何西阿书 4
Chinese New Version (Simplified)
以色列人的罪行
4 以色列人哪！你们要听耶和华的话。
耶和华要与这地的居民争辩，
因为在这地上没有诚实，没有慈爱，
也没有认识 神的知识；
2 只有起假誓、撒谎、残杀、偷盗、奸淫、行强暴，以至流人血事件相继而来。
3 因此，这地必悲哀，
地上所有的居民、
田野的走兽、空中的飞鸟都必衰微、枯萎，连海里的鱼也要灭亡。
祭司的罪行
4 虽然这样，人人都不必争论，不要彼此指责。
你的民像争辩的祭司一样。
5 白天你要跌倒，
晚上先知也必与你一同跌倒；
我要毁灭你的母亲。
6 我的子民因无知识而灭亡；
因为你拒绝了知识，
我必拒绝你，不让你作我的祭司；
因为你忘掉了你 神的律法，
我也必忘记你的子孙。
7 祭司越增多，就越发得罪我，
我必把他们的尊荣变为耻辱。
8 他们借着我的子民犯罪来养活自己，
渴望他们多有罪孽。
9 所以，祭司怎样，人民也怎样。
我必按他们的行为惩罚他们，
照他们的行为报应他们。
10 他们吃，却吃不饱；
行淫，人数却不会增多；
因为他们离弃了耶和华，不遵守他的命令。
拜偶像的罪行
11 淫行、酒和新酒，把人的心夺走了。
12 我的子民求问木头，由木杖引导他们，
因为淫荡的灵使他们走迷了路，
他们就行淫不顺从 神。
13 他们在山顶上献祭，
在冈陵上的橡树、杨树和栗树之下献祭烧香，
因为树荫美好。
所以你们的女儿行淫乱，
你们的儿媳犯奸淫。
14 我却不因你们的女儿行淫乱，
也不因你们的儿媳犯奸淫而惩罚她们，
因为你们男人自己离群与娼妓在一起，
又与庙妓一同献祭。
这无知的人民必遭毁灭。
耶和华的警告
15 以色列啊！你虽然行淫，
犹大却不可犯罪，
不要往吉甲去，
不要上到伯．亚文，
也不要指着永活的耶和华起誓。
16 以色列倔强，
好象倔强的母牛，
现在耶和华怎样牧放他们，
好象牧放宽阔草场上的羊羔呢？
17 以法莲和偶像连在一起，
任凭他吧！
18 他们醉意全消以后，
就不断行淫；
他们的官长最喜爱耻辱的事。
19 风要把他们裹在翅膀里卷去，
他们必因自己所献的祭祀而蒙受羞辱。
Hosea 4
New American Standard Bible
God’s Controversy with Israel
4 (A)Listen to the word of the Lord, you sons of Israel,
Because the Lord has a (B)case against the inhabitants of the land,
For there is (C)no [a]faithfulness, nor [b]loyalty,
Nor (D)knowledge of God in the land.
2 There is (E)oath-taking, [c](F)denial, (G)murder, (H)stealing, and (I)adultery.
They employ violence, so that (J)bloodshed [d]follows bloodshed.
3 Therefore the land (K)mourns,
And everyone who lives in it languishes
Along with the animals of the field and the birds of the sky,
And even the fish of the sea [e]disappear.
4 Yet let no one [f](L)find fault, and let no one rebuke;
For your people are like those who (M)contend with a priest.
5 So you will (N)stumble by day,
And the prophet also will stumble with you by night;
And I will destroy your (O)mother.
6 (P)My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Since you have (Q)rejected knowledge,
I also will (R)reject you from being My priest.
Since you have (S)forgotten the (T)Law of your God,
I also will forget your children.
7 The more they (U)multiplied, the more they sinned against Me;
I will (V)change their glory into shame.
8 They (W)feed on the [g]sin of My people,
And (X)long for their wrongdoing.
9 And it will be, like people, (Y)like priest;
So I will (Z)punish them for their ways
And repay them for their deeds.
10 (AA)They will eat, but not have enough;
They will (AB)play the prostitute, but not [h]increase,
Because they (AC)gave up devoting themselves to the Lord.
11 [i]Infidelity, (AD)wine, and new wine take away the [j]understanding.
12 My people (AE)consult their wooden idol, and their diviner’s wand informs them;
For a spirit of infidelity has led them astray,
And they have been unfaithful, departing [k]from their God.
13 They offer sacrifices on the (AF)tops of the mountains
And [l](AG)burn incense on the hills,
(AH)Under oak, poplar, and terebinth,
Because their shade is pleasant.
Therefore your daughters play the prostitute,
And your [m]brides commit adultery.
14 I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute,
Or your [n]brides when they commit adultery,
Because the men themselves slip away with the prostitutes
And offer sacrifices with (AI)temple prostitutes;
So the people without understanding are ruined.
15 Though you, Israel, play the prostitute,
Judah must not become guilty;
Also you are not to go to (AJ)Gilgal,
Nor go up to Beth-aven
(AK)And take the oath:
“As the Lord lives!”
16 Since Israel is (AL)stubborn
Like a stubborn cow,
[o]Will the Lord now (AM)pasture them
Like a lamb in a large field?
17 Ephraim is allied with (AN)idols;
(AO)Leave him alone.
18 Their liquor is gone,
They prostitute themselves continually;
[p](AP)Their [q]rulers dearly love shame.
19 (AQ)The wind wraps them in its wings,
And they will be [r]put to shame because of their sacrifices.
Footnotes
- Hosea 4:1 Or truth
- Hosea 4:1 Or kindness
- Hosea 4:2 I.e., of truth
- Hosea 4:2 Lit touches
- Hosea 4:3 Lit are taken away
- Hosea 4:4 Lit contend
- Hosea 4:8 Or sin offering
- Hosea 4:10 I.e., either in population or wealth
- Hosea 4:11 Or Prostitution
- Hosea 4:11 Lit heart
- Hosea 4:12 Lit from under
- Hosea 4:13 Or offer sacrifices
- Hosea 4:13 Or daughters-in-law
- Hosea 4:14 Or daughters-in-law
- Hosea 4:16 Or The Lord will now pasture...field.
- Hosea 4:18 Another reading is They dearly love the shame of gifts
- Hosea 4:18 Lit shields
- Hosea 4:19 Or ashamed
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