Hosea 8

1 Put the ram’s horn to your lips! An eagle looms over the house of the LORD, because the people have transgressed My covenant and rebelled against My law.

1 “吹响号角警告众人吧！ 敌人要如鹰扑向耶和华的家， 因为百姓背弃我的约， 违背我的律法。

2 Israel cries out to Me, “O our God, we know You!”

2 他们要向我呼求， ‘我们的上帝啊， 我们以色列人认识你。’

3 But Israel has rejected good; an enemy will pursue him.

3 以色列已经弃绝良善， 所以敌人要追赶他。

4 They set up kings, but not by Me. They make princes, but without My approval. With their silver and gold they make themselves idols, to their own destruction.

4 他们拥立君王，未经我的同意； 选立首领，没有让我知道。 他们用金银为自己制造偶像，自取灭亡。

5 He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?

5 我鄙弃撒玛利亚人所拜的牛犊， 我要向他们发怒， 他们到什么时候才能洁身自守呢？

6 For this thing is from Israel—a craftsman made it, and it is not God. It will be broken to pieces, that calf of Samaria.

6 这牛犊是以色列的工匠造的，并不是上帝。 撒玛利亚的牛犊必被砸得粉碎。

7 For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.

7 他们种的是风， 收的是暴风。 他们的庄稼长不出穗子， 产不出面粉。 就是有收成， 也要被外族人吃掉。

8 Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like a worthless vessel.

8 以色列被吞灭了， 他在列国之中， 就像无用的器皿。

9 For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.

9 他们投奔亚述， 就像孤独漂泊的野驴。 以法莲收买情人。

10 Though they hire allies among the nations, I will now round them up, and they will begin to diminish under the oppression of the king of princes.

10 尽管他们在各国贿买盟友， 如今我要把他们聚集起来审判。 他们必因君王和首领的欺压而日渐衰微。

11 Though Ephraim multiplied the altars for sin, they became his altars for sinning.

11 “以法莲增建许多除罪的祭坛， 这些祭坛却成为他的犯罪之处。

12 Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.

12 我为他写下千万条的律法， 他却视若无睹。

13 Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.

13 他们献给我祭牲，并吃祭肉， 但不蒙耶和华的悦纳。 我必记住他们的罪恶， 追讨他们的罪债， 使他们回到埃及。

14 Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has multiplied its fortified cities. But I will send fire upon their cities, and it will consume their citadels.

14 以色列忘记了他的创造主， 建造许多宫殿； 犹大兴建许多坚城。 但我要降火烧毁他们的城邑和堡垒。”