1 从前以法莲一说话， 人都战兢。他原在以色列中居高位， 但后来因事奉巴力犯了罪， 就死了。 2 现在他们犯罪越来越多， 为自己做铸像， 按着自己的技巧， 用自己的银子做偶像； 这些都是匠人的手工。他们论到这些说： "向偶像献祭的人， 可以与牛犊亲嘴。" 3 因此， 他们必像早晨的云雾， 又如易逝的朝露， 又像打谷场上的糠秕被旋风吹去， 又像烟气从烟窗上腾。 4 "自从你出埃及地以来， 我就是耶和华你的 神。除我以外， 你不可有别的神； 除我以外， 再没有拯救者。 5 我曾在旷野， 在干旱之地， 认识你。 6 但他们得了喂养， 饱足以后， 就心高气傲， 因此忘记了我。 7 所以我要像狮子临到他们， 像豹子埋伏在路旁。 8 我要袭击他们， 像一只失掉幼熊的母熊， 撕裂他们的胸膛； 在那里我必像一只母狮吞吃他们； 野兽必撕裂他们。 9 "以色列啊， 我要毁灭你， 谁能帮助你呢？ 10 现在你的王在哪里？让他拯救你吧！ 你所有的领袖在哪里？让他们治理你吧！ 因为论到他们你曾请求： ‘把王和领袖赐给我。’ 11 我在忿怒中把王赐给你， 又在烈怒中把他废去。 12 以法莲的罪孽是封着的， 他的罪恶贮藏起来。 13 生产的疼痛要临到他身上， 他却是没有智慧的人， 因为产期到了， 他还迟延不破胎而出。 14 我要救赎他们脱离阴间的权势吗？救赎他们脱离死亡吗？死亡啊， 你的灾害在哪里？阴间啊， 你的毁灭在哪里？怜悯必从我眼前隐藏起来。 15 他虽然在芦苇中长得茂盛， 但东风必要来到， 耶和华的风要从旷野上来， 他的水泉就干涸， 他的泉源就枯竭。他所贮藏的一切珍贵器皿， 都被掠夺去了。 16 撒玛利亚必承担自己罪的刑罚， 因为他背叛了他的 神。他们必倒在刀下。他们的婴孩被摔死， 他们的孕妇必被剖开肚腹。"（本节在《马索拉抄本》为14:1）

1 When Ephraim speaketh tremblingly, He hath been lifted up in Israel, When he becometh guilty in Baal he dieth.2 And now do they add to sin, And make to them a molten image of their silver, By their own understanding -- idols, A work of artizans -- all of it, Of them they say, who [are] sacrificers among men, `The calves let them kiss.`3 Therefore they are as a cloud of the morning, And as dew, rising early, going away, As chaff tossed about out of a floor, And as smoke out of a window.4 And I [am] Jehovah thy God from the land of Egypt, And a God besides Me thou dost not know, And a Saviour -- there is none save Me.5 I -- I have known thee in a wilderness, In a land of droughts.6 According to their feedings they are satiated, They have been satiated, And their heart is lifted up, Therefore they have forgotten Me,7 And I am to them as a lion, As a leopard by the way I look out.8 I do meet them as a bereaved bear, And I rend the enclosure of their heart.9 And I consume them there as a lioness, A beast of the field doth rend them.10 Thou hast destroyed thyself, O Israel, But in Me [is] thy help, Where [is] thy king now -- And he doth save thee in all thy cities? And thy judges of whom thou didst say, `Give to me a king and heads?`11 I give to thee a king in Mine anger, And I take away in My wrath.12 Bound up [is] the iniquity of Ephraim, Hidden [is] his sin,13 Pangs of a travailing woman come to him, He [is] a son not wise, For he remaineth not the time for the breaking forth of sons.14 From the hand of Sheol I do ransom them, From death I redeem them, Where [is] thy plague, O death? Where thy destruction, O Sheol? Repentance is hid from Mine eyes.15 Though he among brethren produceth fruit, Come in doth an east wind, a wind of Jehovah, From a wilderness it is coming up, And it drieth up his fountain, And become dry doth his spring, It -- it spoileth a treasure -- every desirable vessel.16 Become desolate doth Samaria, Because she hath rebelled against her God, By sword they do fall, Their sucklings are dashed in pieces, And its pregnant ones are ripped up!