¹指摘他们背约弃善

¹`Unto thy mouth — a trumpet, As an eagle against the house of Jehovah, Because they transgressed My covenant, And against My law they have rebelled.

²他们必向我哀求：‘我的　神啊！我们以色列认识你。’

²To Me they cry, `My God, we — Israel — have known Thee.`

³以色列弃绝了良善，所以仇敌必追赶他。

³Cast off good hath Israel, an enemy pursueth him.

⁴指摘他们拜偶像“他们立了君王，却不是出于我；他们立了首领，我却不知道。他们用自己的金银为自己做了偶像，以致他们被剪除。

⁴They have made kings, and not by Me, They have made princes, and I have not known, Their silver and their gold they have made to them idols, So that they are cut off.

⁵撒玛利亚啊！我要除掉你的牛犊，我的怒气要向撒玛利亚人发作，他们要到几时才能无罪免罚呢？

⁵Cast off hath thy calf, O Samaria, Burned hath Mine anger against them, Till when are they not capable of purity?

⁶这牛犊是出于以色列，是匠人所做的，它并不是神，撒玛利亚的牛犊必被粉碎。

⁶For even it [is] of Israel; an artificer made it, And it [is] not God, For the calf of Samaria is fragments!

⁷他们播种的是风，收成的是暴风。生出来的苗没有麦穗，不能做成面粉；即或做成面粉，也必被别国的人吞吃。

⁷For wind they sow, and a hurricane they reap, Stalk it hath none — a shoot not yielding grain, If so be it yield — strangers do swallow it up.

⁸以色列被吞吃，如今在万国中，好像没有人喜悦的器皿。

⁸Israel hath been swallowed up, Now they have been among nations, As a vessel in which is no delight.

⁹他们上去投奔亚述，像一只独行的野驴，以法莲贿买爱人。

⁹For they — they have gone up [to] Asshur, A wild ass alone by himself [is] Ephraim, They have hired lovers!

¹⁰他们虽然在列国中贿买人，我现在却要招聚他们。他们因着君王和领袖所加的重担，逐渐衰微。

¹⁰Also though they hire among nations, Now I gather them, and they are pained a little, From the burden of a king of princes.

¹¹以法莲增添好些祭坛去犯罪，这些就成了他们犯罪的祭坛。

¹¹Because Ephraim did multiply altars to sin, They have been to him altars to sin.

¹²我虽然为他们写了律法万条，他们却看作是为外族人写的，与他们毫无关系一般。

¹²I write for him numerous things of My law, As a strange thing they have been reckoned.

¹³他们喜爱献祭，献肉为祭，又拿来吃；耶和华却不喜悦他们。他必记得他们的罪孽，追讨他们的罪恶；他们必回到埃及去。

¹³The sacrifices of Mine offerings! They sacrifice flesh, and they eat, Jehovah hath not accepted them, Now doth He remember their iniquity, And inspect their sin, They — [to] Egypt they turn back.

¹⁴以色列忘记了造他的主，建造了很多宫殿；犹大也增添了很多坚固城。我却要降火在他的众城中，吞灭他的堡垒。”

¹⁴And forget doth Israel his Maker, and buildeth temples, And Judah hath multiplied cities of defence, And I have sent a fire into his cities, And it hath consumed their palaces!