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.

¹以色列全国都要受审判

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

²他们在什亭掘深了陷阱，但我要惩治他们所有的人。

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

³我认识以法莲，以色列也瞒不住我；以法莲啊！现在你竟行淫，以色列竟玷污了自己。

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.

⁴他们所行的使他们不能回转，归回自己的　神；因为在他们当中有淫乱的心；他们也不认识耶和华。

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

⁵以色列的骄傲当面指证自己，以色列和以法莲因自己的罪孽跌倒，犹大也与他们一同跌倒。

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 He has withdrawn himself from them.

⁶虽然他们带着牛群羊群去寻求耶和华，却寻不见；他已经离开他们远去了。

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

⁷他们以诡诈待耶和华，因为他们生了私生子。现在新月（“新月”或译：“侵略者”）要吞灭他们和他们的地业。

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

⁸你们要在基比亚吹角，在拉玛吹号，在伯．亚文大声吶喊：“便雅悯啊！敌人就在你背后。”

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

⁹在责罚的日子，以法莲必成为荒场。我要在以色列各支派中宣告一定会发生的事情。

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

¹⁰“犹大的领袖，好像挪移地界的人，我要把我的忿怒倾倒在他们身上，如同倒水一样。

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

¹¹以法莲受欺压，被审判压碎；因为他们乐意随从人的命令。

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

¹²因此我要成为以法莲的蛀虫，成为犹大家的朽烂。

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.

¹³以法莲看见自己的疾病，犹大家看见自己的创伤，以法莲就往亚述去，派人去见亚述的大王。可是他却不能医治你们，也不能医好你们的创伤。

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.

¹⁴因为我对以法莲要像只猛狮，对犹大家必像头少壮狮子。我要亲自撕裂他们，然后离去；我把他们带走，没有人能搭救。

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.”

¹⁵我要回到自己的地方去；直到他们承认自己的罪过，寻求我的面。在痛苦中必恳切寻求我。”