Zakaria 1

1 Tamin’ ny volana fahavalo tamin’ ny taona faharoa nanjakan’ i Dariosa no nahatongavan’ ny tenin’ i Jehovah tamin’ i Zakaria mpaminany, zanak’ i Berekia, zanak’ Ido, nanao hoe:

In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,

2 Tezitra indrindra tamin’ ny razanareo Jehovah.

The LORD has been sore displeased with your fathers.

3 Koa lazao aminy hoe: Izao no lazain’ i Jehovah, Tompon’ ny maro: Miverena amiko ianareo, hoy Jehovah, Tompon’ ny maro, dia mba hiverina ho aminareo kosa Aho, hoy Jehovah, Tompon’ ny maro.

Therefore say you to them, Thus says the LORD of hosts; Turn you to me, says the LORD of hosts, and I will turn to you, says the LORD of hosts.

4 Aza mba toy ny razanareo, izay nantsoin’ ny mpaminany fahiny hoe: Izao no lazain’ i Jehovah, Tompon’ ny maro: Mialà amin’ ny lalanareo ratsy ianareo sy amin’ ny ratsy fanaonareo; nefa tsy nitandrina izy, na nihaino Ahy, hoy Jehovah.

Be you not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus says the LORD of hosts; Turn you now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor listen to me, says the LORD.

5 Ny razanareo ― aiza moa ireny izao? Ary ny mpaminany ― moa velona mandrakizay va ireny?

Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

6 Fa ny teniko sy ny didiko, izay nandidiako ny mpaminany mpanompoko, tsy nahatratra ny razanareo va izany? Ary izy nitodika ka nanao hoe: Araka izay nosainin’ i Jehovah, Tompon’ ny maro, hatao amintsika, araka ny alehantsika sy ny ataontsika, dia araka izany no nataony tamintsika.

But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so has he dealt with us.

7 Tamin’ ny andro fahefatra amby roa-polo tamin’ ny volana fahiraika ambin’ ny folo (volana Sebata izany) tamin’ ny taona faharoa nanjakan’ i Dariosa dia tonga tamin i Zakaria mpaminany, zanak’ i Berekia, zanak’ Ido, ny tenin’ i Jehovah nanao, hoe:

On the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,

8 Nahita tamin’ ny alina aho fa, indro, nisy lehilahy nitaingina soavaly mena ka nijanona teny amin’ ny rotra teny an-dohasaha, ary teo aoriany nisy soavaly mena sy mavo ary fotsy.

I saw by night, and behold a man riding on a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white.

9 Dia hoy izaho: Tompoko ô, inona moa ireo? Ary ilay anjely niresaka tamiko dia nanao tamiko hoe: Izaho haneho anao ny amin’ ireo.

Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said to me, I will show you what these be.

10 Ary ralehilahy izay nijanona teny amin’ ny rotra dia namaly hoe: Ireo dia nirahin’ Jehovah hivoivoy eny amin’ ny tany.

And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they whom the LORD has sent to walk to and fro through the earth.

11 Ary namaly Ilay Anjelin’ i Jehovah nijanona teny amin’ ny rotra ireo ka nanao hoe: Efa nivoivoy teny amin’ ny tany izahay, ary, indro, ny tany rehetra dia miadana sy mandry fahizay.

And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sits still, and is at rest.

12 Ary Ilay Anjelin’ i Jehovah namaly hoe: He, Jehovah, Tompon’ ny maro ô! mandra-pahoviana no tsy hamindranao fo amin’ i Jerosalema sy amin’ ny tanànan’ ny Joda, izay efa nahatezitra Anao fito-polo taona izay.

Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these three score and ten years?

13 Dia novalian’ i Jehovah teny tsara sy mampionona ilay anjely niresaka tamiko.

And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words.

14 Ary ilay anjely niresaka tamiko dia nanao tamiko hoe: Miantsoa hoe: Izao no lazain’ i Jehovah, Tompon’ ny maro: Saro-piaro dia saro-piaro an’ i Jerosalema sy Ziona Aho.

So the angel that communed with me said to me, Cry you, saying, Thus says the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.

15 Ary tezitra indrindra Aho amin’ ireo firenena miadana; satria Izaho dia tezitra kely ihany, fa ireo kosa dia nampitombo ny fahoriana.

And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.

16 Koa izao no lazain’ i Jehovah: Efa tafaverina eto Jerosalema amin’ ny indrafo Aho; ny tranoko haorina eto, hoy Jehovah, Tompon’ ny maro, ary ny famolaina hohenjanina eto Jerosalema.

Therefore thus says the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, says the LORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth on Jerusalem.

17 Miantsoa indray hoe: Izao no lazain’ i Jehovah, Tompon’ ny maro: Hihoa-pampana ny fanambinana ny tanànako; ary Jehovah hampionona an’ i Ziona ary mbola hifidy an’ i Jerosalema indray.

Cry yet, saying, Thus says the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.

18 Ary natopiko ny masoko, ka hitako fa, indreo, nisy tandroka efatra.

Then lifted I up my eyes, and saw, and behold four horns.

19 Ary hoy izaho tamin’ ilay anjely niresaka tamiko: Inona moa ireo? Dia hoy izy tamiko: Ireo no tandroka izay nampihahaka ny Joda sy ny Isiraely ary Jerosalema.

And I said to the angel that talked with me, What be these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.

20 Ary dia nanehoan’ i Jehovah mpiasa efatra aho.

And the LORD showed me four carpenters.

21 Dia hoy izaho: Avy hanao inona moa ireto? Ary Izy nanao hoe: Ireo no tandroka nampihahaka ny Joda, ka tsy nisy olona nanandrandra loha; fa ireto kosa dia avy hampahatahotra azy mba hampiongana ny tandroky ny firenena, dia izay nanandratra ny tandrony tamin’ ny tanin’ ny Joda hanely azy.

Then said I, What come these to do? And he spoke, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.