| 第1段 | |
| 中文： | 但愿我的头为水，我的眼为泪的泉源，我好为我百姓（原文作民女。七节同）中被杀的人昼夜哭泣。 |
| 英文： | Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! |
| 第2段 | |
| 中文： | 惟愿我在旷野有行路人住宿之处，使我可以离开我的民出去。因他们都是行奸淫的，是行诡诈的一党。 |
| 英文： | Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. |
| 第3段 | |
| 中文： | 他们弯起舌头像弓一样，为要说谎话。他们在国中增长势力，不是为行诚实，乃是恶上加恶，并不认识我。这是耶和华说的。 |
| 英文： | And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD. |
| 第4段 | |
| 中文： | 你们各人当谨防邻舍，不可信靠弟兄。因为弟兄尽行欺骗，邻舍都往来谗谤人。 |
| 英文： | Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders. |
| 第5段 | |
| 中文： | 他们各人欺哄邻舍，不说真话。他们教舌头学习说谎，劳劳碌碌地作孽。 |
| 英文： | And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity. |
| 第6段 | |
| 中文： | 你的住处在诡诈的人中。他们因行诡诈，不肯认识我。这是耶和华说的。 |
| 英文： | Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD. |
| 第7段 | |
| 中文： | 所以万军之耶和华如此说，看哪，我要将他们融化熬炼。不然，我因我百姓的罪该怎样行呢。 |
| 英文： | Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people? |
| 第8段 | |
| 中文： | 他们的舌头是毒箭，说话诡诈。人与邻舍口说和平话，心却谋害他。 |
| 英文： | Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait. |
| 第9段 | |
| 中文： | 耶和华说，我岂不因这些事讨他们的罪呢。岂不报复这样的国民呢。 |
| 英文： | Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? |
| 第10段 | |
| 中文： | 我要为山岭哭泣悲哀，为旷野的草场扬声哀号。因为都已乾焦，甚至无人经过。人也听不见牲畜呜叫，空中的飞鸟和地上的野兽都已逃去。 |
| 英文： | For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone. |
| 第11段 | |
| 中文： | 我必使耶路撒冷变为乱堆，为野狗的住处，也必使犹大的城邑变为荒场，无人居住。 |
| 英文： | And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant. |
| 第12段 | |
| 中文： | 谁是智慧人，可以明白这事。耶和华的口向谁说过，使他可以传说。遍地为何灭亡，乾焦好像旷野，甚至无人经过呢。 |
| 英文： | Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through? |
| 第13段 | |
| 中文： | 耶和华说，因为这百姓离弃我，在他们面前所设立的律法没有遵行，也没有听从我的话。 |
| 英文： | And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein; |
| 第14段 | |
| 中文： | 只随从自己顽梗的心行事，照他们列祖所教训的随从众巴力。 |
| 英文： | But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them: |
| 第15段 | |
| 中文： | 所以万军之耶和华以色列的神如此说，看哪，我必将茵？？给这百姓吃，又将苦胆水给他们喝。 |
| 英文： | Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink. |
| 第16段 | |
| 中文： | 我要把他们散在列邦中，就是他们和他们列祖素不认识的列邦。我也要使刀剑追杀他们，直到将他们灭尽。 |
| 英文： | I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them. |
| 第17段 | |
| 中文： | 万军之耶和华如此说，你们应当思想，将善唱哀歌的妇女召来，又打发人召善哭的妇女来， |
| 英文： | Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come: |
| 第18段 | |
| 中文： | 叫她们速速为我们举哀，使我们眼泪汪汪，使我们的眼皮涌出水来。 |
| 英文： | And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters. |
| 第19段 | |
| 中文： | 因为听见哀声出于锡安，说，我们怎样败落了。我们大大地惭愧。我们撇下地土。人也拆毁了我们的房屋。 |
| 英文： | For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out. |
| 第20段 | |
| 中文： | 妇女们哪，你们当听耶和华的话，领受他口中的言语。又当教导你们的儿女举哀，各人教导邻舍唱哀歌。 |
| 英文： | Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation. |
| 第21段 | |
| 中文： | 因为死亡上来，进了我们的窗户，入了我们的宫殿。要从外边剪除孩童，从街上剪除少年人。 |
| 英文： | For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets. |
| 第22段 | |
| 中文： | 你当说，耶和华如此说，人的尸首必倒在田野像粪土，又像收割的人遗落的一把禾稼，无人收取。 |
| 英文： | Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them. |
| 第23段 | |
| 中文： | 耶和华如此说，智慧人不要因他的智慧夸口，勇士不要因他的勇力夸口，财主部要因他的财物夸口。 |
| 英文： | Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches: |
| 第24段 | |
| 中文： | 夸口的却因他有聪明，认识我是耶和华，又知道我喜悦在世上施行慈爱，公平，和公义，以此夸口。这是耶和华说的。 |
| 英文： | But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD. |
| 第25段 | |
| 中文： | 耶和华说，看哪，日子将到，我要刑罚一切受过割礼，心却未受割礼的， |
| 英文： | Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised; |
| 第26段 | |
| 中文： | 就是埃及，犹大，以东，亚扪人，摩押人，和一切住在旷野剃周围头发的。因为列国人都没有受割礼，以色列人心中也没有受割礼。 |
| 英文： | Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart. |