撒迦利亞書 7
1 達理阿王四年九月，即「基色婁」月四日，上主的話傳給匝加利亞。
In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev.
2 由貝特耳派遺了官員撒辣責爾和他的侍從去向上主請示，
Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech, along with their men, to plead before the LORD
3 去問上主殿裏的司祭和q們 2我是否在五月裏仍要哭泣和齋戒，像我多年以來所作的一樣﹖」
by asking the priests of the house of the LORD of Hosts, as well as the prophets, “Should I weep and fast in the fifth month, as I have done these many years?”
4 那時萬軍木的話傳給我說：
Then the word of the LORD of Hosts came to me, saying,
5 「你向國全體民眾和司祭們說：你們在五月和七月齋戒哭泣，至今已七十年了，豈是為了我而齋戒嗎﹖
“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?
6 你們幾時吃喝，豈不是為你們自己吃，為你們自己喝嗎﹖
And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves?
7 難道你們不知道，當耶路撒冷還有人安居，她四週的城邑，南部平原也有人居住時，上主藉先知們所宣佈的訓令嗎﹖」
Are these not the words that the LORD proclaimed through the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were populous and prosperous, and the Negev and the foothills were inhabited?’”
8 那時，上主有話傳給匝加利亞說：
Then the word of the LORD came to Zechariah, saying,
9 「萬軍的上主這樣說：你們應照公正裁判，以仁義和友愛彼此相待；
“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.
10 不可欺壓寡婦和孤兒，外方人和貧窮人；不可心中圖謀惡事陷害人。
Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’
11 但是你們不肯聽從，硬著頭頸，充耳不聞。
But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing.
12 他們使自己的心硬如金剛石，不聽從法律，和萬軍的上主以自己的神感動古先知們所發表的訓令，為此，萬軍的上主曾大發憤怒。
They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of Hosts.
13 那麼，就如我呼喚時，你們不肯聽；同樣他們呼喊時，我也不肯聽──萬軍的上主說──
And just as I had called and they would not listen, so when they called I would not listen, says the LORD of Hosts.
14 因此，我把他們驅散到他們所不認識的各民族中，以致他們去後，國土荒廢，無人住來；他們竟使美好的土地變成了一片荒野。」
But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known, and the land was left desolate behind them so that no one could come or go. Thus they turned the pleasant land into a desolation.”
