Joel 2
1 Let the horn be sounded in Zion, and a war-cry in my holy mountain; let all the people of the land be troubled: for the day of the Lord is coming;
你們要在熙雍吹起號角，在我的的聖山下吹起號筒! 叫大地所有的居民戰慄害怕，因為上主的日子來了，且已來近了。
2 For a day of dark and deep shade is near, a day of cloud and black night: like a black cloud a great and strong people is covering the mountains; there has never been any like them and will not be after them again, from generation to generation.
那是一個陰霾昏暗的日子，是一個濃雲漆黑的日子! 一個龐大結盛的民族猶如曙光一樣，散布在各山下；像這樣的民族，是亙古以來從未有過，此後歷盡萬世萬代，也不會再有。
3 Before them fire sends destruction, and after them flame is burning: the land is like the garden of Eden before them, and after them an unpeopled waste; truly, nothing has been kept safe from them.
在這的前面，有吞滅的烈火，後面，有燃燒的火燄；這民族未來以前，大地有如伊甸樂園，既來以後，卻成了荒涼的；什麼也沒有留下。
4 Their form is like the form of horses, and they are running like war-horses.
你們的形狀有如馬的形狀，牠們奔馳有如戰爭馬．
5 Like the sound of war-carriages they go jumping on the tops of the mountains; like the noise of a flame of fire burning up the grain-stems, like a strong people lined up for the fight.
牠們跳躍，發出有如戰車越過山巔的轔轔聲，發出有如烈火焚燒稻草的爆裂聲，活像一支嚴陣以待的強大軍旅。
6 At their coming the people are bent with pain: all faces become red together.
萬民一見，為之惶恐，人人臉面為之失色。
7 They are running like strong men, they go over the wall like men of war; every man goes straight on his way, their lines are not broken.
們們疾進有如勇士，攀登城牆有如戰士，各走自己的路線，從不混亂自己的行列。
8 No one is pushing against another; everyone goes straight on his way: bursting through the sword points, their order is not broken.
牠們各不相擠，各循自己的路線進行；既使衝鋒陷陣，仍不散亂。
9 They make a rush on the town, running on the wall; they go up into the houses and in through the windows like a thief.
牠們進攻城邑，奔上城牆壁，攀登屋頂，闖進窗戶，一個盜賊一樣。
10 The earth is troubled before them and the heavens are shaking: the sun and the moon have become dark, and the stars keep back their shining:
在牠們面前，大地為之震蕩，諸天為之搖動，星辰為之失光。
11 And the Lord is thundering before his forces; for very great is his army; for he is strong who gives effect to his word: for the day of the Lord is great and greatly to be feared, and who has strength against it?
上主在自己的軍旅散發出了自己的聲音，衪的隊伍極其龐大，執行衪命令的，又是強而有力的；上主的一個子實在偉大，極甚可怕：有誰能抵得住﹖
12 But even now, says the Lord, come back to me with all your heart, keeping from food, with weeping and with sorrow:
至少現在，──上主的斷語──你們應全心歸向我，禁食，哭泣，悲哀!
13 Let your hearts be broken, and not your clothing, and come back to the Lord your God: for he is full of grace and pity, slow to be angry and great in mercy, ready to be turned from his purpose of punishment.
應撕裂的，是你們的心，而不是你們的衣服；你們應歸向上主你們的天主．因為衪寬仁慈悲，遲於發怒，富於慈愛，常懊悔降災。
14 May it not be that he will again let his purpose be changed and let a blessing come after him, even a meal offering and a drink offering for the Lord your God?
有誰知道，也許衪會轉意後悔，在這場災禍後，給你們留下祝福，好使你們能給上主你們的天主獻上素祭和奠祭。
15 Let a horn be sounded in Zion, let a time be fixed for going without food, have a holy meeting:
你們要在熙雍吹起號角，制定一個齋期，召開一個盛會。
16 Get the people together, make the mass of the people holy, send for the old men, get together the children and babies at the breast: let the newly married man come out of his room and the bride from her tent.
要召集民眾，制定一個集會。召集老人，集合幼童，既使吃奶的嬰兒；新郎應走出他的洞房，新郎應離開她的閨房。
17 Let the priests, the servants of the Lord, be weeping between the covered way and the altar, and let them say, Have mercy on your people, O Lord, do not give up your heritage to shame, so that the nations become their rulers: why let them say among the peoples, Where is their God?
上主的僕人──司祭，應在殿廊與祭壇之間痛哭，說：「上主，求你憐恤你的百姓，不要讓你的基業遭受侮辱，使異民取笑他們! 為什麼讓人在異民中說：他們的的天主在哪裏﹖」
18 Then the Lord had a care for the honour of his land and had pity on his people.
上主對自己的地域又重加妒愛，憐憫了自己的百姓。
19 And the Lord made answer and said to his people, See, I will send you grain and wine and oil in full measure: and I will no longer let you be shamed among the nations:
上主答覆衪的百姓說：我必再賜給你們五榖、酒、油，使你們得享飽飫；不再使你們在異民中遭受恥辱。
20 I will send the one from the north far away from you, driving him into a dry and waste land, with his front to the sea of the east and his back to the sea of the west, and the smell of him will go up, even his evil smell will go up.
我要使從北方來的大軍，遠離你們；要驅逐他們到荒涼不毛地，使他們的先鋒面向東海，使他們的殿軍面向西海；他們的臭氣要上升，他們的腥臭要上騰。「因為他們行了大惡。」
21 Have no fear, O land; be glad with great joy; for the Lord has done great things.
田地，你不要害怕，反要歡愉喜樂，因為上主行了大事。
22 Have no fear, you beasts of the field, for the grass-lands of the waste are becoming green, for the trees are producing fruit, the fig-tree and the vine give out their strength.
田間的野獸，你們不要害怕，因為原野的牧場又已發青，樹木已再結果，無花果樹和葡萄樹必再供給出產。
23 Be glad, then, you children of Zion, and have joy in the Lord your God: for he gives you food in full measure, making the rain come down for you, the early and the late rain as at the first.
熙雍的子女! 你們應歡樂，應喜樂於上主你們的天主，因為衪按公義，像昔日一樣，賜給了且給你們時雨，且給你們降下甘霖：秋雨和春雨。
24 And the floors will be full of grain, and the crushing-places overflowing with wine and oil.
禾埸必充滿莊稼，榨池必湧出美酒和新酒。
25 I will give back to you the years which were food for the locust, the plant-worm, the field-fly, and the worm, my great army which I sent among you.
我必要補償你們，我對你們派來的大軍：飛蝗、冬斯、蚱蜢和蝻子，連年所吃掉的收成。
26 You will have food in full measure, and give praise to the name of the Lord your God, who has done wonders for you:
你們必得飽食，必要頌揚上主你們的天主的名，因為衪為你們行了奇妙的事。 [我的百姓永不再蒙受羞辱。]
27 And you will be certain that I am in Israel, and that I am the Lord your God, and there is no other: and my people will never be shamed.
你們將會知道：我是在以色列中間，我是上主你們的天主，此外再沒有別的神；而我的百姓永不再蒙受羞辱。
28 And after that, it will come about, says the Lord, that I will send my spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will be prophets, your old men will have dreams, your young men will see visions:
此後──上主的斷語──我要將我的神傾注在一切有血肉的人身上：你們的兒子們和你們的女兒們要說預言，你們的老人要人要看夢境，你們的青年要見神視；
29 And on the servants and the servant-girls in those days I will send my spirit.
在那些日裏，既使在奴僕和婢女身上，我也要傾注我的神。
30 And I will let wonders be seen in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and pillars of smoke.
我要在上天下地顯示奇異的徵兆：血、火和煙柱。
31 The sun will be made dark and the moon turned to blood, before the great day of the Lord comes, a day to be feared.
在上主偉大可畏的日子來臨以前，太陽要變為昏暗，月亮要變成血紅。
32 And it will be that whoever makes his prayer to the name of the Lord will be kept safe: for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem some will be kept safe, as the Lord has said, and will be among the small band marked out by the Lord.
將來，凡呼號上主名號的人，必然獲救，因為如上主所說，在熙雍山，在耶路撒冷必有救援，必有上主召選的劫後餘生。
