1 "Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the middle of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa and raise up a signal on Beth Haccherem, for evil looks out from the north with a great destruction. 2 I will cut off the beautiful and delicate one, the daughter of Zion. 3 Shepherds with their flocks will come to her. They will pitch their tents against her all around. They will feed everyone in his place."

4 "Prepare war against her! Arise! Let’s go up at noon. Woe to us! For the day declines, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out. 5 Arise! Let’s go up by night, and let’s destroy her palaces." 6 For Yahweh of Armies said, "Cut down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem. This is the city to be visited. She is filled with oppression within herself. 7 As a well produces its waters, so she produces her wickedness. Violence and destruction is heard in her. Sickness and wounds are continually before me. 8 Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you, lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land."

9 Yahweh of Armies says, "They will thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel like a vine. Turn again your hand as a grape gatherer into the baskets."

10 To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it. 11 Therefore I am full of Yahweh’s wrath. I am weary with holding it in.

"Pour it out on the children in the street,

and on the assembly of young men together;

for even the husband with the wife will be taken,

the aged with him who is full of days.

12 Their houses will be turned to others,

their fields and their wives together;

for I will stretch out my hand on the inhabitants of the land, says Yahweh."

13 "For from their least even to their greatest, everyone is given to covetousness.

From the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.

14 They have healed also the hurt of my people superficially,

saying, ‘Peace, peace!’ when there is no peace.

15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?

No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush.

Therefore they will fall among those who fall.

When I visit them, they will be cast down," says Yahweh.

16 Yahweh says, "Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’ 17 I set watchmen over you, saying, ‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’ But they said, ‘We will not listen!’ 18 Therefore hear, you nations, and know, congregation, what is among them. 19 Hear, earth! Behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it. 20 To what purpose does frankincense from Sheba come to me, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me."

21 Therefore Yahweh says, "Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people. The fathers and the sons together will stumble against them. The neighbor and his friend will perish." 22 Yahweh says, "Behold, a people comes from the north country. A great nation will be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth. 23 They take hold of bow and spear. They are cruel, and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Zion."

24 We have heard its report. Our hands become feeble. Anguish has taken hold of us, and pains as of a woman in labor. 25 Don’t go out into the field or walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and terror are on every side. 26 Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer will suddenly come on us.

27 "I have made you a tester of metals and a fortress among my people, that you may know and try their way. 28 They are all grievous rebels, going around to slander. They are bronze and iron. All of them deal corruptly. 29 The bellows blow fiercely. The lead is consumed in the fire. In vain they go on refining, for the wicked are not plucked away. 30 Men will call them rejected silver, because Yahweh has rejected them."

1 "便雅悯人哪！ 赶快逃命， 离开耶路撒冷。你们要在提哥亚吹角， 在伯．哈基琳升烽火； 因为灾祸和严重的毁灭， 已从北方迫近。

2 美丽高贵的锡安居民（"居民"原文作"女子"）， 我必除灭你们。

3 牧人必带着他们的羊群， 来到锡安那里， 在城的四围支搭帐棚， 各在自己的地方分别牧放羊群。"

4 "你们要备战攻击她！ 起来！ 我们趁着正午上去。唉！ 可惜日渐西沉， 暮影拖长了！

5 起来！ 我们趁着夜间上去， 毁坏她的堡垒。"

6 因为万军之耶和华这样说： "砍下她的树木， 筑垒攻打耶路撒冷； 她是那该受惩罚的城， 其中尽是欺压的事。

7 井怎样涌出水来， 这城也怎样涌出恶来； 城中常常听到强暴和毁灭的事， 在我面前不断有病患与创伤。

8 耶路撒冷啊！ 应当受警戒， 免得我的心与你疏远， 免得我使你荒凉， 成为无人居住之地。"

9 万军之耶和华这样说： "任凭他们像摘净葡萄一样对待以色列剩下的人； 你要像摘葡萄的人， 向枝子伸手， 摘了又摘。"

10 我可以向谁说话， 向谁警告， 使他们可以听从呢？他们的耳朵未受割礼， 不能听闻； 看哪！ 他们以耶和华的话为羞辱， 一点也不喜欢。

11 因此， 我心里充满耶和华的忿怒， 无法容忍。"你要把我的忿怒向街上的孩童倾倒， 又倾在联群集结的年轻人身上。夫妻一起被捉住， 年老的、寿高的也不例外。

12 他们的房屋、田地与妻子， 都要一起转归别人； 因为我要伸手， 攻击这地的居民。"这是耶和华的宣告。

13 "他们从最小的到最大的， 个个都贪图不义之财； 从先知到祭司， 全都行事诡诈。

14 他们草率地医治我子民（"我子民"原文作"我子民的女子"）的损伤， 说： ‘平安了！ 平安了！ ’其实没有平安。"

15 耶和华说： "他们行了可憎的事， 本应觉得羞愧， 可是他们一点羞愧都没有， 恬不知耻。因此他们必仆倒在倒下的人中间， 我惩罚他们的时候， 他们必倒下来。"

16 耶和华这样说： "你们要站在路上察看， 寻访远古的路径， 看哪一条是美善的路， 就走在其中； 这样， 你们心里就必得安息。他们却说： ‘我们不走在其中。’

17 我设立守望的人照管你们， 说： ‘你们要留心听号角的声音！ ’他们却说： ‘我们不听！ ’

18 列国啊！ 因此你们要听。以色列会众啊！ 要晓得他们将遭遇的。

19 大地啊， 要听！ 我必使灾祸临到这人民， 这是他们的意图带来的结果； 因为他们没有留心听我的话， 我的律法他们也弃绝了。

20 从示巴来的乳香， 从远地出的菖蒲， 献给我有什么益处呢？你们的燔祭不蒙悦纳， 你们的祭祀我不喜悦。"

21 因此， 耶和华这样说： "我要把绊脚石放在这人民的前面， 他们父子一起在其上绊倒， 邻舍与朋友也都灭亡。"

22 耶和华这样说： "看哪！ 有一个民族从北方之地而来， 有一大国被激动从地极来到。

23 他们紧握弓和枪， 性情残忍， 毫无怜悯； 他们的声音像海洋怒吼； 锡安的居民（"居民"原文作"女子"）哪！ 他们骑着战马， 在战场上如同一人， 列阵攻击你们。"

24 我们听到有关他们的消息， 手就发软； 痛苦紧紧抓住我们， 我们疼痛好像正在生产的妇人。

25 你们不要出到田野去， 也不要在路上走， 因为四围有仇敌的刀剑和惊吓。

26 我的同胞（"同胞"原文作"人民的女子"）啊！ 应当披上麻布， 在灰尘中打滚， 悲哀如丧独生子， 号咷痛哭， 因为有行毁灭的会突然攻击我们。

27 "我使你在我子民中作鉴辨和试验的， 好让你查察、鉴别他们的行径。"

28 他们都是十分悖逆的人， 到处搬弄是非。他们是铜是铁， 他们都是败坏的。

29 风箱猛烈地吹， 铅在火中销熔； 他们炼而又炼， 徒劳无功， 因为邪恶的仍未除去。

30 人要称他们为被弃的银渣， 因为耶和华把他们弃绝了。