Nahum 3

1 A curse is on the town of blood; it is full of deceit and violent acts; and there is no end to the taking of life.

祸哉！这流人血的城， 充满谎诈和强暴— 抢夺的事总不止息。

2 The noise of the whip, and the noise of thundering wheels; horses rushing and war-carriages jumping,

鞭声响亮，车轮轰轰， 马匹踢跳，车辆奔腾，

3 Horsemen driving forward, and the shining sword and the bright spear: and a great number of wounded, and masses of dead bodies; they are falling over the bodies of the dead:

马兵争先，刀剑发光， 枪矛闪烁，被杀的甚多， 尸首成了大堆， 尸骸无数，人碰着而跌倒，

4 Because of all the false ways of the loose woman, expert in attraction and wise in secret arts, who takes nations in the net of her false ways, and families through her secret arts.

都因那美貌的妓女多有淫行， 惯行邪术，借淫行诱惑列国， 用邪术诱惑多族。

5 See, I am against you, says the Lord of armies, and I will have your skirts pulled over your face, and let the nations see you unclothed, and the kingdoms your shame.

万军之耶和华说：我与你为敌； 我必揭起你的衣襟，蒙在你脸上， 使列国看见你的赤体， 使列邦观看你的丑陋。

6 I will make you completely disgusting and full of shame, and will put you up to be looked at by all.

我必将可憎污秽之物抛在你身上， 辱没你，为众目所观。

7 And it will come about that all who see you will go in flight from you and say, Nineveh is made waste: who will be weeping for her? where am I to get comforters for her?

凡看见你的，都必逃跑离开你， 说：尼尼微荒凉了！有谁为你悲伤呢？ 我何处寻得安慰你的人呢？

8 Are you better than No-amon, seated on the Nile streams, with waters all round her; whose wall was the sea and her earthwork the waters?

你岂比挪亚们强呢？ 挪亚们坐落在众河之间，周围有水； 海作她的濠沟， 又作她的城墙。

9 Ethiopia was her strength and Egyptians without number; Put and Lubim were her helpers.

古实和埃及是她无穷的力量； 弗人和路比族是她的帮手。

10 But even she has been taken away, she has gone away as a prisoner: even her young children are smashed to bits at the top of all the streets: the fate of her honoured men is put to the decision of chance, and all her great men are put in chains.

但她被迁移，被掳去； 她的婴孩在各市口上也被摔死。 人为她的尊贵人拈阄； 她所有的大人都被链子锁着。

11 And you will be overcome with wine, you will become feeble; you will be looking for a safe place from those who are fighting against you.

你也必喝醉，必被埋藏， 并因仇敌的缘故寻求避难所。

12 All your walled places will be like fig-trees and your people like the first figs, falling at a shake into the mouth which is open for them.

你一切保障必像无花果树上初熟的无花果， 若一摇撼就落在想吃之人的口中。

13 See, the people who are in you are women; the doorways of your land are wide open to your attackers: the locks of your doors have been burned away in the fire.

你地上的人民如同妇女； 你国中的关口向仇敌敞开； 你的门闩被火焚烧。

14 Get water for the time when you are shut in, make strong your towns: go into the potter's earth, stamping it down with your feet, make strong the brickworks.

你要打水预备受困； 要坚固你的保障， 踹土和泥，修补砖窑。

15 There the fire will make you waste; you will be cut off by the sword: make yourself as great in number as the worms, as great in number as the locusts.

在那里，火必烧灭你； 刀必杀戮你， 吞灭你如同蝻子。 任你加增人数多如蝻子， 多如蝗虫吧！

16 Let your traders be increased more than the stars of heaven:

你增添商贾，多过天上的星； 蝻子吃尽而去。

17 Your crowned ones are like the locusts, and your scribes like the clouds of insects which take cover in the walls on a cold day, but when the sun comes up they go in flight, and are seen no longer in their place.

你的首领多如蝗虫； 你的军长仿佛成群的蚂蚱， 天凉的时候齐落在篱笆上， 日头一出便都飞去， 人不知道落在何处。

18 Sorrow! how are the keepers of your flock sleeping, O king of Assyria! your strong men are at rest; your people are wandering on the mountains, and there is no one to get them together.

亚述王啊，你的牧人睡觉； 你的贵胄安歇； 你的人民散在山间，无人招聚。

19 Your pain may not be made better; you are wounded to death: all those hearing the news about you will be waving their hands in joy over you: for who has not undergone the weight of your evil-doing again and again?

你的损伤无法医治； 你的伤痕极其重大。 凡听你信息的必都因此向你拍掌。 你所行的恶谁没有时常遭遇呢？