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。
Be ye gathered and closely joined together, O unchastened nation;
before ye become as the flower that passes away, before the anger of the Lord come upon you, before the day of the wrath of the Lord come upon 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。
Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth; do judgment, and seek justice, and answer accordingly; that ye may be hid in the day of the wrath of the Lord.
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 shall be utterly spoiled, and Ascalon shall be destroyed; and Azotus shall be cast forth at noon-day, and Accaron shall be rooted up.
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。
Woe to them that dwell on the border of the sea, neighbours of the Cretans! the word of the Lord is against you, O Chanaan, land of the Philistines, and I will destroy you out of [your] dwelling-place.
6 沿海之地要变为草场， 其上有牧人的住处和羊群的圈。
And Crete shall be a pasture of flocks, and a fold of sheep.
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。
And the sea cost shall be for the remnant of the house of Juda; they shall pasture upon them in the houses of Ascalon; they shall rest in the evening because of the children of Juda; for the Lord their God has visited them, and he will turn away their captivity.
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。
I have heard the revilings of Moab, and the insults of the children of Ammon, wherewith they have reviled my people, and magnified themselves against my coasts.
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。
Therefore, [as] I live, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall be as Sodoma, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrha; and Damascus [shall be] left as a heap of the threshing-floor, and desolate for ever: and the remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the remnant of my nations shall inherit them.
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 is their punishment in return for their haughtiness, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the Lord Almighty.
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 shall appear against them, and shall utterly destroy all the gods of the nations of the earth; and they shall worship him every one from his place, [even] all the islands of the nations.
12 古实人哪，你们必被我的刀所杀。
Ye Ethiopians also are the slain of 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 he shall stretch forth his hand against the north and destroy the Assyrian, and make Nineve a dry wilderness, [even] as a desert.
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 flocks, and all the wild beasts of the land, and chameleons shall feed in the midst thereof: and hedgehogs shall lodge in the ceilings thereof; and wild beasts shall cry in the breaches thereof, and ravens in her porches, whereas her loftiness was [as] as cedar.
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。
