何西阿宣佈對以色列的懲罰
1以色列啊，
不要歡喜快樂，
不要像外族人那樣歡喜快樂！
因為你對你的上帝不忠不貞，
在各麥場上喜愛賣淫得資財。
2但麥場上的穀物將不夠養活你們，
榨酒池裡也將缺乏新酒。
3你們將不能再住在耶和華的土地上。
以法蓮要返回埃及，
在亞述吃不潔之物。
4你們將不能再獻奠祭給耶和華，
你們的祭牲也不蒙悅納。
這些祭物如居喪之人的食物，
吃的人都被玷污。
你們的食物只能供自己吃，
不能帶進耶和華的殿。
5在耶和華所定的節期裡，
你們要做什麼呢？
6即使你們逃脫毀滅之災，
埃及人也要把你們聚集起來，
在摩弗埋葬你們。
你們的珍貴銀器要散落在荊棘中，
你們的帳篷中要長滿蒺藜。
7以色列人受懲罰的日子近了，
遭報應的時候到了！
這點你們要知道。
你們罪惡深重，充滿憎恨，
以致你們說：
「先知是傻瓜，
被靈感動的人是瘋子。」
8先知為了上帝做以法蓮的守望者，
可是他走的路上佈滿網羅，
在他上帝的家裡遭人憎恨。
9你們敗壞至極，
恰如從前在基比亞的日子。
耶和華必記住你們的罪惡，
追討你們的罪債。
10耶和華說：
「昔日我看見以色列時，
像在荒野看見葡萄；
看見你們的祖先時，
像在無花果樹上看見初熟的果子。
但他們卻祭拜巴力·毗珥，
把自己獻給可恥的偶像，
變得像他們所愛的偶像一樣可憎。
11以法蓮人的榮耀要如鳥飛逝，
你們將不能受孕，
不能懷胎，
也不能生育。
12你們縱然把孩子養大，
我也要奪去他們的性命，一個也不留。
我撇棄你們的時候，
你們就有禍了！
13我看見以法蓮栽種在草原上，美如泰爾，
但以法蓮卻要把孩子交給屠殺者。」
14耶和華啊，求你給他們——
你要給他們什麼呢？
求你使他們子宮流產，乳房乾癟。
15耶和華說：
「因他們在吉甲的一切惡行，
我已憎惡他們。
因他們的惡行，
我要將他們逐出我的家，
不再愛他們，
他們的首領都是悖逆之人。
16以法蓮要被擊打，
他們的根將枯乾，
再也不能結果。
就算他們能生兒育女，
我也要殺死他們心愛的孩子。」
17我的上帝必棄絕他們，
因為他們不聽從祂。
他們必在列國中流離飄泊。
Punishment for Israel
1Do not rejoice, Israel;
do not be jubilant like the other nations.
For you have been unfaithful to your God;
you love the wages of a prostitute
at every threshing floor.
2Threshing floors and winepresses will not feed the people;
the new wine will fail them.
3They will not remain in the Lord’s land;
Ephraim will return to Egypt
and eat unclean food in Assyria.
4They will not pour out wine offerings to the Lord,
nor will their sacrifices please him.
Such sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners;
all who eat them will be unclean.
This food will be for themselves;
it will not come into the temple of the Lord.
5What will you do on the day of your appointed festivals,
on the feast days of the Lord?
6Even if they escape from destruction,
Egypt will gather them,
and Memphis will bury them.
Their treasures of silver will be taken over by briers,
and thorns will overrun their tents.
7The days of punishment are coming,
the days of reckoning are at hand.
Let Israel know this.
Because your sins are so many
and your hostility so great,
the prophet is considered a fool,
the inspired person a maniac.
8The prophet, along with my God,
is the watchman over Ephraim,9:8 Or The prophet is the watchman over Ephraim, / the people of my God
yet snares await him on all his paths,
and hostility in the house of his God.
9They have sunk deep into corruption,
as in the days of Gibeah.
God will remember their wickedness
and punish them for their sins.
10“When I found Israel,
it was like finding grapes in the desert;
when I saw your ancestors,
it was like seeing the early fruit on the fig tree.
But when they came to Baal Peor,
they consecrated themselves to that shameful idol
and became as vile as the thing they loved.
11Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird—
no birth, no pregnancy, no conception.
12Even if they rear children,
I will bereave them of every one.
Woe to them
when I turn away from them!
13I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre,
planted in a pleasant place.
But Ephraim will bring out
their children to the slayer.”
14Give them, Lord—
what will you give them?
Give them wombs that miscarry
and breasts that are dry.
15“Because of all their wickedness in Gilgal,
I hated them there.
Because of their sinful deeds,
I will drive them out of my house.
I will no longer love them;
all their leaders are rebellious.
16Ephraim is blighted,
their root is withered,
they yield no fruit.
Even if they bear children,
I will slay their cherished offspring.”
17My God will reject them
because they have not obeyed him;
they will be wanderers among the nations.
