何西阿书 12
Chinese New Version (Traditional)
斥責雅各和猶大的罪
12 “以法蓮吃風，
整天追趕東風，
增添虛謊和強暴。
他們與亞述結盟，
又給埃及送油。”（本節在《馬索拉文本》為12:2）
2 耶和華與猶大爭辯；
他必照雅各所行的懲罰他，
按他所作的報應他。
3 他在母腹中抓住他哥哥的腳跟，
壯年的時候又與 神角力。
4 他與天使角力，並且得勝；
他哀哭，向他求恩。
他在伯特利遇見 神，
神在那裡對他說話。
5 耶和華是萬軍的 神，
耶和華是他的名號。
6 所以你要靠著你的 神歸回，
謹守忠信和公平，
常常等候你的 神。
斥責以法蓮的罪行及其重罰
7 以色列是個商人，手裡拿著詭詐的天平，喜愛欺壓別人。
8 以法蓮說：“我成了富翁，
我為自己發了財；
在我所有的收益中，
人不能找出我有甚麼罪孽，可算為罪惡的。”
9 “自從你出埃及地以來，
我就是耶和華你的 神；
我必使你再住在帳棚裡，
像在節日的日子一樣，
10 我曾對先知說話，
加添許多異象；
又藉先知說比喻。
11 在基列仍有罪孽，
他們實在是沒有價值的。
他們在吉甲獻牛犢為祭，
他們的祭壇好像田間犁溝中的石堆。”
12 從前雅各逃到亞蘭地，
以色列為得妻子而作工，
為得妻子而替人放羊。
13 後來，耶和華藉著一位先知把以色列從埃及領上來，
也藉著一位先知，以色列得蒙看顧。
14 以法蓮大大地惹了主的烈怒，
所以，他的主把他流人血的罪歸到他身上，把他當受的羞辱歸給他。
Hosea 12
Holman Christian Standard Bible
God’s Case against Jacob’s Heirs
12 Ephraim chases[a] the wind(A)
and pursues the east wind.(B)
He continually multiplies lies and violence.
He makes a covenant with Assyria,(C)
and olive oil is carried to Egypt.(D)
2 The Lord also has a dispute with Judah.
He is about to punish Jacob according to his ways;(E)
He will repay him based on his actions.
3 In the womb he grasped his brother’s heel,(F)
and as an adult he wrestled with God.(G)
4 Jacob struggled with the Angel and prevailed;
he wept and sought His favor.(H)
He found him[b] at Bethel,(I)
and there He spoke with him.[c](J)
5 Yahweh is the God of Hosts;
Yahweh is His name.(K)
6 But you must return to your God.(L)
Maintain love and justice,(M)
and always put your hope in God.(N)
7 A merchant loves to extort(O)
with dishonest scales in his hands.(P)
8 But Ephraim says:
“How rich I have become;(Q)
I made it all myself.
In all my earnings,
no one can find any crime in me(R)
that I can be punished for!”[d]
Judgment on Apostate Israel
9 I have been Yahweh your God
ever since[e] the land of Egypt.(S)
I will make you live in tents again,(T)
as in the festival days.
10 I spoke through the prophets(U)
and granted many visions;
I gave parables through the prophets.(V)
11 Since Gilead is full of evil,(W)
they will certainly come to nothing.
They sacrifice bulls in Gilgal;(X)
even their altars will be like heaps of rocks(Y)
on the furrows of a field.
Further Indictment of Jacob’s Heirs
12 Jacob fled to the land of Aram.(Z)
Israel worked to earn a wife;(AA)
he tended flocks for a wife.(AB)
13 The Lord brought Israel from Egypt by a prophet,(AC)
and Israel was tended by a prophet.
14 Ephraim has provoked bitter anger,(AD)
so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt on him(AE)
and repay him for his contempt.(AF)
Footnotes
- Hosea 12:1 Or feeds on, or tends
- Hosea 12:4 Or Him
- Hosea 12:4 LXX, Syr; MT reads us
- Hosea 12:8 Lit crime which is sin
- Hosea 12:9 LXX reads God who brought you out of
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