1尼尼微罪有應得這流人血的城，有禍了！全城欺詐，充滿劫掠；搶奪的事總不止息。
1Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and rapine; the prey departeth not.
2鞭聲颼颼，輪聲轔轔，駿馬奔馳，戰車顛簸跳動。
2The noise of the whip, and the noise of the rattling of wheels, and prancing horses, and bounding chariots,
3騎兵騰躍衝鋒；刀劍爍爍發亮，槍矛閃閃生光；被殺的人眾多，死屍成堆；屍體無數，眾人都被屍體絆倒。
3the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, and the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies; they stumble upon their bodies;-
4都因妓女多有淫行，施邪術的美麗女巫，藉著她的淫行誘惑列國，藉著她的邪術欺騙萬族。
4because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well-favored harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
5萬軍之耶和華說：看哪！我必攻擊你；我要把你的裙子掀到你的臉上，使萬國看見你赤身露體，使列邦看見你的羞恥。
5Behold, I am against thee, saith Jehovah of hosts, and I will uncover thy skirts upon thy face; and I will show the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.
6我要把污穢可憎之物拋在你身上，侮辱你，使你成為眾人觀看的對象。
6And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing-stock.
7看見你的都必逃避你，說：“尼尼微荒涼了；有誰為她悲哀呢？”我在哪裡可以找到安慰你的人呢？
7And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?
8挪亞們作前車之鑒你比挪亞們還強嗎？挪亞們位於尼羅河流域，周圍有水環繞；海是她的屏障，水作她的牆垣。
8Art thou better than No-amon, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about her; whose rampart was the sea, [and] her wall was of the sea?
9古實和埃及，是她無窮的力量，弗人和路比族，是她的助手。
9Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
10然而她卻被遷徙，被擄去了；她的嬰孩在各街頭被摔死；人們為她的尊貴人抽籤。她所有的達官貴人都被鎖鍊捆著。
10Yet 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至於你，你必喝醉，必被隱藏；你必因仇敵的緣故，尋找避難所。
11Thou also shalt be drunken; thou shalt be hid; thou also shalt seek a stronghold because of the enemy.
12你一切堡壘，如同無花果樹上初熟的果子，若被搖撼，就必落在想吃的人口中。
12All thy fortresses shall be [like] fig-trees with the first-ripe figs: if they be shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.
13看哪！在你裡面的人都是婦女，你境內的門戶，都向仇敵敞開；你的門閂被火燒毀。
13Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women; the gates of thy land are set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire hath devoured thy bars.
14你要打水，以備圍困，鞏固你的堡壘，踹泥踏土，緊握磚模。
14Draw thee water for the siege; strengthen thy fortresses; go into the clay, and tread the mortar; make strong the brickkiln.
15在那裡火要燒滅你，刀劍要除滅你，吞吃你，好像吞吃蚱蜢一樣，你只管增多如蚱蜢，加添像蝗蟲，
15There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off; it shall devour thee like the canker-worm: make thyself many as the canker-worm; make thyself many as the locust.
16你增加了你的商人，多過天上的星辰。蚱蜢退了殼，就飛去了。
16Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the canker-worm ravageth, and fleeth away.
17你的領袖多如蝗蟲，你的軍長像一群群的螞蚱；天涼的時候，停留在籬笆上；太陽一出，就都飛走了；沒有人知道牠們在甚麼地方。
17Thy princes are as the locusts, and thy marshals as the swarms of grasshoppers, which encamp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
18哀弔亞述王亞述王啊！你的牧人睡覺，你的貴族安歇，你的子民分散在各山上，沒有人招聚他們。
18Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria; thy nobles are at rest; thy people are scattered upon the mountains, and there is none to gather them.
19你的創傷無法醫治；你受的打擊非常嚴重。聽見你這消息的，都必向你鼓掌；因為你不斷行惡，誰沒有受過害呢？
19There is no assuaging of thy hurt: thy wound is grievous: all that hear the report of thee clap their hands over thee; for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?