Joel 3
1 For, behold, in those days and at that time, when I shall have turned the captivity of Juda and Jerusalem,
「到那日，我使猶大和耶路撒冷被擄之人歸回的時候，
2 I will also gather all the Gentiles, and bring them down to the valley of Josaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and my heritage Israel, who have been dispersed amongst the Gentiles; and [these Gentiles] have divided my land,
我要聚集萬民，帶他們下到約沙法谷，在那裏施行審判；因為他們將我的百姓，就是我的產業以色列，分散在列國中，又分取我的地土，
3 and cast lots over my people, and have given [their] boys to harlots, and sold [their] girls for wine, and have drunk.
且為我的百姓拈鬮，將童子換妓女，賣童女買酒喝。
4 And what have you to do with me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all Galilee of the Gentiles? do you render me a recompense? or do you bear malice against me? quickly and speedily will I return your recompense on your own heads:
「泰爾、西頓，和非利士四境的人哪，你們與我何干？你們要報復我嗎？若報復我，我必使報應速速歸到你們的頭上。
5 because you have taken my silver and my gold, and you have brought my choice ornaments into your temples;
你們既然奪取我的金銀，又將我可愛的寶物帶入你們宮殿，
6 and you have sold the children of Juda and the children of Jerusalem to the children of the Greeks, that you might expel them from their coasts.
並將猶大人和耶路撒冷人賣給希臘人，使他們遠離自己的境界。
7 Therefore, behold, I [will] raise them up out of the place whither you have sold them, and I will return your recompense on your own heads.
我必激動他們離開你們所賣到之地，又必使報應歸到你們的頭上。
8 And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Juda, and they shall sell them into captivity to a far distant nation: for the Lord has spoken [it].
我必將你們的兒女賣在猶大人的手中，他們必賣給遠方示巴國的人。這是耶和華說的。」
9 Proclaim these things amongst the Gentiles; declare war, arouse the warriors, draw near and go up, all you men of war.
當在萬民中宣告說： 要預備打仗； 激動勇士， 使一切戰士上前來。
10 Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your sickles into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
要將誆頭打成刀劍， 將鐮刀打成戈矛； 軟弱的要說：我有勇力。
11 Gather yourselves together, and go in, all you nations round about, and gather yourselves there; let the timid become a warrior.
四圍的列國啊， 你們要速速地來， 一同聚集。 耶和華啊， 求你使你的大能者降臨。
12 Let them be aroused, let all the nations go up to the valley of Josaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the Gentiles round about.
萬民都當興起， 上到約沙法谷； 因為我必坐在那裏， 審判四圍的列國。
13 Bring forth the sickles, for the vintage is come: go in, tread [the grapes], for the press is full: cause the vats to overflow; for their wickedness is multiplied.
開鐮吧！因為莊稼熟了； 踐踏吧！因為酒醡滿了。 酒池盈溢； 他們的罪惡甚大。
14 Noises have resounded in the valley of judgement: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of judgement.
許多許多的人在斷定谷， 因為耶和華的日子臨近斷定谷。
15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their light.
日月昏暗， 星宿無光。
16 And the Lord shall cry out of Sion, and shall utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heaven and the earth shall be shaken, but the Lord shall spare his people, and shall strengthen the children of Israel.
耶和華必從錫安吼叫， 從耶路撒冷發聲， 天地就震動。 耶和華卻要作他百姓的避難所， 作以色列人的保障。
17 And you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who dwell in Sion my holy mountain: and Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall not pass through her anymore.
你們就知道我是耶和華－你們的上帝， 且又住在錫安－我的聖山。 那時，耶路撒冷必成為聖； 外邦人不再從其中經過。
18 And it shall come to pass in that day [that] the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the fountains of Juda shall flow with water, and a fountain shall go forth of the house of the Lord, and water the valley of flags.
到那日，大山要滴甜酒； 小山要流奶子； 猶大溪河都有水流。 必有泉源從耶和華的殿中流出來， 滋潤什亭谷。
19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Idumea shall be a desolate plain, because of the wrongs of the children of Juda, because they have shed righteous blood in their land.
埃及必然荒涼， 以東變為悽涼的曠野， 都因向猶大人所行的強暴， 又因在本地流無辜人的血。
20 But Judea shall be inhabited for ever, and Jerusalem to all generations.
但猶大必存到永遠； 耶路撒冷必存到萬代。
21 And I will make inquisition for their blood, and will by no means leave it unavenged: and the Lord shall dwell in Sion.
我未曾報復流血的罪， 現在我要報復， 因為耶和華住在錫安。
