今日读经

空前的蝗灾

¹耶和华的话临到毗土珥的儿子约珥。This is the word of the LORD that came to Joel son of Pethuel:

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, O elders; and give ear, all who dwell in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your fathers?

³你们要将这事传与子，子传与孙，孙传与后代。Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.

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。What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.

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。Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.

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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 has invaded My land, powerful and without number; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and its fangs are the fangs of a lioness.

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。It has laid waste My grapevine and splintered My fig tree. It has stripped off the bark and thrown it away; the branches have turned white.

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全地要哀号

⁸我的民哪，你当哀号，像处女腰束麻布，为幼年的丈夫哀号。Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.

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。Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD.

¹⁰田荒凉，地悲哀；因为五谷毁坏，新酒干竭，油也缺乏。The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.

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。Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.

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干；众人的喜乐尽都消灭。The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple—all the trees of the orchard—are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up.

分定禁食的日子

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。Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.

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。Consecrate a fast; proclaim a solemn assembly! Gather the elders and all the residents of the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.

耶和华的日子临近

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 near, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

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？Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes—joy and gladness from the house of our God?

¹⁷谷种在土块下朽烂；仓也荒凉，廪也破坏；因为五谷枯干了。The seeds lie shriveled beneath the clods; the storehouses are in ruins; the granaries are broken down, for the grain has withered away.

¹⁸牲畜哀鸣；牛群混乱，因为无草；羊群也受了困苦。How the cattle groan! The herds wander in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.

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。To You, O LORD, I call, for fire has consumed the open pastures and flames have scorched all the trees of the field.

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。Even the beasts of the field pant for You, for the streams of water have dried up, and fire has consumed the open pastures.

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在锡安吹角

¹你们要在锡安吹角，在我圣山吹出大声。国中的居民都要发颤；因为耶和华的日子将到，已经临近。Blow the ram’s horn in Zion; sound the alarm on My holy mountain! Let all who dwell in the land tremble, for the Day of the LORD is coming; indeed, it is near—

²那日是黑暗、幽冥、密云、乌黑的日子，好像晨光铺满山岭。有一队蝗虫（原文是民）又大又强；从来没有这样的，以后直到万代也必没有。a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.

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蝗虫大军攻城

³它们前面如火烧灭，后面如火焰烧尽。未到以前，地如伊甸园；过去以后，成了荒凉的旷野；没有一样能躲避它们的。Before them a fire devours, and behind them a flame scorches. The land before them is like the Garden of Eden, but behind them, it is like a desert wasteland—surely nothing will escape them.

⁴它们的形状如马，奔跑如马兵。Their appearance is like that of horses, and they gallop like swift steeds.

⁵在山顶蹦跳的响声如车辆的响声，又如火焰烧碎秸的响声，好像强盛的民摆阵预备打仗。With a sound like that of chariots they bound over the mountaintops, like the crackling of fire consuming stubble, like a mighty army deployed for battle.

⁶它们一来，众民伤恸，脸都变色。Nations writhe in horror before them; every face turns pale.

⁷它们如勇士奔跑，像战士爬城；各都步行，不乱队伍。They charge like mighty men; they scale the walls like men of war. Each one marches in formation, not swerving from the course.

⁸彼此并不拥挤，向前各行其路，直闯兵器，不偏左右。They do not jostle one another; each proceeds in his path. They burst through the defenses, never breaking ranks.

⁹它们蹦上城，蹿上墙，爬上房屋，进入窗户如同盗贼。They storm the city; they run along the wall; they climb into houses, entering through windows like thieves.

¹⁰它们一来，地震天动，日月昏暗，星宿无光。Before them the earth quakes; the heavens tremble. The sun and moon grow dark, and the stars lose their brightness.

¹¹耶和华在他军旅前发声，他的队伍甚大；成就他命的是强盛者。因为耶和华的日子大而可畏，谁能当得起呢？The LORD raises His voice in the presence of His army. Indeed, His camp is very large, for mighty are those who obey His command. For the Day of the LORD is great and very dreadful. Who can endure it?

撕裂心肠，一心归向我

¹²耶和华说：虽然如此，你们应当禁食、哭泣、悲哀，一心归向我。“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”

¹³你们要撕裂心肠，不撕裂衣服。归向耶和华—你们的　神；因为他有恩典，有怜悯，不轻易发怒，有丰盛的慈爱，并且后悔不降所说的灾。So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.

¹⁴或者他转意后悔，留下余福，就是留下献给耶和华—你们　神的素祭和奠祭，也未可知。Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him—grain and drink offerings for the LORD your God.

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¹⁵你们要在锡安吹角，分定禁食的日子，宣告严肃会。Blow the ram’s horn in Zion, consecrate a fast, proclaim a sacred assembly.

¹⁶聚集众民，使会众自洁：招聚老者，聚集孩童和吃奶的；使新郎出离洞房，新妇出离内室。Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the aged, gather the children, even those nursing at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber.

¹⁷事奉耶和华的祭司要在廊子和祭坛中间哭泣，说：耶和华啊，求你顾惜你的百姓，不要使你的产业受羞辱，列邦管辖他们。为何容列国的人说：“他们的　神在哪里”呢？Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”

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耶和华怜恤祂的百姓

¹⁸耶和华就为自己的地发热心，怜恤他的百姓。Then the LORD became jealous for His land, and He spared His people.

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¹⁹耶和华应允他的百姓说：我必赐给你们五谷、新酒，和油，使你们饱足；我也不再使你们受列国的羞辱；And the LORD answered His people: “Behold, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil, and by them you will be satisfied. I will never again make you a reproach among the nations.

²⁰却要使北方来的军队远离你们，将他们赶到干旱荒废之地：前队赶入东海，后队赶入西海；因为他们所行的大恶（原文是事），臭气上升，腥味腾空。The northern army I will drive away from you, banishing it to a barren and desolate land, its front ranks into the Eastern Sea, and its rear guard into the Western Sea. And its stench will rise; its foul odor will ascend. For He has done great things.

²¹地土啊，不要惧怕；要欢喜快乐，因为耶和华行了大事。Do not be afraid, O land; rejoice and be glad, for the LORD has done great things.

²²田野的走兽啊，不要惧怕；因为，旷野的草发生，树木结果，无花果树、葡萄树也都效力。Do not be afraid, O beasts of the field, for the open pastures have turned green, the trees bear their fruit, and the fig tree and vine yield their best.

²³锡安的民哪，你们要快乐，为耶和华—你们的　神欢喜；因他赐给你们合宜的秋雨，为你们降下甘霖，就是秋雨、春雨，和先前一样。Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for He has given you the autumn rains for your vindication. He sends you showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.

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²⁴禾场必满了麦子；酒榨与油榨必有新酒和油盈溢。The threshing floors will be full of grain, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.

补还被吃的年日

²⁵我打发到你们中间的大军队，就是蝗虫、蝻子、蚂蚱、剪虫，那些年所吃的，我要补还你们。I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts—the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust—My great army that I sent against you.

²⁶你们必多吃而得饱足，就赞美为你们行奇妙事之耶和华—你们　神的名。我的百姓必永远不致羞愧。You will have plenty to eat, until you are satisfied. You will praise the name of the LORD your God, who has worked wonders for you. My people will never again be put to shame.

²⁷你们必知道我是在以色列中间，又知道我是耶和华—你们的　神；在我以外并无别神。我的百姓必永远不致羞愧。Then you will know that I am present in Israel and that I am the LORD your God, and there is no other. My people will never again be put to shame.

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将我的灵浇灌凡有血气的

²⁸以后，我要将我的灵浇灌凡有血气的。你们的儿女要说预言；你们的老年人要做异梦，少年人要见异象。And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.

²⁹在那些日子，我要将我的灵浇灌我的仆人和使女。Even on My menservants and maidservants, I will pour out My Spirit in those days.

³⁰“在天上地下，我要显出奇事，有血，有火，有烟柱。I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.

³¹日头要变为黑暗，月亮要变为血，这都在耶和华大而可畏的日子未到以前。The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD.

³²到那时候，凡求告耶和华名的就必得救；因为照耶和华所说的，在锡安山，耶路撒冷必有逃脱的人，在剩下的人中必有耶和华所召的。”And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the LORD has promised, among the remnant called by the LORD.

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在约沙法谷审判列国

¹“到那日，我使犹大和耶路撒冷被掳之人归回的时候，“Yes, in those days and at that time, when I restore Judah and Jerusalem from captivity,

²我要聚集万民，带他们下到约沙法谷，在那里施行审判；因为他们将我的百姓，就是我的产业以色列，分散在列国中，又分取我的地土，I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them concerning My people, My inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations as they divided up My land.

³且为我的百姓拈阄，将童子换妓女，卖童女买酒喝。They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.

⁴“泰尔、西顿，和非利士四境的人哪，你们与我何干？你们要报复我吗？若报复我，我必使报应速速归到你们的头上。Now what do you have against Me, O Tyre, Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you rendering against Me a recompense? If you retaliate against Me, I will swiftly and speedily return your recompense upon your heads.

⁵你们既然夺取我的金银，又将我可爱的宝物带入你们宫殿（或译：庙中），For you took My silver and gold and carried off My finest treasures to your temples.

⁶并将犹大人和耶路撒冷人卖给希腊人（原文是雅完人），使他们远离自己的境界。You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland.

⁷我必激动他们离开你们所卖到之地，又必使报应归到你们的头上。Behold, I will rouse them from the places to which you sold them; I will return your recompense upon your heads.

⁸我必将你们的儿女卖在犹大人的手中，他们必卖给远方示巴国的人。这是耶和华说的。”I will sell your sons and daughters into the hands of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans—to a distant nation.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.

将犁头打成刀剑

⁹当在万民中宣告说：要预备打仗；激动勇士，使一切战士上前来。Proclaim this among the nations: “Prepare for war; rouse the mighty men; let all the men of war advance and attack!

¹⁰要将犁头打成刀剑，将镰刀打成戈矛；软弱的要说：我有勇力。Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong!’

¹¹四围的列国啊，你们要速速地来，一同聚集。耶和华啊，求你使你的大能者降临。Come quickly, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves. Bring down Your mighty ones, O LORD.

¹²万民都当兴起，上到约沙法谷；因为我必坐在那里，审判四围的列国。Let the nations be roused and advance to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit down to judge all the nations on every side.

¹³开镰吧！因为庄稼熟了；践踏吧！因为酒榨满了。酒池盈溢；他们的罪恶甚大。Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full; the wine vats overflow because their wickedness is great.

¹⁴许多许多的人在断定谷，因为耶和华的日子临近断定谷。Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the Day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.

¹⁵日月昏暗，星宿无光。The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will no longer shine.

¹⁶耶和华必从锡安吼叫，从耶路撒冷发声，天地就震动。耶和华却要作他百姓的避难所，作以色列人的保障。The LORD will roar from Zion and raise His voice from Jerusalem; heaven and earth will tremble. But the LORD will be a refuge for His people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.

耶和华住在锡安

¹⁷你们就知道我是耶和华—你们的　神，且又住在锡安—我的圣山。那时，耶路撒冷必成为圣；外邦人不再从其中经过。Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who dwells in Zion, My holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy, never again to be overrun by foreigners.

¹⁸到那日，大山要滴甜酒；小山要流奶子；犹大溪河都有水流。必有泉源从耶和华的殿中流出来，滋润什亭谷。And in that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will run with water, and a spring will flow from the house of the LORD to water the Valley of Acacias.

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¹⁹埃及必然荒凉，以东变为凄凉的旷野，都因向犹大人所行的强暴，又因在本地流无辜人的血。Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.

²⁰但犹大必存到永远；耶路撒冷必存到万代。But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.

²¹我未曾报复（或译：洗除；下同）流血的罪，现在我要报复，因为耶和华住在锡安。For I will avenge their blood, which I have not yet avenged.” For the LORD dwells in Zion.

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第一印：白马

¹我看见羔羊揭开七印中第一印的时候，就听见四活物中的一个活物，声音如雷，说：“你来！”Then I watched as the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder, “Come!”

²我就观看，见有一匹白马；骑在马上的，拿着弓，并有冠冕赐给他。他便出来，胜了又要胜。So I looked and saw a white horse, and its rider held a bow. And he was given a crown, and he rode out to overcome and conquer.

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第二印：红马

³揭开第二印的时候，我听见第二个活物说：“你来！”And when the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!”

⁴就另有一匹马出来，是红的，有权柄给了那骑马的，可以从地上夺去太平，使人彼此相杀；又有一把大刀赐给他。Then another horse went forth. It was bright red, and its rider was granted permission to take away peace from the earth and to make men slay one another. And he was given a great sword.

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第三印：黑马

⁵揭开第三印的时候，我听见第三个活物说：“你来！”我就观看，见有一匹黑马；骑在马上的，手里拿着天平。And when the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” Then I looked and saw a black horse, and its rider held in his hand a pair of scales.

⁶我听见在四活物中似乎有声音说：“一钱银子买一升麦子，一钱银子买三升大麦；油和酒不可糟蹋。”And I heard what sounded like a voice from among the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, and do not harm the oil and wine.”

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第四印：灰色马

⁷揭开第四印的时候，我听见第四个活物说：“你来！”And when the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!”

⁸我就观看，见有一匹灰色马；骑在马上的，名字叫作死，阴府也随着他；有权柄赐给他们，可以用刀剑、饥荒、瘟疫（或译：死亡）、野兽，杀害地上四分之一的人。Then I looked and saw a pale green horse. Its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed close behind. And they were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill by sword, by famine, by plague, and by the beasts of the earth.

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第五印：祭坛下的灵魂

⁹揭开第五印的时候，我看见在祭坛底下，有为　神的道、并为作见证被杀之人的灵魂，And when the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony they had upheld.

¹⁰大声喊着说：“圣洁真实的主啊，你不审判住在地上的人，给我们伸流血的冤，要等到几时呢？”And they cried out in a loud voice, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge those who dwell upon the earth and avenge our blood?”

¹¹于是有白衣赐给他们各人；又有话对他们说，还要安息片时，等着一同作仆人的和他们的弟兄也像他们被杀，满足了数目。Then each of them was given a white robe and told to rest a little while longer until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers, were killed, just as they had been killed.

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第六印：天象大变

¹²揭开第六印的时候，我又看见地大震动，日头变黑像毛布，满月变红像血，And I watched as the Lamb opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black like sackcloth of goat hair, and the whole moon turned blood red,

¹³天上的星辰坠落于地，如同无花果树被大风摇动，落下未熟的果子一样。and the stars of the sky fell to the earth like unripe figs dropping from a tree shaken by a great wind.

¹⁴天就挪移，好像书卷被卷起来；山岭海岛都被挪移离开本位。The sky receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place.

谁能站得住呢

¹⁵地上的君王、臣宰、将军、富户、壮士，和一切为奴的、自主的，都藏在山洞和岩石穴里，Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.

¹⁶向山和岩石说：“倒在我们身上吧！把我们藏起来，躲避坐宝座者的面目和羔羊的忿怒；And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.

¹⁷因为他们忿怒的大日到了，谁能站得住呢？”For the great day of Their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?”