以色列啊，不要喜乐，不要像外邦人欢腾，因为你行淫乱离弃了你的神，在各谷场上如妓女喜爱酬价。
Do not rejoice, O Israel, / To exult like the nations. / For you have gone as a harlot away from your God; / You have loved payment / Upon every grain floor.

谷场和酒醡，都不够喂养他们，新酒也必使他们失望。
The threshing floor and the winepress will not feed them, / And the new wine will fail her.

他们必不得住耶和华的地，以法莲却要归回埃及，必在亚述吃不洁净的食物。
They will not dwell in the land of Jehovah; / But Ephraim will return to Egypt, / And in Assyria they will eat what is unclean.

他们必不得向耶和华奠酒，所献的祭也不蒙悦纳。他们的祭物，必如居丧者的食物，凡吃的必被玷污，因他们的食物，只为他们自己，必不奉入耶和华的殿。
They will not pour out offerings of wine to Jehovah, / Neither will their sacrifices be pleasing to Him; / They will be to them as the bread of mourning; / All who eat them will be unclean, / For their bread will be for themselves; / It will not come into the house of Jehovah.

在大会的日子，到耶和华的节期，你们要怎样行呢？
What will you do / In the day of assembly / And in the day of the feast of Jehovah?

他们因逃避灾难离去；埃及人必收殓他们，摩弗人必葬埋他们。他们用银子作的美物上必长蒺藜；他们的帐棚中必生荆棘。
For they will go because of destruction; / Egypt will gather them; / Moph will bury them. / As for their desirable things of silver, nettles will dispossess them; / Thistles will be in their tents.

以色列人必知道，惩罚的日子临近，报应的时候来到。申言者愚昧，受灵感者疯狂；皆因你罪孽极多，大怀仇恨。
The days of the visitation have come; / The days of the recompense have come; / Israel will know it. / The prophet is a fool, / The inspired man is mad, / Because of the greatness of your iniquity / And because of the greatness of the enmity.

以法莲曾作我神的守望者。至于申言者，在他一切的道路上有捕鸟人的网罗，在他神的家中有仇恨。
Ephraim was a watchman / With my God. / As for the prophet, a fowler's trap / Is in all his ways; / Enmity is in the house of his God.

他们深深地败坏了自己，如在基比亚的日子一样；耶和华必记得他们的罪孽，必追讨他们的罪。
They have deeply corrupted themselves / As in the days of Gibeah; / He will remember their iniquity; / He will punish their sins.

主说，我遇见以色列如葡萄在旷野；我看见你们的列祖如无花果树上首先初熟的果子。他们却来到巴力毗珥，分别自己归与那可羞耻的，就成为可憎恶的，与他们所爱的人一样。
I found Israel / Like grapes in the wilderness; / I saw your fathers / As the first ripe fruit on the fig tree at its beginning. / They went to Baal-peor / And sanctified themselves unto the shameful thing, / And they became detestable, like the thing that they loved.

至于以法莲人，他们的荣耀必如鸟飞去──必不生产，不怀胎，不成孕！
As for Ephraim, their glory / Will fly away like a bird — / No birth, no pregnancy, and no conception!

纵然养大儿女，我却必使他们丧子，甚至不留一人。我离弃他们的时候，他们就有祸了。
For even if they bring up their children, / I will bereave them, so that not a man is left. / Indeed woe also to them / When I turn away from them.

我看以法莲如推罗栽于草地；以法莲却要将自己的儿女带出来，交与行杀戮的人。
Ephraim, as I have seen him, / Is planted like Tyre in a meadow; / But Ephraim will bring forth / His children to the slayer.

耶和华啊，求你加给他们──你要加给他们什么呢？求你使他们胎坠乳干。
Give them, O Jehovah — / What will You give them? / Give them a miscarrying womb / And dry breasts.

耶和华说，他们一切的邪恶都在吉甲，我在那里憎恶他们。因他们所行的恶，我必从我家中赶他们出去，不再怜爱他们；他们的首领都是悖逆的。
All their evil is in Gilgal, / For there I hated them. / Because of the evil of their doings / I will drive them from My house, / I will love them no more; / All their princes are rebels.

以法莲受责打；他们的根枯干，不结果子；即或生产，我必杀他们腹中所出的爱子。
Ephraim is stricken; / Their root is dried up; / They will not bear fruit. / Indeed though they bring forth, / I will kill the beloved fruit of their womb.

我的神弃绝了他们，因为他们不听从祂；他们也必飘流在列国中。
My God has rejected them, / For they did not listen to Him. / And they will be wanderers among the nations.