When I would heal Israel, / Then the iniquity of Ephraim is discovered / As well as the evil deeds of Samaria; / For they practice falsehood. / And the thief comes inside; / The band of robbers makes raids outside.
我想医治以色列的时候，以法莲的罪孽和撒玛利亚的恶行就显露出来；因为他们行事虚谎。内有贼人入室偷窃，外有强盗成群抢劫。

And they do not say in their hearts / That I remember all their evil. / Now their doings are all around them; / They are before My face.
他们心里并不说，我记得他们的一切恶。他们所行的现在缠绕他们，都在我面前。

They make the king glad with their evil, / And the princes, with their lies.
他们以邪恶使君王欢喜，以谎言使首领喜乐。

All of them practice adultery; / They are like an oven heated by the baker: / He ceases from stirring the fire, / After kneading the dough, until it is leavened.
他们都是行奸淫的，像火炉被烤饼者烧热：从抟面到发面的时候，他暂不使火发旺。

On the feast day of our king / The princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine; / He stretched out his hand with scorners.
在我们王宴乐的日子，首领因酒的烈性成病；王与亵慢人拉手。

For they have made their heart ready / Like an oven while they lie in wait: / All night long / Their baker sleeps, / But in the morning the oven burns / Like a flaming fire.
他们埋伏的时候，心中热如火炉：就如烤饼者整夜睡卧，到了早晨，火炉烧旺，火气炎炎。

All of them are hot like an oven, / And they devour their judges; / All their kings fall; / There is no one among them who calls on Me.
众人也热如火炉，吞灭他们的审判官；他们的君王都仆倒而死；他们中间无一人呼求我。

Ephraim — among the peoples / He mixes himself; / Ephraim is a cake / Not turned.
以法莲与列邦人掺杂；以法莲是没有翻过的饼。

Strangers have devoured his strength, / And he himself does not know it; / Indeed gray hairs are all over him, / And he himself does not know it.
外邦人吞吃他力量得来的，他自己却不知道；满头白发，他自己也不晓得。

And the pride of Israel testifies to his face; / Yet they have not returned to Jehovah their God, / And they have not sought Him, because of all this.
以色列的骄傲当面见证自己；虽遭遇这一切，他们仍不归向耶和华他们的神，也不寻求祂。

And Ephraim has become like a silly dove / Without understanding: / They call to Egypt; / They go to Assyria.
以法莲好像鸽子愚蠢无知：他们呼求埃及，投奔亚述。

When they go, / I will spread My net over them; / I will bring them down like the birds of heaven; / I will chasten them according to the report given to their assembly.
他们去的时候，我必将我的网撒在他们身上；我要打下他们，如同空中的鸟；我必按他们会众所听见的，管教他们。

Woe to them! For they have wandered from Me. / Devastation to them! For they have transgressed against Me. / And I would have redeemed them, / But they have spoken lies against Me.
他们有祸了！因他们飘离了我。他们必遭毁灭，因他们违背我。我虽要救赎他们，他们却向我说谎。

And they did not cry unto Me in their heart / When they howled in their beds. / For grain and new wine they assemble themselves; / They rebel against Me.
他们心中并不哀求我，乃在床上呼号。他们为求五谷新酒聚集，仍然悖逆我。

Though I trained them and strengthened their arms, / They devise evil against Me.
我虽训练他们，坚固他们的膀臂，他们竟图谋恶事抗拒我。

They return, but not to Him who is on high; / They are like a deceitful bow. / Their princes will fall by the sword / Because of the rage of their tongue. / This will be their derision / In the land of Egypt.
他们归向，却不归向至上者；他们如同诡诈的弓。他们的首领，必因舌头的狂傲倒在刀下。这在埃及地必为人所讥笑。