1 Give ear now to the words of the Lord: Up! put forward your cause before the mountains, let your voice be sounding among the hills.
2 Give ear, O you mountains, to the Lord's cause, and take note, you bases of the earth: for the Lord has a cause against his people, and he will take it up with Israel.
3 O my people, what have I done to you? how have I been a weariness to you? give answer against me.
4 For I took you up out of the land of Egypt and made you free from the prison-house; I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
5 O my people, keep in mind now what was designed by Balak, king of Moab, and the answer which Balaam, son of Beor, gave him; the events, from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may be certain of the upright acts of the Lord.
6 With what am I to come before the Lord and go with bent head before the high God? am I to come before him with burned offerings, with young oxen a year old?
7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of sheep or with ten thousand rivers of oil? am I to give my first child for my wrongdoing, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
8 He has made clear to you, O man, what is good; and what is desired from you by the Lord; only doing what is right, and loving mercy, and walking without pride before your God.
9 The voice of the Lord is crying out to the town: Give ear, you tribes and the meeting of the town.
10 Am I to let the stores of the evil-doer go out of my memory, and the short measure, which is cursed?
11 Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?
12 For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.
13 So I have made a start with your punishment; I have made you waste because of your sins.
14 You will have food, but not enough; your shame will be ever with you: you will get your goods moved, but you will not take them away safely; and what you do take away I will give to the sword.
15 You will put in seed, but you will not get in the grain; you will be crushing olives, but your bodies will not be rubbed with the oil; and you will get in the grapes, but you will have no wine.
16 For you have kept the laws of Omri and all the works of the family of Ahab, and you have been guided by their designs: so that I might make you a cause of wonder and your people a cause of hisses; and the shame of my people will be on you.
1 你们当听耶和华所说的话： "你要起来， 向大山争辩， 让小山可以听见你的声音。
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。
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。
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。
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。"
6 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？
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？
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。
9 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。
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？
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？
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。
13 因此我击打你， 使你生病， 因你的罪恶， 使你荒凉。
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。
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。
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。