1:1 耶和华的话临到毗土珥的儿子约珥。

The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.

 

1:2 老年人哪，当听我的话。国中的居民哪，都要侧耳而听。在你们的日子，或你们列祖的日子，曾有这样的事吗。

Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?

 

1:3 你们要将这事传与子，子传与孙，孙传与后代。

Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

 

1:4 剪虫剩下的，蝗虫来吃。蝗虫剩下的，蝻子来吃。蝻子剩下的，蚂蚱来吃。

That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.

 

1:5 酒醉的人哪，要清醒哭泣。好酒的人哪，都要为甜酒哀号。因为从你们的口中断绝了。

Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

 

1:6 有一队蝗虫（原文是民）又强盛又无数，侵犯我的地。它的牙齿如狮子的牙齿，大牙如母狮的大牙。

For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.

 

1:7 它毁坏我的葡萄树，剥了我无花果树的皮，剥尽而丢弃，使枝条露白。

He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.

 

1:8 我的民哪，你当哀号，像处女腰束麻布，为幼年的丈夫哀号。

Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

 

1:9 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 meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn.

 

1:10 田荒凉，地悲哀，因为五谷毁坏，新酒乾竭，油也缺乏。

The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

 

1:11 农夫阿，你们要惭愧，修理葡萄园的阿，你们要哀号，因为大麦小麦，与田间的庄稼，都灭绝了。

Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.

 

1:12 葡萄树枯乾，无花果树衰残。石榴树，棕树，苹果树，连田野一切的树木，也都枯乾。众人的喜乐尽都消灭。

The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.

 

1:13 祭司阿，你们当腰束麻布痛哭。伺候祭坛的阿，你们要哀号。事奉我神的阿，你们要来披上麻布过夜。因为素祭，和奠祭，从你们神的殿中断绝了。

Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.

 

1:14 你们要分定禁食的日子，宣告严肃会，招聚长老，和国中的一切居民，到耶和华你们神的殿，向耶和华哀求。

Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD.

 

1:15 哀哉，耶和华的日子临近了。这日来到，好像毁灭从全能者来到。

Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

 

1:16 粮食不是在我们眼前断绝了吗。欢喜快乐不是从我们神的殿中止息了吗。

Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

 

1:17 谷种在土块下朽烂。仓也荒凉，廪也破坏。因为五谷枯乾了。

The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

 

1:18 牲畜哀呜，牛群混乱，因为无草。羊群也受了困苦。

How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

 

1:19 耶和华阿，我向你求告。因为火烧灭旷野的草场，火焰烧尽田野的树木。

O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.

 

1:20 田野的走兽向你发喘。因为溪水乾涸，火也烧灭旷野的草场。

The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.