| 6:1 | 來罷、我們歸向耶和華.他撕裂我們、也必醫治.他打傷我們、也必纏裹。 | 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. |
| 6:2 | 過兩天他必使我們甦醒、第三天他必使我們興起、我們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. |
| 6:3 | 我們務要認識耶和華、竭力追求認識他.他出現確如晨光、他必臨到我們像甘雨、像滋潤田地的春雨。 | 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. |
| 6:4 | 主說、以法蓮哪、我可向你怎樣行呢.猶大阿、我可向你怎樣作呢.因為你們的良善如同早晨的雲霧、又如速散的甘露。 | 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. |
| 6:5 | 因此、我藉先知砍伐他們、以我口中的話殺戮他們、我施行的審判如光發出。 | 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. |
| 6:6 | 我喜愛良善、〔或作憐恤〕不喜愛祭祀、喜愛認識 神、勝於燔祭。 | For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. |
| 6:7 | 他們卻如亞當背約、在境內向我行事詭詐。 | But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me. |
| 6:8 | 基列是作孽之人的城、被血沾染。 | Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood. |
| 6:9 | 強盜成群、怎樣埋伏殺人.祭司結黨、也照樣在示劍的路上殺戮、行了邪惡。 | And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness. |
| 6:10 | 在以色列家、我見了可憎的事、在以法蓮那裏有淫行、以色列被玷污。 | I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled. |
| 6:11 | 猶大阿、我使被擄之民歸回的時候、必有為你所命定的收場。 | Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people. |