Hosea 6

1 In their affliction they will rise early to me: Come, and let us return to the Lord:

「來，我們回到上主那裏去，因為衪撕碎了我們，也必要治愈；衪打傷了我們，也必要包紮。

2 For he hath taken us, and he will heal us: he will strike, and he will cure us.

兩天後衪必使田復生，第三天衪必使我們興起，生活在衪的慈顏下。

3 He will revive us after two days: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. We shall know, and we shall follow on, that we may know the Lord. His going forth is prepared as the morning light, and he will come to us as the early and the latter rain to the earth.

讓我們認識上主，讓我們努力認識上主! 衪定要像曙光一樣出現，衪要來到我們中間，有如秋雨，有如滋潤田地的春雨。」

4 What shall I do to thee, O Ephraim? what shall I do to thee, O Juda? your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that goeth away in the morning.

厄弗辣因，我可對你們作什麼﹖因為你們的仁愛有如旱晨的浮雲，有如易於消散的朝露。

5 For this reason have I hewed them by the prophets, I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments shall go forth as the light.

因此，我藉先知們砍伐了他們，以我口中的言語殺死戳了他們；我的的裁判出現有如光明：

6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than holocausts.

因為我喜歡仁慈勝過祭獻，喜歡人認識天主勝過全燔祭。

7 But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant, there have they dealt treacherously against me.

但是他們在阿當就犯了罪，在那裏已背叛了我。

8 Galaad is a city of workers of idols, supplanted with blood.

基肋阿得是座作惡的城池，滿了血跡。

9 And like the jaws of highway robbers, they conspire with the priests who murder in the way those that pass out Sichem: for they have wrought wickedness.

一隊司祭就如埋伏的強盜，在往舍根的路上行兇；的確，他們行了可恥的事

10 I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: the fornications of Ephraim there: Israel is defiled.

在貝特耳我見了可惡的事：在那裏厄弗辣因行了淫，以色列玷污了自己

11 And thou also, O Juda, set thee a harvest, when I shall bring back captivity of my people.

當我轉變我百姓的命運時，猶大啊! 為你也注定了一個收割期。