< Zechariah 11 >

1 Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
黎巴嫩! 打開你的門,讓火來吞滅你的香柏!
2 Wail, O cypress-tree, for the cedar is fallen; because the glorious ones are spoiled; wail, O ye oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest is come down.
松樹,哀號吧! 因為香柏已被伐倒,高大者已被摧毀;巴商的橡樹,哀號吧! 因為不可深入的樹林全已倒下。
3 Hark! the wailing of the shepherds, for their glory is spoiled; Hark! the roaring of young lions, for the thickets of the Jordan are spoiled.
聽,牧人在哀號,因為他們的的光榮己被破壞;聽,幼獅在咆哮,因為約旦的豪華已遭摧毀。
4 Thus said the LORD my God: 'Feed the flock of slaughter;
上主,我的天主這樣說:「你要牧放這待宰的羊群!
5 whose buyers slay them, and hold themselves not guilty; and they that sell them say: Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich; and their own shepherds pity them not.
那些購買牠們來宰殺的,以為無過;那賣出他們的的還說;上主應受讚美,因為我成了富翁! 那牧放牠們的,毫不憐惜牠們。
6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD; but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king; and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.'
我也決不再憐恤這地上的居民──上主的斷語;看,我要將每個人交在他的的牧人手中.和他的君王手中,讓他們毀滅這地, 決不由他們手中搶救。
7 So I fed the flock of slaughter, verily the poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Graciousness, and the other I called Binders; and I fed the flock.
這樣我就代替賣羊人牧放待宰的羊群。我取了兩根棍杖:一根我稱它為「愛護」,一根我叫它作「聯合」;我這樣牧放了羊群。
8 And I cut off the three shepherds in one month; 'for My soul became impatient of them, and their soul also loathed Me.'
在一個月內,我竟廢除了三個牧人;終於我的人神也厭煩了羊群,而他們的心也厭惡我。
9 Then said I: 'I will not feed you; that which dieth, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let them that are left eat every one the flesh of another.'
我於是說:我不願再失放你們:那要死的,就讓他死去;那要喪亡的,就讓他喪亡;那劓剩下的,就讓他們彼此吞食。
10 And I took my staff Graciousness, and cut it asunder, 'that I might break My covenant which I had made with all the peoples.'
以後,我就拿起我的棍杖「愛護」,把它折斷,藉以廢除我與眾百姓所結的盟約。
11 And it was broken in that day; and the poor of the flock that gave heed unto me knew of a truth that it was the word of the LORD.
盟約便在那一天廢除了;於是那些注視我的羊販子,便知道這是上主的話。
12 And I said unto them: 'If ye think good, give me my hire; and if not, forbear.' So they weighed for my hire thirty pieces of silver.
以後,我對他們說:如果你們看著好,就給我工資,不然,就算了。他們於是衡量了二十兩銀子作我的工資。
13 And the LORD said unto me: 'Cast it into the treasury, the goodly price that I was prized at of them.' And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them into the treasury, in the house of the LORD.
那時上主對我說:「你把他們對我所佔計的高價投入寶內! 我就是拿了那三十兩銀子,投入上主殿內寶庫裏
14 Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Binders, that the brotherhood between Judah and Israel might be broken.
我又折斷我的另一根棍杖「聯合」,藉以廢除與以色列間的手足情誼。
15 And the LORD said unto me: 'Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.
上主又對我說:「你再取一套愚昧收入的服裝,
16 For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not think of those that are cut off, neither will seek those that are young, nor heal that which is broken; neither will he feed that which standeth still, but he will eat the flesh of the fat, and will break their hoofs in pieces.'
因為.看,我將在地上興起一個牧人:那喪失的,他不去尋找;那迷途的,他不去搜索;那受傷的,他不去醫治;那病弱的,他不去扶持;卻要擇肥而食,並且剝去牠們的蹄子。
17 Woe to the worthless shepherd that leaveth the flock! The sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye; his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.
禍哉! 那拋棄羊群的愚昧牧人! 願刀劍落在他的臂膊和他的右眼上! 願他的臂膊枯槁! 願他的右眼完全失明!

< Zechariah 11 >