1不忠的後果“你們要對你們的兄弟說：‘我的子民’；要對你們的姊妹說：‘蒙憐憫的’。
1Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.
2要與你們的母親爭論，你們要爭論，因為她不是我的妻子，我也不是她的丈夫；好讓她除掉臉上的淫相，和乳間的淫態，
2Contend with your mother, contend; for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her whoredoms from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
3免得我把她剝光，赤身露體，使她像剛生下來的那天一樣；又使她像曠野，像無水的旱地一般，叫她因乾渴而死。
3lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
4我必不憐恤她的兒子，因為他們是像娼妓的兒女；
4Yea, upon her children will I have no mercy; for they are children of whoredom;
5因為他們的母親賣了淫，懷他們的作了羞恥的事；因為她曾說：‘我要跟隨我那些愛人。我的餅和水，羊毛和麻布，油和我所喝的，都是他們給的。’
5for their mother hath played the harlot; she that conceived them hath done shamefully; for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.
6因此，我要用荊棘堵塞她的通道，我要築牆圍住她，使她找不著出路。
6Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she shall not find her paths.
7她要追趕她那些愛人，卻追不上；要尋找他們，卻找不著。她就說：‘我要回去，回到前夫那裡，因為從前比現在好得多了。’
7And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.
8其實她不知道，是我把五穀、新酒、橄欖油賜給了她；甚至他們用來製造巴力的金銀，也是我大量給她的；
8For she did not know that I gave her the grain, and the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied unto her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
9因此，到了收割的時候，到了出酒的季節，我必收回五穀和新酒；用來給她遮蔽裸體的羊毛和麻布，我也必奪回。
9Therefore will I take back my grain in the time thereof, and my new wine in the season thereof, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.
10那時，我要在她那些愛人眼前，暴露她的下體；也沒有人能救她脫離我的手。
10And now will I uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand.
11我必使她的一切歡樂、節期、新月、安息日，或任何盛會都終止。
11I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feasts, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.
12我必毀壞她的葡萄樹和無花果樹，就是她曾說：‘這是我作妓女所賺的，是我那些愛人給我的。’我必使這些果樹成為荒林，任由田野的走獸吃掉。
12And I will lay waste her vines and her fig-trees, whereof she hath said, These are my hire that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.
13她在拜眾巴力的日子，向他們燒香，佩戴耳環首飾，打扮自己，跟隨她那些愛人，卻把我遺忘，所以我必懲罰她。”這是耶和華說的。
13And I will visit upon her the days of the Baalim, unto which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith Jehovah.
14再蒙眷愛“因此，我要誘導她，領她到曠野，對她說安慰的話。
14Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
15在那裡我要把葡萄園歸還給她，使亞割谷變成‘希望之門’。她必在那裡回應，像她少年的時候一樣，也像她從埃及地上來的那天一般。”
15And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she shall make answer there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
16耶和華說：“到那日，你必稱呼我‘伊施’（“伊施”意即“我夫”），不再稱呼我‘巴力’（“巴力”意即“我主”）。
16And it shall be at that day, saith Jehovah, that thou shalt call me Ishi, and shalt call me no more Baali.
17我要把‘巴力’的名字從她口中除掉；他們的名字沒有人再提起。
17For I will take away the names of the Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be mentioned by their name.
18到那日，為了他們，我必和田野的走獸、空中的飛鳥、地上的爬蟲立約；我必從這地折斷弓弩、刀劍和兵器；使他們安然居住。
18And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of the heavens, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the land, and will make them to lie down safely.
19我必聘你永遠歸我，以公義、正直、忠信和憐憫聘你歸我。
19And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in justice, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.
20我必以信實聘你歸我；這樣，你就必認識耶和華。”
20I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness; and thou shalt know Jehovah.
21耶和華說：“到那日，我必應允，我必應允天，天必應允地，
21And it shall come to pass in that day, I will answer, saith Jehovah, I will answer the heavens, and they shall answer the earth;
22地必應允五穀、新酒和油。這些必應允耶斯列（“耶斯列”意即“栽種”）。
22and the earth shall answer the grain, and the new wine, and the oil; and they shall answer Jezreel.
23我必為了自己把她栽種在這地。我必憐恤那些不蒙憐恤的。我必對那些不是我的子民說：‘你是我的子民’，他們必說：‘你是我們的 神。’”
23And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them that were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, [Thou art] my God.