| Vers | Afrikaans 1953 † | English: King James Version |
| 1 | Toe Israel 'n kind was, het Ek hom liefgehad, en uit Egipte het Ek my seun geroep. | When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. |
| 2 | Hoe meer die profete hulle geroep het, des te meer het hulle van húlle af weggeloop; hulle het aan die Baäls geoffer en vir die gesnede beelde rook laat opgaan. | As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images. |
| 3 | En Ek self het Efraim leer loop. Hy het hulle op sy arms geneem, maar hulle het nie erken dat Ek hulle genees het nie. | I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them. |
| 4 | Met mensebande, met koorde van liefde het Ek hulle getrek; en Ek was vir hulle soos diegene wat die juk van hulle kakebeen af oplig; en Ek het My na hom neergebuig, Ek het hom voedsel gegee. | I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them. |
| 5 | Hy sal na Egipteland nie terugkeer nie, maar Assur--dié sal sy koning wees; omdat hulle geweier het om hulle te bekeer. | He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return. |
| 6 | En die swaard sal geswaai word in sy stede en sy grendels vernietig en verteer weens hulle planne. | And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels. |
| 7 | Want my volk dwing om van My afvallig te word; en as die profete hom roep na bo, rig hy hom glad nie op nie. | And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him. |
| 8 | Hoe kan Ek jou oorgee, o Efraim, jou prysgee, o Israel? Hoe kan Ek jou maak soos Adma, jou gelykstel met Seboïm: my hart is omgekeer in My, tegelykertyd is my medelyde opgewek. | How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together. |
| 9 | Ek sal my toorngloed nie laat geld nie, Ek sal Efraim nie weer te gronde rig nie; want Ek is God en nie 'n mens nie, die Heilige in jou midde. En Ek sal nie kom in grimmigheid nie. | I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city. |
| 10 | Hulle sal agter die HERE aan trek; Hy sal brul soos 'n leeu. Want Hy sal brul, en die kinders sal met siddering van die seekant aankom. | They shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west. |
| 11 | Hulle sal sidderende aankom soos 'n voëltjie uit Egipte en soos 'n duif uit die land Assur; en Ek sal hulle laat woon in hulle huise, spreek die HERE. | They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will place them in their houses, saith the LORD. |
| 12 | Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints. |