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，耶和華的話臨到撒迦利亞。
2 Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech, along with their men, to plead before the LORD
那時伯特利人已經打發沙利色和利堅米勒，並跟從他們的人，去懇求耶和華的恩，
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?”
並問萬軍之耶和華殿中的祭司和先知說：「我歷年以來，在五月間哭泣齋戒，現在還當這樣行嗎？」
4 Then the word of the LORD of Hosts came to me, saying,
萬軍之耶和華的話就臨到我說：
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?
「你要宣告國內的眾民和祭司，說：『你們這七十年，在五月、七月禁食悲哀，豈是絲毫向我禁食嗎？
6 And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves?
你們吃喝，不是為自己吃，為自己喝嗎？
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?’”
當耶路撒冷和四圍的城邑有居民，正興盛，南地高原有人居住的時候，耶和華藉從前的先知所宣告的話，你們不當聽嗎？』」
8 Then the word of the LORD came to Zechariah, saying,
耶和華的話又臨到撒迦利亞說：
9 “This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.
「萬軍之耶和華曾對你們的列祖如此說：『要按至理判斷，各人以慈愛憐憫弟兄。
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.’
不可欺壓寡婦、孤兒、寄居的，和貧窮人。誰都不可心裏謀害弟兄。』」
11 But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing.
他們卻不肯聽從，扭轉肩頭，塞耳不聽，
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.
使心硬如金鋼石，不聽律法和萬軍之耶和華用靈藉從前的先知所說的話。故此，萬軍之耶和華大發烈怒。
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.
萬軍之耶和華說：「我曾呼喚他們，他們不聽；將來他們呼求我，我也不聽！
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.”
我必以旋風吹散他們到素不認識的萬國中。這樣，他們的地就荒涼，甚至無人來往經過，因為他們使美好之地荒涼了。」
