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 Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.

² He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in its midst, and also cut out a winepress therein. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.

³ "Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge between me and my vineyard.

⁴ What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?

⁵ Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall of it, and it will be trampled down.

⁶ I will lay it a wasteland. It won't be pruned nor hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it."

⁷ For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

⁸ Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!

⁹ In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: "Surely many houses will be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied.

¹⁰ For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah."