¹ 到那日，我使犹大和耶路撒冷被掳之人归回的时候，

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，

³ 且为我的百姓拈阄，将童子换妓女，卖童女买酒喝。

⁴ 推罗、西顿，和非利士四境的人哪，你们与我何干？你们要报复我麽？若报复我，我必使报应速速归到你们的头上。

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），

⁶ 并将犹大人和耶路撒冷人卖给希利尼人（原文是雅完人），使他们远离自己的境界。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

¹³ 开镰吧！因为庄稼熟了；践踏吧！因为酒醡满了，酒池盈溢，他们的罪恶甚大。

¹⁴ 许多许多的人在断定谷，因为耶和华的日子临近断定谷。

¹⁵ 日月昏暗，星宿无光。

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。

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。

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。

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。

²⁰ 但犹大必存到永远；耶路撒冷必存到万代。

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。

¹ Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.

² Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.

³ Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.

⁴ Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

⁵ You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

⁶ You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn't resist you.

⁷ Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.

⁸ You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

⁹ Don't grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won't be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

¹⁰ Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

¹¹ Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

¹² But above all things, my brothers, don't swear, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your "yes" be "yes," and your "no," "no;" so that you don't fall into hypocrisy.

¹³ Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.

¹⁴ Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord,

¹⁵ and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

¹⁶ Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

¹⁷ Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months.

¹⁸ He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth brought forth its fruit.

¹⁹ Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back,

²⁰ let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death, and will cover a multitude of sins.