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徇欲弃主必遭惩罚

以色列啊,不要像外邦人欢喜快乐,因为你行邪淫离弃你的神,在各谷场上如妓女喜爱赏赐。 谷场和酒榨都不够以色列人使用,新酒也必缺乏。 他们必不得住耶和华的地,以法莲却要归回埃及,必在亚述吃不洁净的食物。 他们必不得向耶和华奠酒,即便奠酒也不蒙悦纳。他们的祭物必如居丧者的食物,凡吃的必被玷污,因他们的食物只为自己的口腹,必不奉入耶和华的殿。 在大会的日子,到耶和华的节期,你们怎样行呢? 看哪,他们逃避灾难,埃及人必收殓他们的尸首,摩弗人必葬埋他们的骸骨。他们用银子做的美物上必长蒺藜,他们的帐篷中必生荆棘。 以色列人必知道降罚的日子临近,报应的时候来到。民说:“做先知的是愚昧,受灵感的是狂妄。”皆因他们多多作孽,大怀怨恨。 以法莲曾做我神守望的,至于先知,在他一切的道上作为捕鸟人的网罗,在他神的家中怀怨恨。 以法莲深深地败坏,如在基比亚的日子一样。耶和华必记念他们的罪孽,追讨他们的罪恶。

10 主说:“我遇见以色列如葡萄在旷野,我看见你们的列祖如无花果树上春季初熟的果子。他们却来到巴力毗珥专拜那可羞耻的,就成为可憎恶的,与他们所爱的一样。 11 至于以法莲人,他们的荣耀必如鸟飞去,必不生产,不怀胎,不成孕。 12 纵然养大儿女,我却必使他们丧子,甚至不留一个。我离弃他们,他们就有祸了。 13 我看以法莲推罗栽于美地,以法莲却要将自己的儿女带出来,交于行杀戮的人。” 14 耶和华啊,求你加给他们——加什么呢?要使他们胎坠乳干! 15 耶和华说:“他们一切的恶事都在吉甲,我在那里憎恶他们。因他们所行的恶,我必从我地上赶出他们去,不再怜爱他们。他们的首领都是悖逆的。 16 以法莲受责罚,根本枯干,必不能结果,即或生产,我必杀他们所生的爱子。” 17 我的神必弃绝他们,因为他们不听从他,他们也必漂流在列国中。

何西阿宣布对以色列的惩罚

以色列啊,
不要欢喜快乐,
不要像外族人那样欢喜快乐!
因为你对你的上帝不忠不贞,
在各麦场上喜爱卖淫得资财。
但麦场上的谷物将不够养活你们,
榨酒池里也将缺乏新酒。
你们将不能再住在耶和华的土地上。
以法莲要返回埃及,
在亚述吃不洁之物。
你们将不能再献奠祭给耶和华,
你们的祭牲也不蒙悦纳。
这些祭物如居丧之人的食物,
吃的人都被玷污。
你们的食物只能供自己吃,
不能带进耶和华的殿。
在耶和华所定的节期里,
你们要做什么呢?
即使你们逃脱毁灭之灾,
埃及人也要把你们聚集起来,
在摩弗埋葬你们。
你们的珍贵银器要散落在荆棘中,
你们的帐篷中要长满蒺藜。
以色列人受惩罚的日子近了,
遭报应的时候到了!
这点你们要知道。
你们罪恶深重,充满憎恨,
以致你们说:
“先知是傻瓜,
被灵感动的人是疯子。”
先知为了上帝做以法莲的守望者,
可是他走的路上布满网罗,
在他上帝的家里遭人憎恨。
你们败坏至极,
恰如从前在基比亚的日子。
耶和华必记住你们的罪恶,
追讨你们的罪债。

10 耶和华说:
“昔日我看见以色列时,
像在荒野看见葡萄;
看见你们的祖先时,
像在无花果树上看见初熟的果子。
但他们却祭拜巴力·毗珥,
把自己献给可耻的偶像,
变得像他们所爱的偶像一样可憎。
11 以法莲人的荣耀要如鸟飞逝,
你们将不能受孕,
不能怀胎,
也不能生育。
12 你们纵然把孩子养大,
我也要夺去他们的性命,一个也不留。
我撇弃你们的时候,
你们就有祸了!
13 我看见以法莲栽种在草原上,美如泰尔,
但以法莲却要把孩子交给屠杀者。”

14 耶和华啊,求你给他们——
你要给他们什么呢?
求你使他们子宫流产,乳房干瘪。

15 耶和华说:
“因他们在吉甲的一切恶行,
我已憎恶他们。
因他们的恶行,
我要将他们逐出我的家,
不再爱他们,
他们的首领都是悖逆之人。
16 以法莲要被击打,
他们的根将枯干,
再也不能结果。
就算他们能生儿育女,
我也要杀死他们心爱的孩子。”

17 我的上帝必弃绝他们,
因为他们不听从祂。
他们必在列国中流离飘泊。

Punishment for Israel

Do not rejoice, Israel;
    do not be jubilant(A) like the other nations.
For you have been unfaithful(B) to your God;
    you love the wages of a prostitute(C)
    at every threshing floor.
Threshing floors and winepresses will not feed the people;
    the new wine(D) will fail them.
They will not remain(E) in the Lord’s land;
    Ephraim will return to Egypt(F)
    and eat unclean food in Assyria.(G)
They will not pour out wine offerings(H) to the Lord,
    nor will their sacrifices please(I) him.
Such sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners;(J)
    all who eat them will be unclean.(K)
This food will be for themselves;
    it will not come into the temple of the Lord.(L)

What will you do(M) on the day of your appointed festivals,(N)
    on the feast days of the Lord?
Even if they escape from destruction,
    Egypt will gather them,(O)
    and Memphis(P) will bury them.(Q)
Their treasures of silver(R) will be taken over by briers,
    and thorns(S) will overrun their tents.
The days of punishment(T) are coming,
    the days of reckoning(U) are at hand.
    Let Israel know this.
Because your sins(V) are so many
    and your hostility so great,
the prophet is considered a fool,(W)
    the inspired person a maniac.(X)
The prophet, along with my God,
    is the watchman over Ephraim,[a]
yet snares(Y) await him on all his paths,
    and hostility in the house of his God.(Z)
They have sunk deep into corruption,(AA)
    as in the days of Gibeah.(AB)
God will remember(AC) their wickedness
    and punish them for their sins.(AD)

10 “When I found Israel,
    it was like finding grapes in the desert;
when I saw your ancestors,
    it was like seeing the early fruit(AE) on the fig(AF) tree.
But when they came to Baal Peor,(AG)
    they consecrated themselves to that shameful idol(AH)
    and became as vile as the thing they loved.
11 Ephraim’s glory(AI) will fly away like a bird(AJ)
    no birth, no pregnancy, no conception.(AK)
12 Even if they rear children,
    I will bereave(AL) them of every one.
Woe(AM) to them
    when I turn away from them!(AN)
13 I have seen Ephraim,(AO) like Tyre,
    planted in a pleasant place.(AP)
But Ephraim will bring out
    their children to the slayer.”(AQ)

14 Give them, Lord
    what will you give them?
Give them wombs that miscarry
    and breasts that are dry.(AR)

15 “Because of all their wickedness in Gilgal,(AS)
    I hated them there.
Because of their sinful deeds,(AT)
    I will drive them out of my house.
I will no longer love them;(AU)
    all their leaders are rebellious.(AV)
16 Ephraim(AW) is blighted,
    their root is withered,
    they yield no fruit.(AX)
Even if they bear children,
    I will slay(AY) their cherished offspring.”

17 My God will reject(AZ) them
    because they have not obeyed(BA) him;
    they will be wanderers among the nations.(BB)

Footnotes

  1. Hosea 9:8 Or The prophet is the watchman over Ephraim, / the people of my God

Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.

The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.

They shall not dwell in the Lord's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

They shall not offer wine offerings to the Lord, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the Lord.

What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the Lord?

For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.

The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.

The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.

They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.

11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

12 Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.

14 Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.

16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.

17 My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.