1 Come, let us go back to the Lord; for he has given us wounds and he will make us well; he has given blows and he will give help.2 After two days he will give us life, and on the third day he will make us get up, and we will be living before him.3 And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.4 O Ephraim, what am I to do to you? O Judah, what am I to do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew which goes early away.5 So I have had it cut in stones; I gave them teaching by the words of my mouth;6 Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings.7 But like a man, they have gone against the agreement; there they were false to me.8 Gilead is a town of evil-doers, marked with blood.9 And like a band of thieves waiting for a man, so are the priests watching secretly the way of those going quickly to Shechem, for they are working with an evil design.10 In Israel I have seen a very evil thing; there false ways are seen in Ephraim, Israel is unclean;11 And Judah has put up disgusting images for himself.

1 "来吧！ 让我们回转归向耶和华； 因为， 他虽然撕裂了我们， 但必定医治我们； 他虽然击伤了我们， 却必替我们裹伤。 2 两天以后， 他要使我们复原； 第三天， 他使我们起来， 我们就可以活在他的面前。 3 让我们认识， 竭力追求认识耶和华。他必定出现， 像晨光一样， 他必临到我们， 如雨水一般， 又像滋润大地的春雨。 4 "以法莲啊！ 我要怎样待你呢？犹大啊， 我要怎样待你呢？你们的爱心像早晨的云雾； 又像瞬即消逝的朝露。 5 因此， 我借众先知砍碎他们， 用我口中的话杀戮他们； 我的审判必如光一般发出。 6 我喜爱怜恤， 不喜爱祭祀； 我喜爱人认识 神的知识， 胜过人献的燔祭。 7 可是他们却在亚当城背约， 在那里向我行诡诈。 8 基列是作孽之人的城， 他们的脚踪染满了血渍。 9 在往示剑的路上， 祭司结党杀害人， 就像埋伏路旁的强盗； 他们行了邪恶的事。 10 在以色列家！ 我看见了可怕的事； 那里有以法莲的淫行， 以色列被玷污了。 11 犹大啊！ 我使我的子民归回的时候， 必有为你定下的一个收割时期。"