Joel 1
1 The Lord sent a message through Joel, son of Pethuel.
耶和華的話臨到毗土珥的兒子約珥。
2 Listen to this, elders; pay attention, everyone who lives in the land. Has anything ever happened like this before in your experience, or that of your forefathers?
老年人哪，當聽我的話； 國中的居民哪，都要側耳而聽。 在你們的日子， 或你們列祖的日子， 曾有這樣的事嗎？
3 Tell your children about it, and have your children tell it to their children, and their children tell the next generation.
你們要將這事傳與子， 子傳與孫， 孫傳與後代。
4 What the cutting locusts left, the swarming locusts have eaten; what the swarming locusts left, the hopping locusts have eaten; what the hopping locusts left, the destroying locusts have eaten.
剪蟲剩下的，蝗蟲來吃； 蝗蟲剩下的，蝻子來吃； 蝻子剩下的，螞蚱來吃。
5 Wake up, you drunks, and weep! Howl you wine-drinkers, because the new wine has been suddenly taken away from your mouth!
酒醉的人哪，要清醒哭泣； 好酒的人哪，都要為甜酒哀號， 因為從你們的口中斷絕了。
6 A nation has invaded my land: powerful and too many to count. Their teeth are like lion's teeth, their fangs like those of a lioness.
有一隊蝗蟲又強盛又無數， 侵犯我的地； 牠的牙齒如獅子的牙齒， 大牙如母獅的大牙。
7 It has ruined my grapevines and destroyed my fig trees, stripping them completely and reducing them to stumps, white and bare.
牠毀壞我的葡萄樹， 剝了我無花果樹的皮， 剝盡而丟棄，使枝條露白。
8 Mourn like a bride dressed in sackcloth, mourning the death of her husband-to-be.
我的民哪，你當哀號，像處女腰束麻布， 為幼年的丈夫哀號。
9 Grain and wine offerings have stopped in the Temple. The priests who minister before the Lord are in mourning.
素祭和奠祭從耶和華的殿中斷絕； 事奉耶和華的祭司都悲哀。
10 The fields are devastated, the earth mourns; for the grain is ruined, the new wine dries up, the olive oil fails.
田荒涼，地悲哀； 因為五穀毀壞， 新酒乾竭，油也缺乏。
11 Be ashamed, farmers, and wail in sorrow, keepers of vineyards, over the wheat and the barley, for the crops from the fields are ruined.
農夫啊，你們要慚愧； 修理葡萄園的啊，你們要哀號； 因為大麥小麥與田間的莊稼都滅絕了。
12 The vines are shriveled, the fig trees are withered; the pomegranate, the palm, and the apricot trees—all the fruit trees have dried up, and at the same time the people's happiness has also dried up.
葡萄樹枯乾； 無花果樹衰殘。 石榴樹、棕樹、蘋果樹， 連田野一切的樹木也都枯乾； 眾人的喜樂盡都消滅。
13 Dress in sackcloth, you priests, and mourn; weep, you who minister before the altar! Go and spend the night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the grain and wine offerings have stopped in the Temple.
祭司啊，你們當腰束麻布痛哭； 伺候祭壇的啊，你們要哀號； 事奉我上帝的啊，你們要來披上麻布過夜， 因為素祭和奠祭從你們上帝的殿中斷絕了。
14 Proclaim a fast; call a sacred assembly. Have the elders and all people of the land gather in the Temple, and cry out to your God, to the Lord.
你們要分定禁食的日子， 宣告嚴肅會， 招聚長老和國中的一切居民 到耶和華－你們上帝的殿， 向耶和華哀求。
15 What a terrible day! For the day of the Lord is near, it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
哀哉！耶和華的日子臨近了。 這日來到，好像毀滅從全能者來到。
16 Haven't we seen our food taken away from us, right before our eyes? There is no joy and happiness in God's Temple.
糧食不是在我們眼前斷絕了嗎？ 歡喜快樂不是從我們上帝的殿中止息了嗎？
17 Seeds planted in the ground shrivel up; the storehouses are empty, the barns are torn down because the grain has dried up.
穀種在土塊下朽爛； 倉也荒涼，廩也破壞； 因為五穀枯乾了。
18 The farm animals moan with hunger. The herds of cattle wander everywhere because they can't find grass to eat; the flocks of sheep are suffering.
牲畜哀鳴； 牛群混亂，因為無草； 羊群也受了困苦。
19 To you, Lord, I cry out! For fire has destroyed the pastures in the wilderness; flames have burned up all the orchards.
耶和華啊，我向你求告， 因為火燒滅曠野的草場； 火焰燒盡田野的樹木。
20 Even the wild animals long for you because the streams have dried up, and fire has destroyed the pastures in the wilderness.
田野的走獸向你發喘； 因為溪水乾涸， 火也燒滅曠野的草場。
