¹“Put the trumpet to your lips! Something like an eagle is over Yahweh’s house, because they have broken my covenant, and rebelled against my law.

¹指摘他们背约弃善

²他们必向我哀求：‘我的　神啊！我们以色列认识你。’

³Israel has cast off that which is good. The enemy will pursue him.

³以色列弃绝了良善，所以仇敌必追赶他。

⁴They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made princes, and I didn’t approve. Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols, that they may be cut off.

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。

⁵Let Samaria throw out his calf idol! My anger burns against them! How long will it be until they are capable of purity?

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？

⁶For this is even from Israel! The workman made it, and it is no God; indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

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。

⁷For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

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。

⁸Israel is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.

⁸以色列被吞吃，如今在万国中，好像没有人喜悦的器皿。

⁹For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.

⁹他们上去投奔亚述，像一只独行的野驴，以法莲贿买爱人。

¹⁰But although they sold themselves among the nations, I will now gather them; and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mighty ones.

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。

¹¹Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they became for him altars for sinning.

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。

¹²I wrote for him the many things of my law; but they were regarded as a strange thing.

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。

¹³As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it; But Yahweh doesn’t accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins. They will return to Egypt.

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。

¹⁴For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire on his cities, and it will devour its fortresses.”

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。”