Ô-sê

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。」

1'Say ye to your brethren — Ammi, And to your sisters — Ruhamah.

2Plead ye with your mother — plead, (For she [is] not My wife, and I [am] not her husband,) And she turneth her whoredoms from before her, And her adulteries from between her breasts,

3Lest I strip her naked. And have set her up as [in] the day of her birth, And have made her as a wilderness, And have set her as a dry land, And have put her to death with thirst.

4And her sons I do not pity, For sons of whoredoms [are] they,

5For gone a-whoring hath their mother, Acted shamefully hath their conceiver, For she hath said, I go after my lovers, Those giving my bread and my water, My wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.

6Therefore, lo, I am hedging up thy way with thorns, And I have made for her a wall, And her paths she doth not find.

7And she hath pursued her lovers, And she doth not overtake them, And hath sought them, and doth not find, And she hath said: I go, and I turn back unto My first husband, For — better to me then than now.

8And she knew not that I had given to her, The corn, and the new wine, and the oil. Yea, silver I did multiply to her, And the gold they prepared for Baal.

9Therefore do I turn back, And I have taken My corn in its season, And My new wine in its appointed time, And I have taken away My wool and My flax, covering her nakedness.

10And now do I reveal her dishonour before the eyes of her lovers, And none doth deliver her out of My hand.

11And I have caused to cease all her joy, Her festival, her new moon, and her sabbath, Even all her appointed times,

12And made desolate her vine and her fig-tree, Of which she said, A gift they [are] to me, That my lovers have given to me, And I have made them for a forest, And consumed them hath a beast of the field.

13And I have charged on her the days of the Baalim, To whom she maketh perfume, And putteth on her ring and her ornament, And goeth after her lovers, And Me forgat — an affirmation of Jehovah.

14Therefore, lo, I am enticing her, And have caused her to go to the wilderness, And I have spoken unto her heart,

15And given to her her vineyards from thence, And the valley of Achor for an opening of hope, And she hath responded there as in the days of her youth, And as in the day of her coming up out of the land of Egypt.

16And it hath come to pass, in that day, An affirmation of Jehovah, Thou dost call Me — My husband, And dost not call Me any more — My lord.

17And I have turned aside the names of the lords from her mouth, And they are not remembered any more by their name.

18And I have made to them a covenant in that day, with the beast of the field, And with the fowl of the heavens, And the creeping thing of the ground, And bow, and sword, and war I break from off the land, And have caused them to lie down confidently.

19And I have betrothed thee to Me to the age, And betrothed thee to Me in righteousness, And in judgment, and kindness, and mercies,

20And betrothed thee to Me in faithfulness, And thou hast known Jehovah.

21And it hath come to pass in that day, I answer — an affirmation of Jehovah, I answer the heavens, and they answer the earth.

22And the earth doth answer the corn, And the new wine, and the oil, And they answer Jezreel.

23And I have sowed her to Me in the land, And I have pitied Lo-Ruhamah, And I have said to Lo-Ammi, My people thou [art], and it saith, My God!'