那鴻書 3
1 禍哉! 血債的城，滿城欺詐，處處劫掠，搶奪不息。
What a disaster is coming upon this murderous city with all its treachery! It is full of wealth it has robbed, and always has plenty of victims.
2 聽皮鞭颼颼，車輪隆隆，戰馬奔馳，戰車疾駛，
Listen to the noise: whips crack, wheels clatter, horses gallop, chariots rattle!
3 騎士躍馬，刀劍晃亮，槍矛閃輝，被殺者眾，死者成堆，屍體無邊，人人為屍體絆倒：
Horsemen charge, swords flash, spears glitter! Many dead, piles of corpses, countless bodies—so many that people stumble over them.
4 這都是因那嬌艷妖冶的淫婦，行妖術的女巫的許多淫行所致。她以淫蕩欺騙了列邦，用妖術迷惑了萬民。
All this happens because the repeated prostitution of Nineveh the prostitute, the beautiful mistress with her deadly charms who seduces nations into slavery by her prostitution and her witchcraft.
5 看，我必攻擊你，──萬軍上主的斷語──我必將妳的衣裙掀到妳的臉上，使萬民見到妳的裸體，使列邦看到妳的恥辱：
Watch out! For I am against you, declares the Lord Almighty. I will lift your skirts over your face and let the nations see your nakedness, and kingdoms see your shame.
6 我必要將糞溺拋在妳身上侮辱妳，使妳成為鑑戒。
I will throw filth at you. I will treat you with contempt, and make a spectacle of you.
7 凡看見妳的，必逃避妳說：「尼尼微終於毀滅了! 」誰會向妳表同情﹖我從哪裏能找到安慰妳人﹖
Then everyone who sees you will shun you saying, “Nineveh is ruined! But who is going to mourn your loss?” Where should I look to find anyone to comfort you?
8 妳哪裏能勝過那位於尼羅上，四面環水的諾阿孟。妳有海洋為屏障，有水為垣牆；
Are you any better than the city of Thebes on the River Nile, surrounded by water? Water was its defense, water was its wall.
9 雇士和埃及是好的力量，力大無窮；普特和利比亞是好的助1 ；
The city ruled Egypt and Ethiopia. Put and Libya were its allies.
10 但是好也被擄去，充當俘虜，好的嬰兒也在各街頭被摔死，人抽籤分配好的貴族，用鐵鏈縛住她的縉紳。
Yet its people were also taken away into exile, into captivity. Their babies were dashed to pieces in every street. Their nobles were bound in chains and taken away as servants, chosen by lot.
11 妳也要這樣被攻破而消失，妳也要一個安全處為逃避仇敵。
You too will behave like a drunk. You will hide in fear, trying to find a place safe from the enemy.
12 好的一切堡壘好像早熟的無花果樹，人一搖動，就落在姇食者的口裏。
All your fortresses are like fig trees ripe with fruit—they fall when they are shaken into the mouth of the one eating.
13 看哪! 在妳中間的百姓都是婦女，妳境內的門已為妳的敵人敞開，火已燒毀了妳的門閂。
Look! Your soldiers are women among you. The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; the bars of the gates will be set on fire.
14 妳應吸水防備圍困，應鞏固妳的堡壘，踏黏土，踩膠泥，緊握磚型。
Store water to prepare for a siege! Strengthen your fortresses! Go to the clay pits to tread it well, mix the cement, get your brick molds ready!
15 火要在那裏燒滅妳，刀劍要殲滅妳， [把妳吞食有如蚱蜢。] 妳盡可增多妳的人數有如蚱蜢，多如飛蝗；
But even so, there the fire will consume you, you will be cut down by the sword. You will be destroyed as if you were devoured by a swarm of locusts. So multiply yourselves like locusts, like a swarm of locusts.
16 增加妳的商賈，多過天上的星辰! ──蚱蜢一脫殼就飛去了。
You increased your merchants so that there are more of them than the stars of heaven. But like locusts they strip everything and then fly away.
17 妳的守衛正如蝗蟲，妳的官吏正像一群蚱蜢；冷天蟄伏在牆上，但太陽一昇起，就飛去了，沒有人知道牠們究在何處。
Your leaders are like locusts, your officials like a swarm of locusts. They rest on walls on a cold day, but when the sun rises they fly away, and no one knows where they've gone.
18 亞述王! 你的牧者已酣睡，你的貴族已永眠，你的人民已散在各山上，無人再能聚集。
King of Assyria, your shepherds are asleep, your princes are slumbering. Your people are scattered across the mountains and no one can gather them.
19 你的瘡痍無法治療，你的創傷是致命傷。凡聽到你這消息的，都朝你鼓掌，因為有誰沒有時常受你虐待﹖
There is no way to heal your injuries, you are too badly wounded. Everyone who hears this news will applaud what has happened to you, for was there anyone who escaped your continuous cruelty?
