¹The Word of Yahweh “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.

¹严重的蝗灾

²Hear this, you elders, And listen, all you inhabitants of the land. Has this ever happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

²老年人哪！你们要听这话。这地所有的居民啊！你们要留心听。在你们的日子，或在你们祖先的日子，曾有这样的事吗？

³Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation.

³你们要把这事传与子，子传与孙，孙传与后代。

⁴What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.

⁴剪虫剩下的，蝗虫吃了；蝗虫剩下的，蝻子吃了；蝻子剩下的，蚂蚱吃了。

⁵Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

⁵酒醉的人哪！你们要醒过来；要哀哭！所有嗜酒的人哪！你们都要为甜酒哀号，因为甜酒从你们的口里断绝了。

⁶For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.

⁶因为有一民族上来侵犯我的国土，他们强大又无数；他们的牙齿像狮子的牙齿，他们有母狮的大牙。

⁷He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.

⁷他们使我的葡萄树荒凉，折断了我的无花果树，把树皮剥尽，丢在一旁，使枝条露白。

⁸劝人民哀哭你们要哀号，像少女腰束麻布，为她幼年时许配的丈夫哀号一样。

⁹The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh’s house. The priests, Yahweh’s ministers, mourn.

⁹素祭和奠祭都从耶和华的殿里断绝了，事奉耶和华的祭司也都悲哀。

¹⁰The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes.

¹⁰田野荒废，土地凄凉，因为五谷毁坏，新酒干竭，油也缺乏。

¹¹Be confounded, you farmers! Wail, you vineyard keepers; for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field has perished.

¹¹农夫啊！你们要为大麦和小麦羞愧。修理葡萄园的啊！你们要哀号，因为田间的庄稼都破坏了。

¹²The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all of the trees of the field are withered; for joy has withered away from the sons of men.

¹²葡萄树枯干，无花果树衰残；石榴树、棕树、苹果树，田野所有的树木都枯干，因此欢乐从人间消失了。

¹³Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.” , for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God’s house.

¹³呼吁人民禁食祷告祭司啊！你们要腰束麻布，并且痛哭。在祭坛侍候的啊！你们要哀号。事奉我的　神的啊！你们披上麻布进去过夜吧，因为素祭和奠祭，都从你们的　神的殿中止息了。

¹⁴Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders, and all the inhabitants of the land, to the house of Yahweh, your God, and cry to Yahweh.

¹⁴你们要把禁食的日子分别为圣，召开严肃会，聚集众长老和国中所有的居民，到你们的　神耶和华的殿里，向耶和华呼求。

¹⁵Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

¹⁵哀哉那日！因为耶和华的日子临近了；那日来到，好像毁灭从全能者临到一样。

¹⁶Isn’t the food cut off before our eyes; joy and gladness from the house of our God?

¹⁶粮食不是在我们的眼前断绝了吗？欢喜与快乐不是从我们的　神的殿中止息了吗？

¹⁷The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.

¹⁷谷种在土块底下朽烂，仓库荒凉，谷仓破烂被拆毁，因为五谷都枯干了。

¹⁸How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

¹⁸牲畜发出哀鸣，牛群到处流荡，因为没有草场给它们，羊群也同样受苦。

¹⁹Yahweh, I cry to you, For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.

¹⁹耶和华啊！我向你呼求，因为火吞灭了旷野的草场，火焰烧尽了田间所有的树木。

²⁰Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, for the water brooks have dried up, And the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

²⁰田野的走兽也向你发喘，因为溪水都干涸了，火吞灭了旷野的草场。