2:1 祸哉，那些在床上筹划不义，图谋行恶的人!因为他们手中有能力，一到天亮，就去实行。
Woe to those who plan iniquity, and work out evil on their couches; In the morning light they accomplish it when it lies within their power. 2:2 他们想要田地，便去霸占；想要房屋，便去夺取：以暴力对付业主和他的家族，物主和他的产业。
They covet fields, and seize them; houses, and they take them; They cheat an owner of his house, a man of his inheritance. 2:3 为此上主这样说：「看，我正在为这一家筹划灾祸，致令你们不能缩回你们的颈项，也不能挺身前行，因为那是一个灾祸的时刻。」
Therefore thus says the LORD: Behold, I am planning against this race an evil from which you shall not withdraw your necks; Nor shall you walk with head high, for it will be a time of evil. 2:4 在那一日，人要作诗讽刺你们，唱这悲惨的哀歌说：「我们完全被抢掠了，我人民的基业已被人瓜分了，再无人归还；我们的土地已分配给抢掠我们的人!」
On that day a satire shall be sung over you, and there shall be a plaintive chant: "Our ruin is complete, our fields are portioned out among our captors, The fields of my people are measured out, and no one can get them back!" 2:5 因此，你们在上主的集会中，再没有拉绳测量和抽签的人。
Thus you shall have no one to mark out boundaries by lot in the assembly of the LORD. 2:6 他们讲说：「你们不要说预言。」「人不该预言这样的事，耻辱决不会来到我们身上!
"Preach not," they preach, "let them not preach of these things!" The shame will not withdraw. 2:7 雅各伯的家岂是可诅咒的﹖上主的气量岂能变为狭小﹖难道这是他的作风﹖他的话岂不是有益于以色列子民﹖」
How can it be said, O house of Jacob, "Is the LORD short of patience, or are such his deeds?" Do not my words promise good to him who walks uprightly? 2:8 「但是你们正像敌人一样，起来攻击我的人民，因为你们向没有短衣的人索求长袍，向平安走路的人索取战利品。
But of late my people has risen up as an enemy: you have stripped off the mantle covering the tunic Of those who go their way in confidence, as though it were spoils of war. 2:9 你们驱逐我人民的妇女离开她们的快乐家庭，从她们的婴儿身上，永远夺去我的光荣。
The women of my people you drive out from their pleasant houses; From their children you take away forever the honor I gave them. 2:10 你们起来走吧!因为这不是你们安息之所。为了不洁，这地必要遭受不可挽救的毁灭。」
"Up! Be off, this is no place to rest"; For any trifle you exact a crippling pledge. 2:11 假若有人随从虚妄而撒谎说：「我要对你预言清酒和醇酒。」这人必可作这民族的先知。
If one, acting on impulse, should make the futile claim: "I pour you wine and strong drink as my prophecy," then he would be the prophet of this people. 2:12 我必要聚集雅各伯全民众，我必要集合以色列的遗民，使他们合并在一处，有如羊栏里的绵羊，有如牧场上的羊群，不再怕任何人。
I will gather you, O Jacob, each and every one, I will assemble all the remnant of Israel; I will group them like a flock in the fold, like a herd in the midst of its corral; they shall not be thrown into panic by men. 2:13 开路者走在他们前面开道；他走在前面，众人随他穿门而过；他们的君王走在他们们前面，上主亲作他们的响导。
With a leader to break the path they shall burst open the gate and go out through it; Their king shall go through before them, and the LORD at their head. [CHAP.3]