1劝人民诚心归向 神
1`Come, and we turn back unto Jehovah, For He hath torn, and He doth heal us, He doth smite, and He bindeth us up.
2两天以后，他要使我们复原；第三天，他使我们起来，我们就可以活在他的面前。
2He doth revive us after two days, In the third day He doth raise us up, And we live before Him.
3让我们认识，竭力追求认识耶和华。他必定出现，像晨光一样，他必临到我们，如雨水一般，又像滋润大地的春雨。
3And we know — we pursue to know Jehovah, As the dawn prepared is His going forth, And He cometh in as a shower to us, As gathered rain — sprinkling earth.`
4指摘人民虚伪的行为“以法莲啊！我要怎样待你呢？犹大啊，我要怎样待你呢？你们的爱心像早晨的云雾；又像瞬即消逝的朝露。
4What do I do to thee, O Ephraim? What do I do to thee, O Judah? Your goodness [is] as a cloud of the morning, And as dew rising early — going.
5因此，我借众先知砍碎他们，用我口中的话杀戮他们；我的审判必如光一般发出。
5Therefore I have hewed by prophets, I have slain them by sayings of My mouth, And My judgments to the light goeth forth.
6我喜爱怜恤，不喜爱祭祀；我喜爱人认识 神的知识，胜过人献的燔祭。
6For kindness I desired, and not sacrifice, And a knowledge of God above burnt-offerings.
7可是他们却在亚当城背约，在那里向我行诡诈。
7And they, as Adam, transgressed a covenant, There they dealt treacherously against me.
8基列是作孽之人的城，他们的脚踪染满了血渍。
8Gilead [is] a city of workers of iniquity, Slippery from blood.
9在往示剑的路上，祭司结党杀害人，就像埋伏路旁的强盗；他们行了邪恶的事。
9And as bands do wait for a man, A company of priests do murder — the way to Shechem, For wickedness they have done.
10在以色列家！我看见了可怕的事；那里有以法莲的淫行，以色列被玷污了。
10In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing, There [is] the whoredom of Ephraim — defiled is Israel.
11犹大啊！我使我的子民归回的时候，必有为你定下的一个收割时期。”
11Also, O Judah, appointed is a harvest to thee, In My turning back [to] the captivity of My people!