3:1 祸哉!血债的城，满城欺诈，处处劫掠，抢夺不息。
Woe to the bloody city, all lies, full of plunder, whose looting never stops! 3:2 听皮鞭飕飕，车轮隆隆，战马奔驰，战车疾驶，
The crack of the whip, the rumbling sounds of wheels; horses a-gallop, chariots bounding, 3:3 骑士跃马，刀剑晃亮，枪矛闪辉，被杀者众，死者成堆，尸体无边，人人为尸体绊倒：
Cavalry charging, The flame of the sword, the flash of the spear, the many slain, the heaping corpses, the endless bodies to stumble upon! 3:4 这都是因那娇艳妖冶的淫妇，行妖术的女巫的许多淫行所致。她以淫荡欺骗了列邦，用妖术迷惑了万民。
For the many debaucheries of the harlot, fair and charming, a mistress of witchcraft, Who enslaved nations with her harlotries, and peoples by her witchcraft: 3:5 看，我必攻击你，──万军上主的断语──我必将你的衣裙掀到你的脸上，使万民见到你的裸体，使列邦看到你的耻辱：
I am come against you, and I will strip your skirt from you; I will show your nakedness to the nations, to the kingdoms your shame! 3:6 我必要将粪溺拋在你身上侮辱你，使你成为鉴戒。
I will cast filth upon you, disgrace you and put you to shame; 3:7 凡看见你的，必逃避你说：「尼尼微终于毁灭了!」谁会向你表同情﹖我从哪里能找到安慰她的人﹖
Till everyone who sees you runs from you, saying, "Nineveh is destroyed; who can pity her? Where can one find any to console her?" 3:8 你那里能胜过那位于尼罗河上，四面环水的诺阿孟？她有海为屏障，有水为垣墙；
Are you better than No-amon that was set among the streams, Surrounded by waters, with the flood for her rampart and water her wall? 3:9 雇士和埃及是她的力量，力大无穷；普特和利比亚是她的助手；
Ethiopia was her strength, and Egypt, and others without end; Put and the Libyans were her auxiliaries. 3:10 但是她也被掳去，充当俘虏，她的婴儿也在各街头被摔死，人抽签分配她的贵族，用铁链缚住她的缙绅。
Yet even she went captive into exile, even her little ones were dashed to pieces at the corner of every street; For her nobles they cast lots, and all her great men were put into chains. 3:11 你也要这样被攻破而消失，你也要找一个安全处为逃避仇敌。
You too, shall drink of this till you faint away; you, too, shall seek a refuge from the foe. 3:12 你的一切堡垒好象早熟的无花果树，人一摇动，就落在食者的口里。
All your fortresses are but fig trees, bearing early figs That fall, when shaken, into the hungry mouth. 3:13 看哪!在你中间的百姓都是妇女，你境内的门已为你的敌人敞开，火已烧毁了你的门闩。
See, the troops are women in your midst; to your foes the gates of your land are open wide, fire has consumed their bars. 3:14 你应吸水防备围困，应巩固你的堡垒，踏黏土，踩胶泥，紧握砖型。
Draw water for the siege, strengthen your fortresses; Go down into the mud and tread the clay, take hold of the brick mold! 3:15 火要在那里烧灭你，刀剑要歼灭你，[把你吞食有如蚱蜢。]你尽可增多你的人数有如蚱蜢，多如飞蝗；
There the fire shall consume you, the sword shall cut you down. Multiply like the grasshoppers, multiply like the locusts! 3:16 增加你的商贾，多过天上的星辰!──蚱蜢一脱壳就飞去了。
Make your couriers more numerous than the stars, 3:17 你的守卫正如蝗虫，你的官吏正像一群蚱蜢；冷天蛰伏在墙上，但太阳一升起，就飞去了，没有人知道它们究在何处。
your garrisons as many as grasshoppers, And your scribes as locust swarms gathered on the rubble fences on a cold day! Yet when the sun warms them, the grasshoppers will spread their wings and fly, and vanish, no one knows where. 3:18 亚述王!你的牧者已酣睡，你的贵族已永眠，你的人民已散在各山上，无人再能聚集。
Alas! how your shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria, your nobles have gone to rest; Your people are scattered upon the mountains, with none to gather them. 3:19 你的创痍无法治疗，你的创伤是致命伤。凡听到你这消息的，都朝你鼓掌，因为有谁没有时常受过你的虐待？
There is no healing for your hurt, your wound is mortal. All who hear this news of you clap their hands over you; For who has not been overwhelmed, steadily, by your malice?