5:1 成群的民（民原文作女子）哪，现在你要聚集成队。因为仇敌围攻我们，要用杖击打以色列审判者的脸。
Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.
5:2 伯利恒，以法他阿，你在犹大诸城中为小。将来必有一位从你那里出来，在以色列中为我作掌权的。他的根源从亘古，从太初就有。
But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
5:3 耶和华必将以色列人交付敌人，直等那生产的妇人生下子来。那时掌权者（原文作他）其馀的弟兄必归到以色列人那里。
Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.
5:4 他必起来，倚靠耶和华的大能，并耶和华他神之名的威严，牧养他的羊群。他们要安然居住。因为他必日见尊大，直到地极。
And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.
5:5 这位必作我们的平安。当亚述人进入我们的地境，践踏宫殿的时候，我们就立起七个牧者，八个首领攻击他。
And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.
5:6 他们必用刀剑毁坏亚述地，和宁录地的关口。亚述人进入我们的地境，践踏的时候，他必拯救我们。
And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.
5:7 雅各馀剩的人必在多国的民中，如从耶和华那里降下的露水，又如甘霖降在草上。不仗赖人力，也不等候世人之功。
And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.
5:8 雅各馀剩的人必在多国多民中，如林间百兽中的狮子，又如少壮狮子在羊群中。他若经过，就必践踏撕裂，无人搭救。
And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.
5:9 愿你的手举起，高过敌人，愿你的仇敌都被剪除。
Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off.
5:10 耶和华说，到那日，我必从你中间剪除马匹，毁坏车辆。
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots:
5:11 也必从你国中除灭城邑，拆毁一切的保障。
And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy strong holds:
5:12 又必除掉你手中的邪术。你那里也不再有占卜的。
And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:
5:13 我必从你中间除灭雕刻的偶像，和柱像。你就不再跪拜自己手所造的。
Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands.
5:14 我必从你中间拔出木偶。又毁灭你的城邑。
And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.
5:15 我也必在怒气，和忿怒中向那不听从的列国施报。
And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard.