< Nahum 3 >

1 Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery—no end to the prey.
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, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots,
鞭声响亮,车轮轰轰, 马匹踢跳,车辆奔腾,
3 the horseman charging, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies
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 the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft.
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 “Behold, I am against you,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, 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 throw abominable filth on you and make you vile, and will make you a spectacle.
我必将可憎污秽之物抛在你身上, 辱没你,为众目所观。
7 It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, ‘Nineveh is laid waste! Who will mourn for her?’ Where will I seek comforters for you?”
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, who was situated among the rivers, who had the waters around her, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea?
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 Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put and Libya 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 Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound 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 You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy.
你也必喝醉,必被埋藏, 并因仇敌的缘故寻求避难所。
12 All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs. If they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.
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 Behold, your troops among you are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.
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 Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.
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 devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.
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 You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips and flees away.
你增添商贾,多过天上的星; 蝻子吃尽而去。
17 Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun appears, they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
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 Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them.
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 There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you, for who hasn’t felt your endless cruelty?
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?

< Nahum 3 >