约珥书 1
1 耶和华的话临到毗土珥的儿子约珥。
The Lord sent a message through Joel, son of Pethuel.
2 老年人哪，当听我的话； 国中的居民哪，都要侧耳而听。 在你们的日子， 或你们列祖的日子， 曾有这样的事吗？
Listen to this, elders; pay attention, everyone who lives in the land. Has anything ever happened like this before in your experience, or that of your forefathers?
3 你们要将这事传与子， 子传与孙， 孙传与后代。
Tell your children about it, and have your children tell it to their children, and their children tell the next generation.
4 剪虫剩下的，蝗虫来吃； 蝗虫剩下的，蝻子来吃； 蝻子剩下的，蚂蚱来吃。
What the cutting locusts left, the swarming locusts have eaten; what the swarming locusts left, the hopping locusts have eaten; what the hopping locusts left, the destroying locusts have eaten.
5 酒醉的人哪，要清醒哭泣； 好酒的人哪，都要为甜酒哀号， 因为从你们的口中断绝了。
Wake up, you drunks, and weep! Howl you wine-drinkers, because the new wine has been suddenly taken away from your mouth!
6 有一队蝗虫又强盛又无数， 侵犯我的地； 它的牙齿如狮子的牙齿， 大牙如母狮的大牙。
A nation has invaded my land: powerful and too many to count. Their teeth are like lion's teeth, their fangs like those of a lioness.
7 它毁坏我的葡萄树， 剥了我无花果树的皮， 剥尽而丢弃，使枝条露白。
It has ruined my grapevines and destroyed my fig trees, stripping them completely and reducing them to stumps, white and bare.
8 我的民哪，你当哀号，像处女腰束麻布， 为幼年的丈夫哀号。
Mourn like a bride dressed in sackcloth, mourning the death of her husband-to-be.
9 素祭和奠祭从耶和华的殿中断绝； 事奉耶和华的祭司都悲哀。
Grain and wine offerings have stopped in the Temple. The priests who minister before the Lord are in mourning.
10 田荒凉，地悲哀； 因为五谷毁坏， 新酒干竭，油也缺乏。
The fields are devastated, the earth mourns; for the grain is ruined, the new wine dries up, the olive oil fails.
11 农夫啊，你们要惭愧； 修理葡萄园的啊，你们要哀号； 因为大麦小麦与田间的庄稼都灭绝了。
Be ashamed, farmers, and wail in sorrow, keepers of vineyards, over the wheat and the barley, for the crops from the fields are ruined.
12 葡萄树枯干； 无花果树衰残。 石榴树、棕树、苹果树， 连田野一切的树木也都枯干； 众人的喜乐尽都消灭。
The vines are shriveled, the fig trees are withered; the pomegranate, the palm, and the apricot trees—all the fruit trees have dried up, and at the same time the people's happiness has also dried up.
13 祭司啊，你们当腰束麻布痛哭； 伺候祭坛的啊，你们要哀号； 事奉我 神的啊，你们要来披上麻布过夜， 因为素祭和奠祭从你们 神的殿中断绝了。
Dress in sackcloth, you priests, and mourn; weep, you who minister before the altar! Go and spend the night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the grain and wine offerings have stopped in the Temple.
14 你们要分定禁食的日子， 宣告严肃会， 招聚长老和国中的一切居民 到耶和华—你们 神的殿， 向耶和华哀求。
Proclaim a fast; call a sacred assembly. Have the elders and all people of the land gather in the Temple, and cry out to your God, to the Lord.
15 哀哉！耶和华的日子临近了。 这日来到，好像毁灭从全能者来到。
What a terrible day! For the day of the Lord is near, it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
16 粮食不是在我们眼前断绝了吗？ 欢喜快乐不是从我们 神的殿中止息了吗？
Haven't we seen our food taken away from us, right before our eyes? There is no joy and happiness in God's Temple.
17 谷种在土块下朽烂； 仓也荒凉，廪也破坏； 因为五谷枯干了。
Seeds planted in the ground shrivel up; the storehouses are empty, the barns are torn down because the grain has dried up.
18 牲畜哀鸣； 牛群混乱，因为无草； 羊群也受了困苦。
The farm animals moan with hunger. The herds of cattle wander everywhere because they can't find grass to eat; the flocks of sheep are suffering.
19 耶和华啊，我向你求告， 因为火烧灭旷野的草场； 火焰烧尽田野的树木。
To you, Lord, I cry out! For fire has destroyed the pastures in the wilderness; flames have burned up all the orchards.
20 田野的走兽向你发喘； 因为溪水干涸， 火也烧灭旷野的草场。
Even the wild animals long for you because the streams have dried up, and fire has destroyed the pastures in the wilderness.
