Zechariah 7
1 When Darius had been the emperor for almost four years, on December 7, Yahweh gave me [another] message.
В четвертый год царя Дария было слово Господне к Захарии, в четвертый день девятого месяца, Хаслева,
2 The people of Bethel [city] sent two men, Sharezer and Regem-Melech, along with some other men, [to the temple of Yahweh, the Commander of the armies of angels, ] to request that Yahweh bless them.
когда Вефиль послал Сарецера и Регем-Мелеха и спутников его помолиться пред лицем Господа
3 They also asked the priests at Yahweh’s temple and the prophets [this question]: “For many years, during the fifth month [and during the seventh month of each year], we have mourned and (fasted/abstained from eating food). Should we [continue to do that]?”
и спросить у священников, которые в доме Господа Саваофа, и у пророков, говоря: “плакать ли мне в пятый месяц и поститься, как я делал это уже много лет?”
4 Then the Commander of the armies of angels gave me a message.
И было ко мне слово Господа Саваофа:
5 [He said], “Tell [RHQ] the priests and all the [other] people of Judah that during the past 70 years, when they mourned and fasted during the fifth and seventh months [of each year], it was not really [RHQ] me, [Yahweh], whom they were [honoring].
скажи всему народу земли сей и священникам так: когда вы постились и плакали в пятом и седьмом месяце, притом уже семьдесят лет, для Меня ли вы постились? для Меня ли?
6 And when they ate and drank, it was really [RHQ] to [benefit] themselves.
И когда вы едите и когда пьете, не для себя ли вы едите, не для себя ли вы пьете?
7 That is certainly [RHQ] what I continually told the former prophets to proclaim [to the people], when Jerusalem and the nearby towns were prosperous and filled with people, and people [also] lived in the desert area to the south and in the foothills [to the west].”
Не те же ли слова провозглашал Господь через прежних пророков, когда еще Иерусалим был населен и покоен и города вокруг него, южная страна и низменность, были населены?
8 Yahweh gave another message to me, saying
И было слово Господне к Захарии:
9 “[Tell the people that] this is what the Commander of the armies of angels says: ‘Do what is just/right, and act kindly and mercifully toward each other.
так говорил тогда Господь Саваоф: производите суд справедливый и оказывайте милость и сострадание каждый брату своему;
10 Do not (oppress/treat cruelly) widows or orphans or foreigners or poor people. Do not even think about doing evil to anyone else.’”
вдовы и сироты, пришельца и бедного не притесняйте и зла друг против друга не мыслите в сердце вашем.
11 But the people refused to pay attention [to what Yahweh said]. They turned their backs [to him], and put their hands over their ears in order to not hear [what he said].
Но они не хотели внимать, отворотились от Меня и уши свои отяготили, чтобы не слышать.
12 They were very stubborn [IDM], and they would not listen to the laws [that God gave to Moses] or the messages that the Commander of the armies of angels told his Spirit to give to the prophets who were now dead. So the Commander of the armies of angels was very angry.
И сердце свое окаменили, чтобы не слышать закона и слов, которые посылал Господь Саваоф Духом Своим через прежних пророков; за то и постиг их великий гнев Господа Саваофа.
13 The Commander of the armies of angels says, “When I called/spoke [to the people], they would not listen. So when they called/prayed [to me], I did not listen.
И было: как Он взывал, а они не слушали, так и они взывали, а Я не слушал, говорит Господь Саваоф.
14 And I caused them to be scattered among many nations, where they were strangers. [It was as though] [MET] a whirlwind [picked them up and carried them away from their country]. The country/land that they [were forced to] leave was ruined, with the result that no one could [live there or even] travel through it. [It was previously] a delightful land, but they caused it to become (desolate/like a desert).”
И Я развеял их по всем народам, которых они не знали, и земля сия опустела после них, так что никто не ходил по ней ни взад, ни вперед, и они сделали вожделенную страну пустынею.
