1 耶和华说： "人若是休妻， 妻子离开了他， 又嫁了别人， 前夫怎能与她复合呢？如果复合， 那地不是大大玷污了吗？你曾与许多情人行淫， 还想归向我。"这是耶和华的宣告。
2 "你向光秃的高冈举目看看， 哪里没有你的淫迹？你坐在路边等候情人， 像阿拉伯人在旷野埋伏一样。你以淫乱和邪恶， 把这地玷污了。
3 所以甘霖停止， 春雨不降； 你还是一副妓女的面孔（"面孔"原文作"额"）， 不顾羞耻。
4 你刚刚不是还呼叫我： ‘我父啊！ 你是我年轻时的良伴；
5 耶和华怎会永远怀怒， 常存愤恨呢？’你虽然这样说了， 还是尽力去作恶。"
6 约西亚王在位的日子， 耶和华对我说： "背道的以色列所作的， 她怎样走上各高山， 在每棵繁茂的树下行淫， 你看见了没有？
7 我以为她作了这些事以后， 就必回转过来， 可是她没有回转。她诡诈的妹妹犹大也看见了。
8 因背道的以色列犯了淫乱， 我就给她休书， 把她休了。我看见她诡诈的妹妹犹大还是不惧怕， 照样行淫。
9 因以色列把自己的淫行视作等闲， 去与石头木头行淫， 就把这地玷污了。
10 虽然这样， 她诡诈的妹妹犹大还没有全心归向我， 只是假意地归我。"这是耶和华的宣告。
11 耶和华对我说： "背道的以色列， 比诡诈的犹大还显得正义。
12 你去， 把这些话向北方宣告， 说： ‘背道的以色列啊， 回转吧！ ’这是耶和华的宣告。’我必不向你们变脸， 因为我是慈爱的， 我必不永远怀怒。’这是耶和华的宣告。
13 ‘只要你承认自己的罪孽， 就是悖逆了耶和华你的 神， 在每棵繁茂的树下， 滥爱外族人的神， 没有听从我的话。’这是耶和华的宣告。
14 ‘背道的人哪， 回转吧！ ’这是耶和华的宣告。’因为我才是你们的主。我要每城取一人， 每族取二人， 把你们带到锡安。
15 "我必把合我心意的牧人赐给你们， 他们要用知识和智慧牧养你们。
16 当那些日子， 你们在这地繁殖增多的时候， 人必不再提说耶和华的约柜， 不把它放在心上， 不思念它， 不觉得缺少， 也不再制造。’这是耶和华的宣告。
17 ‘那时， 人必称耶路撒冷为耶和华的宝座， 万国要聚集到她那里， 因耶和华名的缘故来到耶路撒冷； 他们必不再随从自己顽梗的恶心行事。
18 在那些日子， 犹大家必与以色列家同行， 他们必从北方之地一同来到我赐给你们列祖为业的地方。’"
19 "我说： ‘我待你， 像待儿女一样， 赐给你佳美之地， 就是列国中最美好的产业； 我以为你会称我为父， 不再离去不跟从我了。
20 以色列家啊！ 妻子怎样行奸诈对丈夫不忠， 你也照样以奸诈待我。’"这是耶和华的宣告。
21 在光秃的高冈听到人声， 就是以色列人哭泣恳求的声音； 因为他们改转了自己的道路， 忘记了耶和华他们的 神。
22 "背道的人哪， 回转吧！ 我必医治你们背道的病。""看哪！ 我们来到你这里， 因为你是耶和华我们的 神！
23 小山和大山上的喧嚷， 真是徒然的， 以色列的救恩诚然在于耶和华我们的 神。
24 从我们幼年以来， 我们列祖劳苦得来的， 他们的牛羊， 他们的儿女， 都给那可耻的偶像吞掉了。
25 但愿我们躺卧在羞耻中， 让惭愧遮盖着我们！ 因为我们得罪了耶和华我们的 神， 从我们幼年直到现在， 我们和列祖都没有听从耶和华我们的 神的话。"
1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, will he return unto her again? will not that land be greatly polluted? But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith Jehovah. 2 Lift up thine eyes unto the bare heights, and see; where hast thou not been lain with? By the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness. 3 Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; yet thou hadst a harlot’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed. 4 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My Father, thou art the guide of my youth? 5 Will he retain his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and hast done evil things, and hast had thy way.
6 Moreover Jehovah said unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot. 7 And I said after she had done all these things, She will return unto me; but she returned not: and her treacherous sister Judah saw it. 8 And I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorcement, yet treacherous Judah her sister feared not; but she also went and played the harlot. 9 And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks. 10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not returned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith Jehovah.
11 And Jehovah said unto me, Backsliding Israel hath showed herself more righteous than treacherous Judah. 12 Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith Jehovah; I will not look in anger upon you; for I am merciful, saith Jehovah, I will not keep anger for ever. 13 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against Jehovah thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith Jehovah. 14 Return, O backsliding children, saith Jehovah; for I am a husband unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion. 15 And I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. 16 And it shall come to pass, when ye are multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith Jehovah, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of Jehovah; neither shall it come to mind; neither shall they remember it; neither shall they miss it; neither shall it be made any more. 17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of Jehovah; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of Jehovah, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the stubbornness of their evil heart. 18 In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I gave for an inheritance unto your fathers.
19 But I said, How I will put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of the nations! and I said, Ye shall call me My Father, and shall not turn away from following me. 20 Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith Jehovah. 21 A voice is heard upon the bare heights, the weeping and the supplications of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Jehovah their God. 22 Return, ye backsliding children, I will heal your backslidings.
Behold, we are come unto thee; for thou art Jehovah our God. 23 Truly in vain is the help that is looked for from the hills, the tumult on the mountains: truly in Jehovah our God is the salvation of Israel. 24 But the shameful thing hath devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. 25 Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Jehovah our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day; and we have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah our God.