耶和華的日子
1看啊，耶和華的日子快到了，那時你那裡的財物必被搶掠和瓜分。 2因為我必招聚萬國去攻打耶路撒冷。那時，城必失守，房屋必被洗劫，婦女必被玷污。半城的人必被擄去，剩下的人必不會從城中被剷除。 3那時，耶和華必出來與萬國爭戰，像從前爭戰的日子一樣。 4到那天，祂的腳必踏在耶路撒冷東面的橄欖山上，這山必從東至西分成兩半，一半向北移，一半向南移，中間形成極大的山谷。 5你們要從我的山谷逃跑，因為山谷必延伸到亞薩。你們必逃跑，像猶大王烏西雅年間的人躲避大地震一樣。我的上帝耶和華必帶著所有的聖者降臨。 6到那天，將沒有光、嚴寒和冰霜。 7那將是奇特的日子，沒有晝夜之分，晚上仍然有光，只有耶和華知道那日何時來臨。
8到那天，必有活水從耶路撒冷湧出，一半流向死海，一半流向地中海，冬夏不變。 9耶和華必做普世的王。到那天，必唯祂獨尊，唯祂的名獨尊。 10從迦巴直到耶路撒冷南邊的臨門，整個地區都要變為平原。從便雅憫門到舊門，再到角門，從哈楠業樓到王的榨酒池，耶路撒冷必仍然矗立在原處。 11城內必有人居住，不再遭毀滅的咒詛。耶路撒冷必安享太平。
12耶和華必降瘟疫給攻打耶路撒冷的萬邦，使他們活著的時候皮肉已經腐爛，眼睛爛在眼眶中，舌頭爛在口中。 13到那天，耶和華必使他們慌亂不堪，彼此揪住，互相毆打。 14猶大也必在耶路撒冷爭戰，四圍列國的財物，包括大量的金銀和衣服，必被收聚起來。 15同樣的瘟疫也必降在馬匹、騾子、駱駝、驢和營中的其他牲畜身上。
16前來攻打耶路撒冷的萬國中的倖存者，必每年上來敬拜大君王萬軍之耶和華，並且守住棚節。 17地上萬族中若有人不上耶路撒冷敬拜大君王萬軍之耶和華，他們必得不到雨水。 18埃及人若不上來敬拜，也必得不到雨水，耶和華必使他們和不上來守住棚節的列國一樣遭受瘟疫。 19這將是埃及和不上來守住棚節的萬國所得的懲罰。 20到那天，馬鈴上也必刻上「耶和華的聖物」的字樣。耶和華殿內的鍋必像祭壇前的碗一樣聖潔。 21耶路撒冷和猶大的鍋都是萬軍之耶和華的聖物，來獻祭的人都可以用這些鍋煮祭肉。到那天，萬軍之耶和華的殿中必再也沒有商人。
The Lord Comes and Reigns
1A day of the Lord is coming, Jerusalem, when your possessions will be plundered and divided up within your very walls.
2I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it; the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city. 3Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations, as he fights on a day of battle. 4On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving south. 5You will flee by my mountain valley, for it will extend to Azel. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake14:5 Or 5 My mountain valley will be blocked and will extend to Azel. It will be blocked as it was blocked because of the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.
6On that day there will be neither sunlight nor cold, frosty darkness. 7It will be a unique day—a day known only to the Lord—with no distinction between day and night. When evening comes, there will be light.
8On that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half of it east to the Dead Sea and half of it west to the Mediterranean Sea, in summer and in winter.
9The Lord will be king over the whole earth. On that day there will be one Lord, and his name the only name.
10The whole land, from Geba to Rimmon, south of Jerusalem, will become like the Arabah. But Jerusalem will be raised up high from the Benjamin Gate to the site of the First Gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the royal winepresses, and will remain in its place. 11It will be inhabited; never again will it be destroyed. Jerusalem will be secure.
12This is the plague with which the Lord will strike all the nations that fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths. 13On that day people will be stricken by the Lord with great panic. They will seize each other by the hand and attack one another. 14Judah too will fight at Jerusalem. The wealth of all the surrounding nations will be collected—great quantities of gold and silver and clothing. 15A similar plague will strike the horses and mules, the camels and donkeys, and all the animals in those camps.
16Then the survivors from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, and to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles. 17If any of the peoples of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, they will have no rain. 18If the Egyptian people do not go up and take part, they will have no rain. The Lord14:18 Or part, then the Lord will bring on them the plague he inflicts on the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles. 19This will be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles.
20On that day Holy to the Lord will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, and the cooking pots in the Lord’s house will be like the sacred bowls in front of the altar. 21Every pot in Jerusalem and Judah will be holy to the Lord Almighty, and all who come to sacrifice will take some of the pots and cook in them. And on that day there will no longer be a Canaanite14:21 Or merchant in the house of the Lord Almighty.
