撒迦利亚书 2

1 我又举目观看，见一人手拿准绳。

Then I looked again and I saw a man with a measuring line in his hand.

2 我说：“你往哪里去？”他对我说：“要去量耶路撒冷，看有多宽多长。”

“Where are you going?” I asked him. “I'm going to Jerusalem to measure its width and length,” he replied.

3 与我说话的天使去的时候，又有一位天使迎着他来，

The angel I was talking to came forward and another angel came to meet him

4 对他说：“你跑去告诉那少年人说，耶路撒冷必有人居住，好像无城墙的乡村，因为人民和牲畜甚多。

and told him, “Run, and tell the young man that Jerusalem will have so many people and farm animals that it will be too big to have walls.”

5 耶和华说：我要作耶路撒冷四围的火城，并要作其中的荣耀。”

The Lord declares, I myself will be a wall of fire all around the city, and I will be the glory inside it.

6 耶和华说：“我从前分散你们在天的四方，现在你们要从北方之地逃回。这是耶和华说的。

Run! Run! Run away from the northern land, says the Lord, because I have scattered you to the four winds of heaven.

7 与巴比伦人同住的锡安民哪，应当逃脱。

Run away, people of Zion! All of you who live in Babylon must escape.

8 万军之耶和华说，在显出荣耀之后，差遣我去惩罚那掳掠你们的列国，摸你们的就是摸他眼中的瞳人。

For this is what the Lord Almighty said: Afterwards the glorious Lord sent me against the nations that plundered you—for those who touch you touch the apple of his eye.

9 看哪，我要向他们抡手，他们就必作服事他们之人的掳物，你们便知道万军之耶和华差遣我了。

I will raise my hand against them and their former slaves will plunder them. Then you will know the Lord Almighty has sent me.

10 锡安城啊，应当欢乐歌唱，因为我来要住在你中间。这是耶和华说的。”

Sing in celebration, people of Zion, for I am coming to live with you, declares the Lord.

11 那时，必有许多国归附耶和华，作他的子民。他要住在你中间，你就知道万军之耶和华差遣我到你那里去了。

Many nations will become believers in Lord on that day, and they shall be my people. I will live among you, and you will know the Lord Almighty has sent me to you.

12 耶和华必收回犹大作他圣地的分，也必再拣选耶路撒冷。

The people of Judah will be the Lord's special people in the holy land, and he will once again choose Jerusalem as his special city.

13 凡有血气的都当在耶和华面前静默无声；因为他兴起，从圣所出来了。

Be silent before the Lord, everyone, for he has risen from the holy place where he lives.