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。

And it cometh to pass, in the fourth year of Darius the king hath a word of Jehovah been unto Zechariah, in the fourth of the ninth month, in Chisleu.

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，

And Beth-El sendeth Sherezer and Regem-Melech, and its men, to appease the face of Jehovah,

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﹖」

speaking unto the priests who [are] at the house of Jehovah of Hosts, and unto the prophets, saying, 'Do I weep in the fifth month — being separated — as I have done these so many years?'

4 那時萬軍木的話傳給我說：

And there is a word of Jehovah of Hosts unto 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﹖

'Speak unto all the people of the land, and unto the priests, saying:

6 你們幾時吃喝，豈不是為你們自己吃，為你們自己喝嗎﹖

When ye fasted with mourning in the fifth and in the seventh [months] — even these seventy years — did ye keep the fast [to] Me — Me? And when ye eat, and when ye drink, is it not ye who are eating, and ye who are drinking?

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 not [these] the words that Jehovah proclaimed by the hand of the former prophets, in Jerusalem's being inhabited, and [in] safety, and its cities round about it, and the south and the plain — abiding?'

8 那時，上主有話傳給匝加利亞說：

And there is a word of Jehovah unto 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；

'Thus spake Jehovah of Hosts, saying: True judgment judge ye, And kindness and mercy do one with 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。

And widow, and fatherless, Sojourner, and poor, ye do not oppress, And the calamity of one another ye do not devise in your heart.

11 但是你們不肯聽從，硬著頭頸，充耳不聞。

And they refuse to attend, And they give a refractory shoulder, And their ears have made heavy against 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。

And their heart they have made adamant, Against hearing the law, and the words, That Jehovah of Hosts sent by His Spirit, By the hand of the former prophets, And their is great wrath from Jehovah 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 it cometh to pass, as He called, And they have not hearkened, So do they call, and I do not hearken, Said Jehovah 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。」

And I toss them on all the nations, That they have not known, The land hath been desolate behind them, Of any passing by and turning back, And they set a desirable land for a desolation!