1 "来吧！ 让我们回转归向耶和华； 因为， 他虽然撕裂了我们， 但必定医治我们； 他虽然击伤了我们， 却必替我们裹伤。 2 两天以后， 他要使我们复原； 第三天， 他使我们起来， 我们就可以活在他的面前。 3 让我们认识， 竭力追求认识耶和华。他必定出现， 像晨光一样， 他必临到我们， 如雨水一般， 又像滋润大地的春雨。 4 "以法莲啊！ 我要怎样待你呢？犹大啊， 我要怎样待你呢？你们的爱心像早晨的云雾； 又像瞬即消逝的朝露。 5 因此， 我借众先知砍碎他们， 用我口中的话杀戮他们； 我的审判必如光一般发出。 6 我喜爱怜恤， 不喜爱祭祀； 我喜爱人认识 神的知识， 胜过人献的燔祭。 7 可是他们却在亚当城背约， 在那里向我行诡诈。 8 基列是作孽之人的城， 他们的脚踪染满了血渍。 9 在往示剑的路上， 祭司结党杀害人， 就像埋伏路旁的强盗； 他们行了邪恶的事。 10 在以色列家！ 我看见了可怕的事； 那里有以法莲的淫行， 以色列被玷污了。 11 犹大啊！ 我使我的子民归回的时候， 必有为你定下的一个收割时期。"

1 `Come, and we turn back unto Jehovah, For He hath torn, and He doth heal us, He doth smite, and He bindeth us up.2 He doth revive us after two days, In the third day He doth raise us up, And we live before Him.3 And we know -- we pursue to know Jehovah, As the dawn prepared is His going forth, And He cometh in as a shower to us, As gathered rain -- sprinkling earth.`4 What do I do to thee, O Ephraim? What do I do to thee, O Judah? Your goodness [is] as a cloud of the morning, And as dew rising early -- going.5 Therefore I have hewed by prophets, I have slain them by sayings of My mouth, And My judgments to the light goeth forth.6 For kindness I desired, and not sacrifice, And a knowledge of God above burnt-offerings.7 And they, as Adam, transgressed a covenant, There they dealt treacherously against me.8 Gilead [is] a city of workers of iniquity, Slippery from blood.9 And as bands do wait for a man, A company of priests do murder -- the way to Shechem, For wickedness they have done.10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing, There [is] the whoredom of Ephraim -- defiled is Israel.11 Also, O Judah, appointed is a harvest to thee, In My turning back [to] the captivity of My people!