¹指摘他们作恶多端

¹`When I give healing to Israel, Then revealed is the iniquity of Ephraim, And the wickedness of Samaria, For they have wrought falsehood, And a thief doth come in, Stript off hath a troop in the street,

²他们心里并未想到，我记得他们的一切罪恶。他们所作的一切，现在都围绕他们，都在我面前。

²And they do not say to their heart, [That] all their evil I have remembered, Now compassed them have their doings, Over-against My face they have been.

³他们以自己的恶行讨王欢喜，用自己的虚谎叫领袖快乐。

³With their wickedness they make glad a king, And with their lies — princes.

⁴他们全是犯奸淫的，像一个被烤饼的人烧热的火炉，从抟面，直到全团发酵的时候，烤饼的人暂停使火发旺。

⁴All of them [are] adulterers, Like a burning oven of a baker, He ceaseth from stirring up after kneading the dough, till its leavening.

⁵在我们王喜庆的日子，领袖们因酒的烈性而生病，王就与亵慢人联手。

⁵A day of our king! Princes have polluted themselves [with] the poison of wine, He hath drawn out his hand with scorners.

⁶他们阴谋埋伏的时候，心中烧得热如火炉。他们整夜抑制怒气，一到早晨，却像发出火焰的火燃烧起来。

⁶For they have drawn near, As an oven [is] their heart, In their lying in wait all the night sleep doth their baker, Morning! he is burning as a flaming fire.

⁷所有的人都热如火炉，吞灭他们的官长。他们所有的君王都倒毙了，他们中间没有一人向我呼求。

⁷All of them are warm as an oven, And they have devoured their judges, All their kings have fallen, There is none calling unto Me among them.

⁸指摘以法莲的罪“以法莲与外族混杂，以法莲是没有翻过的饼。

⁸Ephraim! among peoples he mixeth himself, Ephraim hath been a cake unturned.

⁹外族人吞吃了他的力量，他却不知道；他头上满是白发，他也不晓得。

⁹Devoured have strangers his power, And he hath not known, Also old age hath sprinkled [itself] on him, And he hath not known.

¹⁰虽然以色列的骄傲当面指证自己，他们却不回转归向耶和华他们的　神，也不因此寻求他。

¹⁰And humbled hath been the excellency of Israel to his face, And they have not turned back unto Jehovah their God, Nor have they sought Him for all this.

¹¹以法莲好像一只愚蠢无知的鸽子。他们向埃及求助，投奔亚述。

¹¹And Ephraim is as a simple dove without heart, Egypt they called on — [to] Asshur they have gone.

¹²但他们去的时候，我要把我的网撒在他们身上；我要把他们如同空中的飞鸟打下来。我要按着他们会众所听见的，惩罚他们。

¹²When they go I spread over them My net, As the fowl of the heavens I bring them down, I chastise them as their company hath heard.

¹³他们有祸了，因为他们离弃了我；他们遭毁灭，因为他们背叛了我。我虽然想救赎他们，他们却对我说谎。

¹³Wo to them, for they wandered from Me, Destruction to them, for they transgressed against Me, And I — I ransom them, and they have spoken lies against Me,

¹⁴他们并没有真心向我呼求，只是在床上哀恸罢了。他们为了五谷和新酒割伤自己，仍然悖逆我。

¹⁴And have not cried unto Me with their heart, but howl on their beds, For corn and new wine they assemble themselves, They turn aside against Me.

¹⁵我虽然锻炼他们的手臂，使它们有力，他们却图谋恶计攻击我。

¹⁵And I instructed — I strengthened their arms, And concerning Me they think evil!

¹⁶他们转向巴力，成了不可靠的了。他们的领袖因自己舌头上的狂傲倒在刀下，这在埃及地必成为被人讥笑的对象。”

¹⁶They turn back — not to the Most High, They have been as a deceitful bow, Fall by sword do their princes, From the insolence of their tongue, This [is] their derision in the land of Egypt!