耶和华说,日子将到,我必使人听见打仗的喊声,是攻击亚扪人拉巴的喊声。拉巴要成为乱堆。属她的乡村(原文作女子)要被火焚烧。先前得以色列地为业的,此时以色列倒要得他们的地为业。这是耶和华说的。
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the LORD.
希实本哪,你要哀号,因为爱地变为荒场。拉巴的居民(原文作女子)哪,要呼喊,以麻布束腰。要哭号,在篱笆中跑来跑去。因玛勒堪和属他的祭司,首领要一同被掳去。
Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.
背道的民(原文作女子)哪,你们为何因有山谷,就是水流的山谷夸张呢。为何倚靠财宝说,谁能来到我们这里呢。
Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come unto me?
万军之耶和华以色列的神如此说,巴比伦城(城原文作女子)好像踹谷的禾场。再过片时,收割她的时候就到了。
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
人子阿,你要面向本民中,从己心发预言的女子说预言,攻击她们,
Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy thou against them,
过些年后,他们必互相连合,南方王的女儿必就了北方王来立约。但这女子帮助之力存立不住,王和他所倚靠之力也不能存立。这女子和引导她来的,并生她的,以及当时扶助她的,都必交于死地。
And in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king's daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in these times.
他们见穷人头上所蒙的灰也都垂涎。阻碍谦卑人的道路。父子同一个女子行淫,亵渎我的圣名。
That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:
拉吉的居民哪,要用快马套车。锡安民(民原文作女子)的罪由你而起。以色列人的罪过在你那里显出。
O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.
你这羊群的高台,锡安城(城原文作女子)的山哪,从前的权柄,就是耶路撒冷民(民原文作女子)的国权,必归与你。
And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.
锡安的民(民原文作女子)哪,你要疼痛劬劳,彷佛产难的妇人。因为你必从城里出来,住在田野,到巴比伦去。在那里要蒙解救,在那里耶和华必救赎你脱离仇敌的手。
Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.