14:4 快往玛待去,因为我确信天主借纳鸿先知论尼尼微所说的话,必要应验,临于亚述国和尼尼微城。凡天主遣发到以色列的先知所说的一切,也要来临,其中一字也不能删去,必要一一按时应验;只有在玛待比在亚述和巴比伦更为安全,因为我知道,并确信天主所说的一切,必要成就应验;预言中一句也不会落空。但是,我那些住在以色列地的同胞也要被驱逐,并从福地里被掳去;以色列全地必要荒芜,撤玛黎雅和耶路撒冷也要变成荒地,天主的殿宇也要被烧毁,变成灰烬,直到某一时期。
and flee into Media, for I believe God’s word which was spoken by Nahum against Nineveh. It shall all happen, and shall overtake Assyria and Nineveh; indeed, whatever was said by Israel’s prophets, whom God commissioned, shall occur. Not one of all the oracles shall remain unfulfilled, but everything shall take place in the time appointed for it. So it will be safer in Media than in Assyria or Babylon. For I know and believe that whatever God has spoken will be accomplished. It shall happen, and not a single word of the prophecies shall prove false. "As for our kinsmen who dwell in Israel, they shall all be scattered and led away into exile from the Good Land. The entire country of Israel shall become desolate; even Samaria and Jerusalem shall become desolate! God’s temple there shall be burnt to the ground and shall be desolate for a while.