Joel 3
1 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
「到那日，我使猶大和耶路撒冷被擄之人歸回的時候，
2 I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
我要聚集萬民，帶他們下到約沙法谷，在那裏施行審判；因為他們將我的百姓，就是我的產業以色列，分散在列國中，又分取我的地土，
3 and they have cast lots for my people: and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
且為我的百姓拈鬮，將童子換妓女，賣童女買酒喝。
4 Yea, and what are ye to me, [O] Tyre, and Zidon, and all the regions of Philistia? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head.
「泰爾、西頓，和非利士四境的人哪，你們與我何干？你們要報復我嗎？若報復我，我必使報應速速歸到你們的頭上。
5 Forasmuch as ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things;
你們既然奪取我的金銀，又將我可愛的寶物帶入你們宮殿，
6 the children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the sons of the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border:
並將猶大人和耶路撒冷人賣給希臘人，使他們遠離自己的境界。
7 behold, I will stir them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head;
我必激動他們離開你們所賣到之地，又必使報應歸到你們的頭上。
8 and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the men of Sheba, to a nation far off: for the LORD hath spoken it.
我必將你們的兒女賣在猶大人的手中，他們必賣給遠方示巴國的人。這是耶和華說的。」
9 Proclaim ye this among the nations; prepare war: stir up the mighty men; let all the men of war draw near, let them come up.
當在萬民中宣告說： 要預備打仗； 激動勇士， 使一切戰士上前來。
10 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
要將犂頭打成刀劍， 將鐮刀打成戈矛； 軟弱的要說：我有勇力。
11 Haste ye, and come, all ye nations round about, and gather yourselves together: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD.
四圍的列國啊， 你們要速速地來， 一同聚集。 耶和華啊， 求你使你的大能者降臨。
12 Let the nations bestir themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the nations round about.
萬民都當興起， 上到約沙法谷； 因為我必坐在那裏， 審判四圍的列國。
13 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, tread ye; for the winepress is full, the vats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
開鐮吧！因為莊稼熟了； 踐踏吧！因為酒醡滿了。 酒池盈溢； 他們的罪惡甚大。
14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
許多許多的人在斷定谷， 因為耶和華的日子臨近斷定谷。
15 The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
日月昏暗， 星宿無光。
16 And the LORD shall roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake, but the LORD will be a refuge unto his people, and a strong hold to the children of Israel.
耶和華必從錫安吼叫， 從耶路撒冷發聲， 天地就震動。 耶和華卻要作他百姓的避難所， 作以色列人的保障。
17 So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God, dwelling in Zion my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
你們就知道我是耶和華－你們的上帝， 且又住在錫安－我的聖山。 那時，耶路撒冷必成為聖； 外邦人不再從其中經過。
18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the brooks of Judah shall flow with waters; and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
到那日，大山要滴甜酒； 小山要流奶子； 猶大溪河都有水流。 必有泉源從耶和華的殿中流出來， 滋潤什亭谷。
19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
埃及必然荒涼， 以東變為悽涼的曠野， 都因向猶大人所行的強暴， 又因在本地流無辜人的血。
20 But Judah shall abide for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
但猶大必存到永遠； 耶路撒冷必存到萬代。
21 And I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.
我未曾報復流血的罪， 現在我要報復， 因為耶和華住在錫安。
