西番雅书 2
1 不知羞耻的国民哪，你们应当聚集！ 趁命令没有发出， 日子过去如风前的糠， 耶和华的烈怒未临到你们， 他发怒的日子未到以先， 你们应当聚集前来。
Gather yourselves, gather together, O shameful nation,
before the decree takes effect and the day passes like chaff, before the burning anger of the LORD comes upon you, before the Day of the LORD’s anger comes upon you.
3 世上遵守耶和华典章的谦卑人哪， 你们都当寻求耶和华！ 当寻求公义谦卑， 或者在耶和华发怒的日子可以隐藏起来。
Seek the LORD, all you humble of the earth who carry out His justice. Seek righteousness; seek humility. Perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the LORD’s anger.
4 迦萨必致见弃； 亚实基伦必然荒凉。 人在正午必赶出亚实突的民； 以革伦也被拔出根来。
For Gaza will be abandoned, and Ashkelon left in ruins. Ashdod will be driven out at noon, and Ekron will be uprooted.
5 住沿海之地的基利提族有祸了！ 迦南、非利士人之地啊，耶和华的话与你反对， 说：我必毁灭你，以致无人居住。
Woe to the dwellers of the seacoast, O nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines: “I will destroy you, and no one will be left.”
6 沿海之地要变为草场， 其上有牧人的住处和羊群的圈。
So the seacoast will become a land of pastures, with wells for shepherds and folds for sheep.
7 这地必为犹大家剩下的人所得； 他们必在那里牧放群羊， 晚上必躺卧在亚实基伦的房屋中； 因为耶和华—他们的 神必眷顾他们， 使他们被掳的人归回。
The coast will belong to the remnant of the house of Judah; there they will find pasture. They will lie down in the evening among the houses of Ashkelon, for the LORD their God will attend to them and restore their captives.
8 我听见摩押人的毁谤和亚扪人的辱骂， 就是毁谤我的百姓，自夸自大， 侵犯他们的境界。
“I have heard the reproach of Moab and the insults of the Ammonites, who have taunted My people and threatened their borders.
9 万军之耶和华—以色列的 神说： 我指着我的永生起誓： 摩押必像所多玛， 亚扪人必像蛾摩拉， 都变为刺草、盐坑、永远荒废之地。 我百姓所剩下的必掳掠他们； 我国中所余剩的必得着他们的地。
Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah— a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”
10 这事临到他们是因他们骄傲，自夸自大， 毁谤万军之耶和华的百姓。
This they shall have in return for their pride, for taunting and mocking the people of the LORD of Hosts.
11 耶和华必向他们显可畏之威， 因他必叫世上的诸神瘦弱。 列国海岛的居民各在自己的地方敬拜他。
The LORD will be terrifying to them when He starves all the gods of the earth. Then the nations of every shore will bow in worship to Him, each in its own place.
12 古实人哪，你们必被我的刀所杀。
“You too, O Cushites, will be slain by My sword.”
13 耶和华必伸手攻击北方，毁灭亚述， 使尼尼微荒凉，又干旱如旷野。
And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert.
14 群畜，就是各国的走兽必卧在其中； 鹈鹕和箭猪要宿在柱顶上。 在窗户内有鸣叫的声音； 门槛都必毁坏， 香柏木已经露出。
Herds will lie down in her midst, creatures of every kind. Both the desert owl and screech owl will roost atop her pillars. Their calls will sound from the window, but desolation will lie on the threshold, for He will expose the beams of cedar.
15 这是素来欢乐安然居住的城， 心里说：惟有我，除我以外再没有别的； 现在何竟荒凉成为野兽躺卧之处！ 凡经过的人都必摇手嗤笑她。
This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.
