何西阿书 8
1 你用口吹角吧！ 敌人如鹰来攻打耶和华的家； 因为这民违背我的约， 干犯我的律法。
Put the ram’s horn to your lips! An eagle looms over the house of the LORD, because the people have transgressed My covenant and rebelled against My law.
2 他们必呼叫我说： 我的 神啊，我们以色列认识你了。
Israel cries out to Me, “O our God, we know You!”
3 以色列丢弃良善； 仇敌必追逼他。
But Israel has rejected good; an enemy will pursue him.
4 他们立君王，却不由我； 他们立首领，我却不认。 他们用金银为自己制造偶像， 以致被剪除。
They set up kings, but not by Me. They make princes, but without My approval. With their silver and gold they make themselves idols, to their own destruction.
5 撒马利亚啊，耶和华已经丢弃你的牛犊； 我的怒气向拜牛犊的人发作。 他们到几时方能无罪呢？
He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?
6 这牛犊出于以色列， 是匠人所造的，并不是神。 撒马利亚的牛犊必被打碎。
For this thing is from Israel— a craftsman made it, and it is not God. It will be broken to pieces, that calf of Samaria.
7 他们所种的是风，所收的是暴风； 所种的不成禾稼，就是发苗也不结实； 即便结实，外邦人必吞吃。
For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.
8 以色列被吞吃； 现今在列国中，好像人不喜悦的器皿。
Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like a worthless vessel.
9 他们投奔亚述，如同独行的野驴； 以法莲贿买朋党。
For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.
10 他们虽在列邦中贿买人， 现在我却要聚集惩罚他们； 他们因君王和首领所加的重担日渐衰微。
Though they hire allies among the nations, I will now round them up, and they will begin to diminish under the oppression of the king of princes.
11 以法莲增添祭坛取罪； 因此，祭坛使他犯罪。
Though Ephraim multiplied the altars for sin, they became his altars for sinning.
12 我为他写了律法万条， 他却以为与他毫无关涉。
Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.
13 至于献给我的祭物， 他们自食其肉， 耶和华却不悦纳他们。 现在必记念他们的罪孽， 追讨他们的罪恶； 他们必归回埃及。
Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.
14 以色列忘记造他的主，建造宫殿； 犹大多造坚固城， 我却要降火焚烧他的城邑， 烧灭其中的宫殿。
Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has multiplied its fortified cities. But I will send fire upon their cities, and it will consume their citadels.
