那鴻書 2
1 尼尼微啊，那打碎邦國的上來攻擊你。 你要看守保障，謹防道路， 使腰強壯，大大勉力。 （
The destroyer is come before thy face: keepe the munition: looke to the way: make thy loynes strong: increase thy strength mightily.
2 耶和華復興雅各的榮華， 好像以色列的榮華一樣； 因為使地空虛的， 已經使雅各和以色列空虛， 將他們的葡萄枝毀壞了。）
For the Lord hath turned away the glorie of Iaakob, as the glorie of Israel: for the emptiers haue emptied them out, and marred their vine branches.
3 他勇士的盾牌是紅的， 精兵都穿朱紅衣服。 在他預備爭戰的日子， 戰車上的鋼鐵閃爍如火， 柏木把的槍也掄起來了。
The shield of his mightie men is made red: the valiant men are in skarlet: the charets shalbe as in the fire and flames in the day of his preparation, and the firre trees shall tremble.
4 車輛在街上急行， 在寬闊處奔來奔去， 形狀如火把， 飛跑如閃電。
The charets shall rage in the streetes: they shall runne to and from in the hie wayes: they shall seeme like lampes: they shall shoote like the lightning.
5 尼尼微王招聚他的貴冑； 他們步行絆跌， 速上城牆，預備擋牌。
He shall remember his strong men: they shall stumble as they goe: they shall make haste to the walles thereof, and the defence shall bee prepared.
6 河閘開放，宮殿沖沒。
The gates of the riuers shalbe opened, and the palace shall melt.
7 王后蒙羞，被人擄去； 宮女搥胸，哀鳴如鴿。 此乃命定之事。
And Huzzab the Queene shalbe led away captiue, and her maides shall leade her as with the voyce of doues, smiting vpon their breastes.
8 尼尼微自古以來充滿人民， 如同聚水的池子； 現在居民卻都逃跑。 雖有人呼喊說：站住！站住！ 卻無人回顧。
But Nineueh is of olde like a poole of water: yet they shall flee away. Stande, stande, shall they crie: but none shall looke backe.
9 你們搶掠金銀吧！ 因為所積蓄的無窮， 華美的寶器無數。
Spoyle ye the siluer, spoyle the golde: for there is none ende of the store, and glorie of all the pleasant vessels.
10 尼尼微現在空虛荒涼， 人心消化，雙膝相碰， 腰都疼痛，臉都變色。
She is emptie and voyde and waste, and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and sorowe is in all loynes, and the faces of the all gather blackenesse.
11 獅子的洞和少壯獅子餵養之處在哪裏呢？ 公獅母獅小獅遊行、無人驚嚇之地在哪裏呢？
Where is the dwelling of the lyons, and the pasture of the lyons whelpes? where the lyon, and the lionesse walked, and the lyons whelpe, and none made them afrayde.
12 公獅為小獅撕碎許多食物， 為母獅掐死活物， 把撕碎的、掐死的充滿牠的洞穴。
The lyon did teare in pieces ynough for his whelpes, and woryed for his lyonesse, and filled his holes with praye, and his dennes with, spoyle.
13 萬軍之耶和華說：「我與你為敵，必將你的車輛焚燒成煙，刀劍也必吞滅你的少壯獅子。我必從地上除滅你所撕碎的，你使者的聲音必不再聽見。」
Beholde, I come vnto thee, sayeth the Lord of hostes, and I will burne her charets in the smoke, and the sworde shall deuoure thy yong lyons, and I will cut off thy spoyle from the earth, and the voyce of thy messengers shall no more be heard.
