Joel 1

¹The word of the LORD that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel:

¹耶和華的話臨到毗土珥的兒子約珥。

²Hear this, O elders, And listen, all inhabitants of the land. Has [anything like] this happened in your days Or in your fathers' days?

²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，曾有這樣的事麼？

³Tell your sons about it, And [let] your sons [tell] their sons, And their sons the next generation.

³你們要將這事傳與子，子傳與孫，孫，傳與後代。

⁴What the gnawing locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; And what the swarming locust has left, the creeping locust has eaten; And what the creeping locust has left, the stripping locust has eaten.

⁴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。

⁵Awake, drunkards, and weep; And wail, all you wine drinkers, On account of the sweet wine That is cut off from your mouth.

⁵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。

⁶For a nation has invaded my land, Mighty and without number; Its teeth are the teeth of a lion, And it has the fangs of a lioness.

⁶有一隊蝗蟲（原文是民）又強盛又無數，侵犯我的地；他的牙齒如獅子的牙齒，大牙如母獅的大牙。

⁷It has made my vine a waste And my fig tree splinters. It has stripped them bare and cast [them] away; Their branches have become white.

⁷他毀壞我的葡萄樹，剝了我無花果樹的皮，剝盡而丟棄，使枝條露白。

⁸Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth For the bridegroom of her youth.

⁸我的民哪，你當哀號，像處女腰束麻布，為幼年的丈夫哀號。

⁹The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off From the house of the LORD. The priests mourn, The ministers of the LORD.

⁹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。

¹⁰The field is ruined, The land mourns; For the grain is ruined, The new wine dries up, Fresh oil fails.

¹⁰田荒涼，地悲哀；因為五穀毀壞，新酒乾竭，油也缺乏。

¹¹Be ashamed, O farmers, Wail, O vinedressers, For the wheat and the barley; Because the harvest of the field is destroyed.

¹¹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。

¹²The vine dries up And the fig tree fails; The pomegranate, the palm also, and the apple tree, All the trees of the field dry up. Indeed, rejoicing dries up From the sons of men.

¹²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。

¹³Gird yourselves [with sackcloth] And lament, O priests; Wail, O ministers of the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth O ministers of my God, For the grain offering and the drink offering Are withheld from the house of your God.

¹³祭司啊，你們當腰束麻布痛哭；伺候祭壇的啊，你們要哀號；事奉我神的啊，你們要來披上麻布過夜，因為素祭和奠祭從你們　神的殿中斷絕了。

¹⁴Consecrate a fast, Proclaim a solemn assembly; Gather the elders [And] all the inhabitants of the land To the house of the LORD your God, And cry out to the LORD.

¹⁴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─你們神的殿，向耶和華哀求。

¹⁵Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is near, And it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

¹⁵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。

¹⁶Has not food been cut off before our eyes, Gladness and joy from the house of our God?

¹⁶糧食不是在我們眼前斷絕了嗎？歡喜快樂不是從我們神的殿中止息了嗎？

¹⁷The seeds shrivel under their clods; The storehouses are desolate, The barns are torn down, For the grain is dried up.

¹⁷穀種在土塊下朽爛；倉也荒涼，廩也破壞；因為五穀枯乾了。

¹⁸How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle wander aimlessly Because there is no pasture for them; Even the flocks of sheep suffer.

¹⁸牲畜哀鳴；牛群混亂，因為無草；羊群也受了困苦。

¹⁹To You, O LORD, I cry; For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness And the flame has burned up all the trees of the field.

¹⁹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。

²⁰Even the beasts of the field pant for You; For the water brooks are dried up And fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

²⁰田野的走獸向你發喘；因為溪水乾涸，火也燒滅曠野的草場。