Alas, sinful nation, A people laden with iniquity, A brood of evildoers, Children who are corrupters! They have forsaken the Lord, They have provoked to anger The Holy One of Israel, They have turned away backward.

嗐！犯罪的国民，担着罪孽的百姓；行恶的种类，败坏的儿女！他们离弃耶和华，藐视以色列的圣者，与他生疏，往后退步。

祸哉！犯罪的国民，担着罪孽的百姓，行恶的族类，败坏的儿女！他们离弃耶和华，藐视以色列的圣者，背向他，与他疏远。

祸哉！犯罪的国民，担着罪孽的百姓，行恶的族类，败坏的儿女！他们离弃耶和华，藐视以色列的圣者，背向他，与他疏远。

唉！你们这罪恶的民族，恶贯满盈的百姓，作恶的子孙，败坏的儿女！你们背弃耶和华，藐视以色列的圣者，与祂疏远。

嗐！犯罪的国，罪孽深重的子民，行恶的子孙，败坏的儿女！他们离弃了耶和华，藐视以色列的圣者，他们转离了他。

祸哉！有罪的国，罪孽深重的民，作恶者的后裔，败坏的儿女！他们离弃耶和华，藐视以色列的圣者，转背远离他。

嗐！犯罪的國民，擔着罪孽的百姓；行惡的種類，敗壞的兒女！他們離棄耶和華，藐視以色列的聖者，與他生疏，往後退步。

禍哉！犯罪的國民，擔着罪孽的百姓，行惡的族類，敗壞的兒女！他們離棄耶和華，藐視以色列的聖者，背向他，與他疏遠。

禍哉！犯罪的國民，擔着罪孽的百姓，行惡的族類，敗壞的兒女！他們離棄耶和華，藐視以色列的聖者，背向他，與他疏遠。

唉！你們這罪惡的民族，惡貫滿盈的百姓，作惡的子孫，敗壞的兒女！你們背棄耶和華，藐視以色列的聖者，與祂疏遠。

嗐！犯罪的國，罪孽深重的子民，行惡的子孫，敗壞的兒女！他們離棄了耶和華，藐視以色列的聖者，他們轉離了他。

嗐！犯罪的國，罪孽沉重的人民，作壞事的種，敗壞的兒女！他們離棄了永恆主，藐視以色列之聖者，跟他疏遠。

禍哉！有罪的國，罪孽深重的民，作惡者的後裔，敗壞的兒女！他們離棄耶和華，藐視以色列的聖者，轉背遠離他。

噫、干罪之邦、負咎之民、作惡之輩、妄行之子、離棄耶和華、輕視以色列之聖者、疏而遠之、

我耶和華為以色列族之聖主、斯民侮予、棄予逆予、風俗澆漓、陷於罪戾、入於邪僻、豈不哀哉。

禍哉、造孽之國、負罪之民、行惡之種、敗壞之子、違棄主、侮以色列之聖者、背主而退、

Woe to the sinful nation, a people whose guilt is great, a brood of evildoers, children given to corruption! They have forsaken the Lord; they have spurned the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on him.

How terrible it will be for this sinful nation! They are loaded down with guilt. They are people who do nothing but evil. They are children who are always sinning. They have deserted the Lord. They have turned against the Holy One of Israel. They have turned their backs on him.

Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged.

Oh, what a sinful nation they are— loaded down with a burden of guilt. They are evil people, corrupt children who have rejected the Lord. They have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on him.

Oh sinful nation, people weighed down with iniquity, brood of evildoers, depraved children! They have abandoned the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel; they have turned their backs on him.

Oh, sinful nation, People weighed down with guilt, Offspring of evildoers, Sons who act corruptly! They have abandoned the Lord, They have despised the Holy One of Israel, They have turned away from Him.

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil- doers, children that deal corruptly! they have forsaken Jehovah, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are estranged and gone backward.

Oh sinful nation, people weighed down with iniquity, brood of evildoers, depraved children! They have abandoned the Lord; they have despised the Holy One of Israel; they have turned their backs on Him.

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

The sinful nation is as good as dead, the people weighed down by evil deeds. They are offspring who do wrong, children who do wicked things. They have abandoned the LORD, and rejected the Holy One of Israel. They are alienated from him.

Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

Therefore, as the fire devours the stubble, And the flame consumes the chaff, So their root will be as rottenness, And their blossom will ascend like dust; Because they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Have you not brought this on yourself, In that you have forsaken the Lord your God When He led you in the way?

“ For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, And hewn themselves cisterns— broken cisterns that can hold no water.

Do they provoke Me to anger?” says the Lord.“ Do they not provoke themselves, to the shame of their own faces?”

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them,“ Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

That say,“ Let Him make speed and hasten His work, That we may see it; And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, That we may know it.”

“ Fear not, you worm Jacob, You men of Israel! I will help you,” says the Lord And your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

You will not be joined with them in burial, Because you have destroyed your land And slain your people. The brood of evildoers shall never be named.

Thus says the Lord:“ What injustice have your fathers found in Me, That they have gone far from Me, Have followed idols, And have become idolaters?

Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

And the Lord said to Moses:“ Behold, you will rest with your fathers; and this people will rise and play the harlot with the gods of the foreigners of the land, where they go to be among them, and they will forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with them.

then you shall say to them,‘ Because your fathers have forsaken Me,’ says the Lord;‘ they have walked after other gods and have served them and worshiped them, and have forsaken Me and not kept My law.And you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, each one follows the dictates of his own evil heart, so that no one listens to Me.

And the children of Israel cried out to the Lord, saying,“ We have sinned against You, because we have both forsaken our God and served the Baals!”

For our shield belongs to the Lord, And our king to the Holy One of Israel.

A people who provoke Me to anger continually to My face; Who sacrifice in gardens, And burn incense on altars of brick;

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

Serpents, brood of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?

Then people would say:‘ Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt;

“ Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice, And lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.

The humble also shall increase their joy in the Lord, And the poor among men shall rejoice In the Holy One of Israel.

The wicked are estranged from the womb; They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

“ Call together the archers against Babylon. All you who bend the bow, encamp against it all around; Let none of them escape. Repay her according to her work; According to all she has done, do to her; For she has been proud against the Lord, Against the Holy One of Israel.

For thus says the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel:“ In returning and rest you shall be saved; In quietness and confidence shall be your strength.” But you would not,

Your own wickedness will correct you, And your backslidings will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing That you have forsaken the Lord your God, And the fear of Me is not in you,” Says the Lord GOD of hosts.

Men make payment to all harlots, but you made your payments to all your lovers, and hired them to come to you from all around for your harlotry.

How often they provoked Him in the wilderness, And grieved Him in the desert!

Cry out and shout, O inhabitant of Zion, For great is the Holy One of Israel in your midst!”

“ Why do you beautify your way to seek love? Therefore you have also taught The wicked women your ways.

Yet they did not obey Me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did worse than their fathers.

That they may see and know, And consider and understand together, That the hand of the Lord has done this, And the Holy One of Israel has created it.

And look! You have risen in your fathers’ place, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more the fierce anger of the Lord against Israel.

“ And when the Lord saw it, He spurned them, Because of the provocation of His sons and His daughters.

And may not be like their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that did not set its heart aright, And whose spirit was not faithful to God.

For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, By his God, the Lord of hosts, Though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.”

You shall winnow them, the wind shall carry them away, And the whirlwind shall scatter them; You shall rejoice in the Lord, And glory in the Holy One of Israel.

I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for the sake of His body, which is the church,

For Jerusalem stumbled, And Judah is fallen, Because their tongue and their doings Are against the Lord, To provoke the eyes of His glory.

Get out of the way, Turn aside from the path, Cause the Holy One of Israel To cease from before us.”Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel:“ Because you despise this word, And trust in oppression and perversity, And rely on them,

Your princes are rebellious, And companions of thieves; Everyone loves bribes, And follows after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, Nor does the cause of the widow come before them.

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.

But the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinful against the Lord.

“ But come here, You sons of the sorceress, You offspring of the adulterer and the harlot!Whom do you ridicule? Against whom do you make a wide mouth And stick out the tongue? Are you not children of transgression, Offspring of falsehood,

I will send him against an ungodly nation, And against the people of My wrath I will give him charge, To seize the spoil, to take the prey, And to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

That this is a rebellious people, Lying children, Children who will not hear the law of the Lord;

“ O generation, see the word of the Lord! Have I been a wilderness to Israel, Or a land of darkness? Why do My people say,‘ We are lords; We will come no more to You’?

“ You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers,

For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.