< Zechariah 12 >
1 The burden of the word of Jehovah concerning Israel. [Thus] saith Jehovah, who stretcheth out the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him:
神諭:上主論以色列的話:展開蒼天,奠定大地,在人體內造化人靈的上主的斷語:
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of bewilderment unto all the peoples round about, and also against Judah shall it be in the siege against Jerusalem.
看,我要使耶路撒冷成為四周萬民的醉杯;在耶路撒冷城被圍困寺時,猶大也必如此。
3 And it shall come to pass in that day [that] I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone unto all peoples: all that burden themselves with it shall certainly be wounded, and all the nations of the earth shall be assembled together against it.
在那一天,我必使耶路撒冷成為一切民族的舉重石;凡欲舉起它的,必受重傷。地上的民族,都要聚集起來攻擊它。
4 In that day, saith Jehovah, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness; but I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the peoples with blindness.
在那一天,──上主的斷語──我要以驚慌打搫一切戰馬,以瘋狂打搫騎兵;但對猶大家,我卻要睜開我的雙眼;我要以盲目打搫的戰馬。
5 And the leaders of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength through Jehovah of hosts their God.
那時,猶大的族長心裏必要說:耶路撒冷咕民的力量在乎萬軍的上主,他們的土天主。
6 In that day will I make the leaders of Judah like a hearth of fire among wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the peoples round about, on the right hand and on the left; and Jerusalem shall dwell again in her own place, in Jerusalem.
在那一天,我必要使猶大的族長好像木柴中的火盆,有如草堆中的火把;他們必左右吞滅四周所有的民族;但耶路撒冷必仍安居在自己的原處。
7 And Jehovah shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem be not magnified over Judah.
上主首先要使猶大的家族勝利,免得達味家的光榮和耶路撒冷居民的光榮超過猶大。
8 In that day will Jehovah defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that stumbleth among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David as God, as the Angel of Jehovah before them.
在那一天,上主必要保衛耶路撒冷的居民,使他們中的衰弱者,在那一天有如達味,而達味家在他們眼前有如神,有如上主的使者。
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
在那一天,我必設法消滅一切來攻打耶路撒冷的異民。
10 And I will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of supplications; and they shall look on me whom they pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for an only [son], and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for [his] firstborn.
我要對達味和耶路撒冷的居民傾注憐憫和哀禱的神,他們要瞻望他們所刺透的那一位:哀悼他如哀悼獨生子,痛哭他像痛哭長子。
11 In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadad-rimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
在那一天,在耶路撒冷必要大舉哀悼合有如在默基多平原中的哈達得黎孟的哀悼。
12 And the land shall mourn, every family apart: the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;
全國將要哀悼,各家各族,成一夥,他們的女人一夥;納堂家一夥,
13 the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;
肋未家的家族一夥,他們的女人一夥;史米家族一夥,他們的女人一夥;
14 all the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
其餘所有的家族,各家各族合成一夥,他們的女人一夥。