Zakaria 7
1 Aa ie tan-taom-paha-efa’ i Dariavese mpanjakay, le niheo amy Zekarià ty tsara’ Iehovà amy andro fahefa’ ty volam-pahasivey, toe Safary;
In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev.
2 Ie nampañitrifeñe añ’ anjomba’ Iehovà ao t’i Sarezere naho i Regemeleke rekets’ o mpiama’eo,
Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech, along with their men, to plead before the LORD
3 ninday saontsy amo mpisoroñe añ’ anjomba’ Iehovà’ i maroio, naho amo mpitokio, ami’ty hoe: Handala hao iraho amy volam-paha-limey, naho hilie-batañe manahake i nanoeko amy taoñe maro rezaiy?
by asking the priests of the house of the LORD of Hosts, as well as the prophets, “Should I weep and fast in the fifth month, as I have done these many years?”
4 Aa le niheo amako ty tsara’ Iehovà nanao ty hoe:
Then the word of the LORD of Hosts came to me, saying,
5 Saontsio ze hene’ ondati’ i taney naho o mpisoroñeo, ty hoe: Ie nililitse naho nandala amy volam-paha-limey naho amy volam-paha-fitoy, i fitompolo taoñe rezay, Izaho hao ty nililira’ areo; Toe amako hao?
“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?
6 Ie mikama, naho minoñe, tsy ho anahareo hao ty fikama’ areo naho ho anahareo ty finoma’ areo?
And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves?
7 Tsy izay hao o tsara tsinei’ Iehovà añamo mpitoky taoloo, ie nimoneñañe t’Ierosalaime naho niraorao, ie naho o rova’ nañohok’ azeo, vaho nitobohañe ka i Atimoy naho i Vavataney?
Are these not the words that the LORD proclaimed through the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were populous and prosperous, and the Negev and the foothills were inhabited?’”
8 Niheo amy Zekarià ty tsara’ Iehovà, nanao ty hoe:
Then the word of the LORD came to Zechariah, saying,
9 Hoe ty nitsarà’ Iehovà’ i Màroy: Manoa zaka-to naho songa mifampitretreza naho mifanao miroahalahy;
“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.
10 ko mamorekeke vantotse, ndra bode-rae, ndra renetane, ndra o rarakeo: ko mifampikinia an-troke.
Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’
11 F’ie nifoneñe tsy hañaoñe, naho nampitolike soroke mandietse, vaho nanjenjen-dravembia tsy hitsanoñe;
But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing.
12 mbore, nanoe’ iereo vato mizitse ty tro’ iareo tsy mone hahajanjiñe i Hake, naho o tsara nampisangitrife’ Iehovà am-pità’ o mpitoky taoloo añamy Arofo’ey; aa le nifetsake eo ty haviñerañe jabajaba’ Iehovà’ i Màroy.
They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of Hosts.
13 Ie amy zao, kanao nikanjy re naho tsy nañaoñe iereo, le hikanjy ka iereo vaho tsy ho haoñeko, hoe t’Iehovà’ i Màroy;
And just as I had called and they would not listen, so when they called I would not listen, says the LORD of Hosts.
14 le nampibaratsiahako an-tangololahy iereo mb’amo kilakila ondaty tsy apota’ iareoo. Le nihòake i taney nenga’ iereo, naho leo raike tsy nihelohelo ama’e; ie nampangoakoàhe’ iereo i tane fanjàkay.
But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known, and the land was left desolate behind them so that no one could come or go. Thus they turned the pleasant land into a desolation.”
