撒迦利亚书 7
1 大流士王第四年九月，就是基斯流月初四日，耶和华的话临到撒迦利亚。
The Lord sent a message to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev. This was during the fourth year of king Darius' reign.
2 那时伯特利人已经打发沙利色和利坚米勒，并跟从他们的人，去恳求耶和华的恩，
Bethel-sharezer sent Regem-melech and his men to ask for the Lord's blessing.
3 并问万军之耶和华殿中的祭司和先知说：“我历年以来，在五月间哭泣斋戒，现在还当这样行吗？”
They were to ask the priests of the Temple of the Lord Almighty and the prophets, “Should I go on mourning and fasting in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?”
4 万军之耶和华的话就临到我说：
The Lord Almighty sent a message to me saying,
5 “你要宣告国内的众民和祭司，说：‘你们这七十年，在五月、七月禁食悲哀，岂是丝毫向我禁食吗？
Tell everyone in the land and the priests, when you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and the seventh month during these seventy years, was it really me you were fasting for?
6 你们吃喝，不是为自己吃，为自己喝吗？
And when you eat and drink, don't you eat and drink for yourselves?
7 当耶路撒冷和四围的城邑有居民，正兴盛，南地高原有人居住的时候，耶和华借从前的先知所宣告的话，你们不当听吗？’”
Isn't this what the Lord told you to do through the former prophets, when Jerusalem was prosperous and inhabited, and when people were living in the Negev and the Shephelah?
8 耶和华的话又临到撒迦利亚说：
The Lord Almighty sent another message to me.
9 “万军之耶和华曾对你们的列祖如此说：‘要按至理判断，各人以慈爱怜悯弟兄。
This is what the Lord says. Judge fairly and truthfully. Show mercy and kindness to one another.
10 不可欺压寡妇、孤儿、寄居的，和贫穷人。谁都不可心里谋害弟兄。’”
Don't exploit those who are widowed or fatherless, foreigners or the poor. Don't think up ways of mistreating one other.
11 他们却不肯听从，扭转肩头，塞耳不听，
But they refused to listen. They were obstinate, turning their backs and closing their ears.
12 使心硬如金钢石，不听律法和万军之耶和华用灵借从前的先知所说的话。故此，万军之耶和华大发烈怒。
They made their minds unreceptive, as hard as stone. They refused to listen to the law or to what the Lord Almighty told them by his Spirit through the former prophets. That's why the Lord Almighty became very angry with them.
13 万军之耶和华说：“我曾呼唤他们，他们不听；将来他们呼求我，我也不听！
So since they didn't listen when I called out to them, I wouldn't listen when they called out to me, says the Lord Almighty.
14 我必以旋风吹散他们到素不认识的万国中。这样，他们的地就荒凉，甚至无人来往经过，因为他们使美好之地荒凉了。”
With the winds of a storm I scattered them among the nations where they lived as foreigners. The land they left became so desolate that no one even traveled through it. They turned the Promised Land into a desert.
