1行惡的人劫運難逃那些制定奸惡律例的，和那些記錄詭詐判語的，有禍了！
1Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees;
2他們想藉此屈枉窮乏人的公義，剝奪我子民中困苦人的權利，使寡婦作了他們的掠物，使孤兒作了他們的擄物。
2to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
3到降罰的日子，有災禍從遠方來到，那時你們要怎樣行呢？你們可以向誰逃奔求助呢？你們可以把你們的財寶撇在哪裡呢？
3What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
4你們只能屈身在被擄的人中間，或是仆倒在被殺的人中間。雖然這樣，耶和華的怒氣還沒有轉消，他的手仍然伸出。
4They will only bow down under the prisoners, and will fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
5亞述是 神懲治子民的工具亞述啊！我怒氣的棍子，有禍了。他們手中拿著我忿怒的杖。
5Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!
6我要差派他去攻擊一個不敬虔的國，吩咐他去攻擊我惱怒的子民，擄去掠物，搶奪擄物，把他們踐踏，像街上的泥土一樣。
6I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me will I give him a command to take the spoil and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
7但亞述並沒有這樣想過，他心裡也沒有這樣打算；他心裡倒想毀滅、剪除多國。
7However he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.
8因為他說：“在我手下的眾領袖不都是王嗎？
8For he says, “Aren’t all of my princes kings?
9迦勒挪不是像迦基米施嗎？哈瑪不是像亞珥拔嗎？撒瑪利亞不是像大馬士革嗎？
9Isn’t Calno like Carchemish? Isn’t Hamath like Arpad? Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?”
10我的手伸展到這些充滿偶像的國，他們雕刻的像比耶路撒冷和撒瑪利亞的還多。
10As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images exceeded those of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
11我怎樣對待撒瑪利亞和其中的偶像，不也照樣對待耶路撒冷和其中的偶像嗎？”
11shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
12 神懲罰亞述主在錫安山和耶路撒冷成全了他一切工作的時候，他必說：我要懲罰亞述王自大的心所結的果子，和他眼目高傲的態度。
12Therefore it will happen that, when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his haughty looks.
13因為他說：“我靠著我手的能力和我的智慧行事，因為我很聰明；我挪移了列國的地界，搶奪了他們積蓄的財寶，並且我像個勇士般使他們的居民全都俯伏下來。
13For he has said, “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers.
14我的手伸到列國的財寶那裡，好像抓到鳥窩一樣；我取得了全地，好像人拾起被棄的雀蛋；沒有動翅膀的，沒有張嘴的，也沒有鳴叫的。”
14My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, have I gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped.”
15斧頭怎可以向用斧頭砍木的人自誇呢？鋸子怎可以向拉鋸的人自大呢？好比棍能揮動那舉起棍的，又好比杖舉起那不是木頭的。
15Should an axe brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.
16因此，主萬軍之耶和華必打發令人消瘦的病臨到亞述王肥壯的軍人中間，在他的榮耀之下必燃起火燄，如同火燒一樣。
16Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory a burning will be kindled like the burning of fire.
17以色列的光必變成火，他的聖者必成為火燄；在一日之間把亞述王的荊棘和蒺藜焚燒與吞滅。
17The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.
18又把他樹林和豐盛果園的榮美全部滅盡，好像一個患病的人漸漸虛弱一樣。
18He will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body. It will be as when a standard bearer faints.
19他林中剩下的樹，數目必定稀少，連小孩子也能把它們的數目寫下來。
19The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child could write their number.
20餘民必獲救脫離亞述的軛到那日，以色列的餘民和雅各家逃脫的人，必不再倚靠那擊打他們的，卻要誠實地倚靠耶和華以色列的聖者。
20It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, and those who have escaped from the house of Jacob will no more again lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
21那些餘民，就是雅各家的餘民，必回轉歸向大能的 神。
21A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.
22以色列啊！你的人民雖然像海沙那樣多，卻只有餘剩的人可以歸回，因為滅絕的事已經定了，公義必如洪水氾濫。
22For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.
23主萬軍之耶和華必在全地之中，作成已定的毀滅之事。
23For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will make a full end, and that determined, in the midst of all the earth.
24因此，主萬軍之耶和華這樣說：“我的子民、錫安的居民哪！亞述人雖然用棍擊打你們，又像埃及一樣舉杖攻擊你們，你們卻不要怕他們。
24Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, says “My people who dwell in Zion, don’t be afraid of the Assyrian, though he strike you with the rod, and lift up his staff against you, as Egypt did.
25因為還有短暫的時候，我向你們發的惱怒就要完結，我的怒氣要轉向他們，使他們滅亡。”
25For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed to his destruction.”
26萬軍之耶和華必興起鞭子攻擊他們，好像在俄立磐石那裡擊殺米甸人一樣；他的杖要伸到海上，他必把杖舉起，像在埃及一樣。
26Yahweh of Armies will stir up a scourge against him, as in the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb. His rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up like he did against Egypt.
27到那日，亞述人的重壓必從你們的肩頭上挪開，他們的軛必離開你們的頸項；那軛必因肥壯的緣故折斷。
27It will happen in that day, that his burden will depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing oil.
28亞述人來到亞葉，經過米磯崙；在密抹存放軍隊行裝。
28He has come to Aiath. He has passed through Migron. At Michmash he stores his baggage.
29他們過了隘口，在迦巴住宿；拉瑪人戰兢，掃羅的基比亞人逃跑。
29They have gone over the pass. They have taken up their lodging at Geba. Ramah trembles. Gibeah of Saul has fled.
30迦琳的居民哪，高聲叫喊吧！萊煞人和可憐的亞拿突啊，留心聽吧！
30Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Listen, Laishah! You poor Anathoth!
31瑪得米那人逃跑，基柄的居民避難。
31Madmenah is a fugitive. The inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety.
32就在今日，亞述王要停留在挪伯；他要揮拳攻擊錫安居民（“居民”原文作“女子”）的山，就是耶路撒冷的山。
32This very day he will halt at Nob. He shakes his hand at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
33看哪！主萬軍之耶和華在可怕的震撼聲中，把樹枝削去；身量高的必被砍下，高大的必被伐倒。
33Behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will lop the boughs with terror. The tall will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low.
34樹林中的密叢，他必用鐵器砍下；黎巴嫩的樹木必被大能者伐倒。
34He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.