那鸿书 3
1 祸哉！这流人血的城， 充满谎诈和强暴— 抢夺的事总不止息。
Woe to the city of blood! it is all full of lies and robbery; never ceaseth the preying;
2 鞭声响亮，车轮轰轰， 马匹踢跳，车辆奔腾，
The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of wheels, and of prancing horses, and of the skipping chariots.
3 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，
Horsemen mount, and there are the flaming sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and heaps of carcasses; and without end are the corpses; they stumble on their corpses;
4 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。
Because of the multitude of the lewd deeds of the harlot, that is rich in gracefulness, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her lewd deeds, and families through her witchcrafts.
5 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。
Behold, I will be against thee, saith the Lord of hosts; and I will lay thy skirts open over thy face, and I will let nations see thy nakedness, and kingdoms thy shame.
6 我必将可憎污秽之物抛在你身上， 辱没你，为众目所观。
And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and defile thee, and will render thee a dirt-heap.
7 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？
And it shall come to pass, that all they that see thee shall flee from thee, and say, Laid waste is Nineveh: who will condole with her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?
8 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。
Art thou better than No-amon, that was situated on the rivers, that had water round about her, the rampart of which was the sea, and the walls of which rose out of the sea?
9 古实和埃及是她无穷的力量； 弗人和路比族是她的帮手。
Ethiopia the numerous, and Egypt that was without end, Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
10 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。
Yet also she was exiled, was carried away into captivity; also her young children were dashed in pieces at the corners of all streets: and for her honorable men they cast lots, and all her great ones were bound with chains.
11 你也必喝醉，必被埋藏， 并因仇敌的缘故寻求避难所。
Thou also shalt be made drunken, thou shalt be hidden from view: thou also shalt seek refuge because of the enemy.
12 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。
All thy strong-holds shall be like fig-trees with the first ripe figs, which, if they be shaken, will fall into the mouth of the eater.
13 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。
Behold, thy people are become women in the midst of thee: unto thy enemies are the gates of thy land set wide open; the fire hath devoured thy bars.
14 你要打水预备受困； 要坚固你的保障， 踹土和泥，修补砖窑。
Water for the siege draw for thyself, fortify thy strongholds: go into the clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brick-kiln.
15 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！
There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall devour thee up like the cankerworm: [though] thou make thyself many as the cankerworm; make thyself many as the locusts.
16 你增添商贾，多过天上的星； 蝻子吃尽而去。
[Though] thou hadst multiplied thy merchants more than the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spreadeth itself out, and flieth away.
17 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。
Thy crowned ones are like the locusts, and thy leaders like the swarms of locusts, which camp in the hedges on a cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
18 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。
Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria; thy valiant men are at rest: scattered are thy people upon the mountains, and there is none that gathereth them.
19 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？
There is no healing for thy breach; fatal is thy wound: all that hear the report of thee will clap their hands over thee; for over whom did not thy wickedness pass continually?
