Hosea 9
1 Do not choose to rejoice, Israel; do not celebrate as the crowds do. For you have been committing fornication against your God; you have loved a prize upon every threshing floor of wheat.
以色列啊，不要像外邦人歡喜快樂； 因為你行邪淫離棄你的上帝， 在各穀場上如妓女喜愛賞賜。
2 The threshing floor and the oil press will not feed them, and the wine will deceive them.
穀場和酒醡都不夠以色列人使用； 新酒也必缺乏。
3 They will not dwell in the land of the Lord. Ephraim has been returned to Egypt, and he has eaten polluted things among the Assyrians.
他們必不得住耶和華的地； 以法蓮卻要歸回埃及， 必在亞述吃不潔淨的食物。
4 They will not offer a libation of wine to the Lord, and they will not please him. Their sacrifices will be like the bread of mourners. All those who eat it will be defiled. For their bread is of their soul; it will not enter into the house of the Lord.
他們必不得向耶和華奠酒， 即便奠酒也不蒙悅納。 他們的祭物必如居喪者的食物， 凡吃的必被玷污； 因他們的食物只為自己的口腹， 必不奉入耶和華的殿。
5 What will you do on the solemn day, on the day of the feast of the Lord?
在大會的日子， 到耶和華的節期，你們怎樣行呢？
6 For, behold, they have been sent away by devastation. Egypt will gather them together; Memphis will bury them. Nettles will inherit their desired silver; the burr will be in their tabernacles.
看哪，他們逃避災難； 埃及人必收殮他們的屍首， 摩弗人必葬埋他們的骸骨。 他們用銀子做的美物上必長蒺藜； 他們的帳棚中必生荊棘。
7 The days of visitation have arrived; the days of retribution are here. Know this, Israel: that the prophet was foolish, the spiritual man was mad, because of the multitude of your iniquities and the great extent of your foolishness.
以色列人必知道降罰的日子臨近， 報應的時候來到。 民說：作先知的是愚昧； 受靈感的是狂妄， 皆因他們多多作孽，大懷怨恨。
8 The watcher of Ephraim was with my God. The prophet has become a snare of ruin over all his ways; insanity is in the house of his God.
以法蓮曾作我上帝守望的； 至於先知，在他一切的道上作為捕鳥人的網羅， 在他上帝的家中懷怨恨。
9 They have sinned profoundly, just as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity, and he will repay their sin.
以法蓮深深地敗壞， 如在基比亞的日子一樣。 耶和華必記念他們的罪孽， 追討他們的罪惡。
10 I discovered Israel like grapes in the desert. Like the first fruits of the fig tree, I saw their fathers on the end of its branches. But they went in to Baal-peor, and they have been estranged by intermingling, and they have become abominable, just like the things that they chose to love.
主說：我遇見以色列如葡萄在曠野； 我看見你們的列祖如無花果樹上春季初熟的果子。 他們卻來到巴力‧毗珥專拜那可羞恥的， 就成為可憎惡的， 與他們所愛的一樣。
11 Ephraim has chased away their glory like a bird: from birth, and from the womb, and from conception.
至於以法蓮人，他們的榮耀必如鳥飛去， 必不生產，不懷胎，不成孕。
12 And even if they should nurture their sons, I will make them without children among men. Yes, and woe to them, when I have withdrawn from them.
縱然養大兒女， 我卻必使他們喪子，甚至不留一個。 我離棄他們，他們就有禍了。
13 Ephraim, as I see it, was a Tyre, founded by beauty. And Ephraim will lead his sons to execution.
我看以法蓮如泰爾栽於美地。 以法蓮卻要將自己的兒女帶出來， 交與行殺戮的人。
14 Give them, O Lord. What will you give them? Give them a womb without children, and dry breasts.
耶和華啊，求你加給他們－ 加甚麼呢？ 要使他們胎墜乳乾。
15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal, for I held them there, in their hatred. Because of the malice of their inventions, I will expel them from my house. I will no longer say that I love them; all their leaders have retreated.
耶和華說：他們一切的惡事都在吉甲； 我在那裏憎惡他們。 因他們所行的惡， 我必從我地上趕出他們去， 不再憐愛他們； 他們的首領都是悖逆的。
16 Ephraim has been struck; their root has been dried out: by no means will they yield fruit. And even if they should conceive, I will execute the most beloved of their womb.
以法蓮受責罰， 根本枯乾，必不能結果， 即或生產， 我必殺他們所生的愛子。
17 My God will cast them aside because they have not listened to him; and they will be wanderers among the nations.
我的上帝必棄絕他們， 因為他們不聽從他； 他們也必飄流在列國中。
