西番雅書 2

1 沒有廉恥的民族，在他們尚未像糠枇一樣被吹散之前，

Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation without desire [for repentance];

2 在上主的怒火尚未來到你們身上，在上主憤怒的日子尚未來到你們身上以前，你們聚首檢討吧!

Before the decree is brought forth—like the chaff the day passeth away—before yet there be come over you the fierce anger of the Lord, before yet there be come over you the day of the anger of the Lord.

3 地上所有遵守衪法律的卑微人! 你們應求上主，你們要尋求公義，要尋求謙和，也許你們在上主憤怒的日子，能藏身免禍。

Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, who have fulfilled his ordinances; seek righteousness, seek meekness: perhaps ye will be protected on the day of the Lord's anger.

4 因為茄薩將被拋棄，阿市刻隆必被剷除。

For Gazzah shall become forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolate place: Ashdod shall they drive out at the noon of day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.

5 禍哉! 沿海地帶的居民，革勒提民族! 看，這是木攻擊你們的話：培肋舍特地! 我要貶抑你，把你毀滅得再無固民!

Woe unto the inhabitants of the district by the sea, the nation of the Kerethites! the word of the Lord is against you, O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that no inhabitant shall remain.

6 沿海地帶必將成為牧的牧場，羊群的羊棧。

And the district by the sea shall become places for pens of shepherds, and folds for flocks.

7 沿海地帶必將歸於猶大家的遺民；他們將沿著海濱放羊，晚上歇息在阿市刻隆的棧房，因為上主他們的天主必看顧他們，轉變他們的境遇。

And this district shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; thereupon shall they feed their flocks: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening; for the Lord their God will think of them, and bring back their captivity.

8 我聽到了摩阿布的辱罵，阿孟子民火詆詬；他們辱罵了我的百姓，欺凌了我的領域。

I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of 'Ammon, wherewith they have reproached my people, and made themselves great against their border.

9 為此，我指著我的生命起誓──萬軍的上主，以色列天主火斷語：摩阿布必要像索多瑪，哈孟子民必要像哈摩辣，變為荊棘叢、監堆、荒野，直到永遠。我百姓的遺民要劫掠他們，我民族的殘餘，要佔領他們的產業。

Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall become like Sodom, and the children of 'Ammon like Gomorrah, overgrown with nettles, and [filled with] salt-pits, and a desolation to eternity; the residue of my people shall plunder them, and the remnant of my nation shall possess them.

10 這事要臨到他們身上，是由於他們的的傲慢，因為他們辱罵欺凌了萬軍的上主的百姓。

This shall they have in recompense for their pride; because they have reproached and made themselves great against the people of the Lord of hosts.

11 上主必要威嚴地顯示給他們，因為衪要消滅地上的一切神衹；那時異邦各笆島嶼，各從自己的地方朝拜衪。

Terrible will the Lord [appear] over them; for he will cause to vanish all the gods of the earth; and then shall prostrate themselves before him, every one from its place, all the isles of the nations.

12 連你們雇士人，也要為我的刀劍所刺透。

Also ye Ethiopians shall be those slain by my sword.

13 衪還要向北方伸出自己的手，為消滅亞述，使尼尼微化為荒地，像杪漠一樣乾旱。

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

14 牲畜和窪地所有的走獸必要臥息息其中，鵜鴣和鵁鶄也棲宿在她的柱頭間，鴟梟在窗上啼叫，烏鴉停門檻上，因為人剝去了她以香柏做的裝飾：

And there shall lie down in the midst of her flocks, all the beasts of the nations; both the pelican and the hedgehog shall lodge in the capitals of her columns; singing-birds shall sing in the windows; ruin shall be on the thresholds; for the cedar wainscoting shall be torn away.

15 這就是那享樂安居，心想「只有我，沒有別人」的城市! 她如何竟成了荒野，成了野獸的棲所! 凡由她那裏經過的人，莫不嗤笑搖手。

This is the joyful city that dwelt in security, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none else beside me: how is she become desolate, a resting-place for beasts! every one that passeth by her will hiss, and shake his hand.