“当耶路撒冷和四围的城邑有居民，正兴盛，南地高原有人居住的时候，耶和华借从前的先知所宣告的话，你们不当听吗？”

Should ye not hear the words which the LORD hath cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, when men inhabited the south and the plain?

耶和华必伸手攻击北方，毁灭亚述，使尼尼微荒凉，又干旱如旷野。

And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.

田野的走兽啊！不要惧怕；因为旷野的草发生，树木结果，无花果树、葡萄树，也都效力。

Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength.

田野的走兽向你发喘，因为溪水干涸，火也烧灭旷野的草场。

The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

他的城邑，变为荒场、旱地、沙漠，无人居住，无人经过之地。

Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.