Seek the Lord, all you humble of the earth; work justice and seek righteousness, and answer with these things, so that you may be sheltered in the day of the Lord's wrath.
Woe to you who inhabit the measured land by the sea, you sojourners of the Cretans! The word of the Lord is against you: Canaan, land of the Philistines, I will destroy you so that no one dwells there.
2:6
καὶἔσταιΚρήτηνομὴποιμνίωνκαὶμάνδραπροβάτων
克里特必成為牧放羊群之地,成為羊圈。
And Crete shall become a pasture for flocks and a fold for sheep.
And the coastland by the sea shall belong to the remnant of the house of Judah; on it they shall pasture, and in the evening they shall rest in the houses of Ascalon, away from before the sons of Judah, for the Lord their God has visited them and has turned back their captivity.
I have heard the reproaches of Moab and the revilings of the sons of Ammon, with which they reproached my people and magnified themselves against my borders.
Therefore, as I live, says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall be like Sodom and the sons of Ammon like Gomorrah, and Damascus left like a heap on a threshing floor and obliterated forever; and the remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the remnant of my nation shall inherit them.
The Lord shall appear against them and shall utterly destroy all the gods of the nations of the earth; and they shall worship him, each from his own place, all the islands of the nations.
2:12
καὶὑμεῖςΑἰθίοπεςτραυματίαιῥομφαίαςμούἐστε
衣索匹亞人哪,你們也是被我刀劍所殺的。
And you Ethiopians, you are the slain of my sword.
And flocks shall pasture in her midst, and all the wild animals of the land; chameleons and hedgehogs shall lodge in her coffered ceilings, and wild beasts shall cry out in her breaches, and ravens in her gateways; for the cedar is her lofty structure.
This is the scornful city that dwelt securely, that said in her heart, 'I am, and there is no other besides me.' How she has become a desolation, a pasture for wild beasts! Everyone who passes through her will hiss and shake his hands.