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

（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.

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

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

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

I will make justice the measuring line, fairness the plumb line; hail will sweep away the unreliable refuge, the floodwaters will overwhelm the hiding place.

Look, the sovereign master sends a strong, powerful one. With the force of a hailstorm or a destructive windstorm, with the might of a driving, torrential rainstorm, he will knock that crown to the ground with his hand.

Indeed, the LORD knocks down those who live in a high place, he brings down an elevated town; he brings it down to the ground, he throws it down to the dust.

The LORD will give a mighty shout and intervene in power, with furious anger and flaming, destructive fire, with a driving rainstorm and hailstones.

Howl, fir tree, because the cedar has fallen; the majestic trees have been destroyed. Howl, oaks of Bashan, because the impenetrable forest has fallen.

I am going to cause very severe hail to rain down about this time tomorrow, such hail as has never occurred in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.So now, send instructions to gather your livestock and all your possessions in the fields to a safe place. Every person or animal caught in the field and not brought into the house– the hail will come down on them, and they will die!”’”Those of Pharaoh’s servants who feared the word of the LORD hurried to bring their servants and livestock into the houses,but those who did not take the word of the LORD seriously left their servants and their cattle in the field.Then the LORD said to Moses,“ Extend your hand toward the sky that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on people and on animals, and on everything that grows in the field in the land of Egypt.”When Moses extended his staff toward the sky, the LORD sent thunder and hail, and fire fell to the earth; so the LORD caused hail to rain down on the land of Egypt.Hail fell and fire mingled with the hail; the hail was so severe that there had not been any like it in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.The hail struck everything in the open fields, both people and animals, throughout all the land of Egypt. The hail struck everything that grows in the field, and it broke all the trees of the field to pieces.Only in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites lived, was there no hail.

For you are a protector for the poor, a protector for the needy in their distress, a shelter from the rainstorm, a shade from the heat. Though the breath of tyrants is like a winter rainstorm,

“ I will rise up against them,” says the LORD who commands armies.“ I will blot out all remembrance of Babylon and destroy all her people, including the offspring she produces,” says the LORD.“ I will turn her into a place that is overrun with wild animals and covered with pools of stagnant water. I will get rid of her, just as one sweeps away dirt with a broom,” says the LORD who commands armies.

Tell the ones who coat it with whitewash that it will fall. When there is a deluge of rain, hailstones will fall and a violent wind will break out.When the wall has collapsed, people will ask you,“ Where is the whitewash you coated it with?”“‘ Therefore this is what the sovereign LORD says: In my rage I will make a violent wind break out. In my anger there will be a deluge of rain and hailstones in destructive fury.

The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, but it did not collapse because it had been founded on rock.

Through your messengers you taunted the sovereign master,‘ With my many chariots I climbed up the high mountains, the slopes of Lebanon. I cut down its tall cedars and its best evergreens. I invaded its most remote regions, its thickest woods.

The ruined town is shattered; all of the houses are shut up tight.

For the fortified city is left alone; it is a deserted settlement and abandoned like the desert. Calves graze there; they lie down there and eat its branches bare.

The oracle against Nineveh; the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite:

The first angel blew his trumpet, and there was hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was thrown at the earth so that 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 with an overwhelming flood he will make a complete end of Nineveh; he will drive his enemies into darkness.

Destruction, devastation, and desolation! Their hearts faint, their knees tremble, each stomach churns, each face turns pale!Where now is the den of the lions, the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion, lioness, and lion cub once prowled and no one disturbed them?The lion tore apart as much prey as his cubs needed and strangled prey to provide food for his lionesses; he filled his lairs with prey and his dens with torn flesh.“ I am against you!” declares the LORD who commands armies:“ I will burn your chariots with fire; the sword will devour your young lions; you will no longer prey upon the land; the voices of your messengers will no longer be heard.”

There will be so few trees left in his forest, a child will be able to count them.

Then one powerful angel picked up a stone like a huge millstone, threw it into the sea, and said,“ With this kind of sudden violent force Babylon the great city will be thrown down and it will never be found again!