¹ 以色列人哪，你们当听耶和华的话。耶和华与这地的居民争辩，因这地上无诚实，无良善，无人认识神。

² 但起假誓，不践前言，杀害，偷盗，奸淫，行强暴，杀人流血，接连不断。

³ 因此，这地悲哀，其上的民、田野的兽、空中的鸟必都衰微，海中的鱼也必消灭。

⁴ 然而，人都不必争辩，也不必指责，因为这民与抗拒祭司的人一样。

⁵ 你这祭司必日间跌倒；先知也必夜间与你一同跌倒；我必灭绝你的母亲。

⁶ 我的民因无知识而灭亡。你弃掉知识，我也必弃掉你，使你不再给我作祭司。你既忘了你神的律法，我也必忘记你的儿女。

⁷ 祭司越发增多，就越发得罪我；我必使他们的荣耀变为羞辱。

⁸ 他们吃我民的赎罪祭，满心愿意我民犯罪。

⁹ 将来民如何，祭司也必如何；我必因他们所行的惩罚他们，照他们所做的报应他们。

¹⁰ 他们吃，却不得饱；行淫，而不得立後；因为他们离弃耶和华，不遵他的命。

¹¹ 奸淫和酒，并新酒，夺去人的心。

¹² 我的民求问木偶，以为木杖能指示他们；因为他们的淫心使他们失迷，他们就行淫离弃神，不守约束，

¹³ 在各山顶，各高冈的橡树、杨树、栗树之下，献祭烧香，因为树影美好。所以，你们的女儿淫乱，你们的新妇（或译：儿妇；下同）行淫。

¹⁴ 你们的女儿淫乱，你们的新妇行淫，我却不惩罚他们；因为你们自己离群与娼妓同居，与妓女一同献祭。这无知的民必致倾倒。

¹⁵ 以色列啊，你虽然行淫，犹大却不可犯罪。不要往吉甲去，不要上到伯亚文，也不要指着永生的耶和华起誓。

¹⁶ 以色列倔强，犹如倔强的母牛；现在耶和华要放他们，如同放羊羔在宽阔之地。

¹⁷ 以法莲亲近偶像，任凭他罢！

¹⁸ 他们所喝的已经发酸，他们时常行淫，他们的官长最爱羞耻的事。

¹⁹ 风把他们裹在翅膀里；他们因所献的祭必致蒙羞。

¹ "Listen to this, you priests! Listen, house of Israel, and give ear, house of the king! For the judgment is against you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor.

² The rebels are deep in slaughter; but I discipline all of them.

³ I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute. Israel is defiled.

⁴ Their deeds won't allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they don't know Yahweh.

⁵ The pride of Israel testifies to his face. Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity. Judah also will stumble with them.

⁶ They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Yahweh; but they won't find him. He has withdrawn himself from them.

⁷ They are unfaithful to Yahweh; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.

⁸ "Blow the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah! Sound a battle cry at Beth Aven, behind you, Benjamin!

⁹ Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will surely be.

¹⁰ The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark. I will pour out my wrath on them like water.

¹¹ Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; Because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.

¹² Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness.

¹³ "When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, Then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.

¹⁴ For I will be to Ephraim like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.

¹⁵ I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly."