6:1 本雅明子民，请你们逃出耶路撒冷，在特科亚吹号，在贝特革楞竖立旗帜!因为有一个灾祸，即一个巨大的毁灭，已由北方隐约出现。
Flee, sons of Benjamin, out of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa, raise a signal over Beth-haccherem; For evil threatens from the north, and mighty destruction. 6:2 熙雍女郎彷佛美丽的草场，
O lovely and delicate daughter Zion, you are ruined! 6:3 牧童领着自己的羊群向她进发，在她四周张设帐幕，各据一方牧放。
Against her, shepherds come with their flocks; all around, they pitch their tents, each one grazes his portion. 6:4 「请你们备战，向她进攻；来，让我们在正午就上前进攻!我们真不幸!因为日已偏西，暮影已长!
"Prepare for war against her, Up! let us rush upon her at midday! Alas! the day is waning, evening shadows lengthen; 6:5 不妨!就趁夜间上去，破坏她的宫阙。」
Up! let us rush upon her by night, destroy her palaces!" 6:6 因为万军的上主这样说：「你们该砍伐她的树木，堆起壁垒，围攻耶路撒冷，这该受罚的城市，因为在那里充满了压榨。
For thus says the LORD of hosts: Hew down her trees, throw up a siege mound against Jerusalem. Woe to the city marked for punishment; nought but oppression within her! 6:7 泉源怎样涌出水，她就怎样涌出邪恶；从那里只可听到强暴和迫害，我只看见疾病和疮痍。
As the well gushes out its waters, so she gushes out her wickedness. Violence and destruction resound in her; ever before me are wounds and blows. 6:8 耶路撒冷!你应接受训戒，免得我的心疏远你，使你荒凉，成为没有人居住的地方。」
Be warned, O Jerusalem, lest I be estranged from you; Lest I turn you into a desert, a land where no man dwells. 6:9 万军的上主这样说：「你应象收拾葡萄，把以色列的遗民收拾净尽；又如收割的人向枝条再伸出你的手来。」
Thus says the LORD of hosts: Glean, glean like a vine the remnant of Israel; Pass your hand, like a vintager, repeatedly over the tendrils. 6:10 我应对谁说，应警告谁，使他们听信我呢﹖看，他们的耳朵迟钝不灵，不能留心细听；看，上主的话对他们已成了笑柄，一点也不感兴趣。
To whom shall I speak? whom shall I warn, and be heard? See! their ears are uncircumcised, they cannot give heed; See, the word of the LORD has become for them an object of scorn, which they will not have. 6:11 为此，我满怀上主的忿怒，我已无法再控制：「只得将愤怒发泄在街上的孩童和青年的队伍身上，因为男人和女人，年长和年老的人，都要被掳去；
Therefore my wrath brims up within me, I am weary of holding it in; I will pour it out upon the child in the street, upon the young men gathered together. Yes, all will be taken, husband and wife, graybeard with ancient. 6:12 他们的住宅、庄田和妻室，都要归于他人，因为我要向本地的居民伸出我的手──上主的断语。」
Their houses will fall to strangers, their fields and their wives as well; For I will stretch forth my hand against those who dwell in this land, says the LORD. 6:13 实在，从最小的到最大的，都贪财图利；从先知到司祭，都欺诈行事，
Small and great alike, all are greedy for gain; prophet and priest, all practice fraud. 6:14 草率治疗我人民的疮痍说：「好了，好了!」其实却没有好。
They would repair, as though it were nought, the injury to my people: "Peace, peace!" they say, though there is no peace. 6:15 他们既行事可憎，就理当知耻；可是，他们不但毫不知耻，反而连羞愧也不知是什么；为此，他们要与倒毙者一同倒毙，在我降罚他们时，都要一蹶不振──上主说。
They are odious; they have done abominable things, yet they are not at all ashamed, they know not how to blush. Hence they shall be among those who fall; in their time of punishment they shall go down, says the LORD. 6:16 上主这样说：「你们应站在交叉路口，观察探问旧路；那一条是好路，就在那路上走，你们的的心灵必获安宁。」他们却答说：「我们偏不走。」
Thus says the LORD: Stand beside the earliest roads, ask the pathways of old Which is the way to good, and walk it; thus you will find rest for your souls. But they said, "We will not walk it." 6:17 「我给你们派驻哨兵，你们应注意号声!」他们却答说：「我们偏不注意。」
When I raised up watchmen for them: "Hearken to the sound of the trumpet!" they said, "We will not hearken." 6:18 为此，万民!你们应该细听；群众!你们应知道他们的遭遇。
Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O earth, what I will do with them: 6:19 大地注意：看，我必给这百姓带来灾祸，作他们失节的的苦果，因为他们没有听从我的言辞，拋弃了我的法律。
See, I bring evil upon this people, the fruit of their own schemes, Because they heeded not my words, because they despised my law. 6:20 那些来自舍巴的乳香，出自远方的香蒲，于我有何用﹖你们的全燔祭不受悦纳，你们的牺牲不乐我意。
Of what use to me incense that comes from Sheba, or sweet cane from far-off lands? Your holocausts find no favor with me, your sacrifices please me not. 6:21 为此，上主这样说：「看，我将给这人民设下绊脚石，使父子一起绊倒，使邻居和朋友同趋灭亡。」
Therefore, thus says the LORD: See, I will place before this people obstacles to bring them down; Fathers and sons alike, neighbors and friends shall perish. 6:22 上主这样说：「看，有一个民族从北方前来，有一个强大的异邦从地极兴起，
Thus says the LORD: See, a people comes from the land of the north, a great nation, roused from the ends of the earth. 6:23 紧握弓戈，残忍无情，象海啸一般喧嚷，骑着战马，万众一心，严阵准备向你进攻，熙雍女郎!」
Bow and javelin they wield; cruel and pitiless are they. They sound like the roaring sea as they ride forth on steeds, Each in his place, for battle against you, daughter Zion. 6:24 我们听到了这消息，束手无策，不胜忧虑，痛苦得有如临产的妇女。
We hear the report of them; helpless fall our hands, Anguish takes hold of us, throes like a mother’s in childbirth. 6:25 你们不要到田间去，不要在路上徘徊，因为敌人正在撕杀，四处令人恐怖。
Go not forth into the field, step not into the street, Beware of the enemy’s sword; terror on every side! 6:26 我的女儿──人民──你该穿上麻衣，辗转于灰尘，悲哀伤心痛哭，如丧独子，因为劫夺者要突然来袭击我们!
O daughter of my people, gird on sackcloth, roll in the ashes. Mourn as for an only child with bitter wailing, For sudden upon us comes the destroyer. 6:27 我立了你作我人民的考察员，原是为叫你认识并考察他们的行径。
A tester among my people I have appointed you, to search and test their way. 6:28 他们尽是极顽固的叛徒，往来播散流言，确是坏透了的破铜烂铁。
Arch-rebels are they all, dealers in slander, all of them corrupt. 6:29 风箱猛吹，虽有烈火，但铅仍不溶化；炼工徒然锻炼，渣滓总炼不掉。
The bellows roars, the lead is consumed by the fire; In vain has the smelter refined, the wicked are not drawn off. 6:30 人都称他们为「拋弃的银渣，」因为上主已将他们拋弃。
"Silver rejected" they shall be called, for the LORD has rejected them.