Zephaniah 3
1 Woe [to] the rebelling and defiling, The oppressing city!
禍哉! 那叛逆、污穢，而殘暴的城市!
2 She has not listened to the voice, She has not accepted instruction, In YHWH she has not trusted, She has not drawn near to her God.
她從不聽呼聲，又不接受教訓；不依賴上主，也不親近她的天主。
3 Her heads in her midst [are] roaring lions, Her judges [are] wolves [as in] evening, They have not gnawn the bone in the morning.
她的王侯在她中間，是一些咆哮的獅子；她的判官是夜間的豺狼，什麼也不留到天明。
4 Her prophets unstable—men of treachery, Her priests have defiled the sanctuary, They have violated the Law.
她的先知都是些輕浮欺詐之徒，她火司祭褻瀆聖物，違犯法律。
5 YHWH [is] righteous in her midst, He does not do perverseness, Morning by morning His judgment He gives to the light, It has not been lacking, And the perverse do not know shame.
但上主在她中間是正義的，從不行不義；衪每天早晨施行審判，有如不消散的光明，衪全不認識可恥的邪惡。
6 “I have cut off nations, Desolated have been their chief ones, I have laid waste their out-places without any passing by, Destroyed have been their cities, Without man, without inhabitant.
我曾消滅了異民，他們的碉堡已化為廢墟；我使他們的街道荒涼得無人往來，他們的城市毀壞得不留一人，沒有一個遺。
7 I have said: Only, you fear Me, You accept instruction, And her habitation is not cut off, All that I have appointed for her, But they have risen early, They have corrupted all their doings.
我原想：「她必要敬畏我，接受教訓；凡我加於她的懲罰，必不致由她眼前消失。」但他們反加速使自己一切的行為墮落。
8 Therefore, wait for Me,” A declaration of YHWH, “For the day of My rising for prey, For My judgment [is] to gather nations, To assemble kingdoms, To pour out on them My indignation, All the heat of My anger, For by the fire of My jealousy all the earth is consumed.
為什麼你們等待我──上主的斷語──等到我起來作證的一天，因為我已決定聚集萬民，召集列國，在他們身上傾洩我的憤怒和我所有的怒火：全地必要為我的妒火所吞滅。
9 For then I turn a pure lip to peoples, To call all of them by the Name of YHWH, To serve Him [with] one shoulder.
那時，我要使萬民的口脣純潔好能稱叫上主的名號，同心協力服事上主。
10 From beyond the rivers of Cush, My supplicants, The daughter of My scattered ones, Bring My present.
欽崇我的人，[ 即我所分散的集團] 要從雇士河那邊給我貢獻祭品。
11 In that day you are not ashamed because of any of your actions, With which you have transgressed against Me, For then I turn aside from your midst The exulting ones of your excellence, And you are to be haughty no longer, In My holy mountain.
在那一天，你決不再因你反抗我的一切作為而羞慚，因為那時我必由你中間驅逐你那些驕矜自誇的人，使你不再在我的聖山上自誇；
12 And I have left in your midst a people humble and poor, And they have trusted in the Name of YHWH.
但我必在你中間留下謙遜和貧苦的百姓，他們必依賴上主的名號。
13 The remnant of Israel does no perversity, nor speaks lies, Nor is a deceitful tongue found in their mouth, For they have delight, and have lain down, And there is none troubling.”
以色列的遺民不再行邪惡，也不再說謊言；在他們的口裏再也找不到欺詐的吞頭；的確，他們或是牧放，或是休息，沒有人來恐嚇。
14 Cry aloud, O daughter of Zion, shout, O Israel, Rejoice and exult with the whole heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.
熙雍女子，妳應歡樂! 以色列，你應歡呼! 耶路撒冷女子，妳應全心高興喜樂!
15 YHWH has turned aside your judgments, He has faced your enemy, The King of Israel, YHWH, [is] in your midst, You see evil no more.
上主已撤銷對妳的定案，掃除了妳的仇敵；以色列的君王──上主，在妳中間，妳再不會遇見災禍!
16 In that day it is said to Jerusalem, “Do not fear, O Zion, Do not let your hands be feeble.
在那一天，人必對耶路撒冷說：「熙雍，你不用害怕，不要雙手低垂!
17 Your God YHWH [is] in your midst, A mighty one [to] save, He rejoices over you with joy, He works in His love, He delights over you with singing.”
上主你的天主，在你中間，他是一位施救的勇士，衪為你喜自勝，對你重溫衪的愛情，且因你躍喜樂，
18 “I have gathered My afflicted from the appointed place, They have been bearing reproach from you for her sake.
有如在慶節之日。我必消滅打搫你的人，使你不再受羞辱。
19 Behold, I am dealing with all afflicting you at that time, And I have saved the halting one, And I gather the ones driven out, And have set them for a praise and for a name, In all the land of their shame.
看哪! 在那時，我必要了結一切迫害你的人，我必要拯救瘸腿的，聚集漂的；我必使他們在各地所受的羞辱，化為稱讚和榮譽。
20 At that time I bring you in, Even at the time of My assembling you, For I give you for a name, and for a praise, Among all peoples of the land, In My turning back [to] your captivity before your eyes,” said YHWH!
那時，我我必要召你們回來；那時，我必要聚集你們；當我要在你們的面前轉變你們的命運時，我必使你們在普世萬民中，獲得榮譽和稱讚──上主說。
