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 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.