珥1:1 耶和华的话临到毗土珥的儿子约珥：
珥1:1 The word of the Lord which came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.
珥1:2 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？
珥1:2 Give ear to this, you old men, and take note, you people of the land. Has this ever been in your days, or in the days of your fathers?
珥1:3 你们要把这事传与子，子传与孙，孙传与后代。
珥1:3 Give the story of it to your children, and let them give it to their children, and their children to another generation.
珥1:4 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。
珥1:4 What the worm did not make a meal of, has been taken by the locust; and what the locust did not take, has been food for the plant-worm; and what the plant-worm did not take, has been food for the field-fly.
珥1:5 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。
珥1:5 Come out of your sleep, you who are overcome with wine, and give yourselves to weeping; give cries of sorrow, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it has been cut off from your mouths.
珥1:6 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。
珥1:6 For a nation has come up over my land, strong and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the back teeth of a great lion.
珥1:7 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。
珥1:7 By him my vine is made waste and my fig-tree broken: he has taken all its fruit and sent it down to the earth; its branches are made white.
珥1:8 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。
珥1:8 Make sounds of grief like a virgin dressed in haircloth for the husband of her early years.
珥1:9 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。
珥1:9 The meal offering and the drink offering have been cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord's servants, are sorrowing.
珥1:10 田野荒废，土地凄凉，因为五谷毁坏，新酒干竭，油也缺乏。
珥1:10 The fields are wasted, the land has become dry; for the grain is wasted, the new wine is kept back, the oil is poor.
珥1:11 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。
珥1:11 The farmers are shamed, the workers in the vine-gardens give cries of grief, for the wheat and the barley; for the produce of the fields has come to destruction.
珥1:12 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。
珥1:12 The vine has become dry and the fig-tree is feeble; the pomegranate and the palm-tree and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field, are dry: because joy has gone from the sons of men.
珥1:13 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。
珥1:13 Put haircloth round you and give yourselves to sorrow, you priests; give cries of grief, you servants of the altar: come in, and, clothed in haircloth, let the night go past, you servants of my God: for the meal offering and the drink offering have been kept back from the house of your God.
珥1:14 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。
珥1:14 Let a time be fixed for going without food, have a holy meeting, let the old men, even all the people of the land, come together to the house of the Lord your God, crying out to the Lord.
珥1:15 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。
珥1:15 Sorrow for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Ruler of all it will come.
珥1:16 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？
珥1:16 Is not food cut off before our eyes? joy and delight from the house of our God?
珥1:17 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。
珥1:17 The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.
珥1:18 牲畜发出哀鸣，牛群到处流荡，因为没有草场给牠们，羊群也同样受苦。
珥1:18 What sounds of pain come from the beasts! the herds of cattle are at a loss because there is no grass for them; even the flocks of sheep are no longer to be seen.
珥1:19 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。
珥1:19 O Lord, my cry goes up to you: for fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste, and all the trees of the field are burned with its flame.
珥1:20 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。
珥1:20 The beasts of the field are turning to you with desire: for the water-streams are dry and fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste.