You dismiss any thought of the evil day and bring in a reign of violence.

你们以为降祸的日子还远，坐在位上尽行强暴。

你们以为降祸的日子尚远，却使残暴的统治临近。

你们以为降祸的日子尚远，却使残暴的统治临近。

你们以为灾难的日子离得还远，就大肆施行暴政。

你们认为灾祸的日子离开很远，你们的行为却招致残暴的审判。

你們以為降禍的日子還遠，坐在位上盡行強暴。

你們以為降禍的日子尚遠，卻使殘暴的統治臨近。

你們以為降禍的日子尚遠，卻使殘暴的統治臨近。

你們以為災難的日子離得還遠，就大肆施行暴政。

你們認為災禍的日子離開很遠，你們的行為卻招致殘暴的審判。

有禍啊那些擅自把災禍之日推遠，反把強暴之座位挪近的！

爾以為患難之日遙遠、致暴虐之位速設、

居位之人、所行暴虐、以為報應之理、甚屬茫昧、

爾曹以為降罰之日尚遠、且居於位行強暴、且居於位行強暴原文作使強暴之位相近

You put off the day of disaster and bring near a reign of terror.

You are trying to avoid the time when trouble will come. But you are only bringing closer the Assyrian rule of terror.

O you who put far away the day of disaster and bring near the seat of violence?

You push away every thought of coming disaster, but your actions only bring the day of judgment closer.

Are you postponing the day of disaster, And would you bring near the seat of violence?

Woe to you who put far off the day of doom, Who cause the seat of violence to come near;

— ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;

You dismiss any thought of the evil day and bring in a reign of violence.

Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;

You refuse to believe a day of disaster will come, but you establish a reign of violence.

Those who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;

All the sinners among my people who say,“ Disaster will never overtake or confront us,” will die by the sword.

“ Come, let me get some wine, let’s guzzle some beer; and tomorrow will be like today, only far better!”

“ Son of man, notice that the house of Israel is saying,‘ The vision that he sees concerns many years from now; he prophesies about distant times.’

saying,“ Where is his‘ coming’ that he promised? Ever since our ancestors fell asleep, all things continue as they have been since the beginning of creation.”

When they say,“ Peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

“ Son of man, what is this proverb you people have about the land of Israel, which goes,‘ The days keep passing by, and every vision fails’?

But if that wicked servant says in his heart,‘ My master is delayed,’

The people are incapable of doing right— this is the LORD’s declaration— those who store up violence and destruction in their citadels.

For I know your crimes are many and your sins innumerable. They oppress the righteous, take a bribe, and deprive the poor of justice at the city gates.

Woe to you who long for the day of the LORD! What will the day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light.

Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does anyone plow there with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—

for in a single hour such fabulous wealth was destroyed! And every shipmaster, seafarer, the sailors, and all who do business by sea, stood far off

Because the sentence against an evil act is not carried out quickly, the heart of people is filled with the desire to commit evil.

Can a corrupt throne be your ally, a throne that makes evil laws?

You said,‘ I will be the queen forever.’ You did not take these things to heart or think about their outcome.