| 索福尼亞 |
Zephaniah |
| 1沒有廉恥的民族！在你們尚未像糠秕一朝被吹散之前，在上主的怒火尚未來到你們身上，在上主忿怒的日子尚未來到你們身上以前，你們聚首檢討罷！ |
1 Gather, gather yourselves together, O nation without shame! |
| 2地上所有遵守他法律的卑微人！你們應求上主，你們要尋求公義，要尋求謙和，也許你們在上主忿怒的日子能藏身免禍。 |
2Before you are driven away, like chaff that passes on; Before there comes upon you the blazing anger of the LORD: Before there comes upon you the day of the LORD'S anger. |
| 3因為迦薩將被拋棄，阿市刻隆將成荒野；阿市多得必在極盛時被人驅逐，厄刻龍必被剷除。 |
3Seek the LORD, all you humble of the earth, who have observed his law; Seek justice, seek humility; perhaps you may be sheltered on the day of the LORD'S anger. |
| 4禍哉！沿海地帶的居民，革勒提民族！看，這是上主攻擊你們的話：培肋舍特地！我要貶抑你，把你毀滅得再無居民！ |
4 For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon shall be a waste, Ashdod they shall drive out at midday, and Ekron shall be uprooted. |
| 5沿海地帶必將成為牧人的牧場，羊群的欄棧。 |
5 Woe to you who dwell by the seacoast, to the Cretan folk! The word of the LORD is against you, I will humble you, land of the Philistines, and leave you to perish without an inhabitant! |
| 6沿海地帶必將歸於猶大家的遺民；他們將沿着海濱放羊，晚上歇息在阿市刻隆的棧房，因為上主他們的天主必看顧他們，轉變他們境遇。 |
6The coastland of the Cretans shall become fields for shepherds, and folds for flocks. |
| 7我聽到了摩阿布的辱罵，阿孟子民的詆詬；他們辱罵了我的百姓，欺凌了我的領域。 |
7The coast shall belong to the remnant of the house of Judah; by the sea they shall pasture. In the houses of Ashkelon at evening they shall couch their flocks, For the LORD their God shall visit them, and bring about their restoration. |
| 8為此，我指着我的生命起誓──萬軍的上主，以色列天主的斷語：摩阿布必要像索多瑪，哈孟子民必要像哈摩辣，變為荊棘叢、鹽堆、荒野，直到永遠。我百姓的遺民要劫掠他們，我民族的殘餘，要佔領他們的產業。 |
8I have heard the revilings uttered by Moab, and the insults of the Ammonites, When they reviled my people and made boasts against their territory. |
| 9這事要臨到他們身上，是由於他們的傲慢，因為他們辱罵欺凌了萬軍上主的百姓。 |
9Therefore, as I live, says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall become like Sodom, the land of Ammon like Gomorrah: A field of nettles and a salt pit and a waste forever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, the survivors of my nation dispossess them. |
| 10上主必要威嚴地顯示給他們，因為他要消滅地上的一切神祇；那時異邦各島嶼，各從自己的地方朝拜他。 |
10Such shall be the requital of their pride, because they reviled and boasted against the people of the LORD of hosts. |
| 11連你們雇士人，也要為我的刀劍所刺透。 |
11The LORD shall inspire them with fear when he makes all the gods of earth to waste away; Then, each from its own place, all the coastlands of the nations shall adore him. |
| 12他還要向北方伸出自己的手，為消滅亞述，使尼尼微化為荒地，像沙漠一樣乾旱。 |
12 You too, O Cushites, shall be slain by the sword of the LORD. |
| 13牲畜和窪地所有的走獸必要息臥其中，鵜鶘和鵁鶄也棲宿在她的柱頭間，鴟梟在窗上啼叫，烏鴉停在門檻上，因為人剝去了她以香柏做的裝飾： |
13He will stretch out his hand against the north, to destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a waste, dry as the desert. |
| 14這就是那享樂安居，心想「只有我，沒有別人」的城市！她如何竟成了荒野，成了野獸的棲所！凡由她那裏經過的人，莫不嗤笑搖手。 |
14In her midst shall settle in droves all the wild life of the hollows; The screech owl and the desert owl shall roost in her columns; Their call shall resound from the window, the raven's croak from the doorway. |
