Zechariah 7
1 In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev.
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。
2 Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech, along with their men, to plead before the LORD
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，
3 by asking the priests of the house of the LORD of Hosts, as well as the prophets, “Should I weep and fast in the fifth month, as I have done these many years?”
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？”
4 Then the word of the LORD of Hosts came to me, saying,
万军之耶和华的话就临到我说：
5 “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?
“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？
6 And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves?
你们吃喝，不是为自己吃，为自己喝吗？
7 Are these not the words that the LORD proclaimed through the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were populous and prosperous, and the Negev and the foothills were inhabited?’”
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？’”
8 Then the word of the LORD came to Zechariah, saying,
耶和华的话又临到撒迦利亚说：
9 “This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.
“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。
10 Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’
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。’”
11 But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing.
他们却不肯听从，扭转肩头，塞耳不听，
12 They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of Hosts.
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。
13 And just as I had called and they would not listen, so when they called I would not listen, says the LORD of Hosts.
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！
14 But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known, and the land was left desolate behind them so that no one could come or go. Thus they turned the pleasant land into a desolation.”
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。”
