| 第1段 | |
| 中文： | 耶和华如此说，我休你们的母亲，休书在那里呢。我将你们卖给我那一个债主呢。你们被卖，是因你们的罪孽。你们的母亲被休，是因你们的过犯。 |
| 英文： | Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away. |
| 第2段 | |
| 中文： | 我来的时候，为何无人等候呢。我呼唤的时候，为何无人答应呢。我的膀臂岂是缩短，不能救赎吗。我岂无拯救之力吗。看哪，我一斥责，海就乾了，我使江河变为旷野。其中的鱼因无水腥臭，干渴而死。 |
| 英文： | Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst. |
| 第3段 | |
| 中文： | 我使诸天以黑暗为衣服，以麻布为遮盖。 |
| 英文： | I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering. |
| 第4段 | |
| 中文： | 主耶和华赐我受教者的舌头，使我知道怎样用言语扶助疲乏的人。主每早晨题醒，题醒我的耳朵，使我能听，像受教者一样。 |
| 英文： | The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned. |
| 第5段 | |
| 中文： | 主耶和华开通我的耳朵，我并没有违背，也没有退后。 |
| 英文： | The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. |
| 第6段 | |
| 中文： | 人打我的背，我任他打。人拔我腮颊的胡须，我由他拔。人辱我吐我，我并不掩面。 |
| 英文： | I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting. |
| 第7段 | |
| 中文： | 主耶和华必帮助我，所以我不抱愧。我硬着脸面好像坚石，我也知道我必不至蒙羞。 |
| 英文： | For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed. |
| 第8段 | |
| 中文： | 称我为义的与我相近。谁与我争论，可以与我一同站立。谁与我作对，可以就近我来。 |
| 英文： | He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me. |
| 第9段 | |
| 中文： | 主耶和华要帮助我。谁能定我有罪呢。他们都像衣服渐渐旧了，为蛀虫所咬。 |
| 英文： | Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up. |
| 第10段 | |
| 中文： | 你们中间谁是敬畏耶和华听从他仆人之话的。这人行在暗中，没有亮光，当倚靠耶和华的名，仗赖自己的神。 |
| 英文： | Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God. |
| 第11段 | |
| 中文： | 凡你们点火用火把围绕自己的。可以行在你们的火焰里，并你们所点的火把中。这是我手所定的。你们必躺在悲惨之中。 |
| 英文： | Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow. |