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 1耶和华的话临到毗土珥的儿子约珥。

百姓的悲伤

  2老年人哪，当听这话；
  这地所有的居民哪，要侧耳而听。
  在你们的日子，
  或你们祖先的日子，
  曾发生过这样的事吗？
   3你们要将这事传与子，
  子传与孙，
  孙传与后代。

   4剪虫吃剩的，蝗虫来吃；
  蝗虫吃剩的，蝻子来吃；
  蝻子吃剩的，蚂蚱⚓来吃。

   5醉酒的人哪，要清醒，要哭泣；
  好酒的人哪，都要为甜酒哀号，
  因为酒从你们的口中断绝了。
   6有一队蝗虫⚓，强盛且不可数，
  上来侵犯我的地；
  它的牙齿如狮子的牙齿，
  如母狮的大牙。
   7它毁坏我的葡萄树，
  撕裂我的无花果树，
  剥光又丢弃，使枝条露白。

   8你要像童女腰束麻布，
  为她年少时的丈夫哀号。
   9耶和华的殿中断绝素祭和浇酒祭，
  事奉耶和华的祭司都悲哀。
   10田荒凉，地悲哀；
  因为五谷毁坏，
  新酒枯竭，
  新的油也缺乏。

   11农夫啊，你们要惭愧；
  修整葡萄园的啊，你们要哀号；
  因为大麦、小麦与田间的庄稼全都毁了。
   12葡萄树枯干，
  无花果树衰残，
  石榴树、棕树、苹果树，
  田野一切的树木都枯干；
  众人的喜乐尽都消逝。

   13祭司啊，当束上麻布痛哭；
  事奉祭坛的啊，要哀号；
  事奉我上帝的啊，你们要来，披上麻布过夜，
  因为在你们上帝的殿中不再有素祭和浇酒祭了。

   14你们要使禁食的日子分别为圣，
  宣告严肃会，
  召集长老和这地所有的居民
  来到耶和华－你们上帝的殿，
  向耶和华哀求。

   15哀哉，这日子！
  因为耶和华的日子临近，
  好像毁灭从全能者来到。
   16粮食不是在我们眼前断绝了吗？
  欢喜快乐不是从我们上帝的殿中止息了吗？

   17种子在土块下朽烂，
  仓荒凉，廪破坏，
  因为五谷枯干了。
   18牲畜哀鸣，
  牛群混乱，因无草场，
  羊群也受苦。

   19耶和华啊，我向你求告，
  因为有火吞噬野地的草场，
  火焰烧尽田野的树木。
   20田野的走兽切慕你，
  因为溪水干涸，
  火吞噬了野地的草场。

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 1The word of the Lord that came to ⚓Joel the son of Pethuel.

The Land Laid Waste

  2Hear this, you elders,
   And give ear, all you inhabitants of the land!
   ⚓Has anything like this happened in your days,
   Or even in the days of your fathers?
    3⚓Tell your children about it,
   Let your children tell their children,
   And their children another generation.
    4⚓What the chewing locust left, the ⚓swarming locust has eaten;
   What the swarming locust left, the crawling locust has eaten;
   And what the crawling locust left, the consuming locust has eaten.
   5Awake, you ⚓drunkards, and weep;
   And wail, all you drinkers of wine,
   Because of the new wine,
   ⚓For it has been cut off from your mouth.
    6For ⚓a nation has come up against My land,
   Strong, and without number;
   ⚓His teeth are the teeth of a lion,
   And he has the fangs of a fierce lion.
    7He has ⚓laid waste My vine,
   And ruined My fig tree;
   He has stripped it bare and thrown it away;
   Its branches are made white.
   8⚓Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth
   For ⚓the husband of her youth.
    9⚓The grain offering and the drink offering
   Have been cut off from the house of the Lord;
   The priests ⚓mourn, who minister to the Lord.
    10The field is wasted,
   ⚓The land mourns;
   For the grain is ruined,
   ⚓The new wine is dried up,
   The oil fails.
   11⚓Be ashamed, you farmers,
   Wail, you vinedressers,
   For the wheat and the barley;
   Because the harvest of the field has perished.
    12⚓The vine has dried up,
   And the fig tree has withered;
   The pomegranate tree,
   The palm tree also,
   And the apple tree—
   All the trees of the field are withered;
   Surely ⚓joy has withered away from the sons of men.

Mourning for the Land

  13⚓Gird yourselves and lament, you priests;
   Wail, you who minister before the altar;
   Come, lie all night in sackcloth,
   You who minister to my God;
   For the grain offering and the drink offering
   Are withheld from the house of your God.
    14⚓Consecrate a fast,
   Call ⚓a sacred assembly;
   Gather the elders
   And⚓all the inhabitants of the land
   Into the house of the Lord your God,
   And cry out to the Lord.
   15⚓Alas for the day!
   For ⚓the day of the Lordis at hand;
   It shall come as destruction from the Almighty.
    16Is not the food ⚓cut off before our eyes,
   ⚓Joy and gladness from the house of our God?
    17The seed shrivels under the clods,
   Storehouses are in shambles;
   Barns are broken down,
   For the grain has withered.
    18How ⚓the animals groan!
   The herds of cattle are restless,
   Because they have no pasture;
   Even the flocks of sheep suffer punishment.
   19O Lord, ⚓to You I cry out;
   For ⚓fire has devoured the open pastures,
   And a flame has burned all the trees of the field.
    20The beasts of the field also ⚓cry out to You,
   For ⚓the water brooks are dried up,
   And fire has devoured the open pastures.