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 that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
珥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？
珥1:2 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?
珥1:3 你们要将这事传与子，子传与孙，孙传与后代。
珥1:3 Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
珥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。
珥1:4 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.
珥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。
珥1:5 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.
珥1:6 有一队蝗虫（原文作“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。
珥1:6 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.
珥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。
珥1:7 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.
珥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。
珥1:8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
珥1:9 素祭和奠祭从耶和华的殿中断绝，侍奉耶和华的祭司都悲哀。
珥1:9 The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn.
珥1:10 田荒凉，地悲哀，因为五毗毁坏，新酒干竭，油也缺乏。
珥1:10 The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
珥1:11 农夫啊，你们要惭愧；修理葡萄园的啊，你们要哀号；因为大麦小麦与田间的庄稼都灭绝了。
珥1:11 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.
珥1:12 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乾；众人的喜乐尽都消灭。
珥1:12 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.
珥1:13 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 神的殿中断绝了。
珥1:13 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.
珥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。
珥1:14 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.
珥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。
珥1:15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
珥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？
珥1:16 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
珥1:17 谷种在土块下朽烂，仓也荒凉，廪也破坏，因为五谷枯干了。
珥1:17 The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
珥1:18 牲畜哀鸣；牛群混乱，因为无草；羊群也受了困苦。
珥1:18 How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
珥1:19 耶和华啊，我向你求告，因为火烧灭旷野的草场；火焰烧尽田野的树木。
珥1:19 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.
珥1:20 田野的走兽向你发喘，因为溪水干涸，火也烧灭旷野的草场。
珥1:20 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.