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, this message of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo:
2 上主曾對你們的祖先大發憤怒；
The Lord was furious with your ancestors.
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。
So tell the people this message of the Lord of hosts: ‘Return to me,’ says the Lord of hosts, ‘and I will return to you’ says 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。
‘Do not be like your ancestors to whom the former prophets cried, “The Lord of hosts says to turn now from your evil ways, and from your evil deeds”. They did not heed nor listen to me,’ says the Lord.
5 你們的祖先在哪裏﹖先知難道能永遠生存﹖
‘Your ancestors, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
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 did not my words and my statutes with which I charged my servants the prophets overtake your ancestors? And they repented and said, “Just as the Lord of hosts planned to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our deeds, so he has 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：
In the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, this message of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo:
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, among the myrtle trees that were in the valley-bottom. 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, ‘My Lord, what are these?’ And the messenger who was talking with me said, ‘I will show 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 standing among the myrtle trees answered, ‘They are those whom the Lord has sent to patrol 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 riders answered the messenger of the Lord who was standing among the myrtle trees, ‘We have gone up and down through the world and behold, all the earth is still and at peace.’
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 messenger of the Lord said, ‘Lord of hosts, how long will you have no pity for Jerusalem and the cities of Judah with which you have been angry 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 answered the messenger who was talking with me with kind and 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 messenger who was talking with me said to me, ‘Proclaim now that the Lord of hosts says: I am deeply concerned for Jerusalem.
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。
But I am deeply angry with the arrogant, complacent nations. I was only a little angry with Israel but they made the suffering 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。
Therefore, says the Lord, I am turning to show mercy to Jerusalem. My temple will be rebuilt in it, says the Lord of hosts, and a measuring line will be stretched 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。」
Proclaim again: Thus says the Lord of hosts: My cities will again overflow with prosperity and the Lord will again comfort Zion and 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。
Now I looked up and 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。」
I said to the messenger who was talking with me, ‘What are these?’ He answered, ‘These are the horns which scattered Judah, Israel and Jerusalem.’
20 此後上主使我看見四個工匠。
Then the Lord showed me four smiths.
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] ]
I said, ‘What are these coming to do?’ He answered, ‘The horns scattered Judah, so that no one dared lift their head. But the smiths have come to terrify them, to crush the horns of the nations which lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter its people.’
