Osee 6

1 In their affliction they will seek me early, saying, Let us go, and return to the Lord our God; for he has torn, and will heal us; he will strike, and bind us up.

來吧，我們歸向耶和華！ 他撕裂我們，也必醫治； 他打傷我們，也必纏裹。

2 After two days he will heal us: in the third day we shall arise, and live before him, and shall know [him]:

過兩天他必使我們甦醒， 第三天他必使我們興起， 我們就在他面前得以存活。

3 let us follow on to know the Lord: we shall find him ready as the morning, and he will come to us as the early and latter rain to the earth.

我們務要認識耶和華， 竭力追求認識他。 他出現確如晨光； 他必臨到我們像甘雨， 像滋潤田地的春雨。

4 What shall I do to you, Ephraim? What shall I do to you, Juda? whereas your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that goes away.

主說：以法蓮哪，我可向你怎樣行呢？ 猶大啊，我可向你怎樣做呢？ 因為你們的良善如同早晨的雲霧， 又如速散的甘露。

5 Therefore have I mown down your prophets; I have slain them with the word of my mouth: and my judgement shall go forth as the light.

因此，我藉先知砍伐他們， 以我口中的話殺戮他們； 我施行的審判如光發出。

6 For I will [have] mercy rather than sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than whole burnt offerings.

我喜愛良善，不喜愛祭祀； 喜愛認識上帝，勝於燔祭。

7 But they are as a man transgressing a covenant:

他們卻如亞當背約， 在境內向我行事詭詐。

8 there the city Galaad despised me, working vanity, troubling water.

基列是作孽之人的城， 被血沾染。

9 And your strength [is that] of a robber: the priests have hid the way, they have murdered [the people of] Sicima; for they have wrought iniquity in the house of Israel.

強盜成群，怎樣埋伏殺人， 祭司結黨，也照樣在示劍的路上殺戮， 行了邪惡。

10 I have seen horrible [things] there, [even] the fornication of Ephraim: Israel and Juda are defiled;

在以色列家，我見了可憎的事； 在以法蓮那裏有淫行， 以色列被玷污。

11 begin together grapes for yourself, when I turn the captivity of my people.

猶大啊，我使被擄之民歸回的時候， 必有為你所命定的收場。