1 以色列阿，你要归向耶和华你的神。你是因自己的罪孽跌倒了。
Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God. Your sins have been your downfall! |
2 当归向耶和华，用言语祷告他说，求你除净罪孽，悦纳善行，这样。我们就把嘴唇的祭，代替牛犊献上。
Take words with you and return to the LORD. Say to him: "Forgive all our sins and receive us graciously, that we may offer the fruit of our lips. |
3 我们不向亚述求救。不骑埃及的马。也不再对我们手所造的说，你是我们的神。因为孤儿在你耶和华那里得蒙怜悯。
Assyria cannot save us; we will not mount war-horses. We will never again say 'Our gods' to what our own hands have made, for in you the fatherless find compassion." |
4 我必医治他们背道的病，甘心爱他们，因为我的怒气向他们转消。
"I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger has turned away from them. |
5 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 blossom like a lily. Like a cedar of Lebanon he will send down his roots; |
6 他的枝条必延长，他的荣华如橄榄树，他的香气如利巴嫩的香柏树。
his young shoots will grow. His splendor will be like an olive tree, his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon. |
7 曾住在他荫下的必归回，发旺如五谷。开花如葡萄树。他的香气如利巴嫩的酒。
Men will dwell again in his shade. He will flourish like the grain. He will blossom like a vine, and his fame will be like the wine from Lebanon. |
8 以法莲必说，我与偶像还有什么关涉呢？我耶和华回答他，也必顾念他。我如青翠的松树，你的果子从我而得。
O Ephraim, what more have I to do with idols? I will answer him and care for him. I am like a green pine tree; your fruitfulness comes from me." |
9 谁是智慧人，可以明白这些事，谁是通达人，可以知道这一切。因为，耶和华的道是正直的，义人必在其中行走，罪人却在其上跌倒。
Who is wise? He will realize these things. Who is discerning? He will understand them. The ways of the LORD are right; the righteous walk in them, but the rebellious stumble in them. |
