撒迦利亞書 2

1 我又舉目觀看，見一人手拿準繩。

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

2 我說：「你往哪裏去？」他對我說：「要去量耶路撒冷，看有多寬多長。」

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

3 與我說話的天使去的時候，又有一位天使迎着他來，

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

4 對他說：「你跑去告訴那少年人說，耶路撒冷必有人居住，好像無城牆的鄉村，因為人民和牲畜甚多。

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 耶和華說：我要作耶路撒冷四圍的火城，並要作其中的榮耀。」

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

6 耶和華說：「我從前分散你們在天的四方，現在你們要從北方之地逃回。這是耶和華說的。

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

7 與巴比倫人同住的錫安民哪，應當逃脫。

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

8 萬軍之耶和華說，在顯出榮耀之後，差遣我去懲罰那擄掠你們的列國，摸你們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，我要向他們掄手，他們就必作服事他們之人的擄物，你們便知道萬軍之耶和華差遣我了。

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 錫安城啊，應當歡樂歌唱，因為我來要住在你中間。這是耶和華說的。」

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

11 那時，必有許多國歸附耶和華，作他的子民。他要住在你中間，你就知道萬軍之耶和華差遣我到你那裏去了。

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 耶和華必收回猶大作他聖地的分，也必再揀選耶路撒冷。

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 凡有血氣的都當在耶和華面前靜默無聲；因為他興起，從聖所出來了。

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