< Zechariah 13 >
1 In that day, there will be a fountain open to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for the washing of the transgressor and of the defiled woman.
在那一天,為達味家和耶路撒冷的居民將開放一個水泉,為洗滌罪過和不潔。
2 And this shall be in that day, says the Lord of hosts: I will disperse the names of the idols from the earth, and they will not be remembered any longer. And I will take away the false prophets and the unclean spirit from the earth.
在那一天,──萬軍的上主的斷語──我要由地上剷除一切偶像的名號,不再為人所記念;並且我還要將假先知們和不潔的神由地上滅絕。
3 And this shall be: when any devotee will continue to prophesy, his father and his mother, who conceived him, will say to him, “You shall not live, because you have been speaking a lie in the name of the Lord.” And his father and his mother, his own parents, will pierce him, when he will prophesy.
將來如果有人還要冒充先知,生養他的父母必要對他說:你不能生存,因為你藉上主的名字說了謊話。生養他的父母就在他說妙語時,要把他刺死。
4 And this shall be: In that day, the prophets will be confounded, each one by his own vision, when he will prophesy. Neither will they be covered with a garment of sackcloth in order to deceive.
在那一天,每個假先知,在他說妙語時,必因自己的神視感到羞慚;他們必不再穿毛外氅,去行欺騙;
5 But he will say, “I am not a prophet; I am a man of agriculture. For Adam has been my example from my youth.”
他反要說:我不是先知,我是一個種田的人,因為我自幼就以務農為業。
6 And they will say to him, “What are these wounds in the middle of your hands?” And he will say, “I was wounded with these in the house of those who love me.”
若有人問他說:怎麼在你兩手上有這些傷痕﹖他要答說:那是我在愛我的人家裏所受的傷。
7 Awake, O spear, against my shepherd and against the man that clings to me, says the Lord of hosts. Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered. And I will turn my hand to the little ones.
刀劍,起來攻擊我的牧人,攻擊那作我同伴的人──萬軍上主斷語。打擊牧人,羊群就要四散,然而我要向弱小的羊伸出我的手。
8 And there will be in all the earth, says the Lord, two parts in it will be scattered and will pass away, and the third part will be left behind.
將來在全國──上主的斷語──三分之二必被剷除而死去,其中只留下三分之一。
9 And I will lead the third part through fire, and I will burn them just as silver is burned, and I will test them just as gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will heed them. I will say, “You are my people.” And they will say, “The Lord is my God.”
我要使這三分之一經過火煉,煉淨他們如同煉淨銀子,試驗他們如同試驗金子。 他們必要呼號我的名字我也必要俯聽他們;我要說:「這是我的百姓。」他們每人也要說:「上主是我的天主」。