The word of Jehovah which came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
耶和华的话临到毗土珥的儿子约珥。

Hear this, you elders, / And give heed, all you inhabitants of the land. / Has this ever happened in your days, / Or even in the days of your fathers?
老年人哪，当听这话；这地的一切居民哪，都要侧耳听。在你们的日子，或你们列祖的日子，曾发生这样的事么？

Tell your children about it, / And let your children tell their children, / And let their children tell the next generation.
你们要将这事传与子，子传与孙，孙传与后代。

What the cutting locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; / And what the swarming locust has left, the licking locust has eaten; / And what the licking locust has left, the consuming locust has eaten.
剪蝗剩下的，群蝗来吃；群蝗剩下的，舔蝗来吃；舔蝗剩下的，毁蝗来吃。

Awake, drunkards, and weep; / Howl, all you who drink wine, / Because of the fresh wine; / For it has been cut off from your mouth.
酒醉的人哪，要清醒哭泣；一切好酒的人哪，都要为新酒哀号；因为新酒从你们的口中断绝了。

For a nation has come up against My land, / Mighty and without number; / Its teeth are the teeth of a lion, / And it has the cutting teeth of a lioness.
有一国民又强盛，又无数，上来侵犯我的地；其牙齿如狮子的牙齿，大牙如母狮的大牙。

It has made My vine a desolation, / And My fig tree a heap of splinters. / It has stripped it bare and cast it away; / Its branches are white.
这民使我的葡萄树荒废，使我的无花果树成为碎堆，剥尽树皮而丢弃，使枝条露白。

Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth / Over the husband of her youth.
我的民哪，你当哀号，像处女腰束麻布，为幼年的丈夫哀号。

The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off / From the house of Jehovah; / The priests, the ministers of Jehovah, mourn.
素祭和奠祭从耶和华的殿中断绝；事奉耶和华的祭司都悲哀。

The field is a waste; / The land mourns, / For the grain is a waste; / The new wine is dried up; / The fresh oil languishes.
田荒废，地悲哀；因为五谷毁坏，新酒干竭，新油也缺乏。

Be ashamed, O farmers; / Howl, O vinedressers, / For the wheat and for the barley, / Because the harvest of the field has perished.
农夫啊，你们要惭愧；修理葡萄园的啊，你们要为大麦小麦哀号，因为田间的庄稼都灭绝了。

The vine is dried up, / And the fig tree languishes, / The pomegranate and the palm and the apple tree — / All the trees of the field are dried up; / Indeed gladness has withered away / From the children of men.
葡萄树枯干，无花果树衰残，石榴树、棕树、苹果树，连田野一切的树木也都枯干；众人的喜乐尽都枯竭。

Gird yourselves and lament, O priests; / Howl, O ministers of the altar. / Come, pass the night in sackcloth, / O ministers of my God. / For the meal offering and the drink offering / Are held back from the house of your God.
祭司啊，你们当腰束麻布痛哭；伺候祭坛的啊，你们要哀号。事奉我神的啊，你们要来披上麻布过夜；因为素祭和奠祭，从你们神的殿中停止了。

Sanctify a fast; / Call a solemn assembly; / Gather the elders / And all the inhabitants of the land / To the house of Jehovah your God; / And cry unto Jehovah.
你们要将禁食的日子分别为圣，宣告严肃会，招聚长老和这地的一切居民，到耶和华你们神的殿，向耶和华哀求。

Alas for the day! / For the day of Jehovah has drawn near, / And as the destruction from the Almighty it will come.
哀哉那日子！因为耶和华的日子临近了；这日子要来到，好像毁灭从全能者来到。

Is not our food / Cut off before our eyes, / Joy and exultation / From the house of our God?
粮食不是在我们眼前断绝了么？喜乐欢腾不是从我们神的殿中止息了么？

The seeds have shriveled / Under their clods; / The storehouses have been desolated; / The barns have been torn down; / For the grain is dried up.
谷种在土块下朽烂；仓房荒凉，廪库拆毁；因为五谷枯干了。

How the beasts groan! / The herds of cattle are confused, / For they have no pasture; / The flocks of sheep also suffer punishment.
牲畜哀鸣，牛群混乱，因为没有草场；羊群也受了灾罚。

To You, O Jehovah, I cry out; / For fire has devoured / The pastures of the wilderness, / And the flame has set ablaze / All the trees of the field.
耶和华啊，我向你呼求；因为火烧灭了旷野的草场，火焰烧尽田野的树木；

The beasts of the field also / Cry to You, / For the waterways / Are dried up, / And fire has devoured / The pastures of the wilderness.
田野的走兽也向你哀鸣；因为溪水干涸，火也烧灭旷野的草场。