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。
Rally yourselves together and gather, unashamed nation—
before the decree takes effect and that day passes like the chaff, before the fierce anger of Yahweh's wrath comes upon you, before the day of the wrath of Yahweh comes 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 Yahweh, all you humble people on earth who obey his decrees! Seek righteousness. Seek humility, and perhaps you will be protected in the day of Yahweh'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 abandoned, and Ashkelon will turn into a devastation. They will drive out Ashdod at noon, and they will uproot Ekron!
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 the inhabitants of the seacoast, the nation of the Kerethites! Yahweh has spoken against you, Canaan, land of the Philistines. I will destroy you until no inhabitant remains.
6 沿海之地要变为草场， 其上有牧人的住处和羊群的圈。
So the seacoast will become pastures for shepherds and for sheep pens.
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 coastal region will belong to the remnant of the house of Judah, who will shepherd their flocks there. Their people will lie down in the evening in the houses of Ashkelon, for Yahweh their God will care for them and restore their fortunes.
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 taunts of Moab and the reviling of the people of Ammon when they taunted my people and violated their borders.
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—this is the declaration of Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel— Moab will become like Sodom, and the people of Ammon like Gomorrah; a place of nettles and a salt pit, deserted forever. But the remnant of my people will plunder them, and the remainder of my nation will take possession of 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 will happen to Moab and Ammon because of their pride, since they taunted and mocked the people of Yahweh of hosts.
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。
Then they will fear Yahweh, for he will taunt all the gods of the earth. Everyone will worship him, everyone from his own place, from every seashore.
12 古实人哪，你们必被我的刀所杀。
You Cushites also will be pierced 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 God's hand will attack the north and destroy Assyria, so that Nineveh will become an abandoned devastation, as dry as the 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。
Then herds will lie down there, every animal of the nations, both the desert owl and the screech owl will rest in the top of her columns. A call will sing out from the windows; rubble will be in the doorways; her carved cedar beams will be exposed.
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 exultant city that lived without fear, that said in her heart, “I am, and nothing is my equal.” How she has become a horror, a place for beasts to lie down in. Everyone that passes by her will hiss and shake his fist at her.
