So it seems that humankind is to be destroyed because they irritate the gods with their tumult and noise.

这似乎是人类被毁灭的愿意,因为人类的噪杂惹怒了众神。

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And he's going to have to rectify the circumstances that made his destruction of the earth necessary in the first place.

他不得不修正,他认为有必要毁灭人类的情形。

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The world dissolves. So corruption and injustice and lawlessness and violence inevitably bring about destruction.

世界将被毁灭，而人类的堕落，目无法纪,暴力成性，势必会带来这种毁灭。

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So just as there are good gods who might protect human beings there are also evil gods who seek to destroy both humans and other gods.

所以正如有保护人类的善神一样,恶神同样存在，他们力图毁灭人类和其他神灵。

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But that's thwarting the design of the god who brought the flood.

但这阻挠了神，毁灭人类的计划。

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You may think you've gotten away with something, but every act of social exploitation, every act of moral corruption, pollutes the sanctuary more and more until such time as God is driven out entirely and human society is devoured by its own viciousness and death-dealing.

犯了罪的人也许认为自己侥幸逃过一劫，然而他对所作的每一个行为，每一次的道德堕落，都会越来越玷污圣所,知道有一天上帝完全弃圣所而去,人类社会充斥着我们自身的邪恶和毁灭行为。

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