1 "Listen to this, you priests!
Listen, house of Israel,
and give ear, house of the king!
For the judgment is against you;
for you have been a snare at Mizpah,
and a net spread on Tabor.
2 The rebels are deep in slaughter,
but I discipline all of them.
3 I know Ephraim,
and Israel is not hidden from me;
for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute.
Israel is defiled.
4 Their deeds won’t allow them to turn to their God,
for the spirit of prostitution is within them,
and they don’t know Yahweh.
5 The pride of Israel testifies to his face.
Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity.
Judah also will stumble with them.
6 They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Yahweh,
but they won’t find him.
He has withdrawn himself from them.
7 They are unfaithful to Yahweh;
for they have borne illegitimate children.
Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.
8 "Blow the cornet in Gibeah,
and the trumpet in Ramah!
Sound a battle cry at Beth Aven, behind you, Benjamin!
9 Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke.
Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will surely be.
10 The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark.
I will pour out my wrath on them like water.
11 Ephraim is oppressed,
he is crushed in judgment,
because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.
12 Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth,
and to the house of Judah like rottenness.
13 "When Ephraim saw his sickness,
and Judah his wound,
then Ephraim went to Assyria,
and sent to king Jareb:
but he is not able to heal you,
neither will he cure you of your wound.
14 For I will be to Ephraim like a lion,
and like a young lion to the house of Judah.
I myself will tear in pieces and go away.
I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.
15 I will go and return to my place,
until they acknowledge their offense,
and seek my face.
In their affliction they will seek me earnestly."
1 祭司啊， 你们要听这话！ 以色列家啊， 你们要留心听！ 王的家啊， 你们要侧耳而听！ 因为审判必临到你们， 因你们曾是米斯巴地的捕鸟机， 是他泊山上张开的网罗。
2 他们在什亭掘深了陷阱， 但我要惩治他们所有的人。
3 我认识以法莲， 以色列也瞒不住我； 以法莲啊！ 现在你竟行淫， 以色列竟玷污了自己。
4 他们所行的使他们不能回转， 归回自己的 神； 因为在他们当中有淫乱的心； 他们也不认识耶和华。
5 以色列的骄傲当面指证自己， 以色列和以法莲因自己的罪孽跌倒， 犹大也与他们一同跌倒。
6 虽然他们带着牛群羊群去寻求耶和华， 却寻不见； 他已经离开他们远去了。
7 他们以诡诈待耶和华， 因为他们生了私生子。现在新月（"新月"或译： "侵略者"）要吞灭他们和他们的地业。
8 你们要在基比亚吹角， 在拉玛吹号， 在伯．亚文大声吶喊： "便雅悯啊！ 敌人就在你背后。"
9 在责罚的日子， 以法莲必成为荒场。我要在以色列各支派中宣告一定会发生的事情。
10 "犹大的领袖， 好像挪移地界的人， 我要把我的忿怒倾倒在他们身上， 如同倒水一样。
11 以法莲受欺压， 被审判压碎； 因为他们乐意随从人的命令。
12 因此我要成为以法莲的蛀虫， 成为犹大家的朽烂。
13 以法莲看见自己的疾病， 犹大家看见自己的创伤， 以法莲就往亚述去， 派人去见亚述的大王。可是他却不能医治你们， 也不能医好你们的创伤。
14 因为我对以法莲要像只猛狮， 对犹大家必像头少壮狮子。我要亲自撕裂他们， 然后离去； 我把他们带走， 没有人能搭救。
15 我要回到自己的地方去； 直到他们承认自己的罪过， 寻求我的面。在痛苦中必恳切寻求我。"