¹ 眾祭司啊，要聽我的話！以色列家啊，要留心聽！王家啊，要側耳而聽！審判要臨到你們，因你們在米斯巴如網羅，在他泊山如鋪張的網。

² 這些悖逆的人肆行殺戮，罪孽極深；我卻斥責他們眾人。

³ 以法蓮為我所知；以色列不能向我隱藏。以法蓮哪，現在你行淫了，以色列被玷污了。

⁴ 他們所行的使他們不能歸向神；因有淫心在他們裡面，他們也不認識耶和華。

⁵ 以色列的驕傲當面見證自己。故此，以色列和以法蓮必因自己的罪孽跌倒；猶大也必與他們一同跌倒。

⁶ 他們必牽著牛羊去尋求耶和華，卻尋不見；他已經轉去離開他們。

⁷ 他們向耶和華行事詭詐，生了私子。到了月朔，他們與他們的地業必被吞滅。

⁸ 你們當在基比亞吹角，在拉瑪吹號，在伯亞文吹出大聲，說：便雅憫哪，有仇敵在你後頭！

⁹ 在責罰的日子，以法蓮必變為荒場；我在以色列支派中，指示將來必成的事。

¹⁰ 猶大的首領如同挪移地界的人，我必將忿怒倒在他們身上，如水一般。

¹¹ 以法蓮因樂從人的命令，就受欺壓，被審判壓碎。

¹² 我使以法蓮如蟲蛀之物，使猶大家如朽爛之木。

¹³ 以法蓮見自己有病，猶大見自己有傷，他們就打發人往亞述去見耶雷布王，他卻不能醫治你們，不能治好你們的傷。

¹⁴ 我必向以法蓮如獅子，向猶大家如少壯獅子。我必撕裂而去，我要奪去，無人搭救。

¹⁵ 我要回到原處，等他們自覺有罪（或譯：承認己罪），尋求我面；他們在急難的時候必切切尋求我。

²⁸ 那時，你們必呼求我，我卻不答應，懇切地尋找我，卻尋不見。

¹⁹ Thus said Yahweh to me: Go, and stand in the gate of the children of the people, through which the kings of Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;

²⁰ and tell them, Hear the word of Yahweh, you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:

²¹ Thus says Yahweh, Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;

²² neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day holy, neither do any work: but make the Sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.

²³ But they didn't listen, neither turn their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction.

²⁴ It shall happen, if you diligently listen to me, says Yahweh, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but to make the Sabbath day holy, to do no work therein;

²⁵ then shall there enter in by the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and this city shall remain forever.

²⁶ They shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places around Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the lowland, and from the hill country, and from the South, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meal offerings, and frankincense, and bringing [sacrifices of] thanksgiving, to the house of Yahweh.

²⁷ But if you will not listen to me to make the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in its gates, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.