那鴻書 3
1 禍哉！這流人血的城， 充滿謊詐和強暴－ 搶奪的事總不止息。
Woe to the city full of blood! It is all full of lies and stolen property; victims are always in her.
2 鞭聲響亮，車輪轟轟， 馬匹踢跳，車輛奔騰，
But now there is the noise of whips and the sound of rattling wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots.
3 馬兵爭先，刀劍發光， 槍矛閃爍，被殺的甚多， 屍首成了大堆， 屍骸無數，人碰着而跌倒，
There are attacking horsemen, flashing swords, glittering spears, heaps of corpses, great piles of bodies. There is no end to the bodies; their attackers stumble over them.
4 都因那美貌的妓女多有淫行， 慣行邪術，藉淫行誘惑列國， 用邪術誘惑多族。
This is happening because of the lustful actions of the beautiful prostitute, the expert in witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and peoples through her acts of witchcraft.
5 萬軍之耶和華說：我與你為敵； 我必揭起你的衣襟，蒙在你臉上， 使列國看見你的赤體， 使列邦觀看你的醜陋。
“See, I am against you—this is the declaration of Yahweh of hosts—I will raise up your skirt over your face and show your private parts to the nations, your shame to the kingdoms.
6 我必將可憎污穢之物拋在你身上， 辱沒你，為眾目所觀。
I will throw disgusting filth on you and make you vile; I will make you someone that everyone will look at.
7 凡看見你的，都必逃跑離開你， 說：尼尼微荒涼了！有誰為你悲傷呢？ 我何處尋得安慰你的人呢？
It will come about that everyone who looks at you will flee from you and say, 'Nineveh is destroyed; who will weep for her?' Where can I find anyone to comfort you?”
8 你豈比挪亞們強呢？ 挪亞們坐落在眾河之間，周圍有水； 海作她的濠溝， 又作她的城牆。
Nineveh, are you better than Thebes, that was built on the Nile River, that had water around her, whose defense was the ocean, whose wall was the sea itself?
9 古實和埃及是她無窮的力量； 弗人和路比族是她的幫手。
Cush and Egypt were her strength, and there was no end to it; Put and Libya were allies to her.
10 但她被遷移，被擄去； 她的嬰孩在各市口上也被摔死。 人為她的尊貴人拈鬮； 她所有的大人都被鍊子鎖着。
Yet Thebes was carried away; she went into captivity; her young children were dashed in pieces at the head of every street; her enemies threw lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
11 你也必喝醉，必被埋藏， 並因仇敵的緣故尋求避難所。
You also will become drunk; you will try to hide, and you will also look for a refuge from your enemy.
12 你一切保障必像無花果樹上初熟的無花果， 若一搖撼就落在想吃之人的口中。
All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the earliest ripe figs: if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.
13 你地上的人民如同婦女； 你國中的關口向仇敵敞開； 你的門閂被火焚燒。
See, the people among you are women; the gates of your land have been opened wide to your enemies; fire has devoured their bars.
14 你要打水預備受困； 要堅固你的保障， 踹土和泥，修補磚窯。
Go draw water for the siege; strengthen your fortresses; go into the clay and tread the mortar; pick up the molds for the bricks.
15 在那裏，火必燒滅你； 刀必殺戮你， 吞滅你如同蝻子。 任你加增人數多如蝻子， 多如蝗蟲吧！
Fire will devour you there, and the sword will destroy you. It will devour you as young locusts devour everything. Make yourselves as many as the young locusts, as many as the full-grown locusts.
16 你增添商賈，多過天上的星； 蝻子吃盡而去。
You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars in the heavens; but they are like young locusts: they plunder the land and then fly away.
17 你的首領多如蝗蟲； 你的軍長彷彿成群的螞蚱， 天涼的時候齊落在籬笆上， 日頭一出便都飛去， 人不知道落在何處。
Your princes are as many as the full-grown locusts, and your generals are like swarms of them that camp in the walls on a cold day. But when the sun rises they fly away to no one knows where.
18 亞述王啊，你的牧人睡覺； 你的貴冑安歇； 你的人民散在山間，無人招聚。
King of Assyria, your shepherds are asleep; your rulers are lying down resting. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them.
19 你的損傷無法醫治； 你的傷痕極其重大。 凡聽你信息的必都因此向你拍掌。 你所行的惡誰沒有時常遭遇呢？
No healing is possible for your wounds. Your wounds are severe. Everyone who hears the news about you will clap their hands in joy over you. Who has escaped your constant wickedness?
