一個。 我離棄他們，他們就有禍了。

13我看以法蓮如泰爾栽於美地。 以法蓮卻要將自己的兒女帶出來， 交與行殺戮的人。

14耶和華啊，求你加給他們－ 加甚麼呢？ 要使他們胎墜乳乾。

耶和華審判以色列

15耶和華說：他們一切的惡事都在吉甲； 我在那裏憎惡他們。 因他們所行的惡， 我必從我地上趕出他們去， 不再憐愛他們； 他們的首領都是悖逆的。

16以法蓮受責罰， 根本枯乾，必不能結果， 即或生產， 我必殺他們所生的愛子。

先知論以色列

17我的上帝必棄絕他們， 因為他們不聽從他； 他們也必飄流在列國中。

1Don’t rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations;for you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.

2The threshing floor and the wine press won’t feed them,and the new wine will fail her.

3They won’t dwell in the LORD’s land;but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.

4They won’t pour out wine offerings to the LORD,neither will they be pleasing to him. Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat of it will be polluted; for their bread will be for their appetite. It will not come into the LORD’s house.

5What will you do in the day of solemn assembly,and in the day of the feast of the LORD?

6For, behold, when they flee destruction,Egypt will gather them up. Memphis will bury them. Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver. Thorns will be in their tents.

7The days of visitation have come.The days of reckoning have come.Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool,and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great.

8A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God.A fowler’s snare is on all of his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.

9They have deeply corrupted themselves,as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will punish them for their sins.

10I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness.I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.

11As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird.There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception.

12Though they bring up their children,yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!

13I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place;but Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.

14Give them—LORD what will you give?Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

15“All their wickedness is in Gilgal;for there I hated them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds, I will drive them out of my house! I will love them no more. All their princes are rebels.

16Ephraim is struck.Their root has dried up. They will bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb.”

17My God will cast them away, because they didn’t listen to him;and they will be wanderers among the nations.