Hosea

Chapter 13

1 WHEN Ephraim spoke, the people trembled; he became great in Israel; but when he was found guilty of Baal worship, he lost his power.

2 And even now they sin more and more, and have made to themselves molten images of their silver, and idols in their own likeness, the work of a carpenter; they said to the people, Let those men who sacrifice men kiss the image of the calf.

3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud and as the early dew that passes away, as the chaff that is driven with the wind out of the threshing floor and as the smoke out of the chimney.

4 Yet I am the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and you shall know no God but me; therefore there is no one who can save besides me.

5 It was I who fed you in the wilderness, in a desolate land which is uninhabited.

6 I fed them, and they were filled; and their heart was exalted; therefore they have forgotten me.

7 Hence I will be to them like a lion; like a leopard by the way of Assyria.

8 I will meet them like a bear that tears its prey in pieces, and I will pierce the crust of their heart; and there a lion shall devour them; the wild beast shall tear them.

9 O Israel, you have corrupted yourself; who can help you?

10 Where now is your king? Let him save you, and all your cities? And your judge of whom you said, Give me a king and a prince?

11 I gave you a king in my anger, and took him away in my wrath.

12 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.

13 The pangs like those of a woman in travail shall come upon him because he is an unwise son; for now he shall not be in pain of childbirth.

14 I will save them from the power of Sheol; I will deliver them from death, O death, where is your victory? O Sheol, where is your sting? Consolation is hidden from my eyes.

15 Because he shall be separated from his brothers, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall blow from the wilderness and dry up his fountains, and his springs shall be dried up; it shall spoil the treasure of all valuable vessels.

16 Samaria shall be condemned because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.

何西阿書

第13章

1 從前以法蓮說話可戰可兢[spake trembling],他在以色列中自居為高[exalted himself];但他在巴力的事上[in Baal]犯罪就死了。

2 現今他們罪上加罪,用銀子為自己鑄造眾像[images][and]照自己的聰明製造,都是匠人的工作。有人論說,獻祭的人可以向牛犢親嘴。

3 因此,他們必如早晨的雲霧,又如消散的朝露[early dew that passeth away],像場上的糠秕被旋風[whirlwind]吹去,又像煙氣騰於窗外。

4 自從你出埃及地以來,我就是耶和華─你的神。在我以外,你不可認識別神;除我以外並沒有救主。

5 我曾在曠野,[in][great]旱之地認識你。

6 這些民照我所賜的草場[pastures]得了飽足;既得飽足,心就高傲,忘記了我。

7 因此,我[will be]向他們如獅子,又如豹伏在道旁。

8 我遇見他們必像丟幼熊[whelps]的母熊,撕裂他們的心膜[caul]。在那裏,我必像獅子[lion]吞吃他們;野獸必撕裂他們。

9 以色列啊,你自取敗壞[thou hast destroyed thyself]我卻是幫助你的[but in me is thine help]

10 我要作你的王。除我以外,誰能在你所有的城中拯救你呢[I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities]?你的審判官竟對我說:給我立王和首領[and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes?]

11 我在怒氣中將王賜你,又在烈怒中將王廢去。

12 以法蓮的罪孽包裹;他的罪惡隠藏[hid]

13 婦人陣痛的愁苦[sorrows of a travailing woman]必臨到他身上;他是無智慧之子,到了產子之地不當久留[should not stay long in the place of the breaking forth of children]

14 我必救贖他們脫離墳墓[grave],救贖他們脫離死亡。死亡啊,我是你的災害[I will be thy plagues]墳墓[grave]哪,我是你的毀滅[I will be thy destruction];在我眼前絕無後悔之事。

15 他在弟兄中雖然茂盛,必有東風颳來,就是耶和華的風從曠野上來。他的泉源必乾;他的源頭必竭;仇敵必擄掠他所積蓄的一切寶器。

16 撒瑪利亞必成為荒場[become desolate],因為叛逆她的神。他們[they]必倒在刀下;嬰孩必被摔[pieces];孕婦必被剖開。

Hosea

Chapter 13

何西阿書

第13章

1 WHEN Ephraim spoke, the people trembled; he became great in Israel; but when he was found guilty of Baal worship, he lost his power.

1 從前以法蓮說話可戰可兢[spake trembling],他在以色列中自居為高[exalted himself];但他在巴力的事上[in Baal]犯罪就死了。

2 And even now they sin more and more, and have made to themselves molten images of their silver, and idols in their own likeness, the work of a carpenter; they said to the people, Let those men who sacrifice men kiss the image of the calf.

2 現今他們罪上加罪,用銀子為自己鑄造眾像[images][and]照自己的聰明製造,都是匠人的工作。有人論說,獻祭的人可以向牛犢親嘴。

3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud and as the early dew that passes away, as the chaff that is driven with the wind out of the threshing floor and as the smoke out of the chimney.

3 因此,他們必如早晨的雲霧,又如消散的朝露[early dew that passeth away],像場上的糠秕被旋風[whirlwind]吹去,又像煙氣騰於窗外。

4 Yet I am the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and you shall know no God but me; therefore there is no one who can save besides me.

4 自從你出埃及地以來,我就是耶和華─你的神。在我以外,你不可認識別神;除我以外並沒有救主。

5 It was I who fed you in the wilderness, in a desolate land which is uninhabited.

5 我曾在曠野,[in][great]旱之地認識你。

6 I fed them, and they were filled; and their heart was exalted; therefore they have forgotten me.

6 這些民照我所賜的草場[pastures]得了飽足;既得飽足,心就高傲,忘記了我。

7 Hence I will be to them like a lion; like a leopard by the way of Assyria.

7 因此,我[will be]向他們如獅子,又如豹伏在道旁。

8 I will meet them like a bear that tears its prey in pieces, and I will pierce the crust of their heart; and there a lion shall devour them; the wild beast shall tear them.

8 我遇見他們必像丟幼熊[whelps]的母熊,撕裂他們的心膜[caul]。在那裏,我必像獅子[lion]吞吃他們;野獸必撕裂他們。

9 O Israel, you have corrupted yourself; who can help you?

9 以色列啊,你自取敗壞[thou hast destroyed thyself]我卻是幫助你的[but in me is thine help]

10 Where now is your king? Let him save you, and all your cities? And your judge of whom you said, Give me a king and a prince?

10 我要作你的王。除我以外,誰能在你所有的城中拯救你呢[I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities]?你的審判官竟對我說:給我立王和首領[and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes?]

11 I gave you a king in my anger, and took him away in my wrath.

11 我在怒氣中將王賜你,又在烈怒中將王廢去。

12 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.

12 以法蓮的罪孽包裹;他的罪惡隠藏[hid]

13 The pangs like those of a woman in travail shall come upon him because he is an unwise son; for now he shall not be in pain of childbirth.

13 婦人陣痛的愁苦[sorrows of a travailing woman]必臨到他身上;他是無智慧之子,到了產子之地不當久留[should not stay long in the place of the breaking forth of children]

14 I will save them from the power of Sheol; I will deliver them from death, O death, where is your victory? O Sheol, where is your sting? Consolation is hidden from my eyes.

14 我必救贖他們脫離墳墓[grave],救贖他們脫離死亡。死亡啊,我是你的災害[I will be thy plagues]墳墓[grave]哪,我是你的毀滅[I will be thy destruction];在我眼前絕無後悔之事。

15 Because he shall be separated from his brothers, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall blow from the wilderness and dry up his fountains, and his springs shall be dried up; it shall spoil the treasure of all valuable vessels.

15 他在弟兄中雖然茂盛,必有東風颳來,就是耶和華的風從曠野上來。他的泉源必乾;他的源頭必竭;仇敵必擄掠他所積蓄的一切寶器。

16 Samaria shall be condemned because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.

16 撒瑪利亞必成為荒場[become desolate],因為叛逆她的神。他們[they]必倒在刀下;嬰孩必被摔[pieces];孕婦必被剖開。