¹ 國為列國之首，人最著名，且為以色列家所歸向，在錫安和撒瑪利亞山安逸無慮的，有禍了！

² 你們要過到甲尼察看，從那裡往大城哈馬去，又下到非利士人的迦特。看那些比你們的國還強嗎？境界比你們的境界還寬嗎？

³ 你們以為降禍的日子還遠，坐在位上盡行強暴（或譯：行強暴使審判臨近）。

⁴ 你們躺臥在象牙床上，舒身在榻上，吃群中的羊羔，棚裡的牛犢；

⁵ 彈琴鼓瑟，唱消閑的歌曲，為自己製造樂器，如同大衛所造的；

⁶ 以大碗喝酒，用上等的油抹身，卻不為約瑟的苦難擔憂。

⁷ 所以這些人必在被擄的人中首先被擄，舒身的人荒宴之樂必消滅了。

⁸ 主耶和華萬軍之神指著自己起誓說，我憎惡雅各的榮華，厭棄他的宮殿；因此我必將城和其中所有的都交付敵人。

⁹ 那時，若在一房之內剩下十個人，也都必死。

¹⁰ 死人的伯叔，就是燒他屍首的，要將這屍首搬到房外，問房屋內間的人說：你那裡還有人沒有？他必說：沒有；又說：，不要作聲，因為我們不可提耶和華的名。

¹¹ 看哪，耶和華出令，大房就被攻破，小屋就被打裂。

¹² 馬豈能在崖石上奔跑？人豈能在那裡用牛耕種呢？你們卻使公平變為苦膽，使公義的果子變為茵蔯。

¹³ 你們喜愛虛浮的事，自誇說，我們不是憑自己的力量取了角麼？

¹⁴ 耶和華萬軍之神說：，以色列家阿，我必興起一國攻擊你們；他們必欺壓你們，從哈馬口直到亞拉巴的河。

¹ Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.

² The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.

³ And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the LORD.

⁴ Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years:

⁵ And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

⁶ And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

⁷ And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.

⁸ So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

⁹ I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

¹⁰ I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

¹¹ I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

¹² Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.

¹³ For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.