¹责以色列人忘恩犯罪

¹Hear, I pray you, that which Jehovah is saying: `Rise — strive thou with the mountains, And cause thou the hills to hear thy voice.`

²大山啊！你们要听耶和华的争辩。大地永久的根基啊！你们要听，因为耶和华与他的子民争辩，和以色列争论。

²Hear, O mountains, the strife of Jehovah, Ye strong ones — foundations of earth! For a strife [is] to Jehovah, with His people, And with Israel He doth reason.

³我的子民啊，我向你作了什么呢？我在什么事上叫你厌烦呢？你可以回答我。

³O My people, what have I done to thee? And what — have I wearied thee? Testify against Me.

⁴我曾经把你从埃及地领上来，把你从为奴之家赎出来；我也差派了摩西、亚伦和米利暗在你前面行。

⁴For I brought thee up from the land of Egypt, And from the house of servants I have ransomed thee, And I send before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

⁵我的民哪！你们要追念，摩押王巴勒图谋过什么，比珥的儿子巴兰又答应了他什么，以及你们从什亭到吉甲所发生的事，好使你们知道耶和华公义的作为。”

⁵O My people, remember, I pray you, What counsel did Balak king of Moab, What answer him did Balaam son of Beor, (From Shittim unto Gilgal,) In order to know the righteous acts of Jehovah.`

⁶　神要求的不是外表的献祭我朝见耶和华，在至高的　神面前叩拜，当献上什么呢？我朝见他的时候，当献上燔祭，当献上一岁的牛犊吗？

⁶With what do I come before Jehovah? Do I bow to God Most High? Do I come before Him with burnt-offerings? With calves — sons of a year?

⁷耶和华喜悦千千的公羊，或是万万的油河吗？为我的过犯，我可以献上我的长子吗？为我的罪恶，献上我亲生的孩子吗？

⁷Is Jehovah pleased with thousands of rams? With myriads of streams of oil? Do I give my first-born [for] my transgression? The fruit of my body [for] the sin of my soul?

⁸世人哪！耶和华已经指示你什么是善，他向你所要的又是什么；无非是要你行公义，好怜悯，谦虚谨慎与你的　神同行。

⁸He hath declared to thee, O man, what [is] good; Yea, what is Jehovah requiring of thee, Except — to do judgment, and love kindness, And lowly to walk with thy God?

⁹诡诈的行为必受惩罚听啊！耶和华向这城呼叫，敬畏你的名就是智慧；支派和城里的会众啊！你们要听。

⁹A voice of Jehovah to the city calleth, And wisdom doth fear Thy name, Hear ye the rod, and Him who appointed it.

¹⁰我怎能忘记恶人家中的不义之财，和那些可咒诅的小升斗呢？

¹⁰Are there yet [in] the house of the wicked Treasures of wickedness, And the abhorred scanty ephah?

¹¹用不义的天平，和袋中诈骗的法码的人，我怎能算他为清洁呢？

¹¹Do I reckon [it] pure with balances of wickedness? And with a bag of deceitful stones?

¹²城里的财主充满了强暴，其中的居民也说假话；他们口中的舌头是诡诈的。

¹²Whose rich ones have been full of violence, And its inhabitants have spoken falsehood, And their tongue [is] deceitful in their mouth.

¹³因此我击打你，使你生病，因你的罪恶，使你荒凉。

¹³And I also, I have begun to smite thee, To make desolate, because of thy sins.

¹⁴你要吃，却吃不饱；因你的腹中常有疾病。你要怀孕，却不能生下来；你生下来的，我都要交给刀剑。

¹⁴Thou — thou eatest, and thou art not satisfied, And thy pit [is] in thy midst, And thou removest, and dost not deliver, And that which thou deliverest, to a sword I give.

¹⁵你要撒种，却不得收割，你要榨橄榄油，却不得油抹身；你要榨葡萄汁，却不得酒喝。

¹⁵Thou — thou sowest, and thou dost not reap, Thou — thou treadest the olive, And thou pourest not out oil, And new wine — and thou drinkest not wine.

¹⁶你跟随了暗利的规例和亚哈家一切所行的，顺从了他们的计谋；因此，我必使你荒凉，使你（“你”原文作“她”）的居民被嗤笑；你们也必担当我民的羞辱。

¹⁶And kept habitually are the statutes of Omri, And all the work of the house of Ahab, And ye do walk in their counsels, For My giving thee for a desolation, And its inhabitants for a hissing, And the reproach of My people ye do bear!