| 第1段 | |
| 中文： | 以法莲吃风，且追赶东风。时常增添虚谎和强暴。与亚述立约，把油送到埃及。 |
| 英文： | Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt. |
| 第2段 | |
| 中文： | 耶和华与犹大争辩，必照雅各所行的惩罚他，按他所做的报应他。 |
| 英文： | The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him. |
| 第3段 | |
| 中文： | 他在腹中抓住哥哥的脚跟，壮年的时候与神较力。 |
| 英文： | He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God: |
| 第4段 | |
| 中文： | 与天使较力，并且得胜，哭泣恳求，在伯特利遇见耶和华。 |
| 英文： | Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us; |
| 第5段 | |
| 中文： | 耶和华万军之神在那里晓谕我们以色列人，耶和华是他可记念的名。 |
| 英文： | Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD is his memorial. |
| 第6段 | |
| 中文： | 所以你当归向你的神，谨守仁爱，公平，常常等候你的神。 |
| 英文： | Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually. |
| 第7段 | |
| 中文： | 以法莲是商人，手里有诡诈的天平，爱行欺骗。 |
| 英文： | He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress. |
| 第8段 | |
| 中文： | 以法莲说，我果然成了富足，得了财宝，我所劳碌得来的，人必不见有什么不义，可算为罪的。 |
| 英文： | And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin. |
| 第9段 | |
| 中文： | 自从你出埃及地以来，我就是耶和华你的神，我必使你再住帐棚，如在大会的日子一样。 |
| 英文： | And I that am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast. |
| 第10段 | |
| 中文： | 我已晓谕众先知，并且加增默示，藉先知设立比喻。 |
| 英文： | I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets. |
| 第11段 | |
| 中文： | 基列人没有罪孽吗。他们全然是虚假的。人在吉甲献牛犊为祭，他们的祭坛，好像田间犁沟中的乱堆。 |
| 英文： | Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields. |
| 第12段 | |
| 中文： | 从前雅各逃到亚兰地，以色列为得妻服事人，为得妻与人放羊。 |
| 英文： | And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep. |
| 第13段 | |
| 中文： | 耶和华藉先知领以色列从埃及上来，以色列也藉先知而得保存。 |
| 英文： | And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved. |
| 第14段 | |
| 中文： | 以法莲大大惹动主怒，所以他流血的罪，必归在他身上，主必将那因以法莲所受的羞辱归还他。 |
| 英文： | Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his LORD return unto him. |