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, be not joyful like the peoples, For thou hast gone a-whoring from thy God, Thou hast loved a gift near all floors of corn.2 Floor and wine-press do not delight them, And new wine doth fail in her,3 They do not abide in the land of Jehovah, And turned back hath Ephraim [to] Egypt, And in Asshur an unclean thing they eat.4 They pour not out wine to Jehovah, Nor are they sweet to Him, Their sacrifices [are] as bread of mourners to them, All eating it are unclean: For their bread [is] for themselves, It doth not come into the house of Jehovah.5 What do ye at the day appointed? And at the day of Jehovah`s festival?6 For, lo, they have gone because of destruction, Egypt gathereth them, Moph burieth them, The desirable things of their silver, Nettles possess them -- a thorn [is] in their tents.7 Come in have the days of inspection, Come in have the days of recompence, Israel doth know! a fool [is] the prophet, Mad [is] the man of the Spirit, Because of the abundance of thine iniquity, And great [is] the hatred.8 Ephraim is looking [away] from My God, The prophet! a snare of a fowler [is] over all his ways, Hatred [is] in the house of his God.9 They have gone deep -- have done corruptly, As [in] the days of Gibeah, He doth remember their iniquity, He doth inspect their sins.10 As grapes in a wilderness I found Israel, As the first-fruit in a fig-tree, at its beginning, I have seen your fathers, They -- they have gone in [to] Baal-Peor, And are separated to a shameful thing, And are become abominable like their love.11 Ephraim [is] as a fowl, Fly away doth their honour, without birth, And without womb, and without conception.12 For though they nourish their sons, I have made them childless -- without man, Surely also, wo to them, when I turn aside from them.13 Ephraim! when I have looked to the rock, Is planted in comeliness, And Ephraim [is] to bring out unto a slayer his sons.14 Give to them, Jehovah -- what dost Thou give? Give to them miscarrying womb, and dry breasts.15 All their evil [is] in Gilgal, Surely there I have hated them, Because of the evil of their doings, Out of My house I do drive them, I add not to love them, all their heads [are] apostates.16 Ephraim hath been smitten, Their root hath dried up, fruit they yield not, Yea, though they bring forth, I have put to death the desired of their womb.17 Reject them doth my God, Because they have not hearkened to Him, And they are wanderers among nations!