1 Put the horn to your mouth. He comes like an eagle against the house of the Lord; because they have gone against my agreement, they have not kept my law.

2 They will send up to me a cry for help: We, Israel, have knowledge of you, O God of Israel.

3 Israel has given up what is good; his haters will go after him.

4 They have put up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, but I had no knowledge of it; they have made images of silver and gold, so that they may be cut off.

5 I will have nothing to do with your young ox, O Samaria; my wrath is burning against them; how long will it be before the children of Israel make themselves clean?

6 The workman made it, it is no god; the ox of Samaria will be broken into bits.

7 For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.

8 Israel has come to destruction; now they are among the nations like a cup in which there is no pleasure.

9 For they have gone up to Assyria like an ass going by himself; Ephraim has given money to get lovers.

10 But though they give money to the nations for help, still I will send them in all directions; and in a short time they will be without a king and rulers.

11 Because Ephraim has been increasing altars for sin, altars have become a cause of sin to him.

12 Though I put my law in writing for him in ten thousand rules, they are to him as a strange thing.

13 He gives the offerings of his lovers, and takes the flesh for food; but the Lord has no pleasure in them; now he will keep in mind their evil-doing and give them the punishment of their sins; they will go back to Egypt.

14 For Israel has no memory of his Maker, and has put up the houses of kings; and Judah has made great the number of his walled towns. But I will send a fire on his towns and put an end to his great houses.

1 "你要把号角放在你的嘴上， 敌人如鹰一般来攻击耶和华的家； 因为他们违背了我的约， 干犯了我的律法。

2 他们必向我哀求： ‘我的 神啊！ 我们以色列认识你。’

3 以色列弃绝了良善， 所以仇敌必追赶他。

4 "他们立了君王， 却不是出于我； 他们立了首领， 我却不知道。他们用自己的金银为自己做了偶像， 以致他们被剪除。

5 撒玛利亚啊！ 我要除掉你的牛犊， 我的怒气要向撒玛利亚人发作， 他们要到几时才能无罪免罚呢？

6 这牛犊是出于以色列， 是匠人所做的， 它并不是神， 撒玛利亚的牛犊必被粉碎。

7 他们播种的是风， 收成的是暴风。生出来的苗没有麦穗， 不能做成面粉； 即或做成面粉， 也必被别国的人吞吃。

8 以色列被吞吃， 如今在万国中， 好像没有人喜悦的器皿。

9 他们上去投奔亚述， 像一只独行的野驴， 以法莲贿买爱人。

10 他们虽然在列国中贿买人， 我现在却要招聚他们。他们因着君王和领袖所加的重担， 逐渐衰微。

11 以法莲增添好些祭坛去犯罪， 这些就成了他们犯罪的祭坛。

12 我虽然为他们写了律法万条， 他们却看作是为外族人写的， 与他们毫无关系一般。

13 他们喜爱献祭， 献肉为祭， 又拿来吃； 耶和华却不喜悦他们。他必记得他们的罪孽， 追讨他们的罪恶； 他们必回到埃及去。

14 以色列忘记了造他的主， 建造了很多宫殿； 犹大也增添了很多坚固城。我却要降火在他的众城中， 吞灭他的堡垒。"