¹ 以色列人哪，你們全家是我從埃及地領上來的，當聽耶和華攻擊你們的話：

² 在地上萬族中，我只認識你們；因此，我必追討你們的一切罪孽。

³ 二人若不同心，豈能同行呢？

⁴ 獅子若非抓食，豈能在林中咆哮呢？少壯獅子若無所得，豈能從洞中發聲呢？

⁵ 若沒有機檻，雀鳥豈能陷在網羅裡呢？網羅若無所得，豈能從地上翻起呢？

⁶ 城中若吹角，百姓豈不驚恐呢？災禍若臨到一城，豈非耶和華所降的麼？

⁷ 主耶和華若不將奧秘指示他的僕人─眾先知，就一無所行。

⁸ 獅子吼叫，誰不懼怕呢？主耶和華發命，誰能不說預言呢？

⁹ 要在亞實突的宮殿中和埃及地的宮殿裡傳揚說：你們要聚集在撒瑪利亞的山上，就看見城中有何等大的擾亂與欺壓的事。

¹⁰ 那些以強暴搶奪財物、積蓄在自己家中的人不知道行正直的事。這是耶和華說的。

¹¹ 所以主耶和華如此說：敵人必來圍攻這地，使你的勢力衰微，搶掠你的家宅。

¹² 耶和華如此說：牧人怎樣從獅子口中搶回兩條羊腿或半個耳朵，住撒瑪利亞的以色列人躺臥在床角上或鋪繡花毯的榻上，他們得救也不過如此。

¹³ 主耶和華─萬軍之神說：當聽這話，警戒雅各家。

¹⁴ 我討以色列罪的日子，也要討伯特利祭壇的罪；壇角必被砍下，墜落於地。

¹⁵ 我要拆毀過冬和過夏的房屋。象牙的房屋也必毀滅；高大的房屋都歸無有。這是耶和華說的。

¹ Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name! Make his doings known among the peoples.

² Sing to him, Sing praises to him! Tell of all his marvelous works.

³ Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.

⁴ Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

⁵ Remember his marvelous works that he has done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,

⁶ you seed of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

⁷ He is Yahweh, our God. His judgments are in all the earth.

⁸ He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,

⁹ the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac,

¹⁰ and confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute; to Israel for an everlasting covenant,

¹¹ saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;"

¹² when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it.

¹³ They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.

¹⁴ He allowed no one to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,

¹⁵ "Don't touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!"

¹⁶ He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies.

¹⁷ He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.

¹⁸ They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons,

¹⁹ until the time that his word happened, and Yahweh's word proved him true.

²⁰ The king sent and freed him; even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.

²¹ He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all of his possessions;

²² to discipline his princes at his pleasure, and to teach his elders wisdom.

²³ Israel also came into Egypt. Jacob lived in the land of Ham.

²⁴ He increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their adversaries.

²⁵ He turned their heart to hate his people, to conspire against his servants.

²⁶ He sent Moses, his servant, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.

²⁷ They performed miracles among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.

²⁸ He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn't rebel against his words.

²⁹ He turned their waters into blood, and killed their fish.

³⁰ Their land swarmed with frogs, even in the rooms of their kings.

³¹ He spoke, and swarms of flies came, and lice in all their borders.

³² He gave them hail for rain, with lightning in their land.

³³ He struck their vines and also their fig trees, and shattered the trees of their country.

³⁴ He spoke, and the locusts came, and the grasshoppers, without number,

³⁵ ate up every plant in their land; and ate up the fruit of their ground.

³⁶ He struck also all the firstborn in their land, the first fruits of all their manhood.

³⁷ He brought them forth with silver and gold. There was not one feeble person among his tribes.

³⁸ Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them had fallen on them.

³⁹ He spread a cloud for a covering, fire to give light in the night.

⁴⁰ They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of the sky.

⁴¹ He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. They ran as a river in the dry places.

⁴² For he remembered his holy word, and Abraham, his servant.

⁴³ He brought forth his people with joy, his chosen with singing.

⁴⁴ He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor of the peoples in possession,

⁴⁵ that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise Yah!