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Nahum
Oracles celebrating the fall of Nineveh
A short prophetic book celebrating the imminent fall of Nineveh — the Assyrian capital that had destroyed Samaria a century earlier. Its three chapters are sustained poetic invective.
1
論尼尼微的默示、就是伊勒歌斯人那鴻所得的默示。
A revelation about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
2
耶和華是忌邪施報的 神．耶和華施報大有忿怒．向他的敵人施報、向他的仇敵懷怒。
Yahweh is a jealous God and avenges. Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath. Yahweh takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies.
3
耶和華不輕易發怒、大有能力、萬不以有罪的爲無罪．他乘旋風和暴風而來、雲彩爲他腳下的塵土．
Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
4
他斥責海、使海乾了、使一切江河乾涸．巴珊和迦密的樹林衰殘。利巴嫩的花草也衰殘了．
He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes.
5
大山因他震動、小山也都消化．大地在他面前突起、世界和住在其間的也都如此。
The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in it.
6
他發忿恨、誰能立得住呢．他發烈怒、誰能當得起呢．他的忿怒如火傾倒、磐石因他崩裂。
Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.
7
耶和華本爲善、在患難的日子爲人的保障．並且認得那些投靠他的人。
Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.
8
但他必以漲溢的洪水淹沒尼尼微、又驅逐仇敵進入黑暗。
But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.
9
尼尼微人哪、設何謀攻擊耶和華呢．他必將你們滅絕淨盡．災難不再興起．
What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.
10
你們像叢雜的荊棘、像喝醉了的人、又如枯乾的碎稭全然燒滅。
For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.
11
有一人從你那裏出來、圖謀邪惡、設惡計攻擊耶和華。
There is one gone out of you, who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.
12
耶和華如此說、尼尼微雖然勢力充足、人數繁多、也被剪除、歸於無有。猶大阿、我雖然使你受苦、卻不再使你受苦．
Yahweh says: “Though they be in full strength, and likewise many, even so they will be cut down, and he shall pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.
13
現在我必從你頸項上折斷他的軛、扭開他的繩索。
Now will I break his yoke from off you, and will burst your bonds apart.”
14
耶和華已經出令、指着尼尼微說、你名下的人必不留後．我必從你神的廟中、除滅雕刻的偶像、和鑄造的偶像．我必因你鄙陋使你歸於墳墓。
Yahweh has commanded concerning you: “No more descendants will bear your name. Out of the house of your gods, will I cut off the engraved image and the molten image. I will make your grave, for you are vile.”
15
看哪、有報好信傳平安之人的腳登山、說、猶大阿、可以守你的節期、還你所許的願罷．因爲那惡人不再從你中間經過他已滅絕淨盡了。
Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, Judah! Perform your vows, for the wicked one will no more pass through you. He is utterly cut off.
1
尼尼微阿、那打碎邦國的上來攻擊你．你要看守保障、謹防道路、使腰強壯、大大勉力。
He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your waist! Fortify your power mightily!
2
耶和華復興雅各的榮華、好像以色列的榮華一樣．因爲使地空虛的、已經使雅各和以色列空虛、將他們的葡萄枝毀壞了。
For Yahweh restores the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel; for the destroyers have destroyed them, and ruined their vine branches.
3
他勇士的盾牌是紅的、精兵都穿朱紅衣服．在他豫備爭戰的日子、戰車上的鋼鐵閃爍如火、柏木把的槍、也掄起來了．
The shield of his mighty men is made red. The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the pine spears are brandished.
4
車輛在街上〈或作城外〉急行、在寬闊處奔來奔去、形狀如火把、飛跑如閃電。
The chariots rage in the streets. They rush back and forth in the wide ways. Their appearance is like torches. They run like the lightnings.
5
尼尼微王招聚他的貴胄．他們步行絆跌、速上城牆、豫備擋牌。
He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place.
6
河閘開放、宮殿沖沒。
The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.
7
王后蒙羞、被人擄去．宮女捶胸、哀鳴如鴿．此乃命定之事。
It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her servants moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.
8
尼尼微自古以來充滿人民、如同聚水的池子．現在居民卻都逃跑．雖有人呼喊說、站住、站住、卻無人回顧。
But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water, yet they flee away. “Stop! Stop!” they cry, but no one looks back.
9
你們搶掠金銀罷。因爲所積蓄的無窮、華美的寶器無數。
Take the plunder of silver. Take the plunder of gold, for there is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture.
10
尼尼微現在空虛荒涼、人心消化、雙膝相碰、腰都疼痛、臉都變色。
She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.
11
獅子的洞和少壯獅子餧養之處在哪裏呢、公獅母獅小獅遊行無人驚嚇之地在哪裏呢。
Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion’s cubs, and no one made them afraid?
12
公獅爲小獅撕碎許多食物、爲母獅掐死活物、把撕碎的掐死的充滿他的洞穴。
The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with prey.
13
萬軍之耶和華說、我與你爲敵、必將你的車輛焚燒成煙、刀劍也必吞滅你的少壯獅子。我必從地上除滅你所撕碎的、你使者的聲音、必不再聽見。
“Behold, I am against you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard.”
1
禍哉、這流人血的城、充滿謊詐和強暴搶奪的事總不止息。
Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. The prey doesn’t depart.
2
鞭聲響亮、車輪轟轟、馬匹踢跳、車輛奔騰、
The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots,
3
馬兵爭先、刀劍發光、槍矛閃爍、被殺的甚多、屍首成了大堆、屍骸無數、人碰着而跌倒、
the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies,
4
都因那美貌的妓女多有淫行、慣行邪術、藉淫行誘惑列國、用邪術誘惑多族〈誘惑原文作賣〉
because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft.
5
萬軍之耶和華說、我與你爲敵．我必揭起你的衣襟、蒙在你臉上、使列國看見你的赤體、使列邦觀看你的醜陋。
“Behold, I am against you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.
6
我必將可憎汚穢之物拋在你身上、辱沒你、爲衆目所觀。
I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle.
7
凡看見你的、都必逃跑離開你、說、尼尼微荒涼了．有誰爲你悲傷呢．我何處尋得安慰你的人呢。
It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, ‘Nineveh is laid waste! Who will mourn for her?’ Where will I seek comforters for you?”
8
你豈比挪亞們強呢．挪亞們坐落在衆河之間、周圍有水．海作他的濠溝〈海指尼羅河〉又作他的城牆。
Are you better than No-Amon, who was situated among the rivers, who had the waters around her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea?
9
古實和埃及是他無窮的力量．弗人和路比族是他的幫手。
Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put and Libya were her helpers.
10
但他被遷移、被擄去．他的嬰孩在各市口上也被摔死．人爲他的尊貴人拈鬮．他所有的大人、都被鍊子鎖着。
Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
11
你也必喝醉、必被埋藏．並因仇敵的緣故尋求避難所。
You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy.
12
你一切保障必像無花果樹上初熟的無花果．若一搖撼、就落在想喫之人的口中。
All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs: if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.
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。
Behold, your troops among you are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.
14
你要打水豫備受困．要堅固你的保障．踹土和泥、修補磚窰。
Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.
15
在那裏火必燒滅你．刀必殺戮你、吞滅你如同蝻子．任你加增人數多如蝻子、多如蝗蟲罷。
There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.
16
你增添商賈、多過天上的星．蝻子喫盡而去。
You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.
17
你的首領多如蝗蟲、你的軍長彷彿成羣的螞蚱、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。
Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun appears, they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
18
亞述王阿、你的牧人睡覺、你的貴胄安歇．你的人民散在山間、無人招聚。
Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them.
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。
There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you; for who hasn’t felt your endless cruelty?