何西阿書4:1-3

4:1 以色列人哪，你們當聽耶和華的話。耶和華與這地的居民爭辯，因這地上無誠實，無良善，無人認識上帝。

4:2 但起假誓，不踐前言，殺害，偷盜，姦淫，行強暴，殺人流血，接連不斷。

4:3 因此，這地悲哀，其上的民、田野的獸、空中的鳥必都衰微，海中的魚也必消滅。

1 Hear the word of the Lord, O children of Israel,

for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land.

There is no faithfulness or steadfast love,

and no knowledge of God in the land;

2 there is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery;

they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

3 Therefore the land mourns,

and all who dwell in it languish,

 and also the beasts of the field

and the birds of the heavens,

 and even the fish of the sea are taken away.

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    先知在這裡說道不順服上帝的結果：「這地悲哀，其上的民、田野的獸、空中的鳥必都衰微，海中的魚也必消滅。」

    所以，我們必須行在正路上，走在上帝的光明中，才能蒙上帝的賜福，不要去行彎曲的事，如先知在這裡所說：「起假誓，不踐前言，殺害，偷盜，姦淫，行強暴，殺人流血，接連不斷。」

    人之所以如此，就是因為「這地上無誠實，無良善，無人認識上帝」。也因為如此，人要透過讀聖經來認識上帝，才能靠耶穌基督的救恩回到上帝面前，成為上帝的兒女。

何西阿書3章

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何西阿書3:1-5

3:1 耶和華對我說：「你再去愛一個淫婦，就是她情人所愛的；好像以色列人，雖然偏向別神，喜愛葡萄餅，耶和華還是愛他們。」

3:2 我便用銀子十五舍客勒，大麥一賀梅珥半，買她歸我。

3:3 我對她說：「你當多日為我獨居，不可行淫，不可歸別人為妻，我向你也必這樣。」

3:4 以色列人也必多日獨居，無君王，無首領，無祭祀，無柱像，無以弗得，無家中的神像。

3:5 後來以色列人必歸回（或譯：回心轉意），尋求他們的上帝─耶和華和他們的王大衛。在末後的日子，必以敬畏的心歸向耶和華，領受他的恩惠。

1 And the Lord said to me, "Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins." 2 So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley. 3 And I said to her, "You must dwell as mine for many days. You shall not play the whore, or belong to another man; so will I also be to you." 4 For the children of Israel shall dwell many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or household gods. 5 Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the Lord their God, and David their king, and they shall come in fear to the Lord and to his goodness in the latter days.

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    上帝在此要先知藉由「行動劇」的方式，來須講祂的信息，讓我們看見上帝要再一次接納以色列，雖然他們過去是背離上帝的。

    其實不只是以色列，只要人願意接受耶穌基督的救恩，就可以回到上帝的家，成為上帝的兒女。

    讓我們為此恩典感謝上帝，透過這恩典，我們可以享受永生無限，感謝上帝！

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！