Joel 2
1 Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the LORD comes, for it is close at hand:
你們要在錫安吹角， 在我聖山吹出大聲。 國中的居民都要發顫； 因為耶和華的日子將到， 已經臨近。
2 A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.
那日是黑暗、幽冥、 密雲、烏黑的日子， 好像晨光鋪滿山嶺。 有一隊蝗蟲又大又強； 從來沒有這樣的， 以後直到萬代也必沒有。
3 A fire devours before them, and behind them, a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them, a desolate wilderness. Yes, and no one has escaped them.
牠們前面如火燒滅， 後面如火焰燒盡。 未到以前，地如伊甸園； 過去以後，成了荒涼的曠野； 沒有一樣能躲避牠們的。
4 Their appearance is as the appearance of horses, and they run as horsemen.
牠們的形狀如馬， 奔跑如馬兵。
5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains, they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, like a strong people set in battle array.
在山頂蹦跳的響聲如車輛的響聲， 又如火焰燒碎稭的響聲， 好像強盛的民擺陣預備打仗。
6 At their presence the peoples are in anguish. All faces have grown pale.
牠們一來，眾民傷慟， 臉都變色。
7 They run like mighty men. They climb the wall like warriors. They each march in his line, and they don’t swerve off course.
牠們如勇士奔跑， 像戰士爬城； 各都步行，不亂隊伍。
8 One doesn’t jostle another. They each march in their own path. They burst through the defenses and don’t break ranks.
彼此並不擁擠，向前各行其路， 直闖兵器，不偏左右。
9 They rush on the city. They run on the wall. They climb up into the houses. They enter in at the windows like thieves.
牠們蹦上城，躥上牆， 爬上房屋， 進入窗戶如同盜賊。
10 The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
牠們一來， 地震天動， 日月昏暗， 星宿無光。
11 The LORD thunders his voice before his army, for his forces are very great; for he is strong who obeys his command; for the day of the LORD is great and very awesome, and who can endure it?
耶和華在他軍旅前發聲， 他的隊伍甚大； 成就他命的是強盛者。 因為耶和華的日子大而可畏， 誰能當得起呢？
12 “Yet even now,” says the LORD, “turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”
耶和華說：雖然如此， 你們應當禁食、哭泣、悲哀， 一心歸向我。
13 Tear your heart and not your garments, and turn to the LORD, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.
你們要撕裂心腸， 不撕裂衣服。 歸向耶和華－你們的上帝； 因為他有恩典，有憐憫， 不輕易發怒， 有豐盛的慈愛， 並且後悔不降所說的災。
14 Who knows? He may turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal offering and a drink offering to the LORD, your God.
或者他轉意後悔，留下餘福， 就是留下獻給耶和華－你們上帝的素祭和奠祭， 也未可知。
15 Blow the trumpet in Zion! Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly.
你們要在錫安吹角， 分定禁食的日子， 宣告嚴肅會。
16 Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the elders. Gather the children, and those who nurse from breasts. Let the bridegroom go out of his room, and the bride out of her chamber.
聚集眾民，使會眾自潔： 招聚老者， 聚集孩童和吃奶的； 使新郎出離洞房， 新婦出離內室。
17 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, “Spare your people, LORD, and don’t give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
事奉耶和華的祭司 要在廊子和祭壇中間哭泣，說： 耶和華啊，求你顧惜你的百姓， 不要使你的產業受羞辱， 列邦管轄他們。 為何容列國的人說： 「他們的上帝在哪裏」呢？
18 Then the LORD was jealous for his land, and had pity on his people.
耶和華就為自己的地發熱心， 憐恤他的百姓。
19 The LORD answered his people, “Behold, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied with them; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.
耶和華應允他的百姓說： 我必賜給你們五穀、新酒，和油， 使你們飽足； 我也不再使你們受列國的羞辱；
20 But I will remove the northern army far away from you, and will drive it into a barren and desolate land, its front into the eastern sea, and its back into the western sea; and its stench will come up, and its bad smell will rise.” Surely he has done great things.
卻要使北方來的軍隊遠離你們， 將他們趕到乾旱荒廢之地： 前隊趕入東海， 後隊趕入西海； 因為他們所行的大惡， 臭氣上升，腥味騰空。
21 Land, don’t be afraid. Be glad and rejoice, for the LORD has done great things.
地土啊，不要懼怕； 要歡喜快樂， 因為耶和華行了大事。
22 Don’t be afraid, you animals of the field; for the pastures of the wilderness spring up, for the tree bears its fruit. The fig tree and the vine yield their strength.
田野的走獸啊，不要懼怕； 因為，曠野的草發生， 樹木結果， 無花果樹、葡萄樹也都效力。
23 “Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD, your God; for he gives you the early rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the early rain and the latter rain, as before.
錫安的民哪，你們要快樂， 為耶和華－你們的上帝歡喜； 因他賜給你們合宜的秋雨， 為你們降下甘霖， 就是秋雨、春雨，和先前一樣。
24 The threshing floors will be full of wheat, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.
禾場必滿了麥子； 酒醡與油醡必有新酒和油盈溢。
25 I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the great locust, the grasshopper, and the caterpillar, my great army, which I sent among you.
我打發到你們中間的大軍隊， 就是蝗蟲、蝻子、螞蚱、剪蟲， 那些年所吃的，我要補還你們。
26 You will have plenty to eat and be satisfied, and will praise the name of the LORD, your God, who has dealt wondrously with you; and my people will never again be disappointed.
你們必多吃而得飽足， 就讚美為你們行奇妙事之耶和華－你們上帝的名。 我的百姓必永遠不致羞愧。
27 You will know that I am among Israel, and that I am the LORD, your God, and there is no one else; and my people will never again be disappointed.
你們必知道我是在以色列中間， 又知道我是耶和華－你們的上帝； 在我以外並無別神。 我的百姓必永遠不致羞愧。
28 “It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.
以後，我要將我的靈澆灌凡有血氣的。 你們的兒女要說預言； 你們的老年人要做異夢， 少年人要見異象。
29 And also on the servants and on the handmaids in those days, I will pour out my Spirit.
在那些日子， 我要將我的靈澆灌我的僕人和使女。
30 I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood, fire, and pillars of smoke.
「在天上地下，我要顯出奇事，有血，有火，有煙柱。
31 The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes.
日頭要變為黑暗，月亮要變為血，這都在耶和華大而可畏的日子未到以前。
32 It will happen that whoever will call on the LORD’s name shall be saved; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as the LORD has said, and among the remnant, those whom the LORD calls.
到那時候，凡求告耶和華名的就必得救；因為照耶和華所說的，在錫安山，耶路撒冷必有逃脫的人，在剩下的人中必有耶和華所召的。」
