Joel 1
1 The Lord’s message that came to Joel, son of Pethuel.
上主的話傳給培特耳的兒子岳厄爾：
2 Hear this, elders, pay attention, all inhabitants of the land. Has anything like this happened in your days, or in the days of your ancestors?
老人們，你們應聽這事! 地上的一切在你們的應側耳細聽! 在你們的時日，或在你們的祖先的時日，是否有過這樣的事﹖
3 Recount it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the generation that follows.
你們應將這樣的事告訴你們的子孫，你們的子孫應傳給你們的的子孫；他們的子孫又應代傳給下一代：
4 That which the cutting locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten, that which the swarming locust has left, the hopping locust has eaten, and that which the hopping locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.
蝻子吃剩的，飛蝗來吃了；飛蝗吃剩的，冬斯來吃了；冬斯吃剩的，蚱蜢來吃了。
5 Awake, drunkards, and weep, and wail, all drinkers of wine; the new wine is cut off from your mouth.
醉漢，你們醒來慟哭吧! 一切愛暍酒的人，為了新酒悲泣吧! 因為已由你們嘴邊奪去了。
6 For a nation has come up on my land, powerful, and numberless; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and its jaw-teeth are like those of a lioness.
因為有一個民族侵入了我的地區，既強大而又不可勝數；你們的牙猶如獅子的牙，臼齒有如母獅的臼齒。
7 It has laid waste my vines, and barked my fig tree; it has peeled and cast it away, bleached are the branches.
他們蹂躝了我的葡萄園，折斷了我的無花果樹，將樹皮完全剝掉，使樹枝光禿發白。
8 Wail as a bride, clad in sack-cloth, for the husband of her youth.
你哀傷吧! 如同一個身披喪服的處女，哀哭她青年的未婚夫。
9 Cut off are the cereal and drink-offerings from the house of the Lord; in mourning are the priests, who minister at the Lord’s altar.
上主殿中的素祭和奠祭已中斷；上主的僕人──司祭都都悲哀不已。
10 The fields are blasted, the land is in mourning, for ruined is the corn, the new wine fails and the oil is dried up.
田園已荒廢，土地已淒涼；因為五榖已遭蹂躝，美酒已枯竭，油已乾涸。
11 Be dismayed, farmers; wail, vine-dressers. For the wheat and the barley; for the harvest is lost from the fields.
農夫，你們應哀哭! 葡萄園丁，你們應為小麥和大麥而號咷! 因為田園的出產已遭。破壞
12 The vine fails to bear fruit, and the fig tree is drooping; the pomegranate, palm, and apple, all the trees of the field are dried up. The people’s joy withers.
葡萄樹枯槁了，無花果樹凋謝了；石榴樹、棕樹、蘋果樹，以及田間大中的一切果樹都枯死了；為此，喜樂已由人間消失。
13 Put on sackcloth, and beat your breasts, priests; wail, ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sack-cloth, ministers of God; for cereal-offering and drink-offering are cut off from the house of your God.
司祭，你們應披上麻衣而哀悼! 服務祭壇的人，你們應號咷! 我天主的僕人，你們應進來，披上麻衣過夜! 因為素祭和奠祭在你們天主的殿內已中斷了。
14 Sanctify a fast, summon an assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the Lord your God, cry to the Lord:
你們應制定一個齋期，召開一個盛會，聚集長老和當地的一切居民，在上主你們的天主的殿內，向上主呼號o
15 Alas for the day! Near at hand is the day of the Lord, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.
那日子啊! 上主的日子來近了，它來有如全能者施行毀滅。
16 Is not food cut off from before us, gladness and joy from the house of our God?
食物不是在我們眼斷絕了嗎﹖喜樂和歡欣不是離開了我們天主的殿嗎﹖
17 The grains shrivel under their hoes, the storehouses are desolate, the barns broken down, for the corn is withered.
麥粒已在土塊下腐爛，糧倉業已荒廢，廩倉業已坍塌，因為五榖都枯死了。
18 How the herds of cattle bellow in distress, for they have no pasture! The flocks of sheep are forlorn.
牲畜為什麼悲鳴﹖牛群為什麼徬徨﹖因為沒有了草場；連群也感絕望。
19 To you, the Lord, I cry. For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and flame has scorched all the trees of the field.
上主，我向你呼號，因為烈火吞滅了原野的牧場，火燄焚燒了田間的一切樹木。
20 The wild animals also look up to you longingly, for the water-courses are dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
連野獸也向你懇切哀鳴，因為水流已枯竭，烈火又吞滅了原野的牧場。
