Zephaniah 2

1 Gather your selues, euen gather you, O nation not worthie to be loued,

沒有廉恥的民族，在他們尚未像糠枇一樣被吹散之前，

2 Before the decree come foorth, and ye be as chaffe that passeth in a day, and before the fierce wrath of the Lord come vpon you, and before the day of the Lords anger come vpon you.

在上主的怒火尚未來到你們身上，在上主憤怒的日子尚未來到你們身上以前，你們聚首檢討吧!

3 Seeke yee the Lord all the meeke of the earth, which haue wrought his iudgement: seeke righteousnesse, seeke lowlinesse, if so bee that ye may be hid in the day of the Lords wrath.

地上所有遵守衪法律的卑微人! 你們應求上主，你們要尋求公義，要尋求謙和，也許你們在上主憤怒的日子，能藏身免禍。

4 For Azzah shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon desolate: they shall driue out Ashdod at the noone day, and Ekron shalbe rooted vp.

因為茄薩將被拋棄，阿市刻隆必被剷除。

5 Wo vnto the inhabitants of the sea coast. the nation of the Cherethims, the worde of the Lord is against you: O Canaan, the lande of the Philistims, I will euen destroye thee without an inhabitant.

禍哉! 沿海地帶的居民，革勒提民族! 看，這是木攻擊你們的話：培肋舍特地! 我要貶抑你，把你毀滅得再無固民!

6 And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cotages for shepheardes and sheepefoldes.

沿海地帶必將成為牧的牧場，羊群的羊棧。

7 And that coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Iudah, to feede thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lodge toward night: for the Lord their God shall visite them, and turne away their captiuitie.

沿海地帶必將歸於猶大家的遺民；他們將沿著海濱放羊，晚上歇息在阿市刻隆的棧房，因為上主他們的天主必看顧他們，轉變他們的境遇。

8 I haue heard the reproch of Moab, and the rebukes of the children of Ammon, whereby they vpbraided my people, and magnified themselues against their borders.

我聽到了摩阿布的辱罵，阿孟子民火詆詬；他們辱罵了我的百姓，欺凌了我的領域。

9 Therefore, as I liue, saith the Lord of hostes, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall bee as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorah, euen the breeding of nettels and salt pittes, and a perpetuall desolation: the residue of my folke shall spoyle them, and the remnant of my people shall possesse them.

為此，我指著我的生命起誓──萬軍的上主，以色列天主火斷語：摩阿布必要像索多瑪，哈孟子民必要像哈摩辣，變為荊棘叢、監堆、荒野，直到永遠。我百姓的遺民要劫掠他們，我民族的殘餘，要佔領他們的產業。

10 This shall they haue for their pride, because they haue reproched and magnified themselues against the Lord of hostes people.

這事要臨到他們身上，是由於他們的的傲慢，因為他們辱罵欺凌了萬軍的上主的百姓。

11 The Lord will be terrible vnto them: for he wil consume all the gods of the earth, and euery man shall worship him from his place, euen all the yles of the heathen.

上主必要威嚴地顯示給他們，因為衪要消滅地上的一切神衹；那時異邦各笆島嶼，各從自己的地方朝拜衪。

12 Ye Morians also shalbe slaine by my sword with them.

連你們雇士人，也要為我的刀劍所刺透。

13 And he wil stretch out his hand against the North, and destroy Asshur, and will make Nineueh desolate, and waste like a wildernesse.

衪還要向北方伸出自己的手，為消滅亞述，使尼尼微化為荒地，像杪漠一樣乾旱。

14 And flockes shall lie in the middes of her, and all the beastes of the nations, and the pelicane, and the owle shall abide in the vpper postes of it: the voyce of birdes shall sing in the windowes, and desolations shalbe vpon the postes: for the cedars are vncouered.

牲畜和窪地所有的走獸必要臥息息其中，鵜鴣和鵁鶄也棲宿在她的柱頭間，鴟梟在窗上啼叫，烏鴉停門檻上，因為人剝去了她以香柏做的裝飾：

15 This is the reioycing citie that dwelt carelesse, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none besides me: how is she made waste, and the lodging of the beastes! euery one that passeth by her, shall hisse and wagge his hand.

這就是那享樂安居，心想「只有我，沒有別人」的城市! 她如何竟成了荒野，成了野獸的棲所! 凡由她那裏經過的人，莫不嗤笑搖手。