Nahum 2

1 [You people of] [APO] Nineveh, your enemies are coming to attack you. [So] place guards on the tops of the walls around the city! Guard the roads [into the city]! Get ready to fight! Gather your troops/soldiers [MTY] together!

撃破者攻のぼりて汝の前に至る 汝城を守り路を窺ひ腰を強くし汝の力を大に強くせよ

2 Even though enemy soldiers have destroyed the descendants of [MTY] Jacob, Yahweh will cause them to be honored again. Israel is like a grapevine that has been ruined, but Israel will prosper again.

ヱホバはヤコブの榮を舊に復してイスラエルの榮のごとくしたまふ 其は掠奪者これを掠めその葡萄蔓を壞ひたればなり

3 The shields of the enemy soldiers [who are coming to attack you] will shine red [as the sun shines on them], and they will wear bright red uniforms. The metal of their chariot [wheels] will flash when they line up [before the battle], and their soldiers will lift up their cypress/pine spears and wave them.

その勇士は楯を紅にしその軍兵は紅に身を甲ふ 其行伍を立つる時には戰車の鐵灼燦て火のごとし 鎗また閃めきふるふ

4 Their chariots will dash through the streets [of Nineveh] and rush furiously through the plazas. Going as quick as lightning, they will resemble flaming torches.

戰車街衢に狂ひ奔り大路に推あふ 其形状火炬のごとく其疾く馳すること電光の如し

5 [Meanwhile], your king will summon his officers who will stumble as they [try to] come [quickly]. They will dash to the [city] wall, holding their shields to protect themselves.

彼その將士を憶ひいだす 彼らはその途にて躓き仆れその石垣に奔ゆき大楯を備ふ

6 But, the gates [of the dams] on the rivers will be thrown open [by enemy soldiers], and [the flood will cause] the palace to collapse.

河々の門啓け宮消うせん

7 The queen will have her clothes stripped off her [by enemy soldiers], and her slave girls will moan like doves and beat their breasts [to show that they are very sad].

この事定まれり 彼は裸にせられて擄はれゆきその宮女胸を打て鴿のごとくに啼くべし

8 [The people will rush from] Nineveh like [SIM] water rushes from a broken dam. [The officials] will shout, “Stop! Stop!” but the people will not even look back [as they run away].

ニネベはその建し日より以來水の滿る池に似たりしがその民今は逃奔る 止れ止れと呼ども後を顧みる者なし

9 [The enemy attackers say to each other, ] “Seize the silver! Grab the gold! There is a huge amount of very valuable things in this city, more valuable things than anyone can count!”

白銀を奪へよ 黄金を奪へよ その寳物限なく諸の貴とき噐用夥多し

10 [Soon everything valuable in the city] will be seized or ruined. People will be trembling, with the result that they will not be able to fight. Their faces will all become pale.

滅亡たり 空虚なれり 荒果たり 心は消え膝は慄ひ腰には凡て劇しき痛あり 面はみな色を失ふ

11 [After that happens, people will say, ] “What happened to [RHQ] that [great city of Nineveh]? [It was like] [MET] a den [full] of young lions, where the male and female lions lived and fed the young ones.

獅子の穴は何處ぞや 少き獅子の物を食ふ處は何處ぞや 雄獅子雌獅子その小獅子とともに彼處に歩むに之を懼れしむる者なし

12 [The soldiers in Nineveh were like] [MET] lions that killed or strangled [other animals] [and brought the meat] to their dens.”

雄獅子は小獅子のために物を噛ころし雌獅子の爲に物をくびり殺しその掠獲たる物をもて穴に充しその裂殺しし物をもて住所に滿す

13 The Commander of the armies of angels says [to the people of Nineveh], “I am opposed to you; I will cause your chariots to [be burned in fires and] go up in smoke. Your young men will be killed with swords. [Your soldiers] will never again conquer [other nations] and seize their valuable possessions. Your messengers will never again take messages [to other nations, demanding that their armies surrender to them].”

萬軍のヱホバ言たまふ 視よ我なんぢに臨む 我なんぢの戰車を焚て煙となすべし 汝の少き獅子はみな劍の殺す所とならん 我また汝の獲物を地より絶べし 汝の使者の聲かさねて聞ゆること無らん