 索:1.(zep)  [索福尼亞]    [Zephaniah]   [共 3 章]   [思高聖經]
  
 索:1.1      [題名]  在阿孟的兒子約史亞為猶大王的時日，上主的話傳給希則克雅的曾孫，革達里雅的孫子，雇史的兒子索福尼亞。
 索:1.2      [上主將毀滅眾生]  我必要由地面上掃除一切──上主的斷語──
 索:1.3      我要掃除人和獸，我要掃除天空的鳥和海中的魚；我必使作惡的人倒斃，並由地面上剷除世人──上主的斷語。
 索:1.4      我要伸手懲罰猶大和耶路撒冷所有的居民，我要由這地方剷除巴耳的記念和僧侶[司祭]的名字，
 索:1.5      剷除那在露台上敬拜天象和那敬拜上主而又指米耳公起誓的人，
 索:1.6      剷除那背離天主，不尋覓上主，不求問上主的人。
 索:1.7      [上主的日子]  在我主上主面前要肅靜，因為上主的日子臨近了! 上主備辨了祭宴，祝福了祂邀請的人。
 索:1.8      在祭宴日內，我要懲罰公侯和王室，以及一切穿外邦衣服的人。
 索:1.9      在那一天，我要懲罰一切跳過門檻，和使自己主人家充滿殘暴欺詐的人。
 索:1.10     在那一天，──上主的斷語──必有喊聲發自魚門，必有哀號出自新區，必有利害的崩潰來自山陵。
 索:1.11     居於盆地的居民，你們應哀號! 因為一切商人都已被消滅，一切秤量銀子的人己被剷除。
 索:1.12     那時，我必提上燈，搜索耶路撒冷，懲罰那躺臥在酒槽上，心下自謂：「上主不賞善，也不罰惡」的人。
 索:1.13     他們的財物必遭擄掠；他們的家園必成廢墟；他們建築房屋，卻不得居住；他們種植葡萄園，卻不得酒飲。
 索:1.14     [苦痛的日子]  上主偉大的日子臨近了，臨近了，且來的很快。哀哉! 上主火日子是苦的，連壯士那時也要哀號。
 索:1.15     那天是憤怒的一天，困苦艱難的一天，破壞摧殘的一天，昏暗幽冥的一天，烏雲陰霾的一天；
 索:1.16     是向堅城、碉堡吹號鳴角的一天!
 索:1.17     我要使人苦惱，使他們行路有如瞎子，因為他們得罪了上主；他們的血流出有如塵土，他們的屍體有如糞土。
 索:1.18     連他們的金銀財寶也不能救拔他們! 上主憤怒的日子，整個大地都要為祂的妒火所吞滅，因為祂要向地上的一切居民，執行徹底而又可怕的毀滅。
  
 索:2.1      [及時歸向上主]  沒有廉恥的民族! 在你們尚未像糠秕一朝被吹散之前，在上主的怒火尚未來到你們身上，在上主忿怒的日子尚未來到你們身上以前，你們聚首檢討吧!
 索:2.3      地上所有遵守祂法律的卑微人! 你們應求上主，你們要尋求公義，要尋求謙和，也許你們在上主忿怒的日子能藏身免禍。
 索:2.4      [西鄰的遭遇]  因為茄薩將被拋棄，阿市刻隆必被剷除。
 索:2.5      禍哉! 沿海地帶的居民，革勒提民族! 看，這是木攻擊你們的話：培肋舍特地! 我要貶抑你，把你毀滅得再無固民!
 索:2.6      沿海地帶必將成為牧的牧場，羊群的羊棧。
 索:2.7      沿海地帶必將歸於猶大家的遺民；他們將沿著海濱放羊，晚上歇息在阿市刻隆的棧房，因為上主他們的天主必看顧他們，轉變他們的境遇。
 索:2.8      [東鄰的遭遇]  我聽到了摩阿布的辱罵，阿孟子民火詆詬；他們辱罵了我的百姓，欺凌了我的領域。
 索:2.9      為此，我指著我的生命起誓──萬軍的上主，以色列天主火斷語：摩阿布必要像索多瑪，哈孟子民必要像哈摩辣，變為荊棘叢、監堆、荒野，直到永遠。我百姓的遺民要劫掠他們，我民族的殘餘，要佔領他們的產業。
 索:2.1      這事要臨到他們身上，是由於他們的的傲慢，因為他們辱罵欺凌了萬軍的上主的百姓。
 索:2.11      上主必要威嚴地顯示給他們，因為祂要消滅地上的一切神衹；那時異邦各笆島嶼，各從自己的地方朝拜祂。
 索:2.12      [南北鄰國的遭遇]  連你們雇士人，也要為我的刀劍所刺透。
 索:2.13      祂還要向北方伸出自己的手，為消滅亞述，使尼尼微化為荒地，像杪漠一樣乾旱。
 索:2.14      牲畜和窪地所有的走獸必要臥息息其中，鵜鴣和鵁鶄也棲宿在她的柱頭間，鴟梟在窗上啼叫，烏鴉停門檻上，因為人剝去了她以香柏做的裝飾：
 索:2.15      這就是那享樂安居，心想「只有我，沒有別人」的城市! 她如何竟成了荒野，成了野獸的棲所! 凡由她那裏經過的人，莫不嗤笑搖手。
  
 索:3.1       [申斥耶路撒冷]  禍哉! 那叛逆、污穢，而殘暴的城市!
 索:3.2       她從不聽呼聲，又不接受教訓；不依賴上主，也不親近她的天主。
 索:3.3       她的王侯在她中間，是一些咆哮的獅子；她的判官是夜間的豺狼，什麼也不留到天明。
 索:3.4       她的先知都是些輕浮欺詐之徒，她的司祭褻瀆聖物，違犯法律。
 索:3.5       但上主在她中間是正義的，從不行不義；祂每天早晨施行審判，有如不消散的光明，祂全不認識可恥的邪惡。
 索:3.6       我曾消滅了異民，他們的碉堡已化為廢墟；我使他們的街道荒涼得無人往來，他們的城市毀壞得不留一人，沒有一個遺。
 索:3.7       我原想：「她必要敬畏我，接受教訓；凡我加於她的懲罰，必不致由她眼前消失。」但他們反加速使自己一切的行為墮落。
 索:3.8       為此，你們等待我──上主的斷語──等到我起來作證的一天，因為我已決定聚集萬民，召集列國，在他們身上傾洩我的忿怒和我所有的怒火：全地必要為我的妒火所吞滅。
 索:3.9       [萬民將歸向上主]  那時，我要使萬民的口脣純潔好能稱叫上主的名號，同心協力服事上主。
 索:3.10      欽崇我的人，[即我所分散的集團]要從雇士河那邊給我貢獻祭品。
 索:3.11      [以民悔改]  在那一天，你決不再因你反抗我的一切作為而羞慚，因為那時我必由你中間驅逐你那些驕矜自誇的人，使你不再在我的聖山上自誇；
 索:3.12      但我必在你中間留下謙遜和貧苦的百姓，他們必依賴上主的名號。
 索:3.13      以色列的遺民不再行邪惡，也不再說謊言；在他們的口裏再也找不到欺詐的吞頭；的確，他們或是牧放，或是休息，沒有人來恐嚇。
 索:3.14      [以民必獲救援]  熙雍女子，妳應歡樂! 以色列，你應歡呼! 耶路撒冷女子，妳應全心高興喜樂!
 索:3.15      上主已撤銷對妳的定案，掃除了妳的仇敵；以色列的君王──上主，在妳中間，妳再不會遇見災禍!
 索:3.16      在那一天，人必對耶路撒冷說：「熙雍，你不用害怕，不要雙手低垂!
 索:3.17      上主你的天主，在你中間，他是一位施救的勇士，祂為你喜自勝，對你重溫祂的愛情，且因你躍喜樂，
 索:3.18      有如在慶節之日。我必消滅打搫你的人，使你不再受羞辱。
 索:3.19      看哪! 在那時，我必要了結一切迫害你的人，我必要拯救瘸腿的，聚集漂的；我必使他們在各地所受的羞辱，化為稱讚和榮譽。
 索:3.20      那時，我我必要召你們回來；那時，我必要聚集你們；當我要在你們的面前轉變你們的命運時，我必使你們在普世萬民中，獲得榮譽和稱讚──上主說。　[索福尼亞完篇]
 　
 zep:1.      [Zephaniah]    3 chapters    [索福尼亞]  [英文版]
   
 zep:1.1.    The word of the LORD which came to Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah.
 zep:1.2.    I will completely sweep away all things from the face of the earth, says the LORD.
 zep:1.3.    I will sweep away man and beast, I will sweep away the birds of the sky, and the fishes of the sea. I will overthrow the wicked; I will destroy mankind from the face of the earth, says the LORD.
 zep:1.4.    I will stretch out my hand against Judah, and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; I will destroy from this place the last vestige of Baal, the very names of his priests.
 zep:1.5.    And those who adore the host of heaven on the roofs, with those who adore the LORD but swear by Milcom;
 zep:1.6.    And those who have fallen away from the LORD, and those who do not seek the LORD.
 zep:1.7.    Silence in the presence of the Lord GOD! for near is the day of the LORD, Yes, the LORD has prepared a slaughter feast, he has consecrated his guests.
 zep:1.8.    On the day of the LORD'S slaughter feast I will punish the princes, and the king's sons, and all that dress in foreign apparel.
 zep:1.9.    I will punish, on that day, all who leap over the threshold, Who fill the house of their master with violence and deceit.
 zep:1.10.   On that day, says the LORD, A cry will be heard from the Fish Gate, a wail from the New Quarter, loud crashing from the hills.
 zep:1.11.   Wail, O inhabitants of the Mortar! for all the merchants will be destroyed, all who weigh out silver, done away with.
 zep:1.12.   At that time I will explore Jerusalem with lamps; I will punish the men who thicken on their lees, Who say in their hearts, "Neither good nor evil can the LORD do."
 zep:1.13.   Their wealth shall be given to pillage and their houses to devastation; They will build houses, but shall not dwell in them, plant vineyards, but not drink their wine,
 zep:1.14.   Near is the great day of the LORD, near and very swiftly coming, Hark, the day of the LORD! bitter, then, the warrior's cry.
 zep:1.15.   A day of wrath is that day a day of anguish and distress, A day of destruction and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, A day of thick black clouds,
 zep:1.16.   a day of trumpet blasts and battle alarm Against fortified cities, against battlements on high.
 zep:1.17.   I will hem men in till they walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the LORD; And their blood shall be poured out like dust, and their brains like dung.
 zep:1.18.   Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to save them on the day of the LORD'S wrath, When in the fire of his jealousy all the earth shall be consumed. For he shall make an end, yes, a sudden end, of all who live on the earth.
   
 zep:2.1.    Gather, gather yourselves together, O nation without shame!
 zep:2.2.    Before you are driven away, like chaff that passes on; Before there comes upon you the blazing anger of the LORD: Before there comes upon you the day of the LORD'S anger.
 zep:2.3.    Seek the LORD, all you humble of the earth, who have observed his law; Seek justice, seek humility; perhaps you may be sheltered on the day of the LORD'S anger.
 zep:2.4.    For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon shall be a waste, Ashdod they shall drive out at midday, and Ekron shall be uprooted.
 zep:2.5.    Woe to you who dwell by the seacoast, to the Cretan folk! The word of the LORD is against you, I will humble you, land of the Philistines, and leave you to perish without an inhabitant!
 zep:2.6.    The coastland of the Cretans shall become fields for shepherds, and folds for flocks.
 zep:2.7.    The coast shall belong to the remnant of the house of Judah; by the sea they shall pasture. In the houses of Ashkelon at evening they shall couch their flocks, For the LORD their God shall visit them, and bring about their restoration.
 zep:2.8.    I have heard the revilings uttered by Moab, and the insults of the Ammonites, When they reviled my people and made boasts against their territory.
 zep:2.9.    Therefore, as I live, says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall become like Sodom, the land of Ammon like Gomorrah: A field of nettles and a salt pit and a waste forever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, the survivors of my nation dispossess them.
 zep:2.10.   Such shall be the requital of their pride, because they reviled and boasted against the people of the LORD of hosts.
 zep:2.11.   The LORD shall inspire them with fear when he makes all the gods of earth to waste away; Then, each from its own place, all the coastlands of the nations shall adore him.
 zep:2.12.   You too, O Cushites, shall be slain by the sword of the LORD.
 zep:2.13.   He will stretch out his hand against the north, to destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a waste, dry as the desert.
 zep:2.14.   In her midst shall settle in droves all the wild life of the hollows; The screech owl and the desert owl shall roost in her columns; Their call shall resound from the window, the raven's croak from the doorway.
 zep:2.15.   Is this the exultant city that dwelt secure; That told herself, "There is no other than I!" How has she become a waste, a lair for wild beasts? Whoever passes by her hisses, and shakes his fist!
   
 zep:3.1.    Woe to the city, rebellious and polluted, to the tyrannical city!
 zep:3.2.    She hears no voice, accepts no correction; In the LORD she has not trusted, to her God she has not drawn near.
 zep:3.3.    Her princes in her midst are roaring lions; Her judges are wolves of the night that have had no bones to gnaw by morning.
 zep:3.4.    Her prophets are insolent, treacherous men; Her priests profane what is holy, and do violence to the law.
 zep:3.5.    The LORD within her is just, who does no wrong; Morning after morning he renders judgment unfailingly, at dawn.
 zep:3.6.    I have destroyed nations, their battlements are laid waste; I have made their streets deserted, with no one passing through; Their cities are devastated, with no man dwelling in them.
 zep:3.7.    I said, "Surely now you will fear me, you will accept correction"; She should not fail to see all I have visited upon her. Yet all the more eagerly have they done all their corrupt deeds.
 zep:3.8.    Therefore, wait for me, says the LORD, against the day when I arise as accuser; For it is my decision to gather together the nations, to assemble the kingdoms, In order to pour out upon them my wrath, all my blazing anger; For in the fire of my jealousy shall all the earth be consumed.
 zep:3.9.    For then I will change and purify the lips of the peoples, That they all may call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one accord;
 zep:3.10.   From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia and as far as the recesses of the North, they shall bring me offerings.
 zep:3.11.   On that day You need not be ashamed of all your deeds, your rebellious actions against me; For then will I remove from your midst the proud braggarts, And you shall no longer exalt yourself on my holy mountain.
 zep:3.12.   But I will leave as a remnant in your midst a people humble and lowly, Who shall take refuge in the name of the LORD;
 zep:3.13.   the remnant of Israel. They shall do no wrong and speak no lies; Nor shall there be found in their mouths a deceitful tongue; They shall pasture and couch their flocks with none to disturb them.
 zep:3.14.   Shout for joy, O daughter Zion! sing joyfully, O Israel! Be glad and exult with all your heart, O daughter Jerusalem!
 zep:3.15.   The LORD has removed the judgment against you, he has turned away your enemies; The King of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst, you have no further misfortune to fear.
 zep:3.16.   On that day, it shall be said to Jerusalem: Fear not, O Zion, be not discouraged!
 zep:3.17.   The LORD, your God, is in your midst, a mighty savior; He will rejoice over you with gladness, and renew you in his love, He will sing joyfully because of you,
 zep:3.18.   as one sings at festivals. I will remove disaster from among you, so that none may recount your disgrace.
 zep:3.19.   Yes, at that time I will deal with all who oppress you; I will save the lame, and assemble the outcasts; I will give them praise and renown in all the earth, when I bring about their restoration.
 zep:3.20.   At that time I will bring you home, and at that time I will gather you; For I will give you renown and praise, among all the peoples of the earth, When I bring about your restoration before your very eyes, says the LORD. [end of Zephaniah]

