¹ 这悖逆、污秽、欺压的城有祸了！

² 他不听从命令，不领受训诲，不倚靠耶和华，不亲近他的神。

³ 他中间的首领是咆哮的狮子；他的审判官是晚上的豺狼，一点食物也不留到早晨。

⁴ 他的先知是虚浮诡诈的人；他的祭司亵渎圣所，强解律法。

⁵ 耶和华在他中间是公义的，断不做非义的事，每早晨显明他的公义，无日不然；只是不义的人不知羞耻。

⁶ 我─耶和华已经除灭列国的民；他们的城楼毁坏。我使他们的街道荒凉，以致无人经过；他们的城邑毁灭，以致无人，也无居民。

⁷ 我说：你只要敬畏我，领受训诲；如此，你的住处不致照我所拟定的除灭。只是你们从早起来就在一切事上败坏自己。

⁸ 耶和华说：你们要等候我，直到我兴起掳掠的日子；因为我已定意招聚列国，聚集列邦，将我的恼怒─就是我的烈怒都倾在他们身上。我的忿怒如火，必烧灭全地。

⁹ 那时，我必使万民用清洁的言语好求告我─耶和华的名，同心合意地事奉我。

¹⁰ 祈祷我的，就是我所分散的民（原文是女子；下同），必从古实河外来，给我献供物。

¹¹ 当那日，你必不因你一切得罪我的事自觉羞愧；因为那时我必从你中间除掉矜夸高傲之辈，你也不再於我的圣山狂傲。

¹² 我却要在你中间留下困苦贫寒的民；他们必投靠我─耶和华的名。

¹³ 以色列所剩下的人必不作罪孽，不说谎言，口中也没有诡诈的舌头；而且吃喝躺卧，无人惊吓。

¹⁴ 锡安的民哪，应当歌唱！以色列啊，应当欢呼！耶路撒冷的民哪，应当满心欢喜快乐！

¹⁵ 耶和华已经除去你的刑罚，赶出你的仇敌。以色列的王─耶和华在你中间；你必不再惧怕灾祸。

¹⁶ 当那日，必有话向耶路撒冷说：不要惧怕！锡安哪；不要手软！

¹⁷ 耶和华─你的神是施行拯救、大有能力的主。他在你中间必因你欢欣喜乐，默然爱你，且因你喜乐而欢呼。

¹⁸ 那些属你、为无大会愁烦、因你担当羞辱的，我必聚集他们。

¹⁹ 那时，我必罚办一切苦待你的人，又拯救你瘸腿的，聚集你被赶出的。那些在全地受羞辱的，我必使他们得称赞，有名声。

²⁰ 那时，我必领你们进来，聚集你们；我使你们被掳之人归回的时候，就必使你们在地上的万民中有名声，得称赞。这是耶和华说的。

¹ Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, you nation that has no shame,

² before the appointed time when the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of Yahweh comes on you, before the day of Yahweh's anger comes on you.

³ Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh's anger.

⁴ For Gaza will be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation. They will drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron will be rooted up.

⁵ Woe to the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! The word of Yahweh is against you, Canaan, the land of the Philistines. I will destroy you, that there will be no inhabitant.

⁶ The sea coast will be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks.

⁷ The coast will be for the remnant of the house of Judah. They will find pasture. In the houses of Ashkelon, they will lie down in the evening, for Yahweh, their God, will visit them, and restore them.

⁸ I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the insults of the children of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.

⁹ Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.

¹⁰ This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of Armies.

¹¹ Yahweh will be awesome to them, for he will famish all the gods of the land. Men will worship him, everyone from his place, even all the shores of the nations.

¹² You Cushites also, you will be killed by my sword.

¹³ He will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as the wilderness.

¹⁴ Herds will lie down in the midst of her, all the animals of the nations. Both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in its capitals. Their calls will echo through the windows. Desolation will be in the thresholds, for he has laid bare the cedar beams.

¹⁵ This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, "I am, and there is none besides me." How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.