< Joel 1 >

1 A word of YHWH that has been to Joel, son of Pethuel:
上主的話傳給培特耳的兒子岳厄爾:
2 Hear this, you aged ones, And give ear, all you inhabitants of the land, Has this been 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 Concerning it talk to your sons, And your sons to their sons, And their sons to 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 What is left of the palmer-worm, the locust has eaten, And what is left of the locust, The cankerworm has eaten, And what is left of the cankerworm, The caterpillar has 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, you drunkards, and weep, And howl all drinking wine, because of the juice, For it has been cut off 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 nation has come up on My land, Strong, and there is no number, Its teeth [are] the teeth of a lion, And it has the jaw-teeth of a lioness.
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 It has made My vine become a desolation, And My fig tree become a splinter, It has made it thoroughly bare, and has cast down, Its branches have been made white.
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 Wail, as a virgin girds 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 Present and drink-offering have been cut off from the house of YHWH, The priests have mourned, servants of YHWH.
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 The field is spoiled, The ground has mourned, For the grain is spoiled, New wine has been dried up, oil languishes.
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 Be ashamed, you farmers, Howl, vinedressers, for wheat and for barley, For the harvest of the field has perished.
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 has been dried up, And the fig tree languishes, Pomegranate, also palm, and apple-tree, All trees of the field have withered, For joy has been dried up from the sons of men.
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, and lament, you priests, Howl, you servants of the altar, Come in, lodge in sackcloth, servants of my God, For present and drink-offering have been 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 restraint, Gather [the] elderly [and] all those inhabiting the land, [Into the] house of your God YHWH,
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 And cry to YHWH, “Aah! For the day! For [the] Day of YHWH [is] near, And it comes as destruction from [the] Almighty.
那日子啊! 上主的日子來近了,它來有如全能者施行毀滅。
16 Is food not cut off before our eyes? Joy and rejoicing from the house of our 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 Scattered things have rotted under their clods, Storehouses have been desolated, Granaries have been broken down, For the grain has 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 How livestock have sighed! Perplexed have been droves of oxen, For there is no pasture for them, Also droves of sheep have been desolated.
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 You, O YHWH, I call, For fire has consumed lovely places of a wilderness, And a flame has set on fire all 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 Also the livestock of the field long for You, For dried up have been streams of water, And fire has consumed lovely places of a 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。

< Joel 1 >