| 6:1 | 来罢、我们归向耶和华.他撕裂我们、也必医治.他打伤我们、也必缠裹。 | 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 | 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. |
| 6:3 | 我们务要认识耶和华、竭力追求认识他.他出现确如晨光、他必临到我们像甘雨、像滋润田地的春雨。 | 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 | 主说、以法莲哪、我可向你怎样行呢.犹大阿、我可向你怎样作呢.因为你们的良善如同早晨的云雾、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、我藉先知砍伐他们、以我口中的话杀戮他们、我施行的审判如光发出。 | 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. |
| 6:6 | 我喜爱良善、〔或作怜恤〕不喜爱祭祀、喜爱认识 神、胜于燔祭。 | For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. |
| 6:7 | 他们却如亚当背约、在境内向我行事诡诈。 | 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 | 强盗成群、怎样埋伏杀人.祭司结党、也照样在示剑的路上杀戮、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. |
| 6:10 | 在以色列家、我见了可憎的事、在以法莲那里有淫行、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 | 犹大阿、我使被掳之民归回的时候、必有为你所命定的收场。 | Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people. |