스가랴 7
1 다리오왕 사년 구월 곧 기슬래월 사일에 여호와의 말씀이 스가랴에게 임하니라
When Darius had been the emperor for almost four years, on December 7, Yahweh gave me [another] message.
2 때에 벧엘 사람이 사레셀과 레겜멜렉과 그 종자를 보내어 여호와께 은혜를 구하고
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.
3 만군의 여호와의 전에 있는 제사장들과 선지자들에게 물어 가로되 우리가 여러 해 동안에 행한대로 오월간에 울며 재계하리이까 하매
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]?”
4 만군의 여호와의 말씀이 내게 임하여 이르시되
Then the Commander of the armies of angels gave me a message.
5 온 땅의 백성과 제사장들에게 이르라 너희가 칠십년 동안 오월과 칠월에 금식하고 애통하였거니와 그 금식이 나를 위하여 나를 위하여 한 것이냐?
[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].
6 너희의 먹으며 마심이 전혀 자기을 위하여 먹으며 자기를 위하여 마심이 아니냐
And when they ate and drank, it was really [RHQ] to [benefit] themselves.
7 여호와가 이전 선지자로 외친 말을 너희가 청종할 것이 아니냐? 그 때에는 예루살렘과 사면읍에 백성이 거하여 형통하였고 남방과 평원에도 사람이 거하였었느니라
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].”
8 여호와의 말씀이 스가랴에게 임하여 이르시되
Yahweh gave another message to me, saying
9 만군의 여호와가 이미 말하여 이르기를 너희는 진실한 재판을 행하며 피차에 인애와 긍휼을 베풀며
“[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.
10 과부와 고아와 나그네와 궁핍한 자를 압제하지 말며 남을 해하려하여 심중에 도모하지 말라 하였으나
Do not (oppress/treat cruelly) widows or orphans or foreigners or poor people. Do not even think about doing evil to anyone else.’”
11 청종하기를 싫어하며 등으로 향하며 듣지 아니하려고 귀를 막으며
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].
12 그 마음을 금강석 같게 하여 율법과 만군의 여호와가 신으로 이전 선지자를 빙자하여 전한 말을 듣지 아니하므로 큰 노가 나 만군의 여호와께로서 나왔도다
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.
13 만군의 여호와가 말하였었노라 내가 불러도 그들이 듣지 아니하였은즉 그들이 불러도 내가 듣지 아니하고
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.
14 회리바람으로 그들을 그 알지 못하던 모든 열국에 헤치리라한 후로 이 땅이 황무하여 왕래하는 사람이 없었나니 이는 그들이 아름다운 땅으로 황무하게 하였음이니라 하시니라
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).”
