¹ 你们要称你们的弟兄为阿米（就是我民的意思），称你们的姊妹为路哈玛（就是蒙怜悯的意思）。

² 你们要与你们的母亲大大争辩；因为她不是我的妻子，我也不是她的丈夫。叫她除掉脸上的淫像和胸间的淫态，

³ 免得我剥她的衣服，使她赤体，与才生的时候一样，使她如旷野，如乾旱之地，因渴而死。

⁴ 我必不怜悯她的儿女，因为他们是从淫乱而生的。

⁵ 他们的母亲行了淫乱，怀他们的母做了可羞耻的事，因为她说：我要随从所爱的；我的饼、水、羊毛、麻、油、酒都是他们给的。

⁶ 因此，我必用荆棘堵塞她的道，筑墙挡住她，使她找不着路。

⁷ 她必追随所爱的，却追不上；她必寻找他们，却寻不见，便说：我要归回前夫，因我那时的光景比如今还好。

⁸ 她不知道是我给她五谷、新酒，和油，又加增她的金银；她却以此供奉（或译：制造）巴力。

⁹ 因此到了收割的日子，出酒的时候，我必将我的五谷新酒收回，也必将她应当遮体的羊毛和麻夺回来。

¹⁰ 如今我必在她所爱的眼前显露她的丑态；必无人能救她脱离我的手。

¹¹ 我也必使她的宴乐、节期、月朔、安息日，并她的一切大会都止息了。

¹² 我也必毁坏她的葡萄树和无花果树，就是她说这是我所爱的给我为赏赐的。我必使这些树变为荒林，为田野的走兽所吃。

¹³ 我必追讨她素日给诸巴力烧香的罪；那时她佩带耳环和别样妆饰，随从她所爱的，却忘记我。这是耶和华说的。

¹⁴ 後来我必劝导她，领她到旷野，对她说安慰的话。

¹⁵ 她从那里出来，我必赐她葡萄园，又赐她亚割谷作为指望的门。她必在那里应声（或译：歌唱），与幼年的日子一样，与从埃及地上来的时候相同。

¹⁶ 耶和华说：那日你必称呼我伊施（就是我夫的意思），不再称呼我巴力（就是我主的意思）；

¹⁷ 因为我必从我民的口中除掉诸巴力的名号，这名号不再提起。

¹⁸ 当那日，我必为我的民，与田野的走兽和空中的飞鸟，并地上的昆虫立约；又必在国中折断弓刀，止息争战，使他们安然躺卧。

¹⁹ 我必聘你永远归我为妻，以仁义、公平、慈爱、怜悯聘你归我；

²⁰ 也以诚实聘你归我，你就必认识我─耶和华。

²¹ 耶和华说：那日我必应允，我必应允天，天必应允地；

²² 地必应允五谷、新酒，和油，这些必应允耶斯列民。〔耶斯列就是神栽种的意思〕

²³ 我必将她种在这地。素不蒙怜悯的，我必怜悯；本非我民的，我必对他说：你是我的民；他必说：你是我的神。

¹ The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

² Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and tell them, When I bring the sword on a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman;

³ if, when he sees the sword come on the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;

⁴ then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and doesn't take warning, if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be on his own head.

⁵ He heard the sound of the trumpet, and didn't take warning; his blood shall be on him; whereas if he had taken warning, he would have delivered his soul.

⁶ But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn't blow the trumpet, and the people aren't warned, and the sword comes, and take any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.

⁷ So you, son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel; therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.

⁸ When I tell the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, and you don't speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at your hand.

⁹ Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he doesn't turn from his way; he shall die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your soul.

¹⁰ You, son of man, tell the house of Israel: Thus you speak, saying, Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we pine away in them; how then can we live?

¹¹ Tell them, As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn, turn from your evil ways; for why will you die, house of Israel?

¹² You, son of man, tell the children of your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his disobedience; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither shall he who is righteous be able to live thereby in the day that he sins.

¹³ When I tell the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his righteousness, and commit iniquity, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered; but in his iniquity that he has committed, therein shall he die.

¹⁴ Again, when I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;

¹⁵ if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.

¹⁶ None of his sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him: he has done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.

¹⁷ Yet the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.

¹⁸ When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die therein.

¹⁹ When the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.

²⁰ Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. House of Israel, I will judge every one of you after his ways.

²¹ It happened in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, that one who had escaped out of Jerusalem came to me, saying, The city has been struck.

²² Now the hand of Yahweh had been on me in the evening, before he who was escaped came; and he had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more mute.

²³ The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

²⁴ Son of man, they who inhabit those waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.

²⁵ Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land?

²⁶ You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and every one of you defiles his neighbor's wife: and shall you possess the land?

²⁷ You shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: As I live, surely those who are in the waste places shall fall by the sword; and him who is in the open field will I give to the animals to be devoured; and those who are in the strongholds and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.

²⁸ I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment; and the pride of her power shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, so that none shall pass through.

²⁹ Then shall they know that I am Yahweh, when I have made the land a desolation and an astonishment, because of all their abominations which they have committed.

³⁰ As for you, son of man, the children of your people talk of you by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, everyone to his brother, saying, Please come and hear what is the word that comes forth from Yahweh.

³¹ They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don't do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

³² Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they don't do them.

³³ When this comes to pass, (behold, it comes), then shall they know that a prophet has been among them.