以色列无悔改诚意
来，我们归向耶和华吧！ 他撕裂我们，也必医治； 打伤我们，也必包扎。Come, 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.
2过两天他必使我们苏醒， 第三天他必使我们兴起， 我们就在他面前得以存活。After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
3我们要认识，要追求认识耶和华。 他如黎明必然出现， 他必临到我们像甘霖， 像滋润土地的春雨。Then 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以法莲哪，我可以向你怎样行呢？ 犹大啊，我可以向你怎样做呢？ 因为你们的慈爱如同早晨的云雾， 又如速散的露水。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.
5因此，我藉先知砍伐他们， 以我口中的话杀戮他们； 对你的审判☛“对你的审判”：七十士译本和其他古译本是“我的审判”。如光发出。Therefore 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我喜爱慈爱☛“慈爱”：七十士译本是“怜悯”。，不喜爱祭物； 喜爱人认识神，胜于燔祭。For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
7他们却如亚当☛“如亚当”或译“如人”。背约， 在那里向我行诡诈。But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
8基列是作恶之人的城， 被血沾染。Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
9成群的祭司如强盗埋伏等候， 在示剑的路上杀戮， 行了邪恶。And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
10在以色列家我看见可憎的事， 在以法莲那里有淫行， 以色列被污辱了。I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
11犹大啊，我使被掳之民归回的时候， 必有为你所预备的丰收。Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.