Joel 3
1 For beholde, in those dayes and in that time, when I shall bring againe the captiuitie of Iudah and Ierusalem,
「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 nations, and wil bring them downe into the valley of Iehoshaphat, and will pleade with them there for my people, and for mine heritage Israel, whom they haue scattered among the nations, and parted 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 haue cast lottes for my people, and haue giuen the childe for the harlot, and sold the girle for wine, that they might drinke.
且為我的百姓拈鬮，將童子換妓女，賣童女買酒喝。
4 Yea, and what haue you to do with me, O Tyrus and Zidon and all the costes of Palestina? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompence mee, swiftly and speedily will I render your recompence vpon 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 ye haue taken my siluer and my golde, and haue caried into your temples my goodly and pleasant things.
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 The children also of Iudah and the children of Ierusalem haue you solde vnto the Grecians, that ye might send them farre from their border.
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 Beholde, I will rayse them out of the place where ye haue sold them, and will render your reward vpon your owne 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 send your sonnes and your daughters into the hande of the children of Iudah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people farre off: for the Lord hath 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 Publish this among the Gentiles: prepare warre, wake vp the mightie men: let all the men of warre drawe neere and come vp.
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 Breake your plowshares into swords, and your sithes into speares: let the weake 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 Assemble your selues, and come all yee heathen and gather your selues together round about: there shall the Lord cast downe the mightie men.
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 the heathen be wakened, and come vp to the valley of Iehoshaphat: for there will I sit to iudge all the heathen 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 Put in your sithes, for the haruest is ripe: come, get you downe, for the winepresse is full: yea, the winepresses runne ouer, for their wickednesse is great.
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 O multitude, O multitude, come into the valley of threshing: for the day of the Lord is neere in the valley of threshing.
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 sunne and moone shalbe darkened, and the starres shall withdrawe their light.
日月昏暗， 星宿無光。
16 The Lord also shall roare out of Zion, and vtter his voyce from Ierusalem, and the heauens and the earth shall shake, but the Lord wil be the hope of his people, and the strength of 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 So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion, mine holy Mountaine: then shall Ierusalem bee holy, and there shall no strangers go thorowe her any more.
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 in that day shall the mountaines drop downe newe wine, and the hilles shall flowe with milke, and al the riuers of Iudah shall runne with waters, and a fountaine shall come forth of the House of the Lord, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
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 shalbe waste, and Edom shall be a desolate wildernesse, for the iniuries of the childre of Iudah, because they haue 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 But Iudah shall dwell for euer, and Ierusalem from generation to generation.
但猶大必存到永遠； 耶路撒冷必存到萬代。
21 For I will clense their blood, that I haue not clensed, and the Lord will dwell 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。
