¹以色列全國都要受審判祭司啊，你們要聽這話！以色列家啊，你們要留心聽！王的家啊，你們要側耳而聽！因為審判必臨到你們，因你們曾是米斯巴地的捕鳥機，是他泊山上張開的網羅。

¹“Listen to this, you priests! Listen, house of Israel, and give ear, house of the king! For the judgment is against you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor.

²他們在什亭掘深了陷阱，但我要懲治他們所有的人。

²The rebels are deep in slaughter; but I discipline all of them.

³我認識以法蓮，以色列也瞞不住我；以法蓮啊！現在你竟行淫，以色列竟玷污了自己。

³I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute. Israel is defiled.

⁴他們所行的使他們不能回轉，歸回自己的　神；因為在他們當中有淫亂的心；他們也不認識耶和華。

⁴Their deeds won’t allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they don’t know Yahweh.

⁵以色列的驕傲當面指證自己，以色列和以法蓮因自己的罪孽跌倒，猶大也與他們一同跌倒。

⁵The pride of Israel testifies to his face. Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity. Judah also will stumble with them.

⁶雖然他們帶著牛群羊群去尋求耶和華，卻尋不見；他已經離開他們遠去了。

⁶They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Yahweh; but they won’t find him. He has withdrawn himself from them.

⁷他們以詭詐待耶和華，因為他們生了私生子。現在新月（“新月”或譯：“侵略者”）要吞滅他們和他們的地業。

⁷They are unfaithful to Yahweh; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.

⁸你們要在基比亞吹角，在拉瑪吹號，在伯．亞文大聲吶喊：“便雅憫啊！敵人就在你背後。”

⁸“Blow the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah! Sound a battle cry at Beth Aven, behind you, Benjamin!

⁹在責罰的日子，以法蓮必成為荒場。我要在以色列各支派中宣告一定會發生的事情。

⁹Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will surely be.

¹⁰“猶大的領袖，好像挪移地界的人，我要把我的忿怒傾倒在他們身上，如同倒水一樣。

¹⁰The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark. I will pour out my wrath on them like water.

¹¹以法蓮受欺壓，被審判壓碎；因為他們樂意隨從人的命令。

¹¹Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; Because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.

¹²因此我要成為以法蓮的蛀蟲，成為猶大家的朽爛。

¹²Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness.

¹³以法蓮看見自己的疾病，猶大家看見自己的創傷，以法蓮就往亞述去，派人去見亞述的大王。可是他卻不能醫治你們，也不能醫好你們的創傷。

¹³“When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, Then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.

¹⁴因為我對以法蓮要像隻猛獅，對猶大家必像頭少壯獅子。我要親自撕裂他們，然後離去；我把他們帶走，沒有人能搭救。

¹⁴For I will be to Ephraim like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.

¹⁵我要回到自己的地方去；直到他們承認自己的罪過，尋求我的面。在痛苦中必懇切尋求我。”

¹⁵I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”