1 Give ear to this, O priests; give attention, O Israel, and you, family of the king; for you are to be judged; you have been a deceit at Mizpah and a net stretched out on Tabor.2 They have gone deep in the evil ways of Shittim, but I am the judge of all.3 I have knowledge of Ephraim, and Israel is not secret from me; for now, O Ephraim, you have been false to me, Israel has become unclean.4 Their works will not let them come back to their God, for a false spirit is in them and they have no knowledge of the Lord.5 And the pride of Israel gives an answer to his face; and Ephraim will have a fall through his sins, and the fall of Judah will be the same as theirs.6 They will go, with their flocks and their herds, in search of the Lord, but they will not see him; he has taken himself out of their view.7 They have been false to the Lord; they have given birth to strange children; now the new moon will make them waste with their fields.8 Let the horn be sounded in Gibeah and in Ramah; give a loud cry in Beth-aven, They are after you, O Benjamin.9 Ephraim will become a waste in the day of punishment; I have given knowledge among the tribes of Israel of what is certain.10 The rulers of Judah are like those who take away a landmark; I will let loose my wrath on them like flowing water.11 Ephraim is troubled; he is crushed by his judges, because he took pleasure in walking after deceit.12 And so to Ephraim I am like a wasting insect, and a destruction to the children of Judah.13 When Ephraim saw his disease and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria and sent to the great king; but he is not able to make you well or give you help for your wound.14 For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the children of Judah; I, even I, will give him wounds and go away; I will take him away, and there will be no helper.15 I will go back to my place till they are made waste; in their trouble they will go after me early and will make search for me.
1 祭司啊， 你们要听这话！ 以色列家啊， 你们要留心听！ 王的家啊， 你们要侧耳而听！ 因为审判必临到你们， 因你们曾是米斯巴地的捕鸟机， 是他泊山上张开的网罗。 2 他们在什亭掘深了陷阱， 但我要惩治他们所有的人。 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。 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。 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。 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。 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 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。" 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。 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。 11 以法莲受欺压， 被审判压碎； 因为他们乐意随从人的命令。 12 因此我要成为以法莲的蛀虫， 成为犹大家的朽烂。 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。 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。 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。"