Zechariah 7
1 When King Darius had been ruler for four years, on the fourth day of Kislev (which was the ninth month), the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah.
ダリヨス王の四年の九月すなはちキスリウといふ月の四日にヱホバの言ゼカリヤに臨めり
2 The people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-Melek and their men to beg before the face of Yahweh.
ベテルかの時シヤレゼル、レゲンメレクおよびその從者を遣してヱホバを和めさせ
3 They spoke to the priests who were at the house of Yahweh of hosts and to the prophets; they said, “Should I mourn in the fifth month by means of a fast, as I have done these many years?”
かつ萬軍のヱホバの室にをる祭司に問しめ且預言者に問しめて言けらく我今まで年久しく爲きたりしごとく尚五月をもて哭きかつ齋戒すべきやと
4 So the word of Yahweh of hosts came to me, saying,
ここにおいて萬軍のヱホバの言我に臨めり云く
5 “Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests and say, 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, were you truly fasting for me?
國の諸民および祭司に告て言へ汝らは七十年のあひだ五月と七月とに斷食しかつ哀哭せしがその斷食せし時果して我にむかひて斷食せしや
6 When you ate and drank, did you not eat and drink for yourselves?
汝ら食ひかつ飮は全く己のために食ひ己のために飮ならずや
7 Were these not the same words that Yahweh proclaimed by the mouth of the former prophets, when you still inhabited Jerusalem and the surrounding cities in prosperity and were settled in the Negev, and the foothills to the west?'”
在昔ヱルサレムおよび周圍の邑々人の住ふありて平安なりし時南の地および平野にも人の住ひをりし時に已往の預言者によりてヱホバの宣ひたりし言を汝ら知ざるや
8 The word of Yahweh came to Zechariah, saying,
ヱホバの言ゼカリヤに臨めり云く
9 “Yahweh of hosts says this, 'Judge with true justice, covenant faithfulness, and mercy. Let each man do this for his brother.
萬軍のヱホバかく宣へり云く正義き審判を行ひ互に相愛しみ相憐め
10 About the widow and orphan, the foreigner, and the poor person—do not oppress them, and let none of you plot any harm against another in your heart.'
寡婦孤兒旅客および貧者を虐ぐるなかれ人を害せんと心に圖る勿れと
11 But they refused to pay attention and set their shoulders stubbornly. They stopped up their ears so they would not hear.
然るに彼等は肯て耳を傾けず背を向け耳を鈍くして聽ず
12 They made their hearts as hard as rock so they would not hear the law or the words of Yahweh of hosts. He had sent these messages to the people by his Spirit in earlier times, by the mouth of the prophets. But the people refused to listen, so Yahweh of hosts was very angry with them.
且その心を金剛石のごとくし萬軍のヱホバがその御霊をもて已往の預言者に由て傳へたまひし律法と言詞に聽したがはざりき是をもて大なる怒萬軍のヱホバより出て臨めり
13 It happened that when he called, they did not listen. In the same way,” said Yahweh of hosts, “they will call out to me, but I will not listen.
彼かく呼はりたれども彼等聽ざりき其ごとく彼ら呼はるとも我聽じ萬軍のヱホバこれを言ふ
14 For I will scatter them with a whirlwind to all the nations that they have not seen, and the land will be desolate after them. For no one will pass through the land or return to it since the people have made their delightful land into a wasteland.”
我かれらをその識ざる諸の國に吹散すべし其後にてこの地は荒て往來する者なきに至らん彼等かく美しき國を荒地となす
