以色列人哪，你们当听耶和华的话；耶和华要与这地的居民争辩，因这地上无忠信，无恩慈，无人认识神。
Hear the word of Jehovah, / O children of Israel; / For Jehovah has a controversy / With the inhabitants of the land. / For there is no faithfulness or kindness / And no knowledge of God in the land.

却有诅咒、欺骗、凶杀、偷盗、奸淫；他们行强暴，杀人流血接连不断。
Rather there are swearing and deceiving and murder / And stealing and adultery; / They are violent, / And bloodshed follows bloodshed.

因此，这地悲哀，其中的一切居民、田野的兽、空中的鸟必都衰微，连海中的鱼也必除去。
Because of this the land mourns, / And all the inhabitants languish within it, / With the beasts of the field / And with the birds of heaven; / Indeed, even the fish of the sea will be taken away.

然而人都不必争辩，也不必指责；因为你的民与那些跟祭司争辩的人一样。
Yet let no man contend, / And let no man reprove; / For your people are like those who contend with the priest.

你必在日间绊跌，申言者也必在夜间与你一同绊跌；我必灭绝你的母亲。
And you will stumble in the day, / And the prophet also will stumble / With you in the night; / And I will destroy your mother.

我的民因无那样的认识而灭绝；你弃掉那样的认识，我也必弃掉你，使你不再给我作祭司；你既忘了你神的律法，我也必忘记你的儿女。
My people are destroyed / Because of a lack of that knowledge. / For you have rejected that knowledge, / And I will reject you, so that you will not be a priest to Me; / Since you have forgotten the law of your God, / I also will forget your children.

祭司越发增多，就越发得罪我；我必使他们的荣耀变为羞辱。
The more they were multiplied, the more they sinned against Me; / I will change their glory into shame.

他们吃我民的赎罪祭，满心愿望我的民行罪孽。
They feed on the sin of My people, / And their soul desires their iniquity.

将来民如何，祭司也必如何；我必因他们所行的惩罚他们，照他们所作的报应他们。
And it will be that as it is with the people, so it will be with the priest; / Thus I will visit their ways upon them, / And I will recompense their doings to them.

他们吃，却不得饱；行淫，而不得增多；因为他们离弃耶和华，不遵从祂。
And they will eat but will not be filled; / And they will commit fornication but will not increase; / For they have ceased giving heed to Jehovah.

淫乱和酒并新酒，夺去他们的心。
Fornication and wine / And new wine take away their heart.

我的民求问木头柱像，以为木杖能指示他们，因为淫乱的灵使他们失迷，他们就行淫离弃了他们的神。
My people inquire at their wooden post, / And their rod informs them of things; / For a spirit of harlotries makes them err, / And they have gone about as harlots away from their God.

他们在各山顶献祭，在各高冈的橡树、杨树、栗树之下烧香，因为树影美好。所以你们的女儿行淫乱，你们的新妇犯奸淫。
Upon the tops of the mountains they offer sacrifices, / And upon the hills they burn incense, / Under oak, poplar, and terebinth, / Because its shade is good. / Therefore your daughters go about as harlots, / And your brides commit adultery.

你们的女儿行淫乱，你们的新妇犯奸淫，我却不惩罚她们；因为你们男人自己离群与娼妓同居，与妓女一同献祭；这无知的民，必至倾倒。
I will not punish your daughters when they go about as harlots / Nor your brides when they commit adultery; / For the men themselves go off with harlots, / And they offer sacrifices with the prostitutes; / And the people who have no understanding will be cast down.

以色列啊，你虽然行淫乱，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。
Though you, Israel, go about as a harlot, / Let not Judah trespass; / And do not come to Gilgal, / Nor go up to Beth-aven, / Nor swear, As Jehovah lives.

因为以色列倔强，犹如倔强的母牛；现在耶和华要牧放他们，如同牧放羊羔在宽阔之地么？
For Israel is stubborn, / Like a stubborn heifer; / Will Jehovah now pasture them / Like a lamb in a spacious place?

以法莲与偶像联合，任凭他们吧。
Ephraim is joined to idols; / Leave him alone.

他们的酒已经喝尽；他们放纵自己行淫，他们的官长最爱羞耻的事。
Their liquor has ended; / They have given themselves up to harlotry; / Her rulers dearly love shame.

风把他们裹在翅膀里，他们必因所献的祭蒙羞。
The wind has wrapped her up in its wings, / And they will be ashamed because of their sacrifices.