Hosea 8
1 Set the trumpet to thy mouth: he shall come as an eagle against the House of the Lord, because they haue transgressed my couenant, and trespassed against my Lawe.
你用口吹角吧！ 敵人如鷹來攻打耶和華的家； 因為這民違背我的約， 干犯我的律法。
2 Israel shall crie vnto me, My God, we know thee.
他們必呼叫我說： 我的上帝啊，我們以色列認識你了。
3 Israel hath cast off ye thing that is good: the enemie shall pursue him.
以色列丟棄良善； 仇敵必追逼他。
4 They haue set vp a King, but not by me: they haue made princes, and I knew it not: of their siluer and their gold haue they made them idoles: therefore shall they be destroyed.
他們立君王，卻不由我； 他們立首領，我卻不認。 他們用金銀為自己製造偶像， 以致被剪除。
5 Thy calfe, O Samaria, hath cast thee off: mine anger is kindled against them: howe long will they be without innocencie!
撒馬利亞啊，耶和華已經丟棄你的牛犢； 我的怒氣向拜牛犢的人發作。 他們到幾時方能無罪呢？
6 For it came euen from Israel: the workeman made it, therefore it is not God: but the calfe of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
這牛犢出於以色列， 是匠人所造的，並不是神。 撒馬利亞的牛犢必被打碎。
7 For they haue sowne the winde, and they shall reape the whirlewind: it hath no stalke: the budde shall bring foorth no meale: if so be it bring forth, the strangers shall deuoure it.
他們所種的是風，所收的是暴風； 所種的不成禾稼，就是發苗也不結實； 即便結實，外邦人必吞吃。
8 Israel is deuoured, now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessell wherein is no pleasure.
以色列被吞吃； 現今在列國中，好像人不喜悅的器皿。
9 For they are gone vp to Asshur: they are as a wilde asse alone by himselfe: Ephraim hath hired louers.
他們投奔亞述，如同獨行的野驢； 以法蓮賄買朋黨。
10 Yet though they haue hired among the nations, nowe will I gather them, and they shall sorowe a litle, for the burden of the King and the princes.
他們雖在列邦中賄買人， 現在我卻要聚集懲罰他們； 他們因君王和首領所加的重擔日漸衰微。
11 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sinne, his altars shalbe to sinne.
以法蓮增添祭壇取罪； 因此，祭壇使他犯罪。
12 I haue written to them the great things of my Lawe: but they were counted as a strange thing.
我為他寫了律法萬條， 他卻以為與他毫無關涉。
13 They sacrifice flesh for ye sacrifices of mine offerings, and eate it: but the Lord accepteth them not: now will he remember their iniquitie, and visite their sinnes: they shall returne to Egypt.
至於獻給我的祭物， 他們自食其肉， 耶和華卻不悅納他們。 現在必記念他們的罪孽， 追討他們的罪惡； 他們必歸回埃及。
14 For Israel hath forgotten his maker, and buildeth Temples, and Iudah hath increased strong cities: but I will sende a fire vpon his cities, and it shall deuoure the palaces thereof.
以色列忘記造他的主，建造宮殿； 猶大多造堅固城， 我卻要降火焚燒他的城邑， 燒滅其中的宮殿。
