约珥书 3
1 “到那日，我使犹大和耶路撒冷被掳之人归回的时候，
For lo, in those days, and in that time, When I turn back [to] the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
2 我要聚集万民，带他们下到约沙法谷，在那里施行审判；因为他们将我的百姓，就是我的产业以色列，分散在列国中，又分取我的地土，
Then I have gathered all the nations, And caused them to go down unto the valley of Jehoshaphat, And I have been judged with them there, Concerning My people and Mine inheritance — Israel, Whom they scattered among nations, And My land they have apportioned.
3 且为我的百姓拈阄，将童子换妓女，卖童女买酒喝。
And for My people they do cast a lot, And they give the young man for an harlot, And the young woman have sold for wine, That they may drink.
4 “泰尔、西顿，和非利士四境的人哪，你们与我何干？你们要报复我吗？若报复我，我必使报应速速归到你们的头上。
And also, what [are] ye to Me, O Tyre and Zidon, And all circuits of Philistia? Recompence are ye rendering unto Me? And if ye are giving recompence to Me, Swiftly, hastily, I turn back your recompence on your head.
5 你们既然夺取我的金银，又将我可爱的宝物带入你们宫殿，
In that My silver and My gold ye took, And My desirable things that are good, Ye have brought in to your temples.
6 并将犹大人和耶路撒冷人卖给希腊人，使他们远离自己的境界。
And sons of Judah, and sons of Jerusalem, Ye have sold to the sons of Javan, To put them far off from their border.
7 我必激动他们离开你们所卖到之地，又必使报应归到你们的头上。
Lo, I am stirring them up out of the place Whither ye have sold them, And I have turned back your recompence on your head,
8 我必将你们的儿女卖在犹大人的手中，他们必卖给远方示巴国的人。这是耶和华说的。”
And have sold your sons and your daughters Into the hand of the sons of Judah, And they have sold them to Shabeans, Unto a nation far off, for Jehovah hath spoken.
9 当在万民中宣告说： 要预备打仗； 激动勇士， 使一切战士上前来。
Proclaim ye this among nations, Sanctify a war, stir up the mighty ones, Come nigh, come up, let all the men of war.
10 要将犁头打成刀剑， 将镰刀打成戈矛； 软弱的要说：我有勇力。
Beat your ploughshares to swords, And your pruning-hooks to javelins, Let the weak say, 'I [am] mighty.'
11 四围的列国啊， 你们要速速地来， 一同聚集。 耶和华啊， 求你使你的大能者降临。
Haste, and come in, all ye nations round, And be gathered together, Thither cause to come down, O Jehovah, Thy mighty ones.
12 万民都当兴起， 上到约沙法谷； 因为我必坐在那里， 审判四围的列国。
Wake and come up let the nations unto the valley of Jehoshaphat, For there I sit to judge all the nations around.
13 开镰吧！因为庄稼熟了； 践踏吧！因为酒榨满了。 酒池盈溢； 他们的罪恶甚大。
Send ye forth a sickle, For ripened hath harvest, Come in, come down, for filled hath been the press, Overflowed hath wine-presses, For great [is] their wickedness.
14 许多许多的人在断定谷， 因为耶和华的日子临近断定谷。
Multitudes, multitudes [are] in the valley of decision, For near [is] the day of Jehovah in the valley of decision.
15 日月昏暗， 星宿无光。
Sun and moon have been black, And stars have gathered up their shining.
16 耶和华必从锡安吼叫， 从耶路撒冷发声， 天地就震动。 耶和华却要作他百姓的避难所， 作以色列人的保障。
And Jehovah from Zion doth roar, And from Jerusalem giveth forth His voice, And shaken have the heavens and earth, And Jehovah [is] a refuge to his people, And a stronghold to sons of Israel.
17 你们就知道我是耶和华—你们的 神， 且又住在锡安—我的圣山。 那时，耶路撒冷必成为圣； 外邦人不再从其中经过。
And ye have known that I [am] Jehovah your God, Dwelling in Zion, My holy mountain, And Jerusalem hath been holy, And strangers do not pass over into it again.
18 到那日，大山要滴甜酒； 小山要流奶子； 犹大溪河都有水流。 必有泉源从耶和华的殿中流出来， 滋润什亭谷。
And it hath come to pass, in that day, Drop down do the mountains juice, And the hills do flow [with] milk, And all streams of Judah do go [with] water, And a fountain from the house of Jehovah goeth forth, And hath watered the valley of Shittim.
19 埃及必然荒凉， 以东变为凄凉的旷野， 都因向犹大人所行的强暴， 又因在本地流无辜人的血。
Egypt a desolation becometh, And Edom a desolation, a wilderness, becometh, For violence [to] sons of Judah, Whose innocent blood they shed in their land.
20 但犹大必存到永远； 耶路撒冷必存到万代。
And Judah to the age doth dwell, And Jerusalem to generation and generation.
21 我未曾报复流血的罪， 现在我要报复， 因为耶和华住在锡安。
And I have declared their blood innocent, [That] I did not declare innocent, And Jehovah is dwelling in Zion!
