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, came the word of the LORD unto 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 hath been sore displeased 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。

Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts: Return unto Me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.

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 ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Thus saith the LORD of hosts: Return ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings; but they did not hear, nor attend unto Me, saith 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 live 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 statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? so that they turned and said: Like as the LORD of hosts purposed to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath He dealt with us.'

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：

Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto 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, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle-trees that were in the bottom; and behind him there were horses, red, sorrel, and white.

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 said I: 'O my lord, what are these?' And the angel that spoke with me said unto me: 'I will show thee what these 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 that stood among the myrtle-trees answered and said: 'These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro 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 they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle-trees, and said: 'We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is 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 spoke and said: 'O LORD of hosts, how long wilt Thou not have compassion on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which Thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten 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 answered the angel that spoke with me with good words, even comforting words —

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；

so the angel that spoke with me said unto me: 'Proclaim thou, saying: Thus saith the LORD of hosts: I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy;

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 sore displeased with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, and they helped for evil.

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。

Therefore thus saith the LORD: I return to Jerusalem with compassions: My house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth 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。」

Again, proclaim, saying: Thus saith the LORD of hosts: My cities shall again overflow with prosperity; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.'

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 I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and behold 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 unto the angel that spoke with me: 'What are these?' And he said unto me: 'These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.'

20 此後上主使我看見四個工匠。

And the LORD showed me four craftsmen.

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 said I: 'What come these to do?' And he spoke, saying: 'These — the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head — these then are come to frighten them, to cast down the horns of the nations, which lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.'