¹ 以色列家啊，要聽我為你們所作的哀歌：

² 以色列民（原文是處女）跌倒，不得再起；躺在地上，無人攙扶。

³ 主耶和華如此說：以色列家的城發出一千兵的，只剩一百；發出一百的，只剩十個。

⁴ 耶和華向以色列家如此說：你們要尋求我，就必存活。

⁵ 不要往伯特利尋求，不要進入吉甲，不要過到別是巴；因為吉甲必被擄掠，伯特利也必歸於無有。

⁶ 要尋求耶和華，就必存活，免得他在約瑟家像火發出，在伯特利焚燒，無人撲滅。

⁷ 你們這使公平變為茵蔯、將公義丟棄於地的，

⁸ 要尋求那造昴星和參星，使死蔭變為晨光，使白日變為黑夜，命海水來澆在地上的─耶和華是他的名；

⁹ 他使力強的忽遭滅亡，以致保障遭遇毀壞。

¹⁰ 你們怨恨那在城門口責備人的，憎惡那說正直話的。

¹¹ 你們踐踏貧民，向他們勒索麥子；你們用鑿過的石頭建造房屋，卻不得住在其內；栽種美好的葡萄園，卻不得喝所出的酒。

¹² 我知道你們的罪過何等多，你們的罪惡何等大。你們苦待義人，收受賄賂，在城門口屈枉窮乏人。

¹³ 所以通達人見這樣的時勢必靜默不言，因為時勢真惡。

¹⁴ 你們要求善，不要求惡，就必存活。這樣，耶和華─萬軍之神必照你們所說的與你們同在。

¹⁵ 要惡惡好善，在城門口秉公行義；或者耶和華─萬軍之神向約瑟的餘民施恩。

¹⁶ 主耶和華─萬軍之神如此說：在一切寬闊處必有哀號的聲音；在各街市上必有人說：哀哉！哀哉！又必叫農夫來哭號，叫善唱哀歌的來舉哀。

¹⁷ 在各葡萄園必有哀號的聲音，因為我必從你中間經過。這是耶和華說的。

¹⁸ 想望耶和華日子來到的有禍了！你們為何想望耶和華的日子呢？那日黑暗沒有光明，

¹⁹ 景況好像人躲避獅子又遇見熊，或是進房屋以手靠牆，就被蛇咬。

²⁰ 耶和華的日子不是黑暗沒有光明麼？不是幽暗毫無光輝麼？

²¹ 我厭惡你們的節期，也不喜悅你們的嚴肅會。

²² 你們雖然向我獻燔祭和素祭，我卻不悅納，也不顧你們用肥畜獻的平安祭；

²³ 要使你們歌唱的聲音遠離我，因為我不聽你們彈琴的響聲。

²⁴ 惟願公平如大水滾滾，使公義如江河滔滔。

²⁵ 以色列家啊，你們在曠野四十年，豈是將祭物和供物獻給我呢？

²⁶ 你們抬著為自己所造之摩洛的帳幕和偶像的龕，並你們的神星。

²⁷ 所以我要把你們擄到大馬色以外。這是耶和華、名為萬軍之神說的。

²⁵ 因為他們離棄我，向別神燒香，用他們手所做的惹我發怒，所以我的忿怒如火倒在這地上，總不息滅。

¹ Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth.

² For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built.

³ Therefore a strong people will glorify you. A city of awesome nations will fear you.

⁴ For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

⁵ As the heat in a dry place will you bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the dreaded ones will be brought low.

⁶ In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of choice wines, of fat things full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.

⁷ He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.

⁸ He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.

⁹ It shall be said in that day, "Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!"

¹⁰ For in this mountain the hand of Yahweh will rest. Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill.

¹¹ He will spread out his hands in its midst, like one who swims spreads out hands to swim, but his pride will be humbled together with the craft of his hands.

¹² He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.