1 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. 2 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her. 3 They shall not dwell in the LORD’s land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria. 4 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. 5 What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD? 6 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.
7 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. 8 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. 9 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 Baal-peor, 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.
1 以色列啊! 不要欢喜; 不要像外族人一样快乐, 因为你行了邪淫, 离开你的 神, 在各打谷场上喜爱卖淫的赏赐。
2 打谷场和榨酒池不能喂养他们, 新酒也必使他们失望。
3 他们必不得住在耶和华之地; 以法莲要回到埃及去, 要在亚述吃不洁之物。
4 他们必不得向耶和华奠酒, 他们的祭物也不能使他喜悦。他们的饼好像丧家的饼, 凡吃这饼的, 都必被玷污; 因为他们的饼只可自己吃, 不可带进耶和华的殿。
5 那么, 在规定集会的日子和耶和华节期的时候, 你们能作什么?
6 看哪! 他们逃到亚述去, 埃及要收殓他们, 摩弗要埋葬他们。他们珍贵的银器必为蒺藜所占有, 他们的帐棚必长满荆棘。
7 惩罚的日子临近, 报应的时候来到, 以色列必定知道, 因着你们众多的罪孽和深仇大恨, 先知被看为愚昧, 受灵感动的人被当作疯子。
8 先知与 神一同作以法莲的守望者, 在他所行的一切路上, 都满有捕鸟人的网罗, 在他 神的家中只有仇恨。
9 以法莲深深败坏, 如同在基比亚的日子一般。 神必记得他们的罪孽, 惩罚他们的罪恶。
10 "我遇见以色列, 好像在旷野里遇见葡萄。我看见你们的列祖, 像看见无花果树初熟的果子。他们却来到巴力.毗珥, 专作羞耻的事, 成为可憎恶的, 像他们所爱的偶像一样。
11 至于以法莲, 他们的荣耀必如鸟儿飞逝; 没有生育, 没有怀胎, 没有成孕。
12 即使他们把儿女养大, 我也必使他们丧子, 一个不留。我离弃他们的时候, 他们就有祸了。"
13 在我看来, 以法莲的儿女注定被当作猎物; 以法莲要把自己的儿女带出来, 交给施行杀戮的人。
14 耶和华啊, 求你赐给他们; 你要赐给他们什么呢?求你使他们坠胎小产, 乳房萎缩。
15 "他们的一切罪恶都在吉甲, 我在那里憎恨他们, 因他们的恶行, 我要把他们从我的家里赶出来; 我不再爱他们, 他们的领袖都是叛徒。
16 以法莲被击打, 他们的根枯干了, 必不能再结果子。即使他们生产, 我必杀死他们所生的爱子。"
17 我的 神必弃绝他们, 因为他们不听从他; 他们必在列国中飘流。