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劝其悔罪归主

14 以色列啊,你要归向耶和华你的神!你是因自己的罪孽跌倒了。 当归向耶和华,用言语祷告他说:“求你除净罪孽,悦纳善行,这样,我们就把嘴唇的祭代替牛犊献上。 我们不向亚述求救,不骑埃及的马,也不再对我们手所造的说‘你是我们的神’,因为孤儿在你耶和华那里得蒙怜悯。”

许复施恩眷爱

“我必医治他们背道的病,甘心爱他们,因为我的怒气向他们转消。 我必向以色列如甘露,他必如百合花开放,如黎巴嫩的树木扎根。 他的枝条必延长,他的荣华如橄榄树,他的香气如黎巴嫩的香柏树。 曾住在他荫下的必归回,发旺如五谷,开花如葡萄树,他的香气如黎巴嫩的酒。 以法莲必说:‘我与偶像还有什么关涉呢?’我耶和华回答他,也必顾念他。我如青翠的松树,你的果子从我而得。”

谁是智慧人,可以明白这些事;谁是通达人,可以知道这一切。因为耶和华的道是正直的,义人必在其中行走,罪人却在其上跌倒。

A Plea to Return to the Lord

14 (A)Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,
    for (B)you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
Take with you words
    and return to the Lord;
say to him,
    “Take away all iniquity;
accept (C)what is good,
    and we will pay with bulls
    (D)the vows[a] of our lips.
(E)Assyria shall not save us;
    (F)we will not ride on horses;
and (G)we will say no more, ‘Our God,’
    to the work of our hands.
(H)In you the orphan finds mercy.”

I (I)will heal their apostasy;
    (J)I will love them freely,
    for my anger has turned from them.
(K)I will be like the dew to Israel;
    (L)he shall blossom like the lily;
    he shall take root like the trees (M)of Lebanon;
his shoots shall spread out;
    his beauty shall be (N)like the olive,
    and his fragrance like Lebanon.
They shall return and (O)dwell beneath my[b] shadow;
    they shall flourish like the grain;
they shall blossom like the vine;
    their fame shall be like the wine of Lebanon.

O (P)Ephraim, what have I to do with idols?
    It is I who answer and look after you.[c]
I am like an evergreen cypress;
    (Q)from me comes your fruit.

(R)Whoever is wise, let him understand these things;
    whoever is discerning, let him know them;
for the ways of the Lord are right,
    and (S)the upright walk in them,
    (T)but transgressors stumble in them.

Footnotes

  1. Hosea 14:2 Septuagint, Syriac pay the fruit
  2. Hosea 14:7 Hebrew his
  3. Hosea 14:8 Hebrew him