以色列啊，你要归向耶和华你的神；你是因自己的罪孽绊跌了。
Return, O Israel, / To Jehovah your God, / For you have fallen by your iniquity.

当带着祷告的话归向耶和华，对祂说，求你赦免一切罪孽，恩慈的收纳我们；这样，我们就把嘴唇的祭，如同牛犊献上。
Take words with you, / And return to Jehovah; / Say to Him, / Forgive all iniquity, / And take us graciously; / Thus we will render our lips as bulls.

亚述不能拯救我们；我们不再骑马；也不再对我们手所造的说，你是我们的神，因为孤儿在你那里得蒙怜恤。
Assyria will not save us; / We will not ride upon horses. / Neither will we say again to the work of our hands, Our God! / Because in You the orphan finds compassion.

我必医治他们的背道，甘心爱他们；因为我的怒气已从他们转消。
I will heal their apostasy; / I will love them freely; / For My anger has turned away from him.

我必向以色列如甘露，他必如百合花开放，如利巴嫩的树木扎根。
I will be like the dew to Israel; / He will bud like the lily / And will send forth his roots like the trees of Lebanon.

他的枝条必延伸，他的荣华如橄榄树，他的香气如利巴嫩的香柏树。
His shoots will go forth; / And his splendor will be like that of the olive tree, / And his fragrance, like that of the trees of Lebanon.

曾坐在他荫下的必归回，发旺如五谷，开花如葡萄树；他的名声如利巴嫩的酒。
Those who sit under his shade will return; / They will revive like grain / And will bud like the vine; / His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.

以法莲必说，我与偶像还有什么相干呢？我耶和华必回答他，也必顾念他。我如青翠的松树，你的果子从我而得。
Ephraim says, What have I yet to do with idols? / I respond and look on him. / I am like a green fir tree; / From Me your fruit is found.

谁是智慧人？他可以明白这些事。谁是通达人？他可以知道这一切。因为耶和华的道路是正直的，义人必在其中行走，有过犯的人却在其上绊跌。
Who is wise? / Then let him understand these things. / Who is intelligent? Then let him know them. / For the ways of Jehovah are right, / And the righteous will walk in them, / But the transgressors will stumble in them.