Zephaniah 1
1 This is the word of Yahweh that came to Zephaniah son of Cushi son of Gedaliah son of Amariah son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah son of Amon, 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 “I will utterly destroy everything from off the surface of the earth—this is Yahweh's declaration.
我必要由地面上掃除一切──上主的斷語──
3 I will destroy man and beast; I will destroy the birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea, the ruins along with the wicked. For I will cut off man from the surface of the earth—this is Yahweh's declaration.
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 I will reach out with my hand over Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. I will cut off every remnant of Baal from this place and the names of the idolatrous people among 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 the people who on the housetops worship the heavenly bodies, and the people who worship and swear to Yahweh but who also swear by their king.
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 I will also cut off those who have turned away from following Yahweh, those who neither seek Yahweh nor ask for his guidance.”
剷除那背離天主，不尋覓上主，不求問上主的人。
7 Be silent before the Lord Yahweh! For the day of Yahweh is near; Yahweh has prepared the sacrifice and set apart his guests.
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 “It will come about on the day of Yahweh's sacrifice, that I will punish the princes and the king's sons, and everyone dressed in foreign clothes.
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 On that day I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, those who fill their master's house with 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 So it will be on that day—this is Yahweh's declaration— that a cry of distress will come from the Fish Gate, wailing from the Second District, and a great crashing sound 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, inhabitants of the Market District, for all the merchants will be ruined; all those who weigh out silver will be cut off.
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 It will come about at that time that I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men who have settled into their wine and say in their heart, 'Yahweh will not do anything, either good or evil.'
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 Their wealth will become plunder, and their houses will be an abandoned devastation! They will build houses but not live in them, and plant vineyards but not drink their wine.
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 The great day of Yahweh is near, near and hurrying quickly! The sound of the day of Yahweh will be that of a warrior crying bitterly!
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 That day will be a day of fury, a day of distress and anguish, a day of storm and devastation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds 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 It will be a day of trumpets and alarms against the fortified cities and the high battlements.
是向堅城、碉堡吹號鳴角的一天!
17 For I will bring distress upon mankind, so that they will walk about like blind men since they have sinned against Yahweh. Their blood will be poured out like dust, and their inner parts 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 their silver nor their gold will be able to save them on the day of Yahweh's fury. In the fire of his jealousy the whole earth will be consumed, for he will bring a complete, a terrible end of 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。
