1 以法莲那些醉汉所戴的高傲冠冕， 有祸了！ 它在肥美谷山顶上的荣美， 有祸了！ 它必如将残的花朵， 满了喝醉酒的人。
2 看哪！ 主有一个大能大力的人， 像一阵冰雹、一阵毁灭的暴风， 像涨溢猛流的大水， 他必用手把它摔落地上。
3 以法莲的醉汉所戴的高傲冠冕， 必被践踏在脚下。
4 它在肥美谷山顶上如将残的花朵一般的荣美， 必像夏天以前初熟的无花果。那些看见它的人， 都必注意； 一到手里， 就把它吞吃了。
5 到那日， 万军之耶和华必作他余民的荣耀冠冕，
6 也必作在位上施行审判者公平的心灵， 并作在城门口击退敌人者的力量。
7 就是这地的人， 也因酒摇晃不定， 因浓酒东倒西歪； 祭司和先知都因浓酒摇晃不定， 被酒弄至昏乱， 因浓酒东倒西歪。他们见异象的时候， 摇晃不定， 他们判断的时候， 也颠颠倒倒。
8 因为各席上都满了污秽的呕吐， 没有一处是干净的。
9 他们说： "他要把知识教导谁呢？要使谁明白他所传的信息呢？是那些刚断奶， 刚离开母怀的吗？
10 因为他所说的， 只是些重复又重复的话， 和毫无意义的字母， 这里一点， 那里一点罢了。"
11 耶和华要借着外族人的嘴唇和外族人的舌头， 对这人民说话。
12 他曾对他们说： "这就是安息之处， 你们若使疲乏的人得安息， 就必得着这安歇的地方。"但他们不肯听从。
13 所以耶和华对他们所说的话， 就成了重复又重复的话， 和毫无意义的字母， 这里一点， 那里一点， 以致他们虽然往前走， 却必仰面跌倒， 并且跌伤， 陷入网罗被缠住。
14 因此好讥笑人的人哪！ 就是管辖这些在耶路撒冷的人民的， 你们要听耶和华的话。
15 因为你们曾说： "我们与死亡立了约， 与阴间结了盟； 刑罚的鞭子扫过的时候， 必不会碰到我们， 因为我们以谎言作遮蔽， 以虚假作庇护。"
16 所以主耶和华这样说： "看哪！ 我在锡安放置一块石头， 是试验过的石头， 是稳固的基石， 宝贵的房角石； 信靠的人， 必不着急。
17 我要以公平为准绳， 以公义为线铊； 冰雹必把谎言的遮蔽冲去， 大水必漫过庇护所。"
18 你们与死亡所立的约要废除， 你们与阴间所结的盟必立不住； 刑罚的鞭子扫过的时候， 你们就必被践踏。
19 每次扫过的时候， 都把你们抓去； 因为每早晨它必漫过， 白天与黑夜也是这样； 人若明白所传的， 必受惊恐。
20 床铺太短， 人就不能伸直， 被窝太窄， 就盖不住全身。
21 耶和华必像在毗拉心山一样兴起， 又像在基遍谷一样发怒， 为要作成他的工， 他那奇妙的工， 好成就他的事， 就是奇异的事。
22 现在， 你们不可再讥笑了， 免得捆绑你们的绳索绑得更紧， 因为我从主万军之耶和华那里听到， 决定要在全地上施行毁灭的事。
23 你们要侧耳听我的声音， 留心听我的话。
24 农夫怎会不断耕犁来撒种呢？他怎会常常开垦耕地呢？
25 他犁平了地面， 不就撒种小茴香， 播种大茴香， 按行列种小麦， 在指定的地方种大麦， 在田边种粗麦吗？
26 因为他的 神教导他， 指教他正确的方法。
27 打小茴香是不用尖耙的， 轧大茴香也不用碾轮； 而是用杖打小茴香， 用棍打大茴香。
28 做饼的谷粒怎么要碾碎的呢？从来没有人碾碎它们， 虽然他让车轮和马匹辊过谷粒， 却不会把他们碾碎。
29 这也是出于万军之耶和华， 他的谋略奇妙， 他的智慧广大。
1 Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley of them that are overcome with wine! 2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one; as a tempest of hail, a destroying storm, as a tempest of mighty waters overflowing, will he cast down to the earth with the hand. 3 The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under foot: 4 and the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be as the first-ripe fig before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up. 5 In that day will Jehovah of hosts become a crown of glory, and a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people; 6 and a spirit of justice to him that sitteth in judgment, and strength to them that turn back the battle at the gate.
7 And even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment. 8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
9 Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he make to understand the message? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts? 10 For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little.
11 Nay, but by men of strange lips and with another tongue will he speak to this people; 12 to whom he said, This is the rest, give ye rest to him that is weary; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear. 13 Therefore shall the word of Jehovah be unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
14 Wherefore hear the word of Jehovah, ye scoffers, that rule this people that is in Jerusalem: 15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us; for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: 16 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner-stone of sure foundation: he that believeth shall not be in haste. 17 And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place. 18 And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it. 19 As often as it passeth through, it shall take you; for morning by morning shall it pass through, by day and by night: and it shall be nought but terror to understand the message. 20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it; and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. 21 For Jehovah will rise up as in mount Perazim, he will be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his strange work, and bring to pass his act, his strange act. 22 Now therefore be ye not scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for a decree of destruction have I heard from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, upon the whole earth.
23 Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech. 24 Doth he that ploweth to sow plow continually? doth he continually open and harrow his ground? 25 When he hath levelled the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and put in the wheat in rows, and the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in the border thereof? 26 For his God doth instruct him aright, and doth teach him. 27 For the fitches are not threshed with a sharp threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod. 28 Bread grain is ground; for he will not be always threshing it: and though the wheel of his cart and his horses scatter it, he doth not grind it. 29 This also cometh forth from Jehovah of hosts, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.