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，我藉众先知砍碎他们，

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。"

1 Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. 2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. 3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.

4 O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.*6.4 goodness: or, mercy, or, kindness 5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.*6.5 and…: or, that thy judgments might be, etc 6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. 7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.*6.7 men: or, Adam 8 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.*6.8 polluted: or, cunning for 9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.*6.9 by…: Heb. with one shoulder, or, to Shechem*6.9 lewdness: or, enormity 10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled. 11 Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.