¹ 耶和华的话临到毗土珥的儿子约珥。

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，曾有这样的事麽？

³ 你们要将这事传与子，子传与孙，孙，传与後代。

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。

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。

⁶ 有一队蝗虫（原文是民）又强盛又无数，侵犯我的地；他的牙齿如狮子的牙齿，大牙如母狮的大牙。

⁷ 他毁坏我的葡萄树，剥了我无花果树的皮，剥尽而丢弃，使枝条露白。

⁸ 我的民哪，你当哀号，像处女腰束麻布，为幼年的丈夫哀号。

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。

¹⁰ 田荒凉，地悲哀；因为五谷毁坏，新酒乾竭，油也缺乏。

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。

¹² 葡萄树枯乾；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乾；众人的喜乐尽都消灭。

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。

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。

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。

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？

¹⁷ 谷种在土块下朽烂；仓也荒凉，廪也破坏；因为五谷枯乾了。

¹⁸ 牲畜哀鸣；牛群混乱，因为无草；羊群也受了困苦。

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。

²⁰ 田野的走兽向你发喘；因为溪水乾涸，火也烧灭旷野的草场。

¹ The Word of Yahweh that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.

² Hear this, you elders, And listen, all you inhabitants of the land. Has this ever happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

³ Tell your children about it, and have your children Tell their children, and their children, another generation.

⁴ What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.

⁵ Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

⁶ For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.

⁷ He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.

⁸ Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!

⁹ The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh's house. The priests, Yahweh's ministers, mourn.

¹⁰ The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes.

¹¹ Be confounded, you farmers! Wail, you vineyard keepers; for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field has perished.

¹² The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all of the trees of the field are withered; for joy has withered away from the sons of men.

¹³ Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God's house.

¹⁴ Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders, and all the inhabitants of the land, to the house of Yahweh, your God, and cry to Yahweh.

¹⁵ Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

¹⁶ Isn't the food cut off before our eyes; joy and gladness from the house of our God?

¹⁷ The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.

¹⁸ How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

¹⁹ Yahweh, I cry to you, For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.

²⁰ Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, for the water brooks have dried up, And the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.