西番雅书 2
1 不知羞耻的国民哪，你们应当聚集！ 趁命令没有发出， 日子过去如风前的糠， 耶和华的烈怒未临到你们， 他发怒的日子未到以先， 你们应当聚集前来。
Come together, make everyone come together, O nation without shame;
Before the Lord sends you violently away in flight like the waste from the grain; before the burning wrath of the Lord comes on you, before the day of the Lord's wrath comes on you.
3 世上遵守耶和华典章的谦卑人哪， 你们都当寻求耶和华！ 当寻求公义谦卑， 或者在耶和华发怒的日子可以隐藏起来。
Make search for the Lord, all you quiet ones of the earth, who have done what is right in his eyes; make search for righteousness and a quiet heart: it may be that you will be safely covered in the day of the Lord's wrath.
4 迦萨必致见弃； 亚实基伦必然荒凉。 人在正午必赶出亚实突的民； 以革伦也被拔出根来。
For Gaza will be given up and Ashkelon will become waste: they will send Ashdod out in the middle of the day, and Ekron will be uprooted.
5 住沿海之地的基利提族有祸了！ 迦南、非利士人之地啊，耶和华的话与你反对， 说：我必毁灭你，以致无人居住。
Sorrow to the people living by the sea, the nation of the Cherethites! The word of the Lord is against you, O Canaan, the land of the Philistines; I will send destruction on you till there is no one living in you.
6 沿海之地要变为草场， 其上有牧人的住处和羊群的圈。
And the land by the sea will be grass-land, with houses for keepers of sheep and walled places for flocks.
7 这地必为犹大家剩下的人所得； 他们必在那里牧放群羊， 晚上必躺卧在亚实基伦的房屋中； 因为耶和华—他们的 神必眷顾他们， 使他们被掳的人归回。
The land by the sea will be for the rest of the children of Judah; by the sea they will give their flocks food: in the houses of Ashkelon they will take their rest in the evening; for the Lord their God will take them in hand and their fate will be changed.
8 我听见摩押人的毁谤和亚扪人的辱骂， 就是毁谤我的百姓，自夸自大， 侵犯他们的境界。
My ears have been open to the bitter words of Moab and the words of shame of the children of Ammon, which they have said against my people, lifting themselves up against the limit of their land.
9 万军之耶和华—以色列的 神说： 我指着我的永生起誓： 摩押必像所多玛， 亚扪人必像蛾摩拉， 都变为刺草、盐坑、永远荒废之地。 我百姓所剩下的必掳掠他们； 我国中所余剩的必得着他们的地。
For this cause, by my life, says the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, truly Moab will become like Sodom and the children of Ammon like Gomorrah, given up to waste plants and salt pools and unpeopled for ever: the rest of my people will take their property, the overflow of my nation will take their heritage.
10 这事临到他们是因他们骄傲，自夸自大， 毁谤万军之耶和华的百姓。
This will be their fate because of their pride, because they have said evil, lifting themselves up against the people of the Lord of armies.
11 耶和华必向他们显可畏之威， 因他必叫世上的诸神瘦弱。 列国海岛的居民各在自己的地方敬拜他。
The Lord will let himself be seen by them: for he will make all the gods of the earth feeble; and men will go down before him in worship, everyone from his place, even all the sea-lands of the nations.
12 古实人哪，你们必被我的刀所杀。
And you Ethiopians will be put to death by my sword.
13 耶和华必伸手攻击北方，毁灭亚述， 使尼尼微荒凉，又干旱如旷野。
And his hand will be stretched out against the north, for the destruction of Assyria; and he will make Nineveh unpeopled and dry like the waste land.
14 群畜，就是各国的走兽必卧在其中； 鹈鹕和箭猪要宿在柱顶上。 在窗户内有鸣叫的声音； 门槛都必毁坏， 香柏木已经露出。
And herds will take their rest in the middle of her, all the beasts of the valley: the pelican and the porcupine will make their living-places on the tops of its pillars; the owl will be crying in the window; the raven will be seen on the doorstep.
15 这是素来欢乐安然居住的城， 心里说：惟有我，除我以外再没有别的； 现在何竟荒凉成为野兽躺卧之处！ 凡经过的人都必摇手嗤笑她。
This is the town which was full of joy, living without fear of danger, saying in her heart, I am, and there is no other: how has she been made waste, a place for beasts to take their rest in! everyone who goes by her will make hisses, waving his hand.
