Hosea

以色列无悔改诚意

1来吧，我们归向耶和华！ 他撕裂我们，也必医治； 他打伤我们，也必缠裹。

2过两天他必使我们苏醒， 第三天他必使我们兴起， 我们就在他面前得以存活。

3我们务要认识耶和华， 竭力追求认识他。 他出现确如晨光； 他必临到我们像甘雨， 像滋润田地的春雨。

4主说：以法莲哪，我可向你怎样行呢？ 犹大啊，我可向你怎样做呢？ 因为你们的良善如同早晨的云雾， 又如速散的甘露。

5因此，我借先知砍伐他们， 以我口中的话杀戮他们； 我施行的审判如光发出。

6我喜爱良善，不喜爱祭祀； 喜爱认识 神，胜于燔祭。

7他们却如亚当背约， 在境内向我行事诡诈。

8基列是作孽之人的城， 被血沾染。

9强盗成群，怎样埋伏杀人， 祭司结党，也照样在示剑的路上杀戮， 行了邪恶。

10在以色列家，我见了可憎的事； 在以法莲那里有淫行， 以色列被玷污。

11犹大啊，我使被掳之民归回的时候， 必有为你所命定的收场。

1In their affliction they will rise early to me: Come, and let us return to the Lord:

2For he hath taken us, and he will heal us: he will strike, and he will cure us.

3He will revive us after two days: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. We shall know, and we shall follow on, that we may know the Lord. His going forth is prepared as the morning light, and he will come to us as the early and the latter rain to the earth.

4What shall I do to thee, O Ephraim? what shall I do to thee, O Juda? your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that goeth away in the morning.

5For this reason have I hewed them by the prophets, I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments shall go forth as the light.

6For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than holocausts.

7But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant, there have they dealt treacherously against me.

8Galaad is a city of workers of idols, supplanted with blood.

9And like the jaws of highway robbers, they conspire with the priests who murder in the way those that pass out Sichem: for they have wrought wickedness.

10I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: the fornications of Ephraim there: Israel is defiled.

11And thou also, O Juda, set thee a harvest, when I shall bring back captivity of my people.