¹因拜偶像而荣华尽失

¹When Ephraim speaketh tremblingly, He hath been lifted up in Israel, When he becometh guilty in Baal he dieth.

²现在他们犯罪越来越多，为自己做铸像，按着自己的技巧，用自己的银子做偶像；这些都是匠人的手工。他们论到这些说：“向偶像献祭的人，可以与牛犊亲嘴。”

²And now do they add to sin, And make to them a molten image of their silver, By their own understanding — idols, A work of artizans — all of it, Of them they say, who [are] sacrificers among men, `The calves let them kiss.`

³因此，他们必像早晨的云雾，又如易逝的朝露，又像打谷场上的糠秕被旋风吹去，又像烟气从烟窗上腾。

³Therefore they are as a cloud of the morning, And as dew, rising early, going away, As chaff tossed about out of a floor, And as smoke out of a window.

⁴因骄傲而忘记主“自从你出埃及地以来，我就是耶和华你的　神。除我以外，你不可有别的神；除我以外，再没有拯救者。

⁴And I [am] Jehovah thy God from the land of Egypt, And a God besides Me thou dost not know, And a Saviour — there is none save Me.

⁵我曾在旷野，在干旱之地，认识你。

⁵I — I have known thee in a wilderness, In a land of droughts.

⁶但他们得了喂养，饱足以后，就心高气傲，因此忘记了我。

⁶According to their feedings they are satiated, They have been satiated, And their heart is lifted up, Therefore they have forgotten Me,

⁷所以我要像狮子临到他们，像豹子埋伏在路旁。

⁷And I am to them as a lion, As a leopard by the way I look out.

⁸我要袭击他们，像一只失掉幼熊的母熊，撕裂他们的胸膛；在那里我必像一只母狮吞吃他们；野兽必撕裂他们。

⁸I do meet them as a bereaved bear, And I rend the enclosure of their heart.

⁹必受极重的刑罚“以色列啊，我要毁灭你，谁能帮助你呢？

⁹And I consume them there as a lioness, A beast of the field doth rend them.

¹⁰现在你的王在哪里？让他拯救你吧！你所有的领袖在哪里？让他们治理你吧！因为论到他们你曾请求：‘把王和领袖赐给我。’

¹⁰Thou hast destroyed thyself, O Israel, But in Me [is] thy help, Where [is] thy king now — And he doth save thee in all thy cities? And thy judges of whom thou didst say, `Give to me a king and heads?`

¹¹我在忿怒中把王赐给你，又在烈怒中把他废去。

¹¹I give to thee a king in Mine anger, And I take away in My wrath.

¹²以法莲的罪孽是封着的，他的罪恶贮藏起来。

¹²Bound up [is] the iniquity of Ephraim, Hidden [is] his sin,

¹³生产的疼痛要临到他身上，他却是没有智慧的人，因为产期到了，他还迟延不破胎而出。

¹³Pangs of a travailing woman come to him, He [is] a son not wise, For he remaineth not the time for the breaking forth of sons.

¹⁴我要救赎他们脱离阴间的权势吗？救赎他们脱离死亡吗？死亡啊，你的灾害在哪里？阴间啊，你的毁灭在哪里？怜悯必从我眼前隐藏起来。

¹⁴From the hand of Sheol I do ransom them, From death I redeem them, Where [is] thy plague, O death? Where thy destruction, O Sheol? Repentance is hid from Mine eyes.

¹⁵他虽然在芦苇中长得茂盛，但东风必要来到，耶和华的风要从旷野上来，他的水泉就干涸，他的泉源就枯竭。他所贮藏的一切珍贵器皿，都被掠夺去了。

¹⁵Though he among brethren produceth fruit, Come in doth an east wind, a wind of Jehovah, From a wilderness it is coming up, And it drieth up his fountain, And become dry doth his spring, It — it spoileth a treasure — every desirable vessel.

¹⁶撒玛利亚必承担自己罪的刑罚，因为他背叛了他的　神。他们必倒在刀下。他们的婴孩被摔死，他们的孕妇必被剖开肚腹。”（本节在《马索拉抄本》为14:1）

¹⁶Become desolate doth Samaria, Because she hath rebelled against her God, By sword they do fall, Their sucklings are dashed in pieces, And its pregnant ones are ripped up!