6:1 来吧，我们归向耶和华。他撕裂我们，也必医治。他打伤我们，也必缠裹。
Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
6:2 过两天他必使我们苏醒，第三天他必使我们兴起，我们就在他面前得以存活。
After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
6:3 我们务要认识耶和华，竭力追求认识他。他出现确如晨光，他必临到我们像甘雨，像滋润田地的春雨。
Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
6:4 主说，以法莲哪，我可向你怎样行呢。犹大阿，我可向你怎样做呢。因为你们的良善，如同早晨的云雾，又如速散的甘露。
O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.
6:5 因此，我藉先知砍伐他们，以我口中的话杀戮他们，我施行的审判如光发出。
Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.
6:6 我喜爱良善（或作怜恤），不喜爱祭祀，喜爱认识神，胜于燔祭。
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
6:7 他们却如亚当背约，在境内向我行事诡诈。
But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
6:8 基列是作孽之人的城。被血沾染。
Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
6:9 强盗成群，怎样埋伏杀人。祭司结党，也照样在示剑的路上杀戮，行了邪恶。
And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
6:10 在以色列家，我见了可憎的事。在以法莲那里有淫行，以色列被玷污。
I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
6:11 犹大阿，我使被掳之民归回的时候，必有为你所命定的收场。
Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.