< Zephaniah 1 >

1 [the] word of Yahweh - which it came to Zephaniah [the] son of Cushi [the] son of Gedaliah [the] son of Amariah [the] son of Hezekiah in [the] days of Josiah [the] son of Amon [the] king of Judah.
在阿孟的兒子約史亞為猶大王的時日,上主的話傳給希則克雅的曾孫,革達里雅的孫子,雇史的兒子索福尼亞。
2 Utterly I will bring to an end everything from on [the] surface of the ground [the] utterance of Yahweh.
我必要由地面上掃除一切──上主的斷語──
3 I will bring to an end human being and animal I will bring to an end [the] bird[s] of the heavens and [the] fish of the sea and the stumbling-blocks with the wicked [people] and I will cut off humankind from on [the] surface of the ground [the] utterance of Yahweh.
我要掃除人和獸,我要掃除天空的鳥和海中的魚;我必使作惡的人倒斃,並由地面上剷除世人──上主的斷語。
4 And I will stretch out hand my on Judah and on all [the] inhabitants of Jerusalem and I will cut off from the place this [the] remnant of Baal [the] name of the pagan priests with the priests.
我要伸手懲罰猶大和耶路撒冷所有的居民,我要由這地方剷除巴耳的記念和僧侶[司祭]的名字,
5 And those [who] bow down on the roofs to [the] host of the heavens and those [who] bow down those [who] swear an oath to Yahweh and those [who] swear an oath by Milcom.
剷除那在露台上敬拜天象和那敬拜上主而又指米耳公起誓的人,
6 And those [who] have turned back from after Yahweh and [those] who not they have sought Yahweh and not they have sought him.
剷除那背離天主,不尋覓上主,不求問上主的人。
7 Hush! from before [the] Lord Yahweh for [is] near [the] day of Yahweh for he has prepared Yahweh a sacrifice he has consecrated invited [ones] his.
在我主上主面前要肅靜,因為上主的日子臨近了! 上主備辨了祭宴,祝福了衪邀請的人。
8 And it will be on [the] day of [the] sacrifice of Yahweh and I will visit [judgment] on the princes and on [the] sons of the king and on all those [who] are clothed clothing foreign.
在祭宴日內,我要懲罰公侯和王室,以及一切穿外邦衣服的人。
9 And I will visit [judgment] on every [one who] leaps over the threshold on the day that those [who] fill [the] house of lord their violence and deceit.
在那一天,我要懲罰一切跳過門檻,和使自己主人家充滿殘暴欺詐的人。
10 And it will be on the day that [the] utterance of Yahweh [the] sound of a cry of distress from [the] gate of the fish and wailing from the second district and a crashing great from the hills.
在那一天,──上主的斷語──必有喊聲發自魚門,必有哀號出自新區,必有利害的崩潰來自山陵。
11 Wail O inhabitants of the Mortar for it will be destroyed all [the] people of Canaan they will be cut off all [the] weighers of silver.
居於盆地的居民,你們應哀號! 因為一切商人都已被消滅,一切秤量銀子的人己被剷除。
12 And it will be at the time that I will search Jerusalem with lamps and I will visit [judgment] on the people who are thickening on lees their who are saying in heart their not he will do good Yahweh and not he will do harm.
那時,我必提上燈,搜索耶路撒冷,懲罰那躺臥在酒槽上,心下自謂:「上主不賞善,也不罰惡」的人。
13 And it will become wealth their plunder and houses their a desolation and they will build houses and not they will dwell [in them] and they will plant vineyards and not they will drink wine their.
他們的財物必遭擄掠;他們的家園必成廢墟;他們建築房屋,卻不得居住;他們種植葡萄園,卻不得酒飲。
14 [is] near [the] day of Yahweh great near and hurrying exceedingly [the] sound of [the] day of Yahweh bitter [is] shouting out there a warrior.
上主偉大的日子臨近了,臨近了! 且來的很快。哀哉! 上主火日子是苦的,連壯士那時也要哀號。
15 [will be] a day of Fury the day that a day of trouble and distress a day of devastation and desolation a day of darkness and gloom a day of cloud and thick darkness.
那天是憤怒的一天,困苦艱難的一天,破壞摧殘的一天,昏暗幽冥的一天,烏雲陰霾的一天;
16 A day of trumpet and battle-cry on the cities fortified and on the corners high.
是向堅城、碉堡吹號鳴角的一天!
17 And I will cause distress to humankind and they will walk like blind [people] for to Yahweh they have sinned and it will be poured out blood their like dust and bowel[s] their like dung.
我要使人苦惱,使他們行路有如瞎子,因為他們得罪了上主;他們的血流出有如塵土,他們的屍體有如糞土。
18 Neither silver their nor gold their not it will be able to deliver them on [the] day of [the] fury of Yahweh and in [the] fire of jealousy his it will be consumed all the earth for complete destruction surely a terrible [thing] he will make with all [the] inhabitants of the earth.
連他們的金銀財寶也不能救拔他們! 上主憤怒的日子,整個大地都要為衪的妒火所吞滅,因為衪要向地上的一切居民,執行徹底而又可怕的毀滅。

< Zephaniah 1 >