西番雅書 2
1 不知羞恥的國民哪，你們應當聚集！ 趁命令沒有發出， 日子過去如風前的糠， 耶和華的烈怒未臨到你們， 他發怒的日子未到以先， 你們應當聚集前來。
Assemble, be gathered together, O people not worthy to be loved.
Until the decree settles accounts, the day like dust is passing away, before which the wrath of the fury of the Lord may overcome you, before which the day of the anger of the Lord may overcome you.
3 世上遵守耶和華典章的謙卑人哪， 你們都當尋求耶和華！ 當尋求公義謙卑， 或者在耶和華發怒的日子可以隱藏起來。
Seek the Lord, all you meek of the earth; you who have been working are his judgment. Seek the just, seek the meek. So then, in some way, you might be hidden in the day of the fury of the Lord.
4 迦薩必致見棄； 亞實基倫必然荒涼。 人在正午必趕出亞實突的民； 以革倫也被拔出根來。
For Gaza will be destroyed, and Ashkelon will be in the desert; they will expel Ashdod at midday, and Ekron will be eradicated.
5 住沿海之地的基利提族有禍了！ 迦南、非利士人之地啊，耶和華的話與你反對， 說：我必毀滅你，以致無人居住。
Woe to you who inhabit the coast of the sea, you people of perdition. The word of the Lord is over you, Canaan, the land of the Philistines, and I will disperse you, so that not one inhabitant will be left.
6 沿海之地要變為草場， 其上有牧人的住處和羊群的圈。
And the coastline of the sea will be a resting place for shepherds and a fence line for cattle.
7 這地必為猶大家剩下的人所得； 他們必在那裏牧放群羊， 晚上必躺臥在亞實基倫的房屋中； 因為耶和華－他們的上帝必眷顧他們， 使他們被擄的人歸回。
And it will be the line of him who will remain from the house of Judah. There they will pasture. In the houses of Ashkelon, they will rest towards evening. For the Lord their God will visit them, and he will turn away their captivity.
8 我聽見摩押人的毀謗和亞捫人的辱罵， 就是毀謗我的百姓，自誇自大， 侵犯他們的境界。
I have heard about the disgrace of Moab and the blasphemies of the sons of Ammon, by which they have defamed my people and have been magnified beyond their borders.
9 萬軍之耶和華－以色列的上帝說： 我指着我的永生起誓： 摩押必像所多瑪， 亞捫人必像蛾摩拉， 都變為刺草、鹽坑、永遠荒廢之地。 我百姓所剩下的必擄掠他們； 我國中所餘剩的必得着他們的地。
Because of this, as I live, says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab will be like Sodom, and the sons of Ammon like Gomorrah, like the dryness of thorns, and piles of salt, and a desert, all the way to eternity. The remnant of my people will despoil them, and the residue of my nation will possess them.
10 這事臨到他們是因他們驕傲，自誇自大， 毀謗萬軍之耶和華的百姓。
This will come upon them for their arrogance, because they have blasphemed and have been magnified over the people of the Lord of hosts.
11 耶和華必向他們顯可畏之威， 因他必叫世上的諸神瘦弱。 列國海島的居民各在自己的地方敬拜他。
The Lord will be a horror over them, and he will reduce all the gods of the earth. And they will adore him, each man from his own place, all the islands of the Gentiles.
12 古實人哪，你們必被我的刀所殺。
Even so, you Ethiopians, you will be executed by my sword.
13 耶和華必伸手攻擊北方，毀滅亞述， 使尼尼微荒涼，又乾旱如曠野。
And he will extend his hand over the North, and he will destroy Assur. And he will set the Beautiful in the wilderness, and in an impassable place, and like a desert.
14 群畜，就是各國的走獸必臥在其中； 鵜鶘和箭豬要宿在柱頂上。 在窗戶內有鳴叫的聲音； 門檻都必毀壞， 香柏木已經露出。
And flocks will lie down in its midst, all the beasts of the Gentiles. And the pelican and the hedgehog will stay at its threshold; the voice of the singing bird will be at the window, with the crow above its threshold, for I will diminish her strength.
15 這是素來歡樂安然居住的城， 心裏說：惟有我，除我以外再沒有別的； 現在何竟荒涼成為野獸躺臥之處！ 凡經過的人都必搖手嗤笑她。
This is the glorious city, dwelling in trust, which said in her heart, “I am and there is no one other than me.” How has she become a lair for beasts in the desert? All who pass through her will hiss and wag their hand.
