Sophonias 2
1 Be you gathered and closely joined together, O unchastened nation;
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。
2 before you become as the flower that passes away, before the anger of the Lord come upon you, before the day of the wrath of the Lord come upon you.
3 Seek you the Lord, all you meek of the earth; do judgement, and seek justice, and answer accordingly; that you may be hid in the day of the wrath of the Lord.
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。
4 For Gaza shall be utterly spoiled, and Ascalon shall be destroyed; and Azotus shall be cast forth at noon-day, and Accaron shall be rooted up.
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。
5 Woe to them that dwell on the border of the sea, neighbours of the Cretans! the word of the Lord is against you, O Chanaan, land of the Philistines, and I will destroy you out of [your] dwelling-place.
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。
6 And Crete shall be a pasture of flocks, and a fold of sheep.
沿海之地要變為草場， 其上有牧人的住處和羊群的圈。
7 And the sea cost shall be for the remnant of the house of Juda; they shall pasture upon them in the houses of Ascalon; they shall rest in the evening because of the children of Juda; for the Lord their God has visited them, and he will turn away their captivity.
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。
8 I have heard the revilings of Moab, and the insults of the children of Ammon, wherewith they have reviled my people, and magnified themselves against my coasts.
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。
9 Therefore, [as] I live, says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall be as Sodoma, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrha; and Damascus [shall be] left as a heap of the threshing floor, and desolate for ever: and the remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the remnant of my nations shall inherit them.
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。
10 This is their punishment in return for their haughtiness, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the Lord Almighty.
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。
11 The Lord shall appear against them, and shall utterly destroy all the gods of the nations of the earth; and they shall worship him every one from his place, [even] all the islands of the nations.
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。
12 You Ethiopians also are the slain of my sword.
古實人哪，你們必被我的刀所殺。
13 And he shall stretch forth his hand against the north and destroy the Assyrian, and make Nineve a dry wilderness, [even] as a desert.
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。
14 And flocks, and all the wild beasts of the land, and chameleons shall feed in the midst thereof: and hedgehogs shall lodge in the ceilings thereof; and wild beasts shall cry in the breaches thereof, and ravens in her porches, whereas her loftiness was [as] as cedar.
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。
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。
