1Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ru-hamah. 2.1 Ammi: that is, My people2.1 Ru-hamah: that is, Having obtained mercy 2Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts; 3Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. 4And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms. 5For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.2.5 drink: Heb. drinks
6¶ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.2.6 make…: Heb. wall a wall 7And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now. 8For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.2.8 wine: Heb. new wine2.8 which…: or, wherewith they made Baal 9Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.2.9 recover: or, take away 10And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.2.10 lewdness: Heb. folly, or, villany 11I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts. 12And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.2.12 destroy: Heb. make desolate 13And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.
14¶ Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.2.14 comfortably: or, friendly: Heb. to her heart 15And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt. 16And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali.2.16 Ishi: that is, My husband2.16 Baali: that is, My lord 17For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name. 18And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely. 19And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. 20I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD. 21And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth; 22And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel. 23And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.
1「你們要稱你們的弟兄為阿米2·1 「阿米」意思是「我的子民」。，要稱你們的姊妹為路哈瑪2·1 「路哈瑪」意思是「得蒙憐憫」。。
對不貞之婦的控訴
2「你們去跟你們的母親理論吧！
因為她不再是我的妻子，
我也不再是她的丈夫。
叫她別再出賣色相，
別再露出乳間的淫態。
3不然，我要剝光她的衣服，
使她像初生之時一樣赤身露體；
我要使她像沙漠，如旱地，
乾渴而死。
4我也不憐憫她的兒女，
因為他們都是娼妓所生的兒女。
5他們的母親淫亂放蕩，厚顏無恥，
她說，『我要跟隨我的情人，
他們給我食物和水、羊毛和麻布、油和酒。』
6因此，我要用荊棘圍堵她，
築牆阻斷她的去路。
7她要追隨情人，卻追不上；
尋找情人，卻找不到。
於是，她說，『我倒不如回到丈夫身邊，
我從前的光景比現在還好。』
8她不知道是我給她五穀、新酒和油，
又賜給她大量金銀——
她卻用這些供奉巴力。
9因此，到了收割和釀酒的季節，
我要收走我的五穀和新酒，
奪回我給她遮體的羊毛和麻布。
10我要當著她情人的面剝光她的衣服，
顯出她的淫態，
無人能從我手中把她救出去。
11我要終止她一切的歡慶，
終止她的年節、朔日2·11 「朔日」即每月初一。、安息日及其他節期。
12她說她的葡萄樹和無花果樹是情人給她的報酬，
我要摧毀它們，
使它們變為荒林，
被野獸吞吃。
13我要懲罰她，
因為她在節日向巴力燒香。
那時她戴耳環佩首飾，
追逐她的情人，把我忘記。
這是耶和華說的。
對不貞之婦的愛
14「然而，我要挽回她，
領她到曠野，
柔聲安慰她。
15我要把葡萄園賜給她，
使災禍之谷2·15 「災禍之谷」希伯來文是「亞割谷」，「亞割」意思是「災禍」。參見約書亞記第七章。成為希望之門。
她要在那裡快樂地歌唱，
如在妙齡時的日子，
如從埃及出來之時。」
16耶和華說：
「那時，你要稱我為丈夫，
不再稱我為主人2·16 此處的「主人」希伯來文是「巴力」。「巴力」意思是「主人或丈夫」，也是迦南人神明的名字。。
17我要從你口中除掉巴力的名字，
再也不讓你提起。
18那時，我要跟田間的走獸、空中的飛鳥及地上的爬蟲立約，
使牠們不再傷害你。
我要在你境內毀滅戰弓和刀劍，止息戰事，
使你安居樂業。
19我要聘你永遠做我的妻，
以仁義、正直、慈愛、憐憫聘你。
20我要以信實聘你為妻，
這樣你必認識耶和華。」
21耶和華說：
「那時，我要應允，
我要應允天的祈求，
天要應允地的祈求，
22地要應允五穀、新酒和油的祈求，
五穀、新酒和油要應允耶斯列的祈求。
23我要把你栽種在這片土地上，歸我所有。
我要憐憫那不蒙憐憫的人，
對那不是我子民的人說，『你是我的子民。』
他們也要對我說，『你是我的上帝。』」
