鸿2:1 尼尼微啊！那分散邦国的必上来攻击你，你要固守堡垒，严防要道，束紧你的腰，大大增强你的力量。（本节在《马索拉抄本》为2:2）
鸿2:1 A crusher has come up before your face: keep a good look-out, let the way be watched, make yourself strong, let your power be greatly increased.
鸿2:2 然而，耶和华必恢复雅各的光荣，好像以色列的光荣一样；因为劫掠的人曾把他们劫掠一空，又把他们的葡萄枝子毁坏了。
鸿2:2 For the Lord will make good the vine of Jacob, as well as the vine of Israel: for the wasters have made them waste and sent destruction on the branches of their vine.
鸿2:3 他勇士的盾牌是红的，战士的衣服是朱红的。在他预备出击的时候，战车的钢铁闪烁如火，骑兵疾驰。
鸿2:3 The body-covers of his fighting men have been made red, the men of war are clothed in bright red: the war-carriages are like flames of fire in the day when he gets ready, the horses are shaking.
鸿2:4 战车在街上狂奔，在广场上东奔西驰；它们看起来像火把，跑起来像闪电。
鸿2:4 The war-carriages are rushing through the streets, pushing against one another in the wide ways, looking like burning lights, running like thunder-flames.
鸿2:5 亚述王召集他的权臣，他们碰碰跌跌而来，急急忙忙走上城墙，竖起了防御的挡牌。
鸿2:5 He takes the record of his great men: they go falling on their way; they go quickly to the wall, the cover is made ready.
鸿2:6 河闸都被打开，宫殿也给摧毁了。
鸿2:6 The river doorways are forced open, and the king's house is flowing away.
鸿2:7 王后赤身被掳去；她的宫女都哀哭，声如鸽子，各人搥胸痛哭。
鸿2:7 And the queen is uncovered, she is taken away and her servant-girls are weeping like the sound of doves, hammering on their breasts.
鸿2:8 自古以来，尼尼微一直都像个水池，池水不断流出；虽然有人呼叫：“止住！止住！”却没有回转的。
鸿2:8 But Nineveh is like a pool of water whose waters are flowing away; Keep your place, they say; but no one is turning back.
鸿2:9 你们劫掠银子，抢夺金子吧！积蓄的财宝无穷无尽，珍贵的器皿不可胜数。
鸿2:9 Take silver, take gold; for there is no end to the store; take for yourselves a weight of things to be desired.
鸿2:10 现在却空虚、荒凉，一无所有；人心惊惶，两膝发抖，全身疼痛，面无血色。
鸿2:10 Everything has been taken from her, all is gone, she has nothing more: the heart is turned to water, the knees are shaking, all are twisted in pain, and colour has gone from all faces.
鸿2:11 狮子的洞穴在哪里？喂养幼狮的地方在哪里？公狮、母狮和幼狮不受惊吓之处，可以闲游的地方又在哪里呢？
鸿2:11 Where is the lions' hole, the place where the young lions got their food, where the lion and the she-lion were walking with their young, without cause for fear?
鸿2:12 公狮为幼狮撕碎足够的食物，为母狮掐死活物；把猎物塞满了牠的洞，把撕碎的填满了牠的穴。
鸿2:12 Food enough for his young and for his she-lions was pulled down by the lion; his hole was full of flesh and his resting-place stored with meat.
鸿2:13 万军之耶和华说：看哪！我必攻击你，我要把你的战车焚烧成烟，刀剑必吞灭你的幼狮；我必从地上除去你的猎物，你使者的声音也必不再有人听见。
鸿2:13 See, I am against you, says the Lord of armies, and I will have your war-carriages burned in the smoke, and your young lions will be food for the sword: you will no longer get your food by force on the earth, and the voice of your she-lions will be stopped for ever.