Even if you escape destruction from Assyria, Egypt will conquer you, and Memphis will bury you. Nettles will take over your treasures of silver; thistles will invade your ruined homes.

看哪，他们逃避灾难；埃及人必收殓他们的尸首，摩弗人必葬埋他们的骸骨。他们用银子做的美物上必长蒺藜；他们的帐棚中必生荆棘。

看哪，他们要逃避灾难；埃及人要收殓他们，摩弗人要埋葬他们。蒺藜盘踞他们贵重的银器，荆棘必占据他们的帐棚。

看哪，他们要逃避灾难；埃及人要收殓他们，摩弗人要埋葬他们。蒺藜盘踞他们贵重的银器，荆棘必占据他们的帐棚。

即使你们逃脱毁灭之灾，埃及人也要把你们聚集起来，在摩弗埋葬你们。你们的珍贵银器要散落在荆棘中，你们的帐篷中要长满蒺藜。

看哪！即使他们从毁灭中逃去，埃及要收殓他们，摩弗要埋葬他们。他们珍贵的银器必为蒺藜所占有，他们的帐棚必长满荆棘。

看哪，他們逃避災難；埃及人必收殮他們的屍首，摩弗人必葬埋他們的骸骨。他們用銀子做的美物上必長蒺藜；他們的帳棚中必生荊棘。

看哪，他們要逃避災難；埃及人要收殮他們，摩弗人要埋葬他們。蒺藜盤踞他們貴重的銀器，荊棘必佔據他們的帳棚。

看哪，他們要逃避災難；埃及人要收殮他們，摩弗人要埋葬他們。蒺藜盤踞他們貴重的銀器，荊棘必佔據他們的帳棚。

即使你們逃脫毀滅之災，埃及人也要把你們聚集起來，在摩弗埋葬你們。你們的珍貴銀器要散落在荊棘中，你們的帳篷中要長滿蒺藜。

看哪！即使他們從毀滅中逃去，埃及要收殮他們，摩弗要埋葬他們。他們珍貴的銀器必為蒺藜所佔有，他們的帳棚必長滿荊棘。

因為你看，他們雖往亞述去，埃及卻要把他們收拾掉；孟斐斯人必埋葬他們；他們的銀製寶物蕁麻必佔據；他們帳棚中必生長荊棘。

彼眾逃避滅亡、埃及將殮之、摩弗將瘞之、其嘉美之銀器、將為蒺藜所據、其帳幕中荊棘叢生、

斯民遠往、以避災害、瘞其尸者、埃及人、葬其骨者、摩弗人、昔以金置田廬、藉以娛目、迄今草萊蔓延、荊棘叢生、

斯民逃避災害、伊及人殮其屍、摩弗人埋其骸、彼以銀得室可悅、或作彼用銀置購華室必長蒺藜、其幕中必生荊棘、

Even if they escape from destruction, Egypt will gather them, and Memphis will bury them. Their treasures of silver will be taken over by briers, and thorns will overrun their tents.

Some of you will escape without being destroyed. But you will die in Egypt. Your bodies will be buried at Memphis. Weeds will cover your treasures of silver. Thorns will grow up in your tents.

For behold, they are going away from destruction; but Egypt shall gather them; Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess their precious things of silver; thorns shall be in their tents.

For even if they flee from devastation, Egypt will gather them, and Memphis will bury them. Thistles will take possession of their precious silver; thorns will invade their tents.

For behold, they will be gone because of destruction; Egypt will gather them together, Memphis will bury them. Weeds will take possession of their treasures of silver; Thorns will be in their tents.

For indeed they are gone because of destruction. Egypt shall gather them up; Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess their valuables of silver; Thorns shall be in their tents.

For, lo, they are gone away from destruction; yet Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them; their pleasant things of silver, nettles shall possess them; thorns shall be in their tents.

For even if they flee from devastation, Egypt will gather them, and Memphis will bury them. Thistles will take possession of their precious silver; thorns will invade their tents.

For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant[ places] for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns[ shall be] in their tabernacles.

Look! Even if they flee from the destruction, Egypt will take hold of them, and Memphis will bury them. The weeds will inherit the silver they treasure– thorn bushes will occupy their homes.

For, behold, they have gone away from destruction. Egypt will gather them up. Memphis will bury them. Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver. Thorns will be in their tents.

And the pagan shrines of Aven, the place of Israel’s sin, will crumble. Thorns and thistles will grow up around their altars. They will beg the mountains,“ Bury us!” and plead with the hills,“ Fall on us!”

I will make it a wild place where the vines are not pruned and the ground is not hoed, a place overgrown with briers and thorns. I will command the clouds to drop no rain on it.

You may no longer stay here in the Lord’s land. Instead, you will return to Egypt, and in Assyria you will eat food that is ceremonially unclean.

In that day the lush vineyards, now worth 1,000 pieces of silver, will become patches of briers and thorns.

The people love to offer sacrifices to me, feasting on the meat, but I do not accept their sacrifices. I will hold my people accountable for their sins, and I will punish them. They will return to Egypt.

They look everywhere except to the Most High. They are as useless as a crooked bow. Their leaders will be killed by their enemies because of their insolence toward me. Then the people of Egypt will laugh at them.

For your land will be overgrown with thorns and briers. Your joyful homes and happy towns will be gone.

“ What sorrow awaits those who have deserted me! Let them die, for they have rebelled against me. I wanted to redeem them, but they have told lies about me.

Like a flock of birds, they will come from Egypt. Trembling like doves, they will return from Assyria. And I will bring them home again,” says the Lord.

Yet the time will come when the Lord will gather them together like handpicked grain. One by one he will gather them— from the Euphrates River in the east to the Brook of Egypt in the west.

He turns the fruitful land into salty wastelands, because of the wickedness of those who live there.

I will bring them back from Egypt and gather them from Assyria. I will resettle them in Gilead and Lebanon until there is no more room for them all.They will pass safely through the sea of distress, for the waves of the sea will be held back, and the waters of the Nile will dry up. The pride of Assyria will be crushed, and the rule of Egypt will end.

I saw that it was overgrown with nettles. It was covered with weeds, and its walls were broken down.

“ Just as the Lord has found great pleasure in causing you to prosper and multiply, the Lord will find pleasure in destroying you. You will be torn from the land you are about to enter and occupy.For the Lord will scatter you among all the nations from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship foreign gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods made of wood and stone!

Thorns will overrun its palaces; nettles and thistles will grow in its forts. The ruins will become a haunt for jackals and a home for owls.

Finally, Jehoahaz’s army was reduced to 50 charioteers, 10 chariots, and 10,000 foot soldiers. The king of Aram had killed the others, trampling them like dust under his feet.

The men of Israel saw what a tight spot they were in; and because they were hard pressed by the enemy, they tried to hide in caves, thickets, rocks, holes, and cisterns.

The officials of Zoan are fools, and the officials of Memphis are deluded. The leaders of the people have led Egypt astray.

In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to bring back the remnant of his people— those who remain in Assyria and northern Egypt; in southern Egypt, Ethiopia, and Elam; in Babylonia, Hamath, and all the distant coastlands.