But hail will level the forest, and the city will sink into the depths.

（但要降冰雹打倒树林；城必全然拆平。）

虽有冰雹击倒树林，城也夷为平地；

虽有冰雹击倒树林，城也夷为平地；

但冰雹必扫平森林，荡平城邑。

但在敌人的国土中，必有冰雹降下，打倒他们的树林，他们的城必被夷平。

尽管冰雹降下击倒森林、城邑彻底败落，

（但要降冰雹打倒樹林；城必全然拆平。）

雖有冰雹擊倒樹林，城也夷為平地；

雖有冰雹擊倒樹林，城也夷為平地；

但冰雹必掃平森林，蕩平城邑。

但在敵人的國土中，必有冰雹降下，打倒他們的樹林，他們的城必被夷平。

雖則樹林都完全倒下來，京城都全毁為平地。

儘管冰雹降下擊倒森林、城邑徹底敗落，

維彼叢林、必雨雹而摧之、維彼城邑、必盡毀而下之、

維彼林木、必遭雹擊、惟彼城垣、必至傾圮。

先必降雹、擊折樹林、城必傾塌、陷於漥處、

Though hail flattens the forest and the city is leveled completely,

Hail might strip the forests bare. Cities might be completely destroyed.

And it will hail when the forest falls down, and the city will be utterly laid low.

Even if the forest should be destroyed and the city torn down,

But hail will level the forest, and the city will sink into the depths.

And it will hail when the forest comes down, And the city will be utterly laid low.

Though hail comes down on the forest, And the city is brought low in humiliation.

But it shall hail in the downfall of the forest; and the city shall be utterly laid low.

When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.

Even if the forest is destroyed and the city is annihilated,

though hail flattens the forest, and the city is leveled completely.

And I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the mason’s level.” Hail will sweep away the false refuge, and water will flood your hiding place.

Look, the Lord has a strong and mighty one— like a devastating hail storm, like a storm with strong flooding waters. He will bring it across the land with His hand.

For He has humbled those who live in lofty places— an inaccessible city. He brings it down; He brings it down to the ground; He throws it to the dust.

And the Lord will make the splendor of His voice heard and reveal His arm striking in angry wrath and a flame of consuming fire, in driving rain, a torrent, and hailstones.

Wail, cypress, for the cedar has fallen; the glorious trees are destroyed! Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the stately forest has fallen!

Tomorrow at this time I will rain down the worst hail that has ever occurred in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.Therefore give orders to bring your livestock and all that you have in the field into shelters. Every person and animal that is in the field and not brought inside will die when the hail falls on them.”Those among Pharaoh’s officials who feared the word of the Lord made their servants and livestock flee to shelters,but those who didn’t take the Lord’s word seriously left their servants and livestock in the field.Then the Lord said to Moses,“ Stretch out your hand toward heaven and let there be hail throughout the land of Egypt— on man and beast and every plant of the field in the land of Egypt.”So Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the Lord sent thunder and hail. Lightning struck the earth, and the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt.The hail, with lightning flashing through it, was so severe that nothing like it had occurred in the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.Throughout the land of Egypt, the hail struck down everything in the field, both man and beast. The hail beat down every plant of the field and shattered every tree in the field.The only place it didn’t hail was in the land of Goshen where the Israelites were.

For You have been a stronghold for the poor, a stronghold for the needy person in his distress, a refuge from the rain, a shade from the heat. When the breath of the violent is like rain against a wall,

“ I will rise up against them”— this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts—“ and I will cut off from Babylon her reputation, remnant, offspring, and posterity”— this is the Lord’s declaration.“ I will make her a swampland and a region for screech owls, and I will sweep her away with a broom of destruction.” This is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts.

therefore, tell those who plaster it that it will fall. Torrential rain will come, and I will send hailstones plunging down, and a windstorm will be released.Now when the wall has fallen, will you not be asked,‘ Where is the coat of whitewash that you put on it?’“ So this is what the Lord God says: I will release a windstorm in My wrath. Torrential rain will come in My anger, and hailstones will fall in destructive fury.

The rain fell, the rivers rose, and the winds blew and pounded that house. Yet it didn’t collapse, because its foundation was on the rock.

You have mocked the Lord through your servants. You have said,“ With my many chariots I have gone up to the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon. I cut down its tallest cedars, its choice cypress trees. I came to its distant heights, its densest forest.

The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.

For the fortified city will be deserted, pastures abandoned and forsaken like a wilderness. Calves will graze there, and there they will spread out and strip its branches.

The oracle concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

The first angel blew his trumpet, and hail and fire, mixed with blood, were hurled to the earth. So a third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.

But He will completely destroy Nineveh with an overwhelming flood, and He will chase His enemies into darkness.

Desolation, decimation, devastation! Hearts melt, knees tremble, loins shake, every face grows pale!Where is the lions’ lair, or the feeding ground of the young lions, where the lion and lioness prowled, and the lion’s cub, with nothing to frighten them away?The lion mauled whatever its cubs needed and strangled prey for its lionesses. It filled up its dens with the kill, and its lairs with mauled prey.Beware, I am against you. This is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts. I will make your chariots go up in smoke and the sword will devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the sound of your messengers will never be heard again.

The remaining trees of its forest will be so few in number that a child could count them.

Then a mighty angel picked up a stone like a large millstone and threw it into the sea, saying: In this way, Babylon the great city will be thrown down violently and never be found again.