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。
And it came to pass, in the fourth year of Darius the king, that the word of Yahweh came unto Zechariah, on the fourth of the ninth month, in Chisleu;
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，
yea when Bethel sent Sherezer and Regemmelech, and his men, —to pacify the face of Yahweh:
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？”
to speak unto the priests that pertained to the house of Yahweh of hosts, and unto the prophets, saying, —Shall I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?
4 万军之耶和华的话就临到我说：
Then came the word of Yahweh of hosts unto 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？
Speak thou unto all the people of the land, and unto the priests, saying, —When ye fasted and lamented in the fifth and in the seventh, even these seventy years, did ye, really fast, unto, me?
6 你们吃喝，不是为自己吃，为自己喝吗？
And, when ye used to eat and when ye used to drink, was it not, of your own accord, ye did eat, and, of your own accord, ye did drink?
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？’”
Should ye not [have been doing] the things which Yahweh, had proclaimed, by the hand of the former prophets, while yet Jerusalem was inhabited and in peace, with her cities round about her, —and the South and the Lowland were inhabited?
8 耶和华的话又临到撒迦利亚说：
And the word of Yahweh came unto Zechariah, saying:
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。
Thus, spake Yahweh of hosts, saying, —With true justice, give ye judgment, and, lovingkindness and compassions, observe ye, one with 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。’”
And, the widow and the fatherless, the sojourner and the humbled, do not ye oppress, —and, wickedness between one man and another, do not ye devise in your hearts.
11 他们却不肯听从，扭转肩头，塞耳不听，
Howbeit they refused to give heed, but put forth a rebellious shoulder, —and, their ears, made they hard of hearing, that they might not hear;
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。
and, their heart, turned they into adamant, that they might not hear the law, nor the words which Yahweh of hosts sent by his spirit, through the former prophets, —and so there came great wrath from Yahweh of hosts.
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！
Therefore came it to pass that—just as he cried out and they hearkened not, so, used they to cry out, and I used not to hearken, saith Yahweh of hosts;
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。”
But I whirled them over all the nations whom they had not known, and, the land, was made desolate after them, that none passed through and returned, —Yea they made of a delightful land—a desolation.
