1 "Listen to this, you priests!

Listen, house of Israel,

and give ear, house of the king!

For the judgment is against you;

for you have been a snare at Mizpah,

and a net spread on Tabor.

2 The rebels are deep in slaughter,

but I discipline all of them.

3 I know Ephraim,

and Israel is not hidden from me;

for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute.

Israel is defiled.

4 Their deeds won’t allow them to turn to their God,

for the spirit of prostitution is within them,

and they don’t know Yahweh.

5 The pride of Israel testifies to his face.

Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity.

Judah also will stumble with them.

6 They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Yahweh,

but they won’t find him.

He has withdrawn himself from them.

7 They are unfaithful to Yahweh;

for they have borne illegitimate children.

Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.

8 "Blow the cornet in Gibeah,

and the trumpet in Ramah!

Sound a battle cry at Beth Aven, behind you, Benjamin!

9 Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke.

Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will surely be.

10 The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark.

I will pour out my wrath on them like water.

11 Ephraim is oppressed,

he is crushed in judgment,

because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.

12 Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth,

and to the house of Judah like rottenness.

13 "When Ephraim saw his sickness,

and Judah his wound,

then Ephraim went to Assyria,

and sent to king Jareb:

but he is not able to heal you,

neither will he cure you of your wound.

14 For I will be to Ephraim like a lion,

and like a young lion to the house of Judah.

I myself will tear in pieces and go away.

I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.

15 I will go and return to my place,

until they acknowledge their offense,

and seek my face.

In their affliction they will seek me earnestly."

1 祭司啊， 你们要听这话！ 以色列家啊， 你们要留心听！ 王的家啊， 你们要侧耳而听！ 因为审判必临到你们， 因你们曾是米斯巴地的捕鸟机， 是他泊山上张开的网罗。

2 他们在什亭掘深了陷阱， 但我要惩治他们所有的人。

3 我认识以法莲， 以色列也瞒不住我； 以法莲啊！ 现在你竟行淫， 以色列竟玷污了自己。

4 他们所行的使他们不能回转， 归回自己的 神； 因为在他们当中有淫乱的心； 他们也不认识耶和华。

5 以色列的骄傲当面指证自己， 以色列和以法莲因自己的罪孽跌倒， 犹大也与他们一同跌倒。

6 虽然他们带着牛群羊群去寻求耶和华， 却寻不见； 他已经离开他们远去了。

7 他们以诡诈待耶和华， 因为他们生了私生子。现在新月（"新月"或译： "侵略者"）要吞灭他们和他们的地业。

8 你们要在基比亚吹角， 在拉玛吹号， 在伯．亚文大声吶喊： "便雅悯啊！ 敌人就在你背后。"

9 在责罚的日子， 以法莲必成为荒场。我要在以色列各支派中宣告一定会发生的事情。

10 "犹大的领袖， 好像挪移地界的人， 我要把我的忿怒倾倒在他们身上， 如同倒水一样。

11 以法莲受欺压， 被审判压碎； 因为他们乐意随从人的命令。

12 因此我要成为以法莲的蛀虫， 成为犹大家的朽烂。

13 以法莲看见自己的疾病， 犹大家看见自己的创伤， 以法莲就往亚述去， 派人去见亚述的大王。可是他却不能医治你们， 也不能医好你们的创伤。

14 因为我对以法莲要像只猛狮， 对犹大家必像头少壮狮子。我要亲自撕裂他们， 然后离去； 我把他们带走， 没有人能搭救。

15 我要回到自己的地方去； 直到他们承认自己的罪过， 寻求我的面。在痛苦中必恳切寻求我。"