约珥书 1
1 耶和华的话临到毗土珥的儿子约珥。
The Lord’s message that came to 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？
Hear this, elders, pay attention, all inhabitants of the land. Has anything like this happened in your days, or in the days of your ancestors?
3 你们要将这事传与子， 子传与孙， 孙传与后代。
Recount it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the generation that follows.
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。
That which the cutting locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten, that which the swarming locust has left, the hopping locust has eaten, and that which the hopping locust has left, the destroying locust has 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。
Awake, drunkards, and weep, and wail, all drinkers of wine; the new wine is cut off 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。
For a nation has come up on my land, powerful, and numberless; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and its jaw-teeth are 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 laid waste my vines, and barked my fig tree; it has peeled and cast it away, bleached are the branches.
8 我的民哪，你当哀号，像处女腰束麻布， 为幼年的丈夫哀号。
Wail as a bride, clad in sack-cloth, for the husband of her youth.
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。
Cut off are the cereal and drink-offerings from the house of the Lord; in mourning are the priests, who minister at the Lord’s altar.
10 田荒凉，地悲哀； 因为五谷毁坏， 新酒干竭，油也缺乏。
The fields are blasted, the land is in mourning, for ruined is the corn, the new wine fails and the oil is dried up.
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 dismayed, farmers; wail, vine-dressers. For the wheat and the barley; for the harvest is lost from the fields.
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 vine fails to bear fruit, and the fig tree is drooping; the pomegranate, palm, and apple, all the trees of the field are dried up. The people’s joy withers.
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。
Put on sackcloth, and beat your breasts, priests; wail, ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sack-cloth, ministers of God; for cereal-offering and drink-offering are cut off from the house of your God.
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。
Sanctify a fast, summon an assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the Lord your God, cry 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。
Alas for the day! Near at hand is the day of the Lord, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.
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？
Is not food cut off from before us, gladness and joy from the house of our God?
17 谷种在土块下朽烂； 仓也荒凉，廪也破坏； 因为五谷枯干了。
The grains shrivel under their hoes, the storehouses are desolate, the barns broken down, for the corn is withered.
18 牲畜哀鸣； 牛群混乱，因为无草； 羊群也受了困苦。
How the herds of cattle bellow in distress, for they have no pasture! The flocks of sheep are forlorn.
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, the Lord, I cry. For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and flame has scorched all the trees of the field.
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。
The wild animals also look up to you longingly, for the water-courses are dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
