¹ 当乌西雅、约坦、亚哈斯、希西家作犹大王，约阿施的儿子耶罗波安作以色列王的时候，耶和华的话临到备利的儿子何西阿。

² 耶和华初次与何西阿说话，对他说：你去娶淫妇为妻，也收那从淫乱所生的儿女；因为这地大行淫乱，离弃耶和华。

³ 於是，何西阿去娶了滴拉音的女儿歌篾。这妇人怀孕，给他生了一个儿子。

⁴ 耶和华对何西阿说：给他起名叫耶斯列；因为再过片时，我必讨耶户家在耶斯列杀人流血的罪，也必使以色列家的国灭绝。

⁵ 到那日，我必在耶斯列平原折断以色列的弓。

⁶ 歌篾又怀孕生了一个女儿，耶和华对何西阿说：给她起名叫罗路哈玛（就是不蒙怜悯的意思）；因为我必不再怜悯以色列家，决不赦免他们。

⁷ 我却要怜悯犹大家，使他们靠耶和华─他们的神得救，不使他们靠弓、刀、争战、马匹，与马兵得救。

⁸ 歌篾给罗路哈玛断奶以後，又怀孕生了一个儿子。

⁹ 耶和华说：给他起名叫罗阿米（就是非我民的意思）；因为你们不作我的子民，我也不作你们的神。

¹⁰ 然而，以色列的人数必如海沙，不可量，不可数。从前在甚麽地方对他们说你们不是我的子民，将来在那里必对他们说你们是永生神的儿子。

¹¹ 犹大人和以色列人必一同聚集，为自己立一个首领，从这地上去（或译：从被掳之地上来），因为耶斯列的日子必为大日。

¹ You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before yourself, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem:

² and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it all around.

³ Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city: and set your face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

⁴ Moreover lie on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; [according to] the number of the days that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity.

⁵ For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be to you a number of days, even three hundred ninety days: so you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

⁶ Again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah: forty days, each day for a year, have I appointed it to you.

⁷ You shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered; and you shall prophesy against it.

⁸ Behold, I lay bands on you, and you shall not turn you from one side to the other, until you have accomplished the days of your siege.

⁹ Take for yourself also wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make bread of it; [according to] the number of the days that you shall lie on your side, even three hundred ninety days, you shall eat of it.

¹⁰ Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time you shall eat it.

¹¹ You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time you shall drink.

¹² You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man.

¹³ Yahweh said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.