2Thus says Yahweh:
"Look, waters rise from the north;
soon they will become a raging flood
overflowing the land and all it contains,
the towns and their inhabitants.
All dwellers in the land will wail
3一聽到他駿馬的鐵蹄聲，轔轔的戰車聲，和隆隆的飛輪聲，為父親的已束手無策，不能再顧及自己的兒子，
3at the sound of the hooves of stamping steeds,
the rattle of chariots, the rumbling of wheels.
Fathers forget their children,
as their hands fall limp.
4The day of ruin has come upon the Philistines;
Tyre and Sidon, the last of their allies, are cut off from them.
Yahweh is set to destroy the Philistines,
the remnant from the coasts of Caphtor.
5迦薩已一片荒涼，阿市刻隆已遭受滅亡；阿納克人的遺民，你們要割傷己身到何時呢？
5Gaza is shaved bald,
Ashkelon has perished.
O remnant in the valley,
how long will you gash yourselves?
6唉！上主的刀劍！到何時你纔休息？請你入鞘休息安歇罷！
6O sword of Yahweh,
how long before you rest?
Return to your scabbard;
stop and keep still!
7但上主既對它出了命，它怎能休息？阿市刻隆和海濱，是他給它指向的地方。
7But how can it rest,
when it is Yahweh who commanded it
to attack Ashkelon and the seacoast?"
