Joel 1
1 The word of the Lord which came to Joel the son of Bathuel.
上主的話傳給培特耳的兒子岳厄爾：
2 Hear these [words], ye elders, and hearken all ye that inhabit the land. Have such things happen in your days, or in the days of your fathers?
老人們，你們應聽這事! 地上的一切在你們的應側耳細聽! 在你們的時日，或在你們的祖先的時日，是否有過這樣的事﹖
3 Tell your children concerning them, and [let] your children [tell] their children, and their children another generation.
你們應將這樣的事告訴你們的子孫，你們的子孫應傳給你們的的子孫；他們的子孫又應代傳給下一代：
4 The leavings of the caterpillar has the locust eaten, and the leavings of the locust has the palmerworm eaten, and the leavings of the palmerworm has the cankerworm eaten.
蝻子吃剩的，飛蝗來吃了；飛蝗吃剩的，冬斯來吃了；冬斯吃剩的，蚱蜢來吃了。
5 Awake, ye drunkards, from your wine, and weep: mourn, all ye that drink wine to drunkenness: for joy and gladness and removed are from your mouth.
醉漢，你們醒來慟哭吧! 一切愛暍酒的人，為了新酒悲泣吧! 因為已由你們嘴邊奪去了。
6 For a strong and innumerable nation is come up against my land, their teeth are lion's teeth, and their back teeth those of a [lion's] whelp.
因為有一個民族侵入了我的地區，既強大而又不可勝數；你們的牙猶如獅子的牙，臼齒有如母獅的臼齒。
7 He has ruined my vine, and utterly broken my fig-trees: he has utterly searched [my vine], and cast it down; he has peeled its branches.
他們蹂躝了我的葡萄園，折斷了我的無花果樹，將樹皮完全剝掉，使樹枝光禿發白。
8 Lament to me more than a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
你哀傷吧! 如同一個身披喪服的處女，哀哭她青年的未婚夫。
9 The meat-offering and drink-offering are removed from the house of the Lord: mourn, ye priests that serve at the altar of the Lord.
上主殿中的素祭和奠祭已中斷；上主的僕人──司祭都都悲哀不已。
10 For the plains languish: let the land mourn, for the corn languishes; the wine is dried up, the oil becomes scarce;
田園已荒廢，土地已淒涼；因為五榖已遭蹂躝，美酒已枯竭，油已乾涸。
11 the husbandmen are consumed: mourn your property on account of the wheat and barley; for the harvest has perished from off the field.
農夫，你們應哀哭! 葡萄園丁，你們應為小麥和大麥而號咷! 因為田園的出產已遭。破壞
12 The vine is dried up, and the fig-trees are become few; the pomegranate, and palm-tree, and apple, and all trees of the field are dried up: for the sons of men have have abolished joy.
葡萄樹枯槁了，無花果樹凋謝了；石榴樹、棕樹、蘋果樹，以及田間大中的一切果樹都枯死了；為此，喜樂已由人間消失。
13 Gird yourselves [with sackcloth], and lament, ye priests: mourn, ye that serve at the altar: go in, sleep in sackcloths, ye that minister to God: for the meat-offering and drink-offering are withheld from the house of your God.
司祭，你們應披上麻衣而哀悼! 服務祭壇的人，你們應號咷! 我天主的僕人，你們應進來，披上麻衣過夜! 因為素祭和奠祭在你們天主的殿內已中斷了。
14 Sanctify a fast, proclaim a [solemn] service, gather the elders [and] all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God, and cry earnestly to the Lord,
你們應制定一個齋期，召開一個盛會，聚集長老和當地的一切居民，在上主你們的天主的殿內，向上主呼號o
15 Alas, Alas, Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is nigh, and it will come as trouble upon trouble.
那日子啊! 上主的日子來近了，它來有如全能者施行毀滅。
16 [Your] meat has been destroyed before your eyes, joy and gladness from out of the house of your God.
食物不是在我們眼斷絕了嗎﹖喜樂和歡欣不是離開了我們天主的殿嗎﹖
17 The heifers have started at their mangers, the treasures are abolished, the wine-presses are broken down; for the corn is withered.
麥粒已在土塊下腐爛，糧倉業已荒廢，廩倉業已坍塌，因為五榖都枯死了。
18 What shall we store up for ourselves? the herds of cattle have mourned, because they had no pasture; and the flocks of sheep have been utterly destroyed.
牲畜為什麼悲鳴﹖牛群為什麼徬徨﹖因為沒有了草場；連群也感絕望。
19 To thee, O Lord, will I cry: for fire has devoured the fair places of the wilderness, and a flame has burnt up all the trees of the field.
上主，我向你呼號，因為烈火吞滅了原野的牧場，火燄焚燒了田間的一切樹木。
20 And the cattle of the field have looked up to thee: for the fountains of waters have been dried up, and fire has devoured the fair places of the wilderness.
連野獸也向你懇切哀鳴，因為水流已枯竭，烈火又吞滅了原野的牧場。
