那鴻書3:8-19

3:8 你豈比挪亞們強呢？挪亞們坐落在眾河之間，周圍有水；海（指尼羅河）作她的濠溝，又作她的城牆。

3:9 古實和埃及是她無窮的力量；弗人和路比族是她的幫手。

3:10 但她被遷移，被擄去；她的嬰孩在各市口上也被摔死。人為她的尊貴人拈鬮；她所有的大人都被鍊子鎖著。

3:11 你也必喝醉，必被埋藏，並因仇敵的緣故尋求避難所。

3:12 你一切保障必像無花果樹上初熟的無花果，若一搖撼就落在想吃之人的口中。

3:13 你地上的人民如同婦女；你國中的關口向仇敵敞開；你的門閂被火焚燒。

3:14 你要打水預備受困；要堅固你的保障，踹土和泥，修補磚窯。

3:15 在那裡，火必燒滅你；刀必殺戮你，吞滅你如同蝻子。任你加增人數多如蝻子，多如蝗蟲吧！

3:16 你增添商賈，多過天上的星；蝻子吃盡而去。

3:17 你的首領多如蝗蟲；你的軍長彷彿成群的螞蚱，天涼的時候齊落在籬笆上，日頭一出便都飛去，人不知道落在何處。

3:18 亞述王啊，你的牧人睡覺；你的貴冑安歇；你的人民散在山間，無人招聚。

3:19 你的損傷無法醫治；你的傷痕極其重大。凡聽你信息的必都因此向你拍掌。你所行的惡誰沒有時常遭遇呢？

Are you better than Thebes

that sat by the Nile,

with water around her,

her rampart a sea,

and water her wall?

  Cush was her strength;

Egypt too, and that without limit;

Put and the Libyans were her helpers.

  Yet she became an exile;

she went into captivity;

her infants were dashed in pieces

at the head of every street;

for her honored men lots were cast,

and all her great men were bound in chains.

  You also will be drunken;

you will go into hiding;

you will seek a refuge from the enemy.

  All your fortresses are like fig trees

with first-ripe figs—

if shaken they fall

into the mouth of the eater.

  Behold, your troops

are women in your midst.

The gates of your land

are wide open to your enemies;

fire has devoured your bars.

  Draw water for the siege;

strengthen your forts;

go into the clay;

tread the mortar;

take hold of the brick mold!

  There will the fire devour you;

the sword will cut you off.

It will devour you like the locust.

Multiply yourselves like the locust;

multiply like the grasshopper!

  You increased your merchants

more than the stars of the heavens.

The locust spreads its wings and flies away.

  Your princes are like grasshoppers,

your scribes like clouds of locusts

settling on the fences

in a day of cold—

when the sun rises, they fly away;

no one knows where they are.

  Your shepherds are asleep,

O king of Assyria;

your nobles slumber.

Your people are scattered on the mountains

with none to gather them.

  There is no easing your hurt;

your wound is grievous.

All who hear the news about you

clap their hands over you.

For upon whom has not come

your unceasing evil?

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    上帝要大大懲罰亞述！