¹責以色列人忘恩犯罪你們當聽耶和華所說的話：“你要起來，向大山爭辯，讓小山可以聽見你的聲音。

¹Hear ye now what Jehovah saith: Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.

²大山啊！你們要聽耶和華的爭辯。大地永久的根基啊！你們要聽，因為耶和華與他的子民爭辯，和以色列爭論。

²Hear, O ye mountains, Jehovah's controversy, and ye enduring foundations of the earth; for Jehovah hath a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.

³我的子民啊，我向你作了甚麼呢？我在甚麼事上叫你厭煩呢？你可以回答我。

³O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me.

⁴我曾經把你從埃及地領上來，把你從為奴之家贖出來；我也差派了摩西、亞倫和米利暗在你前面行。

⁴For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bondage; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

⁵我的民哪！你們要追念，摩押王巴勒圖謀過甚麼，比珥的兒子巴蘭又答應了他甚麼，以及你們從什亭到吉甲所發生的事，好使你們知道耶和華公義的作為。”

⁵O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him; [remember] from Shittim unto Gilgal, that ye may know the righteous acts of Jehovah.

⁶　神要求的不是外表的獻祭我朝見耶和華，在至高的　神面前叩拜，當獻上甚麼呢？我朝見他的時候，當獻上燔祭，當獻上一歲的牛犢嗎？

⁶Wherewith shall I come before Jehovah, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves a year old?

⁷耶和華喜悅千千的公羊，或是萬萬的油河嗎？為我的過犯，我可以獻上我的長子嗎？為我的罪惡，獻上我親生的孩子嗎？

⁷will Jehovah be pleased with thousands of rams, [or] with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

⁸世人哪！耶和華已經指示你甚麼是善，他向你所要的又是甚麼；無非是要你行公義，好憐憫，謙虛謹慎與你的　神同行。

⁸He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?

⁹詭詐的行為必受懲罰聽啊！耶和華向這城呼叫，敬畏你的名就是智慧；支派和城裡的會眾啊！你們要聽。

⁹The voice of Jehovah crieth unto the city, and [the man of] wisdom will see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.

¹⁰我怎能忘記惡人家中的不義之財，和那些可咒詛的小升斗呢？

¹⁰Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a scant measure that is abominable?

¹¹用不義的天平，和袋中詐騙的法碼的人，我怎能算他為清潔呢？

¹¹Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

¹²城裡的財主充滿了強暴，其中的居民也說假話；他們口中的舌頭是詭詐的。

¹²For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

¹³因此我擊打你，使你生病，因你的罪惡，使你荒涼。

¹³Therefore I also have smitten thee with a grievous wound; I have made thee desolate because of thy sins.

¹⁴你要吃，卻吃不飽；因你的腹中常有疾病。你要懷孕，卻不能生下來；你生下來的，我都要交給刀劍。

¹⁴Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy humiliation shall be in the midst of thee: and thou shalt put away, but shalt not save; and that which thou savest will I give up to the sword.

¹⁵你要撒種，卻不得收割，你要榨橄欖油，卻不得油抹身；你要榨葡萄汁，卻不得酒喝。

¹⁵Thou shalt sow, but shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but shalt not anoint thee with oil; and the vintage, but shalt not drink the wine.

¹⁶你跟隨了暗利的規例和亞哈家一切所行的，順從了他們的計謀；因此，我必使你荒涼，使你（“你”原文作“她”）的居民被嗤笑；你們也必擔當我民的羞辱。

¹⁶For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I may make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing: and ye shall bear the reproach of my people.