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Hosea 1 1 以色列原是一枝茂盛结实繁多的葡萄树，但他的收获愈丰，祭坛也愈多；土地愈富饶，石柱也愈美观。 2 Their heart is false, now they pay for their guilt; God shall break down their altars and destroy their sacred pillars. 他们心怀二意，因此必遭惩罚；上主必拆毁他们的祭坛，打倒他们的石柱。 3 If they would say, ＂We have no king＂-- Since they do not fear the LORD, what can the king do for them? 那时他们要说：＂哎！我们没有君王，因为我们不敬畏上主；可是君王能为我们作什么呢？ 4 2 Nothing but make promises, swear false oaths, and make alliances, While justice grows wild like wormwood in a plowed field! 他们任意讲空话，发虚誓，立盟约 因此，正义有如田畦间的苦菜丛生。 5 3 The inhabitants of 撒马黎雅的居民必为贝特文的牛犊焦虑，他的人民必为它举哀，他的僧侣也要为它失去的荣华而哀号，因为它被人夺去。 6 It too shall be carried to 连它也被带到亚述去，作为大王的页物。厄弗辣因得到旳只是耻辱，以色列必要因自己的偶像而蒙羞。 7 The king of 8 The high places of Aven shall be destroyed, the sin of 贝特阿文的高丘──以色列的罪过渊薮──将被摧毁，荆棘和蒺藜要攀上他们的祭坛；那时他们要对山说：＂遮盖我们吧！＂对丘陵说：＂倒在我们身上吧！＂ 9 Since the days of Gibeah you have sinned, O Israel. There they took their stand; war was not to reach them in Gibeah. 以色列！从基贝亚的日子起，你就犯罪，你就在那里抗拒；难道基贝亚的战祸不会波及那些恶人吗？ 10 4 Against the wanton people I came and I chastised them; I gathered troops against them when I chastised them for their two crimes. 11 Ephraim was a trained heifer, willing to thresh; I myself laid a yoke upon her fair neck; Ephraim was to be harnessed, 厄弗辣因原是一头驯服的母牛，喜爱打麦，可是我要将轭加在它肥壮的颈项上；我要给厄弗辣因上套，以色列必要耕田，雅各伯必要耙地。 12 ＂Sow for yourselves justice, reap the fruit of piety; Break up for yourselves a new field, for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain down justice upon you.＂ 你们应该播种正义，才可收割仁爱的果实；你们应该开垦荒地，因为现在是寻求上主的时候；应寻求衪，直到衪来给他们降下正义。 13 But you have cultivated wickedness, reaped perversity, and eaten the fruit of falsehood. Because you have trusted in your chariots, and in your many warriors, 为什么你们种了邪恶，收割了罪孽，吃了谎言的果实呢？因为你依赖了你的战车，和你的勇士众多； 14 5 Turmoil shall break out among your tribes and all your fortresses shall be ravaged As Salman ravaged Beth-arbel in time of war, smashing mothers and their children. 因此，在你的城邑中要发生骚动，你的一切堡垒将被拆毁，就如沙耳曼毁灭贝特阿尔贝时，在战争之日，母亲被摔死在儿子身上一样。 15 So shall it be done to you, 因了你的穷凶极恶，以色列家，我也要同样对待你：以色列的君王将在风暴中完全沦亡。 Footnotes(注解) 1 [1] Sacred pillars: see note on Hosea 3:4. 2 [4] Justice . . . like wormwood: the administration of justice, which should have been the mainstay of the people, has in corrupt hands become another instrument of oppression; cf Amos 6:13. 3 [5] The calf of Beth-aven: see notes on Hosea 4:15; 8:4-6. 4 [10] Their two crimes: possibly the outrage described in Jdgs 19 is conceived as a double crime, of adultery and murder. Or the prophet regards the proclamation of the monarchy (cf 1 Sam 10:23-24) as a crime. 5 [14] As Salman ravaged Beth-arbel: allusion to an invasion not otherwise mentioned in the Bible. Salman may have been the Moabite king of this name mentioned in an inscription of Tiglath-pileser III. There were several Beth-arbels in |
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