Hosea 7
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
7 When I would heal Israel, then Ephraim’s guilt is uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria; how they practice falsehood, and the thief enters and the troop of bandits ravage and raid without.
2 But they do not consider and say to their minds and hearts that I [earnestly] remember all their wickedness. Now their own doings surround and entangle them; they are before My face.
3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
4 They are all [idolatrous] adulterers; their passion smolders like heat of an oven when the baker ceases to stir the fire from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
5 On the [special] day of our king the princes made themselves and him sick with the heat of wine; [the king] stretched out his hand with scoffers and lawless men.
6 For they have made ready their heart, and their mind burns [with intrigue] like an oven while they lie in wait. Their anger smolders all night; in the morning it blazes forth as a flaming fire.
7 They are all hot as an oven and devour their judges; all their kings are fallen; there is none among them who calls to Me.
8 Ephraim mixes himself among the peoples [courting the favor of first one country, then another]; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knows it not; yes, gray hairs are sprinkled here and there upon him, and he does not know it.
10 And the pride of Israel testifies against him and to his face. But they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek nor inquire of nor require Him in spite of all this.
11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart or understanding; they call to Egypt; they go to Assyria.
12 As they go, I will spread My net over them; I will bring them down like birds of the heavens. I will chastise them according to the announcement [or prediction made] to their congregation [in the Scriptures].(A)
13 Woe to them, for they have wandered from Me! Destruction to them, because they have rebelled and trespassed against Me! Though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against Me.
14 They do not cry to Me from their heart, but they wail upon their beds; they gash and distress and assemble themselves [in mourning] for grain and new wine; they rebel against Me.
15 Although I have chastened them and trained and strengthened their arms, yet they think and devise evil against Me.
16 They turn back, shift, or change, but not upwards [to the Most High]. They are like a deceitful bow; their princes shall fall by the sword for the insolence and rage of their tongue. This shall be [cause for] their derision and scorning in the land of Egypt.
何西阿書 7
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)
7 每當我要醫治以色列的時候，
卻看見以法蓮的罪，撒瑪利亞[a]的惡。
他們行事詭詐；
盜賊進屋偷竊，強盜外出搶劫。
2 他們沒有想到我記得他們的所有惡行。
如今他們的罪惡環繞他們，
都暴露在我面前。
3 他們以罪惡取悅君王，
以謊言討好首領。
4 他們都是通姦之徒[b]，
就像熱烘烘的烤爐，
從揉麵到麵團發起，
烤餅的人不用挑爐火。
5 君王宴樂的時候，
首領們醉酒成病，
君王也與輕慢上帝的人聯手。
6 他們的心如烤爐，燃燒著陰謀。
他們的怒氣如整夜悶燒的爐火，
早晨爆發出熊熊烈焰。
7 他們像炙熱的烤爐，
吞滅他們的首領。
他們的君王都倒地而亡，
沒有一個向我求救。
8 「以法蓮與外族人混雜，
就像沒有翻過的餅[c]。
9 外族人耗盡了他的力量，
他卻茫然不知。
他頭髮斑白，
卻渾然不覺。
10 以色列人被自己的傲慢指控，
他們卻不歸向他們的上帝耶和華，
也不去尋求祂。
11 以法蓮像鴿子一樣愚蠢無知，
他們向埃及求救，又投奔亞述。
12 他們去的時候，
我要張網網住他們，
我要像打落飛鳥一樣打落他們。
我要按他們的惡行[d]懲罰他們。
13 他們有禍了，
因為他們背棄我！
他們要被毀滅了，
因為他們背叛我！
我要救贖他們，
他們卻向我撒謊。
14 他們沒有真心呼求我，
只是在床上哭號。
他們為求五穀和新酒而割傷自己，
卻背棄了我。
15 我訓練他們，使他們臂膀強壯，
他們卻陰謀作惡抗拒我。
16 他們回轉，卻不肯轉向至高者，
他們就像無用的斷弓。
他們的首領要因出言狂妄而喪身刀下，
成為埃及人的笑柄。
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