Zechariah 7
1 The Lord sent a message to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev. This was during the fourth year of king Darius' reign.
I Kong Darius's fjerde Regeringsår kom HERRENs Ord til Zakarias på den fjerde Dag i den niende Måned, Kislev.
2 Bethel-sharezer sent Regem-melech and his men to ask for the Lord's blessing.
Da sendte Betel-Sar'ezer og Regem-Melek og hans Mænd Bud for at bede HERREN om Nåde
3 They were to ask the priests of the Temple of the Lord Almighty and the prophets, “Should I go on mourning and fasting in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?”
og spørge Præsterne ved Hærskarers HERREs Hus og Profeterne: "Skal jeg græde og spæge mig i den femte Måned, som jeg nu har gjort i så mange År?"
4 The Lord Almighty sent a message to me saying,
Da kom Hærskarers HERREs Ord til mig således:
5 Tell everyone in the land and the priests, when you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and the seventh month during these seventy years, was it really me you were fasting for?
Sig til alt Folket i Landet og til Præsterne: Når l har fastet og klaget i den femte og syvende Måned i halvfjerdsindstyve År, var det da mig, I fastede for?
6 And when you eat and drink, don't you eat and drink for yourselves?
Og når l spiser og drikker, er det da ikke eder, som spiser og drikker?
7 Isn't this what the Lord told you to do through the former prophets, when Jerusalem was prosperous and inhabited, and when people were living in the Negev and the Shephelah?
Kender I ikke de Ord, HERREN forkyndte ved de tidligere Profeter, dengang Jerusalem og dets Byer trindt om var beboet og havde Fred, og Sydlandet og Lavlandetvar beboet?
8 The Lord Almighty sent another message to me.
Og HERRENs Ord kom til Zaka rias således:
9 This is what the Lord says. Judge fairly and truthfully. Show mercy and kindness to one another.
Så siger Hærskarers HERRE: Fæld redelig Dom, vis Miskundhed og Barmhjertighed mod hverandre,
10 Don't exploit those who are widowed or fatherless, foreigners or the poor. Don't think up ways of mistreating one other.
undertryk ikke Enker og faderløse, fremmede og nødlidende og tænk ikke i eders Hjerter ondt mod hverandre!
11 But they refused to listen. They were obstinate, turning their backs and closing their ears.
Men de vilde ikke høre; de var stivnakkede og gjorde deres Ører døve
12 They made their minds unreceptive, as hard as stone. They refused to listen to the law or to what the Lord Almighty told them by his Spirit through the former prophets. That's why the Lord Almighty became very angry with them.
og deres Hjerter hårde som Diamant for ikke at høre Loven og de Ord, Hærskarers HERRE sendte gennem sin Ånd ved de tidligere Profeter. Derfor kom der stor Vrede fra Hærskarers HERRE.
13 So since they didn't listen when I called out to them, I wouldn't listen when they called out to me, says the Lord Almighty.
Ligesom de ikke hørte, når han kaldte, således vil jeg, sagde Hærskarers HERRE, ikke høre, når de kalder;
14 With the winds of a storm I scattered them among the nations where they lived as foreigners. The land they left became so desolate that no one even traveled through it. They turned the Promised Land into a desert.
og jeg blæste dem bort blandt alle de Folk, de ikke kendte, og Landet blev øde efter dem, så ingen drog ud eller hjem; og de gjorde det yndige Land til en Ørk.
