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。

1'Come, and we turn back unto Jehovah, For He hath torn, and He doth heal us, He doth smite, and He bindeth us up.

2He doth revive us after two days, In the third day He doth raise us up, And we live before Him.

3And we know — we pursue to know Jehovah, As the dawn prepared is His going forth, And He cometh in as a shower to us, As gathered rain — sprinkling earth.'

4What do I do to thee, O Ephraim? What do I do to thee, O Judah? Your goodness [is] as a cloud of the morning, And as dew rising early — going.

5Therefore I have hewed by prophets, I have slain them by sayings of My mouth, And My judgments to the light goeth forth.

6For kindness I desired, and not sacrifice, And a knowledge of God above burnt-offerings.

7And they, as Adam, transgressed a covenant, There they dealt treacherously against me.

8Gilead [is] a city of workers of iniquity, Slippery from blood.

9And as bands do wait for a man, A company of priests do murder — the way to Shechem, For wickedness they have done.

10In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing, There [is] the whoredom of Ephraim — defiled is Israel.

11Also, O Judah, appointed is a harvest to thee, In My turning back [to] the captivity of My people!