Zechariah 11
1 [You people of] [APO] Lebanon [should] open your gates, [because you will not be able to stop] fire from burning your cedar [trees]!
| ای لبنان درهای خود را باز کن تا آتش، سروهای آزاد تو را بسوزاند. | ۱ |
2 Your cypress/pine [trees] [APO] should [also] wail because the cedar [trees] have been cut down. Those glorious/great trees have been destroyed. The oak trees in the Bashan [region] should also wail, because the other trees in the forest have been cut down.
| ای صنوبر ولوله نما زیرا که سرو آزاد افتاده است (ودرختان ) بلند خراب شده. ای بلوطهای باشان ولوله نمایید زیرا که جنگل منیع افتاده است. | ۲ |
3 And listen to the shepherds crying because the fertile pastures have been ruined. Listen to the lions roar; they roar because the delightful forest [where they live] near the Jordan [River] has been ruined.
| صدای ولوله شبانان است زیرا که جلال ایشان خراب شده؛ صدای غرش شیران ژیان است زیراکه شوکت اردن ویران گردیده است. | ۳ |
4 This is what Yahweh my God said [to me]: “[I want you to] become a shepherd for a flock [of sheep that are about] to be slaughtered.
| یهوه خدای من چنین می‌فرماید که گوسفندان ذبح را بچران | ۴ |
5 The people who are going to buy the sheep will kill the sheep, and they will not be punished. Those who are selling the sheep say, ‘[I] praise Yahweh, [because] I will become rich!’ Even the shepherds do not feel sorry for the sheep.
| که خریداران ایشان آنها را ذبح می‌نمایند و مجرم شمرده نمی شوند وفروشندگان ایشان می‌گویند: خداوند متبارک باد زیرا که دولتمند شده‌ایم. و شبانان آنهابرایشان شفقت ندارند. | ۵ |
6 And similarly, I no longer feel sorry for the people of this country. I am going to allow many of them [HYP] to be captured by other people or by their king. Those who capture them will ruin this country, and I will not rescue any [of the people].”
| زیرا خداوند می‌گوید: بر ساکنان این زمین بار دیگر ترحم نخواهم نمود واینک من هر کس از مردمان را به‌دست همسایه‌اش و به‌دست پادشاهش تسلیم خواهم نمود و زمین را ویران خواهند ساخت و از دست ایشان رهایی نخواهم بخشید. | ۶ |
7 So I became the shepherd of a flock [of sheep that were about] to be slaughtered [for their meat to be sold] to the dealers. [I took good care of the sheep, even the ones that were the weakest sheep. Then] I took two [shepherds’] /walking sticks). I named the one [staff] ‘Kindness’ and the other [staff] ‘Union’. And I took good care of the sheep.
| پس من گله ذبح یعنی ضعیف ترین گله را چرانیدم و دو عصا برای خود گرفتم که یکی از آنها را نعمه نامیدم ودیگری را حبال نام نهادم و گله را چرانیدم. | ۷ |
8 But the three shepherds [who had been working with me] detested me, and I became impatient with them. Within one month I (dismissed/got rid of) those shepherds.
| و دریک ماه سه شبان را منقطع ساختم و جان من ازایشان بیزار شد و جان ایشان نیز از من متنفرگردید. | ۸ |
9 So I said [to the dealers], “I will no [longer] be the shepherd. I will allow the ones that are dying to die. I will allow the ones that are getting lost to get lost. And I will not prevent those that remain from destroying each other.”
| پس گفتم شما را نخواهم چرانید. آنکه مردنی است بمیرد و آنکه هلاک شدنی است هلاک شود و باقی ماندگان گوشت یکدیگر رابخورند. | ۹ |
10 Then I took the staff that I had named ‘Kindness’ and I broke it. [That showed that Yahweh] was annulling/canceling the agreement that he had made with all the people-groups.
| پس عصای خود نعمه را گرفته، آن راشکستم تا عهدی را که با تمامی قوم‌ها بسته بودم شکسته باشم. | ۱۰ |
11 So that agreement was ended immediately. And the men who bought and sold sheep who were watching me knew [by seeing what I was doing] that I was giving them a message from Yahweh.
| پس در آن روز شکسته شد و آن ضعیف ترین گله که منتظر من می‌بودند فهمیدندکه این کلام خداوند است. | ۱۱ |
12 I told them, “If you think it is what you should do, pay me [for taking care of the sheep]. If you do not think that is what you should do, do not pay me.” So they paid me [only] 30 pieces of silver.
| و به ایشان گفتم: اگردر نظر شما پسند آید مزد مرا بدهید والا ندهید. پس به جهت مزد من، سی پاره نقره وزن کردند. | ۱۲ |
13 Then Yahweh said to me, “[That is a ridiculously small amount of money that they have paid you]! [So] throw it to the man who makes clay pots!” So I took the silver to the temple of Yahweh, and I threw it in the chest where the offerings/money is kept.
| و خداوند مرا گفت: آن را نزد کوزه‌گر بینداز، این قیمت گران را که مرا به آن قیمت کردند. پس سی پاره نقره را گرفته، آن را در خانه خداوند نزدکوزه‌گر انداختم. | ۱۳ |
14 Then I broke my second staff, [the one that I named] ‘Union’. That [indicated that] Judah and Israel would no longer be united.
| و عصای دیگر خود حبال راشکستم تا برادری را که در میان یهودا و اسرائیل بود شکسته باشم. | ۱۴ |
15 Then Yahweh said to me, “Take again the things that a foolish shepherd uses,
| و خداوند مرا گفت: «بار دیگر آلات شبان احمق را برای خود بگیر. | ۱۵ |
16 because I am going to appoint a new king for the people, [one who will not take care of my people. He will be like a foolish shepherd]: [MET] He will not take care of those who are dying, those who are very young, those who have been injured, or those who do not have enough food. Instead, he will [treat them very cruelly, like a shepherd who would] [MET] kill and eat the best sheep and tear off their hoofs.
| زیرا اینک من شبانی را در این زمین خواهم برانگیخت که از هالکان تفقد نخواهد نمود و گم شدگان را نخواهد طلبیدو مجروحان را معالجه نخواهد کرد و ایستادگان را نخواهد پرورد بلکه گوشت فربهان را خواهدخورد و سمهای آنها را خواهد کند. | ۱۶ |
17 But terrible things will happen to that foolish/useless king who abandons the people [MET] over whom he rules. [His enemies] will strike his arm and his right eye with their swords. [The result will be that] he will have no strength in his arm, and his right eye will become completely blind.”
| وای برشبان باطل که گله را ترک می‌نماید. شمشیر بربازویش و بر چشم راستش فرود خواهد آمد وبازویش بالکل خشک خواهد شد و چشم راستش بکلی تار خواهد گردید.» | ۱۷ |
