Hosea 7
1 When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers plunder outside.
我想醫治以色列的時候， 以法蓮的罪孽和撒馬利亞的罪惡就顯露出來。 他們行事虛謊， 內有賊人入室偷竊， 外有強盜成群騷擾。
2 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them on every side; they are before my face.
他們心裏並不思想我記念他們的一切惡； 他們所行的現在纏繞他們，都在我面前。
3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
他們行惡使君王歡喜， 說謊使首領喜樂。
4 They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it is leavened.
他們都是行淫的， 像火爐被烤餅的燒熱， 從摶麵到發麵的時候， 暫不使火着旺。
5 In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
在我們王宴樂的日子， 首領因酒的烈性成病； 王與褻慢人拉手。
6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
首領埋伏的時候，心中熱如火爐， 就如烤餅的整夜睡臥， 到了早晨火氣炎炎。
7 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth to me.
眾民也熱如火爐， 燒滅他們的官長。 他們的君王都仆倒而死； 他們中間無一人求告我。
8 Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
以法蓮與列邦人攙雜； 以法蓮是沒有翻過的餅。
9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.
外邦人吞吃他勞力得來的，他卻不知道； 頭髮斑白，他也不覺得。
10 And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.
以色列的驕傲當面見證自己， 雖遭遇這一切， 他們仍不歸向耶和華－他們的上帝， 也不尋求他。
11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
以法蓮好像鴿子愚蠢無知； 他們求告埃及，投奔亞述。
12 When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.
他們去的時候，我必將我的網撒在他們身上； 我要打下他們，如同空中的鳥。 我必按他們會眾所聽見的懲罰他們。
13 Woe to them! for they have fled from me: destruction to them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
他們因離棄我，必定有禍； 因違背我，必被毀滅。 我雖要救贖他們，他們卻向我說謊。
14 And they have not cried to me with their heart, when they wailed upon their beds: they assemble themselves for grain and wine, and they rebel against me.
他們並不誠心哀求我， 乃在床上呼號； 他們為求五穀新酒聚集， 仍然悖逆我。
15 Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.
我雖教導他們，堅固他們的膀臂， 他們竟圖謀抗拒我。
16 They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.
他們歸向，卻不歸向至上者； 他們如同翻背的弓。 他們的首領必因舌頭的狂傲倒在刀下； 這在埃及地必作人的譏笑。
