1 以色列啊！ 不要欢喜； 不要像外族人一样快乐， 因为你行了邪淫， 离开你的 神， 在各打谷场上喜爱卖淫的赏赐。

2 打谷场和榨酒池不能喂养他们， 新酒也必使他们失望。

3 他们必不得住在耶和华之地； 以法莲要回到埃及去， 要在亚述吃不洁之物。

4 他们必不得向耶和华奠酒， 他们的祭物也不能使他喜悦。他们的饼好像丧家的饼， 凡吃这饼的， 都必被玷污； 因为他们的饼只可自己吃， 不可带进耶和华的殿。

5 那么， 在规定集会的日子和耶和华节期的时候， 你们能作什么？

6 看哪！ 他们逃到亚述去， 埃及要收殓他们， 摩弗要埋葬他们。他们珍贵的银器必为蒺藜所占有， 他们的帐棚必长满荆棘。

7 惩罚的日子临近， 报应的时候来到， 以色列必定知道， 因着你们众多的罪孽和深仇大恨， 先知被看为愚昧， 受灵感动的人被当作疯子。

8 先知与 神一同作以法莲的守望者， 在他所行的一切路上， 都满有捕鸟人的网罗， 在他 神的家中只有仇恨。

9 以法莲深深败坏， 如同在基比亚的日子一般。 神必记得他们的罪孽， 惩罚他们的罪恶。

10 "我遇见以色列， 好像在旷野里遇见葡萄。我看见你们的列祖， 像看见无花果树初熟的果子。他们却来到巴力．毗珥， 专作羞耻的事， 成为可憎恶的， 像他们所爱的偶像一样。

11 至于以法莲， 他们的荣耀必如鸟儿飞逝； 没有生育， 没有怀胎， 没有成孕。

12 即使他们把儿女养大， 我也必使他们丧子， 一个不留。我离弃他们的时候， 他们就有祸了。"

13 在我看来， 以法莲的儿女注定被当作猎物； 以法莲要把自己的儿女带出来， 交给施行杀戮的人。

14 耶和华啊， 求你赐给他们； 你要赐给他们什么呢？求你使他们坠胎小产， 乳房萎缩。

15 "他们的一切罪恶都在吉甲， 我在那里憎恨他们， 因他们的恶行， 我要把他们从我的家里赶出来； 我不再爱他们， 他们的领袖都是叛徒。

16 以法莲被击打， 他们的根枯干了， 必不能再结果子。即使他们生产， 我必杀死他们所生的爱子。"

17 我的 神必弃绝他们， 因为他们不听从他； 他们必在列国中飘流。

1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, like the peoples; for thou hast played the harlot, departing from thy God; thou hast loved hire upon every grain-floor. 2 The threshing-floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her. 3 They shall not dwell in Jehovah’s land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria. 4 They shall not pour out wine-offerings to Jehovah, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted; for their bread shall be for their appetite; it shall not come into the house of Jehovah. 5 What will ye do in the day of solemn assembly, and in the day of the feast of Jehovah? 6 For, lo, they are gone away from destruction; yet Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them; their pleasant things of silver, nettles shall possess them; thorns shall be in their tents. 7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the man that hath the spirit is mad, for the abundance of thine iniquity, and because the enmity is great. 8 Ephraim was a watchman with my God: as for the prophet, a fowler’s snare is in all his ways, and enmity in the house of his God. 9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first-ripe in the fig-tree at its first season: but they came to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves unto the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved. 11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird: there shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception. 12 Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, so that not a man shall be left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them! 13 Ephraim, like as I have seen Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring out his children to the slayer. 14 Give them, O Jehovah—what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. 15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them: because of the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house; I will love them no more; all their princes are revolters. 16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay the beloved fruit of their womb. 17 My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.