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 In that day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah: "We have a strong city. God appoints salvation for walls and bulwarks.

² Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter: the one which keeps faith.

³ You will keep whoever's mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

⁴ Trust in Yahweh forever; for in Yah, Yahweh, is an everlasting Rock.

⁵ For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city. He lays it low. He lays it low even to the ground. He brings it even to the dust.

⁶ The foot shall tread it down; Even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy."

⁷ The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make the path of the righteous level.

⁸ Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, have we waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.

⁹ With my soul have I desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

¹⁰ Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully, and will not see Yahweh's majesty.

¹¹ Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don't see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.

¹² Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us, for you have also worked all our works for us.

¹³ Yahweh our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us, but by you only will we make mention of your name.

¹⁴ The dead shall not live. The deceased shall not rise. Therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory of them to perish.

¹⁵ You have increased the nation, O Yahweh. You have increased the nation! You are glorified! You have enlarged all the borders of the land.

¹⁶ Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.

¹⁷ Like as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs; so we have been before you, Yahweh.

¹⁸ We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

¹⁹ Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast forth the dead.

²⁰ Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.

²¹ For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.