众祭司啊，要听这话；以色列家啊，要留心听；王家啊，要侧耳听。审判要临到你们，因你们曾是米斯巴的网罗，是他泊山上铺张的网。
Hear this, O priests; / And listen, O house of Israel; / And, O house of the king, give ear. / For to you belongs the judgment, / For you have been a snare at Mizpah / And a net spread over Tabor.

悖逆的人肆行杀戮，罪孽极深，我却惩治他们众人。
And the revolters have gone deep into slaughtering, / Though I am a chastisement to them all.

以法莲为我所知，以色列不能向我隐藏；以法莲哪，你行了淫乱，以色列被玷污了。
I know Ephraim, / And Israel is not hidden from Me; / For now, Ephraim, you have gone about as a harlot; / Israel is defiled.

他们所行的不容他们归向神；因有淫乱的灵在他们里面，他们也不认识耶和华。
Their doings do not permit them / To turn to their God; / For a spirit of harlotries is within them, / And they do not know Jehovah.

以色列的骄傲当面见证自己，以色列和以法莲必因自己的罪孽绊跌；犹大也必与他们一同绊跌。
And the pride of Israel testifies to his face, / And Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity; / Judah also will stumble with them.

他们必牵着牛羊去寻求耶和华，却寻不见；祂已经退去离开他们。
With their flocks and with their herds they will go / To seek Jehovah, / But they will not find Him; / He has withdrawn Himself from them.

他们向耶和华行事诡诈，因为他们生了私子；到了月朔，他们与他们所得的分必被吞灭。
They have acted treacherously against Jehovah, / For they have begotten strange children. / Now the new moon will devour them / With their apportionments.

你们当在基比亚吹角，在拉玛吹号，在伯亚文吹出大声，说，便雅悯哪，当心你的后头！
Blow the horn in Gibeah, / The trumpet in Ramah; / Sound an alarm at Beth-aven: / Behind you, O Benjamin!

在责罚的日子，以法莲必变为荒场；我在以色列支派中，已指示确定必成的事。
Ephraim will be a desolation / In the day of correction; / Among the tribes of Israel / I have made known what is sure.

犹大的首领如同挪移地界的人；我必将盛怒倒在他们身上，如水一样。
The princes of Judah have become / Like those who move a boundary mark. / I will pour out upon them / My overflowing wrath like water.

以法莲因定意随从人的命令，就受欺压，被审判压碎。
Ephraim is oppressed, / Crushed by judgment, / For he was determined to walk / After man's command.

所以我向以法莲如蛀虫，向犹大家如朽木。
Therefore I am like a moth to Ephraim / And like rottenness to the house of Judah.

以法莲见自己有病，犹大见自己有伤，以法莲就打发人往亚述去见那争战的王；他却不能医治你们，你们的伤必不能离身。
When Ephraim saw his sickness, / And Judah his wound, / Ephraim went to Assyria / And sent word to the warrior king; / But he cannot heal you, / And the wound will not depart from you.

我必向以法莲如狮子，向犹大家如少壮狮子。我必撕裂他们而去；我必夺去他们，无人搭救。
For I will be like a lion to Ephraim / And like a young lion to the house of Judah. / I, I will tear them and go away; / I will carry them off, and there will be no one to deliver them.

我要去，回到我自己的地方，等他们承认自己的罪过，寻求我的面；他们在急难的时候，必切切地寻求我。
I will go away, I will return to My place, / Until they acknowledge their offense / And seek My face; / In their affliction they will seek Me earnestly.