祸哉，以法莲酒徒骄傲的冠冕；祸哉，被酒所胜之人，在肥美谷山顶华美光彩的将残之花。
Woe to the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim / And to the fading flower of its glorious beauty, / Which is at the head of the fat valley of those who are overcome by wine.

看哪，主有一大能大力者；祂必像一阵冰雹，像毁灭的暴风，像涨溢泛滥的大水，用手将冠冕摔落于地。
Indeed the Lord has someone strong and mighty; / As a hailstorm and a tempest of destruction, / As a storm of mighty overflowing waters, / He will cast down to the earth with His hand.

以法莲酒徒骄傲的冠冕，必被踏在脚下；
The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim / Will be trodden under foot;

那在肥美谷山顶上华美光彩的将残之花，必像夏令以前初熟的无花果；看见这果的就注意，一到手中就吞吃了。
And the fading flower of its glorious beauty, / Which is at the head of the fat valley, / Will be like the first-ripe fig before the summer, / Which when someone looks upon it he sees it, / And in an instant it is in his hand, and he swallows it up.

到那日，万军之耶和华必作祂余剩之民的荣冠华冕，
In that day Jehovah of hosts / Will become a crown of glory and a diadem of beauty to the remnant of His people,

也作了在位上行审判者公平的灵，并城门口打退敌阵者的力量。
And a spirit of justice for him who sits in judgment / And strength to those who turn away the battle at the gate.

但这些人，也因酒摇摇晃晃，因浓酒东倒西歪：祭司和申言者因浓酒摇摇晃晃，因酒昏乱，因浓酒东倒西歪；他们见异象时摇摇晃晃，行审判时摇摆不定。
But these also reel with wine / And stagger from liquor: / The priest and the prophet reel from liquor; / They are swallowed up with wine; / They stagger from liquor, / They reel in their visions, / They totter in their judgments.

因为各席上满了呕吐的污秽，无一处干净。
For all the tables are full of vomit and filth; / There is no place clean.

讥诮申言者的说，他要将知识指教谁呢？要使谁明白传言呢？是那刚断奶的么？是那刚离母怀的么？
Whom will he teach knowledge? / And whom will he instruct with the report? / Those weaned from milk? / Those drawn from the breasts?

因为他所说的是命令加上命令，命令加上命令，一行又一行，一行又一行，这里一点，那里一点。
For his words are: Rule upon rule, rule upon rule; / Line upon line, line upon line; / Here a little, there a little.

申言者说，不然，主要借异邦人的嘴唇，和外邦人的舌头，对这百姓说话；
For with stammering lips / And with a foreign tongue / He will speak to this people,

祂曾对他们说，这就是安息，你们要使疲乏人得安息；又说，这才是舒畅；他们却不肯听。
He who said to them, / This is rest; give rest to the weary; / And, This is repose. / But they would not hear.

所以耶和华向他们说的话，是命令加上命令，命令加上命令，一行又一行，一行又一行，这里一点，那里一点；以致他们前行仰面跌倒，而且跌碎，并陷入网罗，被缠住。
Therefore Jehovah's word to them will be: / Rule upon rule, rule upon rule; / Line upon line, line upon line; / Here a little, there a little; / That they may go and stumble backward, / And be broken, snared, and taken.

所以你们这些亵慢的人，就是辖管在耶路撒冷这百姓的，要听耶和华的话：
Therefore hear the word of Jehovah, / You scoffing men, / Who rule this people / Who are in Jerusalem:

因为你们曾说，我们与死亡立了约，与阴间结了盟；敌军如水涨漫经过的时候，必不临到我们；因我们以谎言为避难所，在虚假之内藏身；
Because you have said, We have made / A covenant with death, / And with Sheol / We have made an agreement: / When the overflowing scourge passes through, / It will not come upon us; / For we have made falsehood our refuge / And have hidden ourselves in deception.

所以主耶和华如此说：看哪，我在锡安放一块石头，作为根基，是试验过的石头，是宝贵的房角石，作为稳固的根基；信靠的人必不着急。
Therefore thus says / The Lord Jehovah: / Indeed I lay a stone in Zion as a foundation, / A tested stone, / A precious cornerstone as a foundation firmly established; / He who believes will not hasten away.

我必以公平为准绳，以公义为线铊；冰雹必冲去谎言的避难所，大水必漫过藏身处。
And I will make justice the line / And righteousness the plummet; / And the hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, / And the waters will overflow the secret place.

你们与死亡所立的约必然废掉，与阴间所结的盟必立不住；敌军如水涨漫经过的时候，你们必被他们践踏。
And your covenant with death will be annulled, / And your agreement with Sheol will not stand; / When the overflowing scourge passes through, / You will be a trampling ground to it.

每逢他们经过必将你们掳去；因为每早晨他们必经过，白昼黑夜都必如此。明白传言的，必受惊恐。
As often as it passes through, / It will take hold of you. / For morning by morning it will pass through, / By day and by night; / And it will be nothing but terror / To understand the report of it.

原来床榻短，使人不能舒身；被窝窄，使人不能遮体。
For the bed is too short for a man to stretch on, / And the sheet is too narrow for him to wrap himself in.

耶和华必兴起，像在毗拉心山，祂必发怒，像在基遍谷，好作成祂的工，就是非常的工，成就祂的事，就是奇异的事。
For Jehovah will rise as on Mount Perazim, / He will be agitated as in the valley of Gibeon, / To do His deed, His strange deed, / And to do His work, His most different work.

现在你们不可作亵慢人，恐怕捆你们的绑索更结实；因为我从主万军之耶和华那里听见，要坚决的在全地上施行完全的毁灭。
Now therefore do not be mockers, / Lest your fetters become stronger; / For I have heard from the Lord Jehovah of hosts / Of complete and decisive destruction upon the whole earth.

你们当侧耳听我的声音，留心听我的言语。
Hearken and hear my voice; / Attend and hear my speech.

那耕地为要撒种的，岂是终日耕地呢？岂是不断开垦耙地呢？
Does the plowman plow all day long to sow his seed? / Does he open and harrow his ground continually?

他拉平了地面，岂不就撒种小茴香，播种大茴香，按行列种小麦，在定处种大麦，在田边种粗麦么？
Does he not, once he levels the surface, / Scatter dill and broadcast cummin, / And put the wheat in rows and the barley in its appointed place / And the rye where it belongs?

因为他的神教导他这样判断，并且这样指教他。
For his God instructs him toward such discretion / And teaches him so.

原来打小茴香不用尖利的器具，轧大茴香也不用碾轮；但用杖打小茴香，用棍打大茴香。
For dill is not threshed with a sharp tool, / Nor is the cart wheel turned upon the cummin; / But dill is beaten out with a rod, / And cummin with a stick.

作饼的谷是用磨磨碎，并不是不停地一打再打；一旦用碾轮和马辊过，就不用磨。
Bread grains are ground, / Yet one does not thresh and thresh forever. / And once the wheel of his cart and his horses drive over it, / One does not grind it.

这也是出于万军之耶和华；祂的谋略奇妙，祂的智慧广大。
This also comes forth from Jehovah of hosts, / He who makes His counsel extraordinary and His sound wisdom great.