< Zacharias 13 >
1 In that day every place shall be opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for removal and for separation.
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 it shall come to pass in that day, says the Lord of hosts, [that] I will utterly destroy the names of the idols from off the land, and there shall be no longer [any] remembrance of them: and I will cut off the false prophets and the evil spirit from the land.
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 it shall come to pass, if a man will yet prophesy, that his father and his mother which gave birth to him shall say to him, You shall not live; for you has spoken lies in the name of the Lord: and his father and his mother who gave him birth shall bind him as he is prophesying.
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 it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision when he prophesies; and they shall clothe themselves with a garment of hair, because they have lied.
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 And [one] shall say, I am not a prophet, for I am a tiller of the ground, for a man brought me up [thus] 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 I will say to him, What are these wounds between your hands? and he shall say, [Those] with which I was wounded in my beloved house.
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 sword, against my shepherds, and against the man [who is] my citizen, says the Lord Almighty: strike the shepherds, and draw out the sheep: and I will bring mine hand upon 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 it shall come to pass, [that] in all the land, says the Lord, two parts thereof shall be cut off and perish; but the third shall be left therein.
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 bring the third [part] through the fire, and I will try them as silver is tried, and I will prove them as gold is proved: they shall call upon my name, and I will hear them, and say, This is my people: and they shall 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」。