Joel 3
1 For, behold, in those days and in that time, when I will have converted the captivity of Judah 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 gather all the Gentiles, and will lead them into the valley of Jehoshaphat. And there I will dispute with them over my people, and over Israel, my inheritance, for they have scattered them among the nations and 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 they have cast lots over my people; and the boy they have placed in the brothel, and the girl they have sold for wine, so that they might drink.
且為我的百姓拈鬮，將童子換妓女，賣童女買酒喝。
4 Truly, what is there between you and me, Tyre and Sidon and all the distant places of the Philistines? How will you take vengeance on me? And if you were to revenge yourselves against me, I would deliver a repayment to you, quickly and soon, upon your head.
「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 For you have carried away my silver and gold. And my desirable and most beautiful, you have taken into your shrines.
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, sons of Judah and sons of Jerusalem, you have sold the sons of the Greeks, so that you might drive them far from their own territory.
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 Behold, I will raise them up from the place into which you have sold them, and I will turn back your retribution on your own head.
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 sons of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, a distant nation, for the Lord has spoken.
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 this among the Gentiles: “Sanctify a war, raise up the strong. Approach, ascend, all 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 Cut your ploughs into swords and your hoes into spears. Let the weak say, ‘For 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 Break out and advance, all nations of the world, and gather together. There the Lord will cause all your strong ones to meet death.”
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 arise and ascend to the valley of Jehoshaphat. For there I will sit, so as to judge all the nations of the world.
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 Send forth the sickles, because the harvest has matured. Advance and descend, for the press is full, the pressing room is overflowing. For their malice has been increasing.
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 Nations, nations in the valley of being cut to pieces: for the day of the Lord fittingly takes place in the valley of being cut to pieces.
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 have been darkened, and the stars have withdrawn their splendor.
日月昏暗， 星宿無光。
16 And the Lord will roar from Zion and utter his voice from Jerusalem. And the heavens and the earth will be moved. And the Lord will be the hope of his people and the strength of the sons 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 will know that I am the Lord your God, dwelling on Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem will be holy, and strangers will not cross through it 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 will happen, in that day, that the mountains will drip sweetness, and the hills will flow with milk. And the waters will pass through all the rivers of Judah. And a fountain will go forth from the house of the Lord, and it will irrigate the desert of thorns.
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 will be in desolation, and Edom will be a wilderness destroyed, because of what they have unfairly done to the sons of Judah, and because they have shed innocent 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 And Judea will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem for generation upon generation.
但猶大必存到永遠； 耶路撒冷必存到萬代。
21 And I will cleanse their blood, which I had not cleansed. And the Lord will remain in Zion.
我未曾報復流血的罪， 現在我要報復， 因為耶和華住在錫安。
