Ô-sê

何西阿宣布以色列受惩罚

1以色列啊，不要像外邦人欢喜快乐； 因为你行邪淫离弃你的 神， 在各谷场上如妓女喜爱赏赐。

2谷场和酒榨都不够以色列人使用； 新酒也必缺乏。

3他们必不得住耶和华的地； 以法莲却要归回埃及， 必在亚述吃不洁净的食物。

4他们必不得向耶和华奠酒， 即便奠酒也不蒙悦纳。 他们的祭物必如居丧者的食物， 凡吃的必被玷污； 因他们的食物只为自己的口腹， 必不奉入耶和华的殿。

5在大会的日子， 到耶和华的节期，你们怎样行呢？

6看哪，他们逃避灾难； 埃及人必收殓他们的尸首， 摩弗人必葬埋他们的骸骨。 他们用银子做的美物上必长蒺藜； 他们的帐棚中必生荆棘。

7以色列人必知道降罚的日子临近， 报应的时候来到。 民说：作先知的是愚昧； 受灵感的是狂妄， 皆因他们多多作孽，大怀怨恨。

8以法莲曾作我 神守望的； 至于先知，在他一切的道上作为捕鸟人的网罗， 在他 神的家中怀怨恨。

9以法莲深深地败坏， 如在基比亚的日子一样。 耶和华必记念他们的罪孽， 追讨他们的罪恶。

以色列的罪及其后果

10主说：我遇见以色列如葡萄在旷野； 我看见你们的列祖如无花果树上春季初熟的果子。 他们却来到巴力·毗珥专拜那可羞耻的， 就成为可憎恶的， 与他们所爱的一样。

11至于以法莲人，他们的荣耀必如鸟飞去， 必不生产，不怀胎，不成孕。

12纵然养大儿女， 我却必使他们丧子，甚至不留一个。 我离弃他们，他们就有祸了。

13我看以法莲如泰尔栽于美地。 以法莲却要将自己的儿女带出来， 交与行杀戮的人。

14耶和华啊，求你加给他们— 加什么呢？ 要使他们胎坠乳干。

耶和华审判以色列

15耶和华说：他们一切的恶事都在吉甲； 我在那里憎恶他们。 因他们所行的恶， 我必从我地上赶出他们去， 不再怜爱他们； 他们的首领都是悖逆的。

16以法莲受责罚， 根本枯干，必不能结果， 即或生产， 我必杀他们所生的爱子。

先知论以色列

17我的 神必弃绝他们， 因为他们不听从他； 他们也必飘流在列国中。

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.