以色列和猶大不思悔改
1來吧，讓我們歸向耶和華！
祂撕裂我們，也必醫治我們；
祂擊打我們，也必為我們裹傷。
2過兩天，祂必復興我們；
第三天，祂必使我們站立起來，
在祂面前存活。
3讓我們認識耶和華，
竭力認識耶和華！
祂必到來，
如同必然顯露的曙光，
又如滋潤大地的春雨。
4耶和華說：
「以法蓮啊，我該怎樣待你呢？
猶大啊，我該怎樣待你呢？
你們對我的愛像晨霧，
如轉瞬即逝的朝露。
5所以，我差遣先知用我的話殺戮你們，
我的審判必如閃電臨到你們。
6我喜愛憐憫之心，而非祭物；
我喜愛人認識我，勝於燔祭。
7可是，你們卻如亞當一樣背約，
以詭詐待我。
8基列是罪惡之城，
到處血跡斑斑。
9祭司如同暗中搶劫的強盜，
成群結夥地作惡，
在通往示劍的路上謀害無辜。
10我在以色列家看見了可怕之事，
以法蓮不忠不貞，玷污了自己。
11猶大啊，
你必得到我給你定的下場6·11 「你必得到我給你定的下場」希伯來文是「我已經為你定下收割的時間」。。
1Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. 2After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. 3Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
4¶ O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.6.4 goodness: or, mercy, or, kindness 5Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.6.5 and…: or, that thy judgments might be, etc 6For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. 7But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.6.7 men: or, Adam 8Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.6.8 polluted: or, cunning for 9And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.6.9 by…: Heb. with one shoulder, or, to Shechem6.9 lewdness: or, enormity 10I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled. 11Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.
