Zechariah 7
1 and to be in/on/with year four to/for Darius [the] king to be word LORD to(wards) Zechariah in/on/with four to/for month [the] ninth in/on/with Chislev
And it comes to pass, in the fourth year of Darius the king, a word of YHWH has been to Zechariah, in the fourth of the ninth month, in Chisleu.
2 and to send: depart Bethel Bethel Sharezer Sharezer and Regem-melech Regem-melech and human his to/for to beg [obj] face of LORD
And Beth-El sends Sherezer and Regem-Melech, and its men, to appease the face of YHWH,
3 to/for to say to(wards) [the] priest which to/for house: temple LORD Hosts and to(wards) [the] prophet to/for to say to weep in/on/with month [the] fifth to dedicate like/as as which to make: do this like/as what? year
speaking to the priests who [are] at the house of YHWH of Hosts, and to the prophets, saying, “Do I weep in the fifth month—being separated—as I have done these so many years?”
4 and to be word LORD Hosts to(wards) me to/for to say
And there is a word of YHWH of Hosts to me, saying,
5 to say to(wards) all people [the] land: country/planet and to(wards) [the] priest to/for to say for to fast and to mourn in/on/with fifth and in/on/with seventh and this seventy year to fast to fast me I
“Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying,
6 and for to eat and for to drink not you(m. p.) [the] to eat and you(m. p.) [the] to drink
When you fasted with mourning in the fifth and in the seventh [months]—even these seventy years—did you keep the fast [to] Me? And when you eat, and when you drink, is it not you who are eating, and you who are drinking?
7 not [obj] [the] word which to call: call out LORD in/on/with hand: by [the] prophet [the] first: previous in/on/with to be Jerusalem to dwell and at ease and city her around her and [the] Negeb and [the] Shephelah to dwell
Are [these] not the words that YHWH proclaimed by the hand of the former prophets, in Jerusalem’s being inhabited, and [in] safety, and its cities around it, and the south and the plain—abiding?”
8 and to be word LORD to(wards) Zechariah to/for to say
And there is a word of YHWH to Zechariah, saying,
9 thus to say LORD Hosts to/for to say justice: judgement truth: true to judge and kindness and compassion to make: do man: anyone with brother: compatriot his
“Thus spoke YHWH of Hosts, saying, Judge [with] true judgment, And do kindness and mercy with one another.
10 and widow and orphan sojourner and afflicted not to oppress and distress: evil man: anyone brother: compatriot his not to devise: devise in/on/with heart your
And do not oppress widow, and fatherless, Sojourner, and poor, And you do not devise the calamity of one another in your heart.
11 and to refuse to/for to listen and to give: put shoulder to rebel and ear their to honor: dull from to hear: hear
And they refuse to attend, And they give a stubborn shoulder, And their ears are made heavy against hearing.
12 and heart their to set: make thorn from to hear: hear [obj] [the] instruction and [obj] [the] word which to send: depart LORD Hosts in/on/with spirit his in/on/with hand: by [the] prophet [the] first: previous and to be wrath great: large from with LORD Hosts
And their heart they have made adamant, Against hearing the Law, and the words, That YHWH of Hosts sent by His Spirit, By the hand of the former prophets, And there is great wrath from YHWH of Hosts.
13 and to be like/as as which to call: call to and not to hear: hear so to call: call to and not to hear: hear to say LORD Hosts
And it comes to pass, as He called, And they have not listened, So they call, and I do not listen,” said YHWH of Hosts.
14 and to rage them upon all [the] nation which not to know them and [the] land: country/planet be desolate: destroyed after them from to pass and from to return: repent and to set: make land: country/planet desire to/for horror: destroyed
“And I toss them on all the nations, That they have not known, The land has been desolate behind them, Of any passing by and turning back, And they set a desirable land for a desolation!”
