1 以色列人哪！ 你们要听耶和华的话。耶和华要与这地的居民争辩， 因为在这地上没有诚实， 没有慈爱， 也没有认识 神的知识； 2 只有起假誓、撒谎、残杀、偷盗、奸淫、行强暴， 以至流人血事件相继而来。 3 因此， 这地必悲哀， 地上所有的居民、田野的走兽、空中的飞鸟都必衰微、枯萎， 连海里的鱼也要灭亡。 4 虽然这样， 人人都不必争论， 不要彼此指责。祭司啊！ 要与你辩论的是我。 5 白天你要跌倒， 晚上先知也必与你一同跌倒； 我要毁灭你的母亲。 6 我的子民因无知识而灭亡； 因为你拒绝了知识， 我必拒绝你， 不让你作我的祭司； 因为你忘掉了你 神的律法， 我也必忘记你的子孙。 7 祭司越增多， 就越发得罪我， 我必把他们的尊荣变为耻辱。 8 他们借着我的子民犯罪来养活自己， 渴望他们多有罪孽。 9 所以， 祭司怎样， 人民也怎样。我必按他们的行为惩罚他们， 照他们的行为报应他们。 10 他们吃， 却吃不饱； 行淫， 人数却不会增多； 因为他们离弃了耶和华， 不遵守他的命令。 11 淫行、陈酒和新酒， 把人的心夺走了。 12 我的子民求问木头， 由木杖引导他们， 因为淫荡的心使他们走迷了路， 他们就行淫不顺从 神。 13 他们在山顶上献祭， 在冈陵上的橡树、杨树和栗树之下献上烧香， 因为树荫美好。所以你们的女儿行淫乱， 你们的儿媳犯奸淫。 14 我却不因你们的女儿行淫乱， 也不因你们的儿媳犯奸淫而惩罚她们， 因为你们男人自己离群与娼妓在一起， 又与庙妓一同献祭。这无知的人民必遭毁灭。 15 以色列啊！ 你虽然行淫， 犹大却不可犯罪， 不要往吉甲去， 不要上到伯．亚文， 也不要指着永活的耶和华起誓。 16 以色列倔强， 好像倔强的母牛， 现在耶和华怎样牧放他们， 好像牧放宽阔草场上的羊羔呢？ 17 以法莲和偶像连在一起， 任凭他吧！ 18 他们醉意全消以后， 就不断行淫； 他们的官长最喜爱耻辱的事。 19 风要把他们裹在翅膀里卷去， 他们必因自己所献的祭祀而蒙受羞辱。

1 `Hear a word of Jehovah, sons of Israel, For a strife [is] to Jehovah with inhabitants of the land, For there is no truth, nor kindness, Nor knowledge of God, in the land,2 Swearing, and lying, and murdering, And stealing, and committing adultery -- have increased, And blood against blood hath touched.3 Therefore mourn doth the land, And weak is every dweller in it, With the beast of the field, And with the fowl of the heavens, And the fishes of the sea -- they are removed.4 Only, let no one strive, nor reprove a man, And thy people [are] as those striving with a priest.5 And thou hast stumbled in the day, And stumbled hath also a prophet with thee in the night, And I have cut off thy mother.6 Cut off have been My people for lack of knowledge, Because thou knowledge hast rejected, I reject thee from being priest to Me, And thou forgettest the law of thy God, I forget thy sons, I also!7 According to their abundance so they sinned against Me, Their honour into shame I change.8 The sin of My people they do eat, And unto their iniquity lift up their soul.9 And it hath been, like people, like priest, And I have charged on it its ways, And its habitual doings I return to it.10 And they have eaten, and are not satisfied, They have gone a-whoring, and increase not, For they have left off taking heed to Jehovah.11 Whoredom, and wine, and new wine, take the heart,12 My people at its staff asketh and its rod declareth to it, For a spirit of whoredoms hath caused to err, And they go a-whoring from under their God.13 On tops of the mountains they do sacrifice, And on the hills they make perfume, Under oak, and poplar, and terebinth, For good [is] its shade.14 Therefore commit whoredom do your daughters, And your spouses commit adultery, I do not see after your daughters when they commit whoredom, And after your spouses when they commit adultery, For they with the harlots are separated, And with the whores they do sacrifice, A people that doth not understand kicketh.15 Though a harlot thou [art], O Israel, Let not Judah become guilty, And come not ye in to Gilgal, nor go up to Beth-Aven, Nor swear ye, Jehovah liveth.16 For as a refractory heifer hath Israel turned aside, Now doth Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a large place.17 Joined to idols [is] Ephraim, let him alone.18 Sour [is] their drink, They have gone diligently a-whoring, Her protectors have loved shame thoroughly.19 Distressed her hath wind with its wings, And they are ashamed of their sacrifices!