西番雅書2:12-15

2:12 古實人哪，你們必被我的刀所殺。

2:13 耶和華必伸手攻擊北方，毀滅亞述，使尼尼微荒涼，又乾旱如曠野。

2:14 群畜，就是各國（國：或譯類）的走獸必臥在其中；鵜鶘和箭豬要宿在柱頂上。在窗戶內有鳴叫的聲音；門檻都必毀壞，香柏木已經露出。

2:15 這是素來歡樂安然居住的城，心裡說：惟有我，除我以外再沒有別的；現在何竟荒涼成為野獸躺臥之處！凡經過的人都必搖手嗤笑她。

You also, O Cushites,

shall be slain by my sword.

  And he will stretch out his hand against the north

and destroy Assyria,

and he will make Nineveh a desolation,

a dry waste like the desert.

  Herds shall lie down in her midst,

all kinds of beasts;

even the owl and the hedgehog

shall lodge in her capitals;

a voice shall hoot in the window;

devastation will be on the threshold;

for her cedar work will be laid bare.

  This is the exultant city

that lived securely,

that said in her heart,

“I am, and there is no one else.”

What a desolation she has become,

a lair for wild beasts!

Everyone who passes by her

hisses and shakes his fist.

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    外邦人因為不顧惜以色列人，上帝也不顧惜他們，要他們受到審判！