約珥書 3
1 「到那日，我使猶大和耶路撒冷被擄之人歸回的時候，
Behold, in those days and at that time, when I return the exiles of Judah and Jerusalem,
2 我要聚集萬民，帶他們下到約沙法谷，在那裏施行審判；因為他們將我的百姓，就是我的產業以色列，分散在列國中，又分取我的地土，
I will gather all the nations, and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. I will judge them there, because of my people and my inheritance Israel, whom they scattered among the nations, and because they divided up my land.
3 且為我的百姓拈鬮，將童子換妓女，賣童女買酒喝。
They cast lots for my people, traded a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine so they could drink.
4 「泰爾、西頓，和非利士四境的人哪，你們與我何干？你們要報復我嗎？若報復我，我必使報應速速歸到你們的頭上。
Now, why are you angry at me, Tyre, Sidon and all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay me? Even if you do repay me, I will immediately return your retribution on your own head.
5 你們既然奪取我的金銀，又將我可愛的寶物帶入你們宮殿，
For you took my silver and my gold, and you brought my precious treasures into your temples.
6 並將猶大人和耶路撒冷人賣給希臘人，使他們遠離自己的境界。
You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, in order to remove them far from their territory.
7 我必激動他們離開你們所賣到之地，又必使報應歸到你們的頭上。
Look, I am about to stir them up, out of the place where you sold them, and will return payment on your own head.
8 我必將你們的兒女賣在猶大人的手中，他們必賣給遠方示巴國的人。這是耶和華說的。」
I will sell your sons and your daughters, by the hand of the people of Judah. They will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far off, for Yahweh has spoken.”
9 當在萬民中宣告說： 要預備打仗； 激動勇士， 使一切戰士上前來。
Proclaim this among the nations, “Prepare yourselves for war, rouse the mighty men, let them come near, let all the men of battle come up.
10 要將犂頭打成刀劍， 將鐮刀打成戈矛； 軟弱的要說：我有勇力。
Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning knives into spears. Let the weak say, 'I am strong.'
11 四圍的列國啊， 你們要速速地來， 一同聚集。 耶和華啊， 求你使你的大能者降臨。
Hurry and come, all you nearby nations, gather yourselves together there. Yahweh, bring down your mighty warriors.
12 萬民都當興起， 上到約沙法谷； 因為我必坐在那裏， 審判四圍的列國。
Let the nations wake themselves up and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. For there will I sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
13 開鐮吧！因為莊稼熟了； 踐踏吧！因為酒醡滿了。 酒池盈溢； 他們的罪惡甚大。
Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, crush the grapes, for the winepress is full. The vats overflow, for their wickedness is enormous.”
14 許多許多的人在斷定谷， 因為耶和華的日子臨近斷定谷。
There is a tumult, a tumult in the Valley of Judgment. For the day of Yahweh is near in the Valley of Judgment.
15 日月昏暗， 星宿無光。
The sun and the moon become dark, the stars keep back their brightness.
16 耶和華必從錫安吼叫， 從耶路撒冷發聲， 天地就震動。 耶和華卻要作他百姓的避難所， 作以色列人的保障。
Yahweh will roar from Zion, and raise his voice from Jerusalem. The heavens and earth will shake, but Yahweh will be a shelter for his people, and a fortress for the people of Israel.
17 你們就知道我是耶和華－你們的上帝， 且又住在錫安－我的聖山。 那時，耶路撒冷必成為聖； 外邦人不再從其中經過。
“So you will know that I am Yahweh your God who lives in Zion, my holy mountain. Then Jerusalem will be holy, and no army will march through her again.
18 到那日，大山要滴甜酒； 小山要流奶子； 猶大溪河都有水流。 必有泉源從耶和華的殿中流出來， 滋潤什亭谷。
It will come about on that day that the mountains will drip with sweet wine, the hills will flow with milk, all the brooks of Judah will flow with water, and a fountain will come from the house of Yahweh and water the Valley of Shittim.
19 埃及必然荒涼， 以東變為悽涼的曠野， 都因向猶大人所行的強暴， 又因在本地流無辜人的血。
Egypt will become an abandoned devastation, and Edom will become an abandoned wilderness, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, because they shed innocent blood in their land.
20 但猶大必存到永遠； 耶路撒冷必存到萬代。
But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem will be inhabited from generation to generation.
21 我未曾報復流血的罪， 現在我要報復， 因為耶和華住在錫安。
I will avenge their blood that I have not yet avenged, for Yahweh lives in Zion.”
