撒迦利亞書 1
1 達理安二年八月，上主的話傳給依多的孫子，貝勒基雅的兒子匝加利亞說：「
In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
2 上主曾對你們的祖先大發憤怒；
The Lord has been very angry with your fathers:
3 但是如今你應對他們說：「萬軍的上主這樣說：你們歸向我吧! ──萬軍上主的斷語──我必轉向你們，萬軍的上主說。
And you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord of armies: Come back to me, says the Lord of armies, and I will come back to you.
4 你們不要如同你們的祖先；以前的先知曾對你們宣告說：說：萬軍的上主這樣說：你們轉身離開你們的邪道，和你們的惡行吧! 但是他們不聽，也不理會我──上主的斷語。
Be not like your fathers, to whom the voice of the earlier prophets came, saying, Be turned now from your evil ways and from your evil doings: but they did not give ear to me or take note, says the Lord.
5 你們的祖先在哪裏﹖先知難道能永遠生存﹖
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they go on living for ever?
6 苦我吩咐我的僕人先知們所傳的話和定案，豈不是臨到你們的祖先身上了嗎﹖致使他們翻悔說：萬軍的上主真按照衪的決定，並按照我們的行徑和作為對待了我們。[第一個神視：上主的騎士]
But my words and my orders, which I gave to my servants the prophets, have they not overtaken your fathers? and turning back they said, As it was the purpose of the Lord of armies to do to us, in reward for our ways and our doings, so has he done.
7 達理亞二年十一月，即「舍巴特」月二十四日，上主的話傳給依多的孫子，貝勒基雅的兒子匝加利亞說：
On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
8 夜間我看見一個人騎著栗色的馬，立在地的長春樹中間，他後面尚有栗色、色和白色的馬。
I saw in the night a man on a red horse, between the mountains in the valley, and at his back were horses, red, black, white, and of mixed colours.
9 遂間說：「我主，這是什麼意思﹖」那與我談話的使者對我說：「我要給你解釋這有什麼意義。」
Then I said, O my lord, what are these? And the angel who was talking to me said to me, I will make clear to you what they are.
10 但那站在長春樹中間的人卻答說：「這些是上主派遺巡視大地的。」
And the man who was between the mountains, answering me, said, These are those whom the Lord has sent to go up and down through the earth.
11 他們答覆那站在長春樹中間的上主的使者說：「我們已經巡視了大地，見全地都安寧平靖。」
And the man who was between the mountains, answering, said to the angel of the Lord, We have gone up and down through the earth, and all the earth is quiet and at rest.
12 上主的使者說：「萬軍的上主! 你拒絕憐恤耶路撒冷和猶大城邑，要到何時呢﹖你向他們發怒，至今已是七十年了! 」
Then the angel of the Lord, answering, said, O Lord of armies, how long will it be before you have mercy on Jerusalem and on the towns of Judah against which your wrath has been burning for seventy years?
13 上主就用鼓舞慰藉的話答覆了那與我談話的使者。
And the Lord gave an answer in good and comforting words to the angel who was talking to me.
14 那與我談話的使者便對我說：「你要宣佈說：萬軍的上主這樣說：我仍要以極度的熱情愛耶路撒冷和熙雍；
And the angel who was talking to me said to me, Let your voice be loud and say, These are the words of the Lord of armies: I am greatly moved about the fate of Jerusalem and of Zion.
15 但我極腦怒那些傲慢的異民，因為我對我的百姓稍一發怒，他們便大加虐待。
And I am very angry with the nations who are living untroubled: for when I was only a little angry, they made the evil worse.
16 為此上主這樣說：我要再以慈悲對待耶路撒冷，我的殿宇必要在其中重建來──萬軍上主的斷語──繩墨必要再拉在耶路撒冷上。
So this is what the Lord has said: I have come back to Jerusalem with mercies; my house is to be put up in her, says the Lord of armies, and a line is to be stretched out over Jerusalem.
17 你要再宣佈說：萬軍的上主這樣說：我的城吧必再充滿幸福，上主必再憐恤熙雍，再揀選耶路撒冷。」
And again let your voice be loud and say, This is what the Lord of armies has said: My towns will again be overflowing with good things, and again the Lord will give comfort to Zion and take Jerusalem for himself.
18 第二個神視：四隻角和四個工匠]我又舉目觀看，望見有四隻角。
And lifting up my eyes I saw four horns.
19 我問那與我談話的使者說：「這是什麼意思﹖」他回答我說：「這就是驅散了猶大、以色列和耶路撒冷的角。」
And I said to the angel who was talking to me, What are these? And he said to me, These are the horns which have sent Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem in flight.
20 此後上主使我看見四個工匠。
And the Lord gave me a vision of four metal-workers.
21 我問說：「這樣人來做什麼﹖」他答說：「那些角驅散了猶大，以致沒有人敢抬頭，這些人來是為恐嚇那些角，因為他們曾對猶大地舉起角來驅散了她。」[第三個神視：手拿繩墨的人] ]
Then I said, What have these come to do? And he said, These are the horns which sent Judah in flight, and kept him from lifting up his head: but these men have come to send fear on them and to put down the nations who are lifting up their horns against the land of Judah to send it in flight.
