Hosea

1và vi phạm lề luật Ta truyền dạy.

2chúng con nhận biết Ngài.”

3nên nó sẽ bị quân thù đuổi bắt.

4dùng bạc vàng làm ra ngẫu tượng, để rồi bị đập tan.

5Chúng không chịu để cho Ta thanh tẩy mãi cho tới bao giờ ?–

6Chắc chắn con bê của Sa-ma-ri sẽ như thể mùn cưa.

7nhưng giả như có bột, thì ngoại bang cũng sẽ nuốt hết.

8Giờ đây chúng ở lẫn với chư dân, như một vật chẳng ai ưa thích.

9nhưng Ép-ra-im lại tặng quà để có tình nhân.

10dưới gánh nặng của vua các thủ lãnh.

11chỉ làm cho chúng phạm tội thêm.

12thì nó cũng coi là xa lạ.

13chúng sẽ phải trở về Ai-cập.

14và lửa sẽ ngốn hết các dinh thự.

1Let there be a trumpet in thy throat like an eagle upon the house of the Lord: because they have transgressed my covenant, and have violated my law.

2They shall call upon me: O my God, we, Israel, know thee.

3Israel hath cast off the thing that is good, the enemy shall pursue him.

4They have reigned, but not by me: they have been princes, and I knew not: of their silver, and their gold they have made idols to themselves, that they might perish.

5Thy calf, O Samaria, is cast off, my wrath is kindled against them. How long will they be incapable of being cleansed?

6For itself also is the invention of Israel: a workman made it, and it is no god: for the calf of Samaria shall be turned to spiders’ webs.

7For they shall sow wind, and reap a whirlwind, there is no standing stalk in it, the bud shall yield no meal; and if it should yield, strangers shall eat it.

8Israel is swallowed up: now is he become among the nations like an unclean vessel.

9For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath given gifts to his lovers.

10But even though they shall have hired the nations, now will I gather them together: and they shall rest a while from the burden of the king, and the princes.

11Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin: altars are become to him unto sin.

12I shall write to him my manifold laws, which have been accounted as foreign.

13They shall offer victims, they shall sacrifice flesh, and shall eat it, and the Lord will not receive them: now will he remember their iniquity, and will visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.

14And Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and hath built temples: and Juda hath built many fenced cities: and I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the houses thereof.