¹ 众祭司啊，要听我的话！以色列家啊，要留心听！王家啊，要侧耳而听！审判要临到你们，因你们在米斯巴如网罗，在他泊山如铺张的网。

² 这些悖逆的人肆行杀戮，罪孽极深；我却斥责他们众人。

³ 以法莲为我所知；以色列不能向我隐藏。以法莲哪，现在你行淫了，以色列被玷污了。

⁴ 他们所行的使他们不能归向神；因有淫心在他们里面，他们也不认识耶和华。

⁵ 以色列的骄傲当面见证自己。故此，以色列和以法莲必因自己的罪孽跌倒；犹大也必与他们一同跌倒。

⁶ 他们必牵着牛羊去寻求耶和华，却寻不见；他已经转去离开他们。

⁷ 他们向耶和华行事诡诈，生了私子。到了月朔，他们与他们的地业必被吞灭。

⁸ 你们当在基比亚吹角，在拉玛吹号，在伯亚文吹出大声，说：便雅悯哪，有仇敌在你後头！

⁹ 在责罚的日子，以法莲必变为荒场；我在以色列支派中，指示将来必成的事。

¹⁰ 犹大的首领如同挪移地界的人，我必将忿怒倒在他们身上，如水一般。

¹¹ 以法莲因乐从人的命令，就受欺压，被审判压碎。

¹² 我使以法莲如虫蛀之物，使犹大家如朽烂之木。

¹³ 以法莲见自己有病，犹大见自己有伤，他们就打发人往亚述去见耶雷布王，他却不能医治你们，不能治好你们的伤。

¹⁴ 我必向以法莲如狮子，向犹大家如少壮狮子。我必撕裂而去，我要夺去，无人搭救。

¹⁵ 我要回到原处，等他们自觉有罪（或译：承认己罪），寻求我面；他们在急难的时候必切切寻求我。

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 He has withdrawn himself from them.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."