“ But now I am sending for many fishermen who will catch them,” says the Lord.“ I am sending for hunters who will hunt them down in the mountains, hills, and caves.

耶和华说：“我要召许多打鱼的把以色列人打上来，然后我要召许多打猎的，从各山上、各冈上、各石穴中猎取他们。

“看哪，我要差派许多打鱼的捕获他们；以后，我也要派许多打猎的，从各山上、各冈上、各石穴中猎取他们。这是耶和华说的。

“看哪，我要差派许多打鱼的捕获他们；以后，我也要派许多打猎的，从各山上、各冈上、各石穴中猎取他们。这是耶和华说的。

耶和华说：“看啊，我要召来许多渔夫把他们捕捞上来，我要召来许多猎人去各山岭和岩穴猎取他们。

“看哪！我要差人去叫许多渔夫来，捕捉以色列人；然后我要差人去叫许多猎人来，从各大山、小山和岩石的裂缝里，猎取他们。”这是耶和华的宣告。

耶和華說：「我要召許多打魚的把以色列人打上來，然後我要召許多打獵的，從各山上、各岡上、各石穴中獵取他們。

「看哪，我要差派許多打魚的捕獲他們；以後，我也要派許多打獵的，從各山上、各岡上、各石穴中獵取他們。這是耶和華說的。

「看哪，我要差派許多打魚的捕獲他們；以後，我也要派許多打獵的，從各山上、各岡上、各石穴中獵取他們。這是耶和華說的。

耶和華說：「看啊，我要召來許多漁夫把他們捕撈上來，我要召來許多獵人去各山嶺和岩穴獵取他們。

“看哪！我要差人去叫許多漁夫來，捕捉以色列人；然後我要差人去叫許多獵人來，從各大山、小山和巖石的裂縫裡，獵取他們。”這是耶和華的宣告。

『永恆主發神諭說：看吧，我要差人去召許多打魚的，把以色列人打上來；然後我要差人去召許多打獵的，從各山上、各岡陵上，各碞石縫兒，把他們都獵取了來。

耶和華曰、我必召眾漁人以漁之、厥後召眾獵人、自山岡磐穴以獵之、

耶和華曰、我必召眾漁人、使漁之、召眾獵夫、使獵之、出諸山岡、驅之磐穴。

主曰、我必遣漁人眾多、使漁之、後必遣獵夫眾多、使獵之、自諸嶺諸山及諸磐穴、

“ But now I will send for many fishermen,” declares the Lord,“ and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill and from the crevices of the rocks.

“ But now I will send for many fishermen,” announces the Lord.“ They will catch some of these people. After that, I will send for many hunters. They will hunt down the others on every mountain and hill. They will bring them out of the cracks in the rocks.

“ Behold, I am sending for many fishers, declares the Lord, and they shall catch them. And afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.

“ I am about to send for many fishermen”— this is the LORD’s declaration—“ and they will fish for them. Then I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill and out of the clefts of the rocks,

“ Behold, I am going to send for many fishermen,” declares the Lord,“ and they will fish for them; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain and every hill and from the clefts of the rocks.

“ Behold, I will send for many fishermen,” says the Lord,“ and they shall fish them; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith Jehovah, and they shall fish them up; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.

“ I am about to send for many fishermen”— this is the Lord’s declaration—“ and they will fish for them. Then I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill and out of the clefts of the rocks,

Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

But for now I, the LORD, say:“ I will send many enemies who will catch these people like fishermen. After that I will send others who will hunt them out like hunters from all the mountains, all the hills, and the crevices in the rocks.

“ Behold, I will send for many fishermen,” says Yahweh,“ and they will fish them up. Afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain, from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.

The Sovereign Lord has sworn this by his holiness:“ The time will come when you will be led away with hooks in your noses. Every last one of you will be dragged away like a fish on a hook!

Are we only fish to be caught and killed? Are we only sea creatures that have no leader?Must we be strung up on their hooks and caught in their nets while they rejoice and celebrate?

The godly people have all disappeared; not one honest person is left on the earth. They are all murderers, setting traps even for their own brothers.

Must I die on foreign soil, far from the presence of the Lord? Why has the king of Israel come out to search for a single flea? Why does he hunt me down like a partridge on the mountains?”

Then I saw a vision of the Lord standing beside the altar. He said,“ Strike the tops of the Temple columns, so that the foundation will shake. Bring down the roof on the heads of the people below. I will kill with the sword those who survive. No one will escape!“ Even if they dig down to the place of the dead, I will reach down and pull them up. Even if they climb up into the heavens, I will bring them down.Even if they hide at the very top of Mount Carmel, I will search them out and capture them. Even if they hide at the bottom of the ocean, I will send the sea serpent after them to bite them.

Then everyone— the kings of the earth, the rulers, the generals, the wealthy, the powerful, and every slave and free person— all hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.And they cried to the mountains and the rocks,“ Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb.For the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to survive?”

Terror and traps and snares will be your lot, you people of the earth.Those who flee in terror will fall into a trap, and those who escape the trap will be caught in a snare. Destruction falls like rain from the heavens; the foundations of the earth shake.

Look, my father, at what I have in my hand. It is a piece of the hem of your robe! I cut it off, but I didn’t kill you. This proves that I am not trying to harm you and that I have not sinned against you, even though you have been hunting for me to kill me.

I will gather together all the armies of the north under King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, whom I have appointed as my deputy. I will bring them all against this land and its people and against the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy you and make you an object of horror and contempt and a ruin forever.

In that day you will be like a man who runs from a lion— only to meet a bear. Escaping from the bear, he leans his hand against a wall in his house— and he’s bitten by a snake.

That night two people will be asleep in one bed; one will be taken, the other left.Two women will be grinding flour together at the mill; one will be taken, the other left.”

Since he was the greatest hunter in the world, his name became proverbial. People would say,“ This man is like Nimrod, the greatest hunter in the world.”