何西阿書2:14-23

2:14 後來我必勸導她，領她到曠野，對她說安慰的話。

2:15 她從那裡出來，我必賜她葡萄園，又賜她亞割谷作為指望的門。她必在那裡應聲（或譯：歌唱），與幼年的日子一樣，與從埃及地上來的時候相同。

2:16 耶和華說：「那日你必稱呼我伊施（就是我夫的意思），不再稱呼我巴力（就是我主的意思）；

2:17 因為我必從我民的口中除掉諸巴力的名號，這名號不再提起。

2:18 當那日，我必為我的民，與田野的走獸和空中的飛鳥，並地上的昆蟲立約；又必在國中折斷弓刀，止息爭戰，使他們安然躺臥。

2:19 我必聘你永遠歸我為妻，以仁義、公平、慈愛、憐憫聘你歸我；

2:20 也以誠實聘你歸我，你就必認識我─耶和華。

2:21 耶和華說：那日我必應允，我必應允天，天必應允地；

2:22 地必應允五穀、新酒，和油，這些必應允耶斯列民（耶斯列就是上帝栽種的意思）。

2:23 我必將她種在這地。素不蒙憐憫的，我必憐憫；本非我民的，我必對他說：你是我的民；他必說：你是我的上帝。」

“Therefore, behold, I will allure her,

and bring her into the wilderness,

and speak tenderly to her.

  And there I will give her her vineyards

and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope.

And there she shall answer as in the days of her youth,

as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.

“And in that day, declares the Lord, you will call me ‘My Husband,’ and no longer will you call me ‘My Baal.’  For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be remembered by name no more.  And I will make for them a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the ground. And I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in safety.  And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.  I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And you shall know the Lord.

  “And in that day I will answer, declares the Lord,

I will answer the heavens,

and they shall answer the earth,

  and the earth shall answer the grain, the wine, and the

oil,

and they shall answer Jezreel,

  and I will sow her for myself in the land.

And I will have mercy on No Mercy,

and I will say to Not My People, You are my people’;

and he shall say, ‘You are my God.’”

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    上帝在此說明祂對以色列的拯救，使她不再是「奴僕」，而成為「妻子」，正如先知在此所說：「那日你必稱呼我伊施（就是我夫的意思），不再稱呼我巴力（就是我主的意思）；因為我必從我民的口中除掉諸巴力的名號，這名號不再提起。」

    不僅如此，「我必聘你永遠歸我為妻，以仁義、公平、慈愛、憐憫聘你歸我；也以誠實聘你歸我，你就必認識我─耶和華」。這就讓我們想起教會如同新娘，要使自己無瑕疵來歸給基督。

    而且上帝還要因基督的緣故賜福土地，使人因此蒙福！正如先知所說：「地必應允五穀、新酒，和油，這些必應允耶斯列民（耶斯列就是上帝栽種的意思）。我必將她種在這地。素不蒙憐憫的，我必憐憫；本非我民的，我必對他說：你是我的民；他必說：你是我的上帝。」

    這一切都在耶穌基督裡成就了！

何西阿書2:7-13

2:7 她必追隨所愛的，卻追不上；她必尋找他們，卻尋不見，便說：我要歸回前夫，因我那時的光景比如今還好。

2:8 她不知道是我給她五穀、新酒，和油，又加增她的金銀；她卻以此供奉（或譯：製造）巴力。

2:9 因此到了收割的日子，出酒的時候，我必將我的五穀新酒收回，也必將她應當遮體的羊毛和麻奪回來。

2:10 如今我必在她所愛的眼前顯露她的醜態；必無人能救她脫離我的手。

2:11 我也必使她的宴樂、節期、月朔、安息日，並她的一切大會都止息了。

2:12 我也必毀壞她的葡萄樹和無花果樹，就是她說「這是我所愛的給我為賞賜」的。我必使這些樹變為荒林，為田野的走獸所吃。

2:13 我必追討她素日給諸巴力燒香的罪；那時她佩帶耳環和別樣妝飾，隨從她所愛的，卻忘記我。這是耶和華說的。

She shall pursue her lovers

but not overtake them,

and she shall seek them

but shall not find them.

Then she shall say,

‘I will go and return to my first husband,

for it was better for me then than now.’

  And she did not know

that it was I who gave her

the grain, the wine, and the oil,

and who lavished on her silver and gold,

which they used for Baal.

  Therefore I will take back

my grain in its time,

and my wine in its season,

and I will take away my wool and my flax,

which were to cover her nakedness.

  Now I will uncover her lewdness

in the sight of her lovers,

and no one shall rescue her out of my hand.

  And I will put an end to all her mirth,

her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths,

and all her appointed feasts.

  And I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees,

of which she said,

‘These are my wages,

which my lovers have given me.’

I will make them a forest,

and the beasts of the field shall devour them.

  And I will punish her for the feast days of the Baals

when she burned offerings to them

and adorned herself with her ring and jewelry

and went after her lovers

and forgot me, declares the Lord.

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    上帝在此彰顯以色列人的罪，使他們失去一切的豐盛，好使他們脫離偶像崇拜！

何西阿書2章

     何西阿書2:1-6    ,  何西阿書2:7-13   ,  何西阿書2:14-23  ,

何西阿書2:1-6

2:1 你們要稱你們的弟兄為阿米（就是我民的意思），稱你們的姊妹為路哈瑪（就是蒙憐憫的意思）。

2:2 你們要與你們的母親大大爭辯；因為她不是我的妻子，我也不是她的丈夫。叫她除掉臉上的淫像和胸間的淫態，

2:3 免得我剝她的衣服，使她赤體，與才生的時候一樣，使她如曠野，如乾旱之地，因渴而死。

2:4 我必不憐憫她的兒女，因為他們是從淫亂而生的。

2:5 他們的母親行了淫亂，懷他們的母做了可羞恥的事，因為她說：我要隨從所愛的；我的餅、水、羊毛、麻、油、酒都是他們給的。

2:6 因此，我必用荊棘堵塞她的道，築牆擋住她，使她找不著路。

​  Say to your brothers, “You are my people,” and to your sisters, “You have received mercy.”

  “Plead with your mother, plead—

for she is not my wife,

and I am not her husband—

that she put away her whoring from her face,

and her adultery from between her breasts;

  lest I strip her naked

and make her as in the day she was born,

and make her like a wilderness,

and make her like a parched land,

and kill her with thirst.

Upon her children also I will have no mercy,

because they are children of whoredom.

  For their mother has played the whore;

she who conceived them has acted shamefully.

For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,

who give me my bread and my water,

my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’

  Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns,

and I will build a wall against her,

so that she cannot find her paths.

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    先知在此說明以色列在信仰上不忠，與淫婦沒有兩樣！因為信仰是人內心最基本的部分，是上帝有親密關係之表現。如今以色列不尊崇上帝，以別神代替耶和華，跟淫亂沒有兩樣！

何西阿書1:8-11

1:8 歌篾給羅‧路哈瑪斷奶以後，又懷孕生了一個兒子。

1:9 耶和華說：「給他起名叫羅‧阿米（就是非我民的意思）；因為你們不作我的子民，我也不作你們的上帝。」

1:10 然而，以色列的人數必如海沙，不可量，不可數。從前在甚麼地方對他們說「你們不是我的子民」，將來在那裡必對他們說「你們是永生上帝的兒子」。

1:11 猶大人和以色列人必一同聚集，為自己立一個首領，從這地上去（或譯：從被擄之地上來），因為耶斯列的日子必為大日。

8 When she had weaned No Mercy, she conceived and bore a son. 9 And the Lord said, "Call his name Not My People, for you are not my people, and I am not your God."

10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And in the place where it was said to them, "You are not my people," it shall be said to them, "Children of the living God." 11 And the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint for themselves one head. And they shall go up from the land, for great shall be the day of Jezreel.

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    先知在此宣告以色列會被棄絕，但不是永遠的，因為上帝會再一次收納他們，並且稱他們為：「永生上帝的兒子」。並且上帝還會使人數加增，如經文所說：「以色列的人數必如海沙，不可量，不可數。」

    在上帝沒有難成的事，上帝必定成就！「以色列」不是一個不好的名字，它的意思是「上帝的王子」，是上帝賜給雅各的，為要紀念雅各是上帝所愛、所寶貝的。也讓我們感受到：上帝的憤怒是一時的，祂的慈愛卻是永遠的！

    既然如此，我們要透過耶穌悔改歸向上帝，享受上帝在基督了恩典，使自己成為上帝真正的兒女。

何西阿書1:6-7

1:6 歌篾又懷孕生了一個女兒，耶和華對何西阿說：「給她起名叫羅‧路哈瑪（就是不蒙憐憫的意思）；因為我必不再憐憫以色列家，決不赦免他們。

1:7 我卻要憐憫猶大家，使他們靠耶和華─他們的上帝得救，不使他們靠弓、刀、爭戰、馬匹，與馬兵得救。」

She conceived again and bore a daughter. And the Lord said to him, "Call her name No Mercy, for I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all. But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and I will save them by the Lord their God. I will not save them by bow or by sword or by war or by horses or by horsemen."

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    上帝又再一次藉由歌篾的小孩來宣告祂的信息，讓人看見上帝雖然不憐憫以色列家，卻仍然憐憫猶大家，使他們靠耶和華─他們的上帝得救！

    這樣的宣告讓我們認識倚靠上帝，勝過倚靠弓、刀、爭戰、馬匹，與馬兵。因為人只倚靠可以看的見的，卻不倚靠那創造天地與掌管萬有的上帝，導致最後敗亡還不知原因。

    這也是聖經一直向我們強調的，要我們認識我們當倚靠的是上帝。