約珥書 1	Joel 1
約珥書 1:1 ^ 耶和華的話臨到毘土珥的兒子約珥。	Joel 1:1 ^ The word of the Lord which came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.
約珥書 1:2 ^ 老年人哪、當聽我的話．國中的居民哪、都要側耳而聽．在你們的日子、或你們列祖的日子、曾有這樣的事麼。	Joel 1:2 ^ Give ear to this, you old men, and take note, you people of the land. Has this ever been in your days, or in the days of your fathers?
約珥書 1:3 ^ 你們要將這事傳與子、子傳與孫、孫傳與後代。	Joel 1:3 ^ Give the story of it to your children, and let them give it to their children, and their children to another generation.
約珥書 1:4 ^ 剪蟲剩下的、蝗蟲來喫．蝗蟲剩下的、蝻子來喫．蝻子剩下的、螞蚱來喫。	Joel 1:4 ^ What the worm did not make a meal of, has been taken by the locust; and what the locust did not take, has been food for the plant-worm; and what the plant-worm did not take, has been food for the field-fly.
約珥書 1:5 ^ 酒醉的人哪、要清醒哭泣．好酒的人哪、都要為甜酒哀號．因為從你們的口中斷絕了。	Joel 1:5 ^ Come out of your sleep, you who are overcome with wine, and give yourselves to weeping; give cries of sorrow, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it has been cut off from your mouths.
約珥書 1:6 ^ 有一隊蝗蟲〔原文是民〕又強盛、又無數、侵犯我的地．牠的牙齒如獅子的牙齒、大牙如母獅的大牙。	Joel 1:6 ^ For a nation has come up over my land, strong and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the back teeth of a great lion.
約珥書 1:7 ^ 牠毀壞我的葡萄樹、剝了我無花果樹的皮、剝盡而丟棄、使枝條露白。	Joel 1:7 ^ By him my vine is made waste and my fig-tree broken: he has taken all its fruit and sent it down to the earth; its branches are made white.
約珥書 1:8 ^ 我的民哪、你當哀號、像處女腰束麻布、為幼年的丈夫哀號。	Joel 1:8 ^ Make sounds of grief like a virgin dressed in haircloth for the husband of her early years.
約珥書 1:9 ^ 素祭和奠祭從耶和華的殿中斷絕．事奉耶和華的祭司都悲哀。	Joel 1:9 ^ The meal offering and the drink offering have been cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord's servants, are sorrowing.
約珥書 1:10 ^ 田荒涼、地悲哀．因為五穀毀壞、新酒乾竭、油也缺乏。	Joel 1:10 ^ The fields are wasted, the land has become dry; for the grain is wasted, the new wine is kept back, the oil is poor.
約珥書 1:11 ^ 農夫阿、你們要慚愧、修理葡萄園的阿、你們要哀號、因為大麥小麥與田間的莊稼都滅絕了。	Joel 1:11 ^ The farmers are shamed, the workers in the vine-gardens give cries of grief, for the wheat and the barley; for the produce of the fields has come to destruction.
約珥書 1:12 ^ 葡萄樹枯乾、無花果樹衰殘。石榴樹、棕樹、蘋果樹、連田野一切的樹木也都枯乾．眾人的喜樂盡都消滅。	Joel 1:12 ^ The vine has become dry and the fig-tree is feeble; the pomegranate and the palm-tree and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field, are dry: because joy has gone from the sons of men.
約珥書 1:13 ^ 祭司阿、你們當腰束麻布痛哭．伺候祭壇的阿、你們要哀號．事奉我　神的阿、你們要來披上麻布過夜．因為素祭、和奠祭、從你們　神的殿中斷絕了。	Joel 1:13 ^ Put haircloth round you and give yourselves to sorrow, you priests; give cries of grief, you servants of the altar: come in, and, clothed in haircloth, let the night go past, you servants of my God: for the meal offering and the drink offering have been kept back from the house of your God.
約珥書 1:14 ^ 你們要分定禁食的日子、宣告嚴肅會、招聚長老、和國中的一切居民、到耶和華你們　神的殿、向耶和華哀求。	Joel 1:14 ^ Let a time be fixed for going without food, have a holy meeting, let the old men, even all the people of the land, come together to the house of the Lord your God, crying out to the Lord.
約珥書 1:15 ^ 哀哉、耶和華的日子臨近了．這日來到、好像毀滅從全能者來到。	Joel 1:15 ^ Sorrow for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Ruler of all it will come.
約珥書 1:16 ^ 糧食不是在我們眼前斷絕了麼．歡喜快樂不是從我們　神的殿中止息了麼。	Joel 1:16 ^ Is not food cut off before our eyes? joy and delight from the house of our God?
約珥書 1:17 ^ 穀種在土塊下朽爛．倉也荒涼、廩也破壞．因為五穀枯乾了。	Joel 1:17 ^ The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.
約珥書 1:18 ^ 牲畜哀鳴、牛群混亂、因為無草．羊群也受了困苦。	Joel 1:18 ^ What sounds of pain come from the beasts! the herds of cattle are at a loss because there is no grass for them; even the flocks of sheep are no longer to be seen.
約珥書 1:19 ^ 耶和華阿、我向你求告．因為火燒滅曠野的草場、火焰燒盡田野的樹木．	Joel 1:19 ^ O Lord, my cry goes up to you: for fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste, and all the trees of the field are burned with its flame.
約珥書 1:20 ^ 田野的走獸向你發喘．因為溪水乾涸、火也燒滅曠野的草場。	Joel 1:20 ^ The beasts of the field are turning to you with desire: for the water-streams are dry and fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste.