| 第1段 | |
| 中文： | 耶和华如此说，你下到犹大王的宫中，在那里说这话， |
| 英文： | Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word, |
| 第2段 | |
| 中文： | 说，坐大卫宝座的犹大王阿，你和你的臣仆，并进入城门的百姓，都当听耶和华的话。 |
| 英文： | And say, Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people that enter in by these gates: |
| 第3段 | |
| 中文： | 耶和华如此说，你们要施行公平和公义，拯救被抢夺的脱离欺压人的手，不可亏负寄居的和孤儿寡妇，不可以强暴待他们，在这地方也不可流无辜人的血。 |
| 英文： | Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place. |
| 第4段 | |
| 中文： | 你们若认真行这事，就必有坐大卫宝座的君王和他的臣仆百姓，或坐车或骑马，从这城的各门进入。 |
| 英文： | For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people. |
| 第5段 | |
| 中文： | 你们若不听这些话，耶和华说，我指着自己起誓，这城必变为荒场。 |
| 英文： | But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation. |
| 第6段 | |
| 中文： | 耶和华论到犹大王的家如此说，我看你如基列，如黎巴嫩顶。然而，我必使你变为旷野，为无人居住的城邑。 |
| 英文： | For thus saith the LORD unto the king's house of Judah; Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited. |
| 第7段 | |
| 中文： | 我要预备行毁灭的人，各拿器械攻击你。他们要砍下你佳美的香柏树，扔在火中。 |
| 英文： | And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire. |
| 第8段 | |
| 中文： | 许多国的民要经过这城，各人对邻舍说，耶和华为何向这大城如此行呢。 |
| 英文： | And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this great city? |
| 第9段 | |
| 中文： | 他们必回答说，是因离弃了耶和华他们神的约，事奉敬拜别神。 |
| 英文： | Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them. |
| 第10段 | |
| 中文： | 不要为死人哭号。不要为他悲伤，却要为离家出外的人大大哭号。因为他不得再回来，也不得再见他的本国。 |
| 英文： | Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country. |
| 第11段 | |
| 中文： | 因为耶和华论到从这地方出去的犹大王约西亚的儿子沙龙（在列王下二十三章三十节名约哈斯），就是接续他父亲约西亚作王的，这样说，他必不得再回到这里来， |
| 英文： | For thus saith the LORD touching Shallum the son of Josiah king of Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his father, which went forth out of this place; He shall not return thither any more: |
| 第12段 | |
| 中文： | 却要死在被掳去的地方，必不得再见这地。 |
| 英文： | But he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more. |
| 第13段 | |
| 中文： | 那行不义盖房，行不公造楼，白白使用人的手工不给工价的有祸了。 |
| 英文： | Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work; |
| 第14段 | |
| 中文： | 他说，我要为自己盖广大的房，宽敞的楼，为自己开窗户。这楼房的护墙板是香柏木的，楼房是丹色油漆的。 |
| 英文： | That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion. |
| 第15段 | |
| 中文： | 难道你作王是在乎造香柏木楼房争胜吗。你的父亲岂不是也吃也喝，也施行公平和公义吗。那时他得了福乐。 |
| 英文： | Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him? |
| 第16段 | |
| 中文： | 他为困苦和穷乏人伸冤，那时就得了福乐。认识我不在乎此吗。这是耶和华说的。 |
| 英文： | He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD. |
| 第17段 | |
| 中文： | 惟有你的眼和你的心专顾贪婪，流无辜人的血，行欺压和强暴。 |
| 英文： | But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it. |
| 第18段 | |
| 中文： | 所以，耶和华论到犹大王约西亚的儿子约雅敬如此说，人必不为他举哀，说，哀哉。我的哥哥。或说，哀哉。我的姊姊。也不为他举哀，说，哀哉。我的主。或说，哀哉。我主的荣华。 |
| 英文： | Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory! |
| 第19段 | |
| 中文： | 他被埋葬，好像埋驴一样，要拉出去扔在耶路撒冷的城门之外。 |
| 英文： | He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem. |
| 第20段 | |
| 中文： | 你要上黎巴嫩哀号，在巴珊扬声，从亚巴琳哀号，因为你所亲爱的都毁灭了。 |
| 英文： | Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed. |
| 第21段 | |
| 中文： | 你兴盛的时候，我对你说话。你却说，我不听。你自幼年以来总是这样，不听从我的话。 |
| 英文： | I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice. |
| 第22段 | |
| 中文： | 你的牧人要被风吞吃，你所亲爱的必被掳去。那时你必因你一切的恶抱愧蒙羞。 |
| 英文： | The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness. |
| 第23段 | |
| 中文： | 你这住黎巴嫩，在香柏树上搭窝的，有痛苦临到你，好像疼痛临到产难的妇人，那时你何等可怜。 |
| 英文： | O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail! |
| 第24段 | |
| 中文： | 耶和华说，犹大王约雅敬的儿子哥尼雅（又名耶哥尼雅下同），虽是我右手上带印的戒指，我凭我的永生起誓，也必将你从其上摘下来， |
| 英文： | As I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence; |
| 第25段 | |
| 中文： | 并且我必将你交给寻索你命的人和你所惧怕的人手中，就是巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒和迦勒底人的手中。 |
| 英文： | And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans. |
| 第26段 | |
| 中文： | 我也必将你和生你的母亲赶到别国，并不是你们生的地方。你们必死在那里， |
| 英文： | And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die. |
| 第27段 | |
| 中文： | 但心中甚想归回之地，必不得归回。 |
| 英文： | But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return. |
| 第28段 | |
| 中文： | 哥尼雅这人是被轻看，破坏的器皿吗。是无人喜爱的器皿吗。他和他的后裔为何被赶到不认识之地呢。 |
| 英文： | Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not? |
| 第29段 | |
| 中文： | 地阿，地阿，地阿，当听耶和华的话。 |
| 英文： | O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD. |
| 第30段 | |
| 中文： | 耶和华如此说，要写明这人算为无子，是平生不得亨通的。因为他后裔中再无一人得亨通，能坐在大卫的宝座上治理犹大。 |
| 英文： | Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah. |