约珥书 2
1 你们要在锡安吹角， 在我圣山吹出大声。 国中的居民都要发颤； 因为耶和华的日子将到， 已经临近。
Blow the shofar in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the LORD comes, for it is close at hand:
2 那日是黑暗、幽冥、 密云、乌黑的日子， 好像晨光铺满山岭。 有一队蝗虫又大又强； 从来没有这样的， 以后直到万代也必没有。
A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.
3 它们前面如火烧灭， 后面如火焰烧尽。 未到以前，地如伊甸园； 过去以后，成了荒凉的旷野； 没有一样能躲避它们的。
A fire devours before them, and behind them, a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them, a desolate wilderness. Yes, and no one has escaped them.
4 它们的形状如马， 奔跑如马兵。
Their appearance is as the appearance of horses, and they run as horsemen.
5 在山顶蹦跳的响声如车辆的响声， 又如火焰烧碎秸的响声， 好像强盛的民摆阵预备打仗。
Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains, they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, like a strong people set in battle array.
6 它们一来，众民伤恸， 脸都变色。
At their presence the peoples are in anguish. All faces have grown pale.
7 它们如勇士奔跑， 像战士爬城； 各都步行，不乱队伍。
They run like mighty men. They climb the wall like warriors. They each march in his line, and they don’t swerve off course.
8 彼此并不拥挤，向前各行其路， 直闯兵器，不偏左右。
One doesn’t jostle another. They each march in their own path. They burst through the defences and don’t break ranks.
9 它们蹦上城，蹿上墙， 爬上房屋， 进入窗户如同盗贼。
They rush on the city. They run on the wall. They climb up into the houses. They enter in at the windows like thieves.
10 它们一来， 地震天动， 日月昏暗， 星宿无光。
The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
11 耶和华在他军旅前发声， 他的队伍甚大； 成就他命的是强盛者。 因为耶和华的日子大而可畏， 谁能当得起呢？
The LORD thunders his voice before his army, for his forces are very great; for he is strong who obeys his command; for the day of the LORD is great and very awesome, and who can endure it?
12 耶和华说：虽然如此， 你们应当禁食、哭泣、悲哀， 一心归向我。
“Yet even now,” says the LORD, “turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”
13 你们要撕裂心肠， 不撕裂衣服。 归向耶和华—你们的 神； 因为他有恩典，有怜悯， 不轻易发怒， 有丰盛的慈爱， 并且后悔不降所说的灾。
Tear your heart and not your garments, and turn to the LORD, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.
14 或者他转意后悔，留下余福， 就是留下献给耶和华—你们 神的素祭和奠祭， 也未可知。
Who knows? He may turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal offering and a drink offering to the LORD, your God.
15 你们要在锡安吹角， 分定禁食的日子， 宣告严肃会。
Blow the shofar in Zion! Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly.
16 聚集众民，使会众自洁： 招聚老者， 聚集孩童和吃奶的； 使新郎出离洞房， 新妇出离内室。
Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the elders. Gather the children, and those who nurse from breasts. Let the bridegroom go out of his room, and the bride out of her chamber.
17 事奉耶和华的祭司 要在廊子和祭坛中间哭泣，说： 耶和华啊，求你顾惜你的百姓， 不要使你的产业受羞辱， 列邦管辖他们。 为何容列国的人说： “他们的 神在哪里”呢？
Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, “Spare your people, LORD, and don’t give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say amongst the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
18 耶和华就为自己的地发热心， 怜恤他的百姓。
Then the LORD was jealous for his land, and had pity on his people.
19 耶和华应允他的百姓说： 我必赐给你们五谷、新酒，和油， 使你们饱足； 我也不再使你们受列国的羞辱；
The LORD answered his people, “Behold, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied with them; and I will no more make you a reproach amongst the nations.
20 却要使北方来的军队远离你们， 将他们赶到干旱荒废之地： 前队赶入东海， 后队赶入西海； 因为他们所行的大恶， 臭气上升，腥味腾空。
But I will remove the northern army far away from you, and will drive it into a barren and desolate land, its front into the eastern sea, and its back into the western sea; and its stench will come up, and its bad smell will rise.” Surely he has done great things.
21 地土啊，不要惧怕； 要欢喜快乐， 因为耶和华行了大事。
Land, don’t be afraid. Be glad and rejoice, for the LORD has done great things.
22 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。
Don’t be afraid, you animals of the field; for the pastures of the wilderness spring up, for the tree bears its fruit. The fig tree and the vine yield their strength.
23 锡安的民哪，你们要快乐， 为耶和华—你们的 神欢喜； 因他赐给你们合宜的秋雨， 为你们降下甘霖， 就是秋雨、春雨，和先前一样。
“Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD, your God; for he gives you the early rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the early rain and the latter rain, as before.
24 禾场必满了麦子； 酒榨与油榨必有新酒和油盈溢。
The threshing floors will be full of wheat, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.
25 我打发到你们中间的大军队， 就是蝗虫、蝻子、蚂蚱、剪虫， 那些年所吃的，我要补还你们。
I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the great locust, the grasshopper, and the caterpillar, my great army, which I sent amongst you.
26 你们必多吃而得饱足， 就赞美为你们行奇妙事之耶和华—你们 神的名。 我的百姓必永远不至羞愧。
You will have plenty to eat and be satisfied, and will praise the name of the LORD, your God, who has dealt wondrously with you; and my people will never again be disappointed.
27 你们必知道我是在以色列中间， 又知道我是耶和华—你们的 神； 在我以外并无别神。 我的百姓必永远不致羞愧。
You will know that I am amongst Israel, and that I am the LORD, your God, and there is no one else; and my people will never again be disappointed.
28 以后，我要将我的灵浇灌凡有血气的。 你们的儿女要说预言； 你们的老年人要做异梦， 少年人要见异象。
“It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.
29 在那些日子， 我要将我的灵浇灌我的仆人和使女。
And also on the servants and on the handmaids in those days, I will pour out my Spirit.
30 “在天上地下，我要显出奇事，有血，有火，有烟柱。
I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood, fire, and pillars of smoke.
31 日头要变为黑暗，月亮要变为血，这都在耶和华大而可畏的日子未到以前。
The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes.
32 到那时候，凡求告耶和华名的就必得救；因为照耶和华所说的，在锡安山，耶路撒冷必有逃脱的人，在剩下的人中必有耶和华所召的。”
It will happen that whoever will call on the LORD’s name shall be saved; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as the LORD has said, and amongst the remnant, those whom the LORD calls.
