以香柏树为房屋的楝梁,以松树为椽子。
The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.
天哪,要听,地阿,侧耳而听。因为耶和华说,我养育儿女,将他们养大,他们竟悖逆我。
Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
你们的地土已经荒凉。你们的城邑被火焚毁。你们的田地,在你们的眼前为外邦人所侵吞,既被外邦人倾覆,就成为荒凉。
Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
仅存锡安城(城原文作女子),好像葡萄园的草棚,瓜田的茅屋,被围困的城邑。
And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
若不是万军之耶和华给我们稍留馀种,我们早以像所多玛,蛾摩拉的样子了。
Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
耶和华说,你们所献的许多祭物,与我何益呢。公绵羊的燔祭,和肥畜的脂油,我已经彀了。公牛的血,羊羔的血,公山羊的血,我都不喜悦。
To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
你们来朝见我,谁向你们讨这些,使你们践踏我的院宇呢。
When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
你们的月朔,和节期,我心里恨恶,我都以为麻烦。我担当,便不耐烦。
Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
你们举手祷告,我必遮眼不看。就是你们多多的祈祷,我也不听。你们的手都满了杀人的血。
And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
你们要洗濯,自洁。从我眼前除掉你们的恶行。要止住作恶,
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;