 岳:1.(jl)   [岳厄爾]    [Joel]   [共 4 章]   [思高聖經]
  
 岳:1.1      [題名]  上主的話傳給培突耳的兒子岳厄爾：
 岳:1.2      [嚴重的蝗災]  老人們，你們應聽這事! 地上的一切在你們的應側耳細聽! 在你們的時日，或在你們的祖先的時日，是否有過這樣的事﹖
 岳:1.3      你們應將這事告訴你們的子孫，你們的子孫應傳給你們的的子孫；他們的子孫又應代傳給下一代：
 岳:1.4      蝻子吃剩的，飛蝗來吃了；飛蝗吃剩的，冬斯來吃了；冬斯吃剩的，蚱蜢來吃了。
 岳:1.5      醉漢，你們醒來慟哭吧! 一切愛暍酒的人，為了新酒悲泣吧! 因為已由你們嘴邊奪去了。
 岳:1.6      因為有一個民族侵入了我的地域，既強大而又不可勝數；你們的牙猶如獅子的牙，臼齒有如母獅的臼齒。
 岳:1.7      他們蹂躝了我的葡萄園，折斷了我的無花果樹，將樹皮完全剝掉，使樹枝光禿發白。
 岳:1.8      你哀傷吧! 如同一個身披喪服的處女，哀哭她青年的未婚夫。
 岳:1.9      上主殿中的素祭和奠祭已中斷；上主的僕人──司祭都都悲哀不已。
 岳:1.10     田園已荒廢，土地已淒涼；因為五榖已遭蹂躝，美酒已枯竭，油已乾涸。
 岳:1.11     農夫，你們應哀哭! 葡萄園丁，你們應為小麥和大麥而號咷! 因為田園的出產已遭。破壞
 岳:1.12     葡萄樹枯槁了，無花果樹凋謝了；石榴樹、棕樹、蘋果樹，以及田間大中的一切果樹都枯死了；為此，喜樂已由人間消失。
 岳:1.13     [勸告作補贖]  司祭，你們應披上麻衣而哀悼! 服務祭壇的人，你們應號咷! 我天主的僕人，你們應進來，披上麻衣過夜! 因為素祭和奠祭在你們天主的殿內已中斷了。
 岳:1.14     你們應制定一個齋期，召開一個盛會，聚集長老和當地的一切居民，在上主你們的天主的殿內，向上主呼號o
 岳:1.15     那日子啊! 上主的日子來近了，它來有如全能者施行毀滅。
 岳:1.16     食物不是在我們眼斷絕了嗎﹖喜樂和歡欣不是離開了我們天主的殿嗎﹖
 岳:1.17     麥粒已在土塊下腐爛，糧倉業已荒廢，廩倉業已坍塌，因為五榖都枯死了。
 岳:1.18     牲畜為什麼悲鳴﹖牛群為什麼徬徨﹖因為沒有了草場；連群也感絕望。
 岳:1.19     上主，我向你呼號，因為烈火吞滅了原野的牧場，火燄焚燒了田間的一切樹木。
 岳:1.20     連野獸也向你懇切哀鳴，因為水流已枯竭，烈火又吞滅了原野的牧場。
  
 岳:2.1      [上主的日子來臨]  你們要在熙雍吹起號角，在我的的聖山下吹起號筒! 叫大地所有的居民戰慄害怕，因為上主的日子來了，且已來近了。
 岳:2.2      那是一個陰霾昏暗的日子，是一個濃雲漆黑的日子! 一個龐大結盛的民族猶如曙光一樣，散布在各山下；像這樣的民族，是亙古以來從未有過，此後歷盡萬世萬代，也不會再有。
 岳:2.3      在這的前面，有吞滅的烈火，後面，有燃燒的火燄；這民族未來以前，大地有如伊甸樂園，既來以後，卻成了荒涼的；什麼也沒有留下。
 岳:2.4      你們的形狀有如馬的形狀，牠們奔馳有如戰爭馬．
 岳:2.5      牠們跳躍，發出有如戰車越過山巔的轔轔聲，發出有如烈火焚燒稻草的爆裂聲，活像一支嚴陣以待的強大軍旅。
 岳:2.6      萬民一見，為之惶恐，人人臉面為之失色。
 岳:2.7      們們疾進有如勇士，攀登城牆有如戰士，各走自己的路線，從不混亂自己的行列。
 岳:2.8      牠們各不相擠，各循自己的路線進行；既使衝鋒陷陣，仍不散亂。
 岳:2.9      牠們進攻城邑，奔上城牆壁，攀登屋頂，闖進窗戶，有如盜賊一般。
 岳:2.10     在牠們面前，大地為之震蕩，諸天為之搖動，星辰為之失光。
 岳:2.11     上主在自己的軍旅散發出了自己的聲音，祂的隊伍極其龐大，執行祂命令的，又是強而有力的；上主的一個子實在偉大，極甚可怕：有誰能抵得住﹖
 岳:2.12     [呼籲懺悔和補贖]  至少現在──上主的斷語──你們應全心歸向我，禁食，哭泣，悲哀!
 岳:2.13     應撕裂的，是你們的心，而不是你們的衣服；你們應歸向上主你們的天主．因為祂寬仁慈悲，遲於發怒，富於慈愛，常懊悔降災。
 岳:2.14     有誰知道，也許祂會轉意後悔，在這場災禍後，給你們留下祝福，好使你們能給上主你們的天主獻上素祭和奠祭。
 岳:2.15     你們要在熙雍吹起號角，制定一個齋期，召開一個盛會。
 岳:2.16     要召集民眾，制定一個集會。召集老人，集合幼童，既使吃奶的嬰兒；新郎應走出他的洞房，新郎應離開她的閨房。
 岳:2.17     上主的僕人──司祭，應在殿廊與祭壇之間痛哭，說：「上主，求你憐恤你的百姓，不要讓你的基業遭受侮辱，使異民取笑他們! 為什麼讓人在異民中說：他們的的天主在哪裏﹖」
 岳:2.18     [上主再賜福寵]  上主對自己的地域又重加妒愛，憐憫了自己的百姓。
 岳:2.19     上主答覆祂的百姓說：我必再賜給你們五榖、酒、油，使你們得享飽飫；不再使你們在異民中遭受恥辱。
 岳:2.20     我要使從北方來的大軍，遠離你們；要驅逐他們到荒涼不毛地，使他們的先鋒面向東海，使他們的殿軍面向西海；他們的臭氣要上升，他們的腥臭要上騰。「因為他們行了大惡。」
 岳:2.21     田地，你不要害怕，反要歡愉喜樂，因為上主行了大事。
 岳:2.22     田間的野獸，你們不要害怕，因為原野的牧場又已發青，樹木已再結果，無花果樹和葡萄樹必再供給出產。
 岳:2.23     熙雍的子女! 你們應歡樂，應喜樂於上主你們的天主，因為祂按公義，像昔日一樣，賜給了且給你們時雨，且給你們降下甘霖：秋雨和春雨。
 岳:2.24     禾埸必充滿莊稼，榨池必湧出美酒和新酒。
 岳:2.25     我必要補償你們，我對你們派來的大軍：飛蝗、冬斯、蚱蜢和蝻子，連年所吃掉的收成。
 岳:2.26     你們必得飽食，必要頌揚上主你們的天主的名，因為祂為你們行了奇妙的事。[我的百姓永不再蒙受羞辱。]
 岳:2.27     你們將會知道：我是在以色列中間，我是上主你們的天主，此外再沒有別的神；而我的百姓永不再蒙受羞辱。
  
 岳:3.1      [上主傾注他的神]  此後──上主的斷語──我要將我的神傾注在一切有血肉的人身上：你們的兒子們和你們的女兒們要說預言，你們的老人要人要看夢境，你們的青年要見神視；
 岳:3.2      在那些日子裏，甚至在奴僕和婢女身上，我也要傾注我的神。
 岳:3.3      我要在上天下地顯示奇異的徵兆：血、火和煙柱。
 岳:3.4      在上主偉大可畏的日子來臨以前，太陽要變為昏暗，月亮要變成血紅。
 岳:3.5      將來，凡呼號上主名號的人，必然獲救，因為如上主所說，在熙雍山，在耶路撒冷必有救援，必有上主召選的劫後餘生。
  
 岳:4.1      [異民齊集於約沙法特山谷]  看，在那些日子，在那個時候，當我轉變猶大和耶路撒冷的命運時，
 岳:4.2      我必聚集萬民，領他們下到約沙法特山谷，在那裏我要關於我的，我的基業以色列，審問他們，因為他們使我的百姓散居在異民中，且瓜分了我的土地，
 岳:4.3      為我的百姓捸了籤，以男童換取淫婦，賣掉女童，換洒買醉。
 岳:4.4      [上主報復腓尼基人]  提洛、漆冬和培肋舍特所有的地域! 你們想對我做什麼﹖你們想對我施行報復嗎﹖若你們向我報復，我立刻將你們的作為歸在你們的頭上，
 岳:4.5      因為你們奪去了我的金銀，將我的珍寶帶到你們的宮中；
 岳:4.6      又將猶大子民和耶路撒冷子民賣給雅汪人，使他們遠離自己的祖國。
 岳:4.7      看，不拘你們把他們出賣到什麼城邑和地方，我必要使他們從那裏回來，卻把你們所做的，歸在你們頭上：
 岳:4.8      將你們的兒女賣在猶大子民的手裏，使他們再轉賣給遠方的舍巴人，因為上主這樣說了。
 岳:4.9      [末日的戰爭]  你們要在異民中宣布：準備聖戰，激勵勇士! 一切戰士應前進襲擊!
 岳:4.10     將你們的犁頭鑄成刀劍，將你們的鐮刀鑄成長槍；連者也要說：我是個戰士!
 岳:4.11     四周的異民! 你們急速前來，在這裏聚合。上主，使你的勇士降臨吧!
 岳:4.12     [異民受審]  異民，起來，前往約沙法特山谷，因為我要在那裏坐堂，審訊四周的一切異民。
 岳:4.13     伸出鐮刀，因為莊稼已成熟；前來踐踏! 因為洒榨已溢出，因為他們已惡貫滿盈。
 岳:4.14     成群結隊的人齊集在審判谷，因為上主的日子已臨近了審判谷。
 岳:4.15     [上主是選民的堡壘]  太陽和月亮昏暗了，星辰失去了光芒。
 岳:4.16     上主從熙雍怒吼，從耶路撒冷發出自己的聲音，天地為之震動；但上主卻是自己百姓的避難所，是以色列子民的堡壘。
 岳:4.17     那時，他們必要知道：我上主是你們的天主，我住在熙雍，我的聖山上。那時，耶路撒冷必要成為聖地，外人再不能從那裏經過。
 岳:4.18     [默西亞時代]  到了那一天，山嶽必要滴下新洒，丘陵必要流下乳汁，猶大的一切河流必要湧流清水；從上主的殿裏，將有一清泉流出，澆灌史庭山谷。
 岳:4.19     埃及將變成荒地，厄東將成為曠野，因為他們虐待了判斷子民，在他們的境內傾流了無辜者的血。
 岳:4.20     但猶大永遠有人居住，耶路撒冷也世世代代有人居住。
 岳:4.21     我必要追討尚未追討的血債；因為上主住在熙雍。　 [岳厄爾完篇]
  
 jl:1.  [Joe l]   4 chapters   [岳厄爾]  [英文版]
  
 jl:1.1      The word of the LORD which came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.
 jl:1.2      Hear this, you elders! Pay attention, all you who dwell in the land! Has the like of this happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?
 jl:1.3      Tell it to your children, and your children to their children, and their children to the next generation.
 jl:1.4      What the cutter left, the locust swarm has eaten; What the locust swarm left, the grasshopper has eaten; And what the grasshopper left, the devourer has eaten.
 jl:1.5      Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, Because the juice of the grape will be withheld from your mouths.
 jl:1.6      For a people has invaded my land, mighty and without number; His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and his molars those of a lioness.
 jl:1.7      He has laid waste my vine, and blighted my fig tree; He has stripped it, sheared off its bark; its branches are made white.
 jl:1.8      Lament like a virgin girt with sackcloth for the spouse of her youth.
 jl:1.9      Abolished are offering and libation from the house of the LORD; In mourning are the priests, the ministers of the LORD.
 jl:1.10     The field is ravaged, the earth mourns, Because the grain is ravaged, the must has failed, the oil languishes.
 jl:1.11     Be appalled, you husbandmen! wail, you vinedressers! Over the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.
 jl:1.12     The vine has dried up, the fig tree is withered; The pomegranate, the date palm also, and the apple, all the trees of the field are dried up; Yes, joy has withered away from among mankind.
 jl:1.13     Gird yourselves and weep, O priests! wail, O ministers of the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God! The house of your God is deprived of offering and libation.
 jl:1.14     Proclaim a fast, call an assembly; Gather the elders, all who dwell in the land, Into the house of the LORD, your God, and cry to the LORD!
 jl:1.15     Alas, the day! for near is the day of the LORD, and it comes as ruin from the Almighty.
 jl:1.16     From before our very eyes has not the food been cut off; And from the house of our God, joy and gladness?
 jl:1.17     The seed lies shriveled under its clods; the stores are destroyed, The barns are broken down, for the grain has failed.
 jl:1.18     How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are bewildered! Because they have no pasturage, even the flocks of sheep have perished.
 jl:1.19     To you, O LORD, I cry! for fire has devoured the pastures of the plain, and flame has enkindled all the trees of the field.
 jl:1.20     Even the beasts of the field cry out to you; For the streams of water are dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the plain.

 jl:2.1      Blow the trumpet in Zion, sound the alarm on my holy mountain! Let all who dwell in the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming;
 jl:2.2      Yes, it is near, a day of darkness and of gloom, a day of clouds and somberness! Like dawn spreading over the mountains, a people numerous and mighty! Their like has not been from of old, nor will it be after them, even to the years of distant generations.
 jl:2.3      Before them a fire devours, and after them a flame enkindles; Like the garden of Eden is the land before them, and after them a desert waste; from them there is no escape.
 jl:2.4      Their appearance is that of horses; like steeds they run.
 jl:2.5      As with the rumble of chariots they leap on the mountaintops; As with the crackling of a fiery flame devouring stubble; Like a mighty people arrayed for battle.
 jl:2.6      Before them peoples are in torment, every face blanches.
 jl:2.7      Like warriors they run, like soldiers they scale the wall; They advance, each in his own lane, without swerving from their paths.
 jl:2.8      No one crowds another, each advances in his own track; Though they fall into the ditches, they are not checked.
 jl:2.9      They assault the city, they run upon the wall, they climb into the houses; In at the windows they come like thieves.
 jl:2.10     Before them the earth trembles, the heavens shake; The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withhold their brightness.
 jl:2.11     The LORD raises his voice at the head of his army; For immense indeed is his camp, yes, mighty, and it does his bidding. For great is the day of the LORD, and exceedingly terrible; who can bear it?
 jl:2.12     Yet even now, says the LORD, return to me with your whole heart, with fasting, and weeping, and mourning;
 jl:2.13     Rend your hearts, not your garments, and return to the LORD, your God. For gracious and merciful is he, slow to anger, rich in kindness, and relenting in punishment.
 jl:2.14     Perhaps he will again relent and leave behind him a blessing, Offerings and libations for the LORD, your God.
 jl:2.15     Blow the trumpet in Zion! proclaim a fast, call an assembly;
 jl:2.16     Gather the people, notify the congregation; Assemble the elders, gather the children and the infants at the breast; Let the bridegroom quit his room, and the bride her chamber.
 jl:2.17     Between the porch and the altar let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep, And say, "Spare, O LORD, your people, and make not your heritage a reproach, with the nations ruling over them! Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?'"
 jl:2.18     Then the LORD was stirred to concern for his land and took pity on his people.
 jl:2.19     The LORD answered and said to his people: See, I will send you grain, and wine, and oil, and you shall be filled with them; No more will I make you a reproach among the nations.
 jl:2.20     No, the northerner I will remove far from you, and drive him out into a land arid and waste, With his van toward the eastern sea, and his rear toward the western sea; And his foulness shall go up, and his stench shall go up.
 jl:2.21     Fear not, O land! exult and rejoice! for the LORD has done great things.
 jl:2.22     Fear not, beasts of the field! for the pastures of the plain are green; The tree bears its fruit, the fig tree and the vine give their yield.
 jl:2.23     And do you, O children of Zion, exult and rejoice in the LORD, your God! He has given you the teacher of justice: he has made the rain come down for you, the early and the late rain as before.
 jl:2.24     The threshing floors shall be full of grain and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.
 jl:2.25     And I will repay you for the years which the locust has eaten, The grasshopper, the devourer, and the cutter, my great army which I sent among you.
 jl:2.26     You shall eat and be filled, and shall praise the name of the LORD, your God, Because he has dealt wondrously with you; my people shall nevermore be put to shame.
 jl:2.27     And you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel; I am the LORD, your God, and there is no other; my people shall nevermore be put to shame.
  
 jl:3.1      Then afterward I will pour out my spirit upon all mankind. Your sons and daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions;
 jl:3.2      Even upon the servants and the handmaids, in those days, I will pour out my spirit.
 jl:3.3      And I will work wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood, fire, and columns of smoke;
 jl:3.4      The sun will be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, At the coming of the Day of the LORD, the great and terrible day.
 jl:3.5      Then everyone shall be rescued who calls on the name of the LORD; For on Mount Zion there shall be a remnant, as the LORD has said, And in Jerusalem survivors whom the LORD shall call.
  
 jl:4.1      Yes, in those days, and at that time, when I would restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
 jl:4.2      I will assemble all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, And I will enter into judgment with them there on behalf of my people and my inheritance, Israel; Because they have scattered them among the nations, and divided my land.
 jl:4.3      Over my people they have cast lots; they gave a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for the wine they drank.
 jl:4.4      Moreover, what are you to me, Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Would you take vengeance upon me by some action? But if you do take action against me, swiftly, speedily, I will return your deed upon your own head.
 jl:4.5      You took my silver and my gold, and brought my precious treasures into your temples!
 jl:4.6      You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, removing them far from their own country!
 jl:4.7      See, I will rouse them from the place into which you have sold them, and I will return your deed upon your own head.
 jl:4.8      I will sell your sons and your daughters to the people of Judah, who shall sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far off. Indeed, the LORD has spoken.
 jl:4.9      Declare this among the nations: proclaim a war, rouse the warriors to arms! Let all the soldiers report and march!
 jl:4.10     Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak man say, "I am a warrior!"
 jl:4.11     Hasten and come, all you neighboring peoples, assemble there! (Bring down, O Lord, your warriors!)
 jl:4.12     Let the nations bestir themselves and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; For there I will sit in judgment upon all the neighboring nations.
 jl:4.13     Apply the sickle, for the harvest is ripe; Come and tread, for the wine press is full; The vats overflow, for great is their malice.
 jl:4.14     Crowd upon crowd in the valley of decision; For near is the day of the LORD in the valley of decision.
 jl:4.15     Sun and moon are darkened, and the stars withhold their brightness.
 jl:4.16     The LORD roars from Zion, and from Jerusalem raises his voice; The heavens and the earth quake, but the LORD is a refuge to his people, a stronghold to the men of Israel.
 jl:4.17     Then shall you know that I, the LORD, am your God, dwelling on Zion, my holy mountain; Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall pass through her no more.
 jl:4.18     And then, on that day, the mountains shall drip new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk; And the channels of Judah shall flow with water: A fountain shall issue from the house of the LORD, to water the Valley of Shittim.
 jl:4.19     Egypt shall be a waste, and Edom a desert waste, Because of violence done to the people of Judah, because they shed innocent blood in their land.
 jl:4.20     But Judah shall abide forever, and Jerusalem for all generations.
 jl:4.21     I will avenge their blood, and not leave it unpunished. The LORD dwells in Zion. [end of Joel]

