¹ 當烏西雅、約坦、亞哈斯、希西家作猶大王，約阿施的兒子耶羅波安作以色列王的時候，耶和華的話臨到備利的兒子何西阿。

² 耶和華初次與何西阿說話，對他說：你去娶淫婦為妻，也收那從淫亂所生的兒女；因為這地大行淫亂，離棄耶和華。

³ 於是，何西阿去娶了滴拉音的女兒歌篾。這婦人懷孕，給他生了一個兒子。

⁴ 耶和華對何西阿說：給他起名叫耶斯列；因為再過片時，我必討耶戶家在耶斯列殺人流血的罪，也必使以色列家的國滅絕。

⁵ 到那日，我必在耶斯列平原折斷以色列的弓。

⁶ 歌篾又懷孕生了一個女兒，耶和華對何西阿說：給她起名叫羅路哈瑪（就是不蒙憐憫的意思）；因為我必不再憐憫以色列家，決不赦免他們。

⁷ 我卻要憐憫猶大家，使他們靠耶和華─他們的神得救，不使他們靠弓、刀、爭戰、馬匹，與馬兵得救。

⁸ 歌篾給羅路哈瑪斷奶以後，又懷孕生了一個兒子。

⁹ 耶和華說：給他起名叫羅阿米（就是非我民的意思）；因為你們不作我的子民，我也不作你們的神。

¹⁰ 然而，以色列的人數必如海沙，不可量，不可數。從前在甚麼地方對他們說你們不是我的子民，將來在那裡必對他們說你們是永生神的兒子。

¹¹ 猶大人和以色列人必一同聚集，為自己立一個首領，從這地上去（或譯：從被擄之地上來），因為耶斯列的日子必為大日。

¹³ 摩西對百姓說：不要懼怕，只管站住！看耶和華今天向你們所要施行的救恩。因為，你們今天所看見的埃及人必永遠不再看見了。

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.

¹⁴ Then I said, Ah Lord Yahweh! behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now have I not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.

¹⁵ Then he said to me, Behold, I have given you cow's dung for man's dung, and you shall prepare your bread thereon.