Zacharias 7

1 And it came to pass in the fourth year of Darius the king, [that] the word of the Lord came to Zacharias on the fourth [day] of the ninth month, which is Chaseleu.

達理阿王四年九月，即「基色婁」月四日，上主的話傳給匝加利亞。

2 And Sarasar and Arbeseer the king and his men sent to Bethel, and [that] to propitiate the Lord,

由貝特耳派遺了官員撒辣責爾和他的侍從去向上主請示，

3 speaking to the priests that were in the house of the Lord Almighty, and to the prophets, saying, The holy offering has come in hither in the fifth month, as it has done already many years.

去問上主殿裏的司祭和q們 2我是否在五月裏仍要哭泣和齋戒，像我多年以來所作的一樣﹖」

4 And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying,

那時萬軍木的話傳給我說：

5 Speak to the whole people of the land, and to the priests, saying, Though you fasted or lamented in the fifth or seventh [months] (yes, behold, these seventy years) have you at all fasted to me?

「你向國全體民眾和司祭們說：你們在五月和七月齋戒哭泣，至今已七十年了，豈是為了我而齋戒嗎﹖

6 And if you eat or drink, do you not eat and drink for yourselves?

你們幾時吃喝，豈不是為你們自己吃，為你們自己喝嗎﹖

7 Are not these the words which the Lord spoke by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and her cities round about her, and the hill country and the low country was inhabited?

難道你們不知道，當耶路撒冷還有人安居，她四週的城邑，南部平原也有人居住時，上主藉先知們所宣佈的訓令嗎﹖」

8 And the word of the Lord came to Zacharias, saying,

那時，上主有話傳給匝加利亞說：

9 Thus says the Lord Almighty; Judge righteous judgement, and deal mercifully and compassionately every one with his brother:

「萬軍的上主這樣說：你們應照公正裁判，以仁義和友愛彼此相待；

10 and oppress not the widow, or the fatherless, or the stranger, or the poor; and let not one of you remember in his heart the injury of his brother.

不可欺壓寡婦和孤兒，外方人和貧窮人；不可心中圖謀惡事陷害人。

11 But they refused to attend, and madly turned their back, and made their ears heavy, so that they should not hear.

但是你們不肯聽從，硬著頭頸，充耳不聞。

12 And they made their heart disobedient, so as not to listen to my law, and the words which the Lord Almighty sent forth by his Spirit by the former prophets: so there was great wrath from the Lord Almighty.

他們使自己的心硬如金剛石，不聽從法律，和萬軍的上主以自己的神感動古先知們所發表的訓令，為此，萬軍的上主曾大發憤怒。

13 And it shall come to pass, [that] as he spoke, and they listened not, so they shall cry, and I will not listen, says the Lord Almighty.

那麼，就如我呼喚時，你們不肯聽；同樣他們呼喊時，我也不肯聽──萬軍的上主說──

14 And I will cast them out amongst all the nations, whom they know not; and the land behind them shall be made utterly destitute of any going through or returning: yes they have made the choice land a desolation.

因此，我把他們驅散到他們所不認識的各民族中，以致他們去後，國土荒廢，無人住來；他們竟使美好的土地變成了一片荒野。」