जखऱ्या 7
1 १ पारसचा राजा दारयावेश याच्या कारकिर्दीच्या चौथ्या वर्षांच्या नवव्या माहिन्याच्या म्हणजे किसलेव महिन्याच्या चौथ्या दिवशी, जखऱ्याला परमेश्वराकडून वचन प्राप्त झाले.
When Darius had been the emperor for almost four years, on December 7, Yahweh gave me [another] message.
2 २ बेथेलच्या लोकांनी शरेसर, रगेम्मेलेक व त्यांची माणसे यांना परमेश्वराची कृपा मिळावी म्हणून पाठवले.
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 ३ ते संदेष्ट्यांना आणि सेनाधीश परमेश्वराच्या मंदिरातील याजकांना म्हणाले: “प्रत्येक वर्षाच्या पाचव्या महिन्यात आम्ही उपवास करून शोक प्रकट करत आहोत. हे आम्ही असेच चालू ठेवायचे का?”
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]?”
Then the Commander of the armies of angels gave me a message.
5 ५ “याजकांना आणि या देशातील इतर लोकांस सांग की तुम्ही सत्तर वर्षे प्रत्येक वर्षांच्या पाचव्या आणि सातव्या महिन्यात उपवास केला व शोक प्रकट केला. पण हा उपवास खरोखरच माझ्यासाठी होता का?
[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].
And when they ate and drank, it was really [RHQ] to [benefit] themselves.
7 ७ याच गोष्टी सांगण्यासाठी परमेश्वराने फार पूर्वीच या आधीच्या संदेष्ट्यांच्या द्वारे घोषीत केले होते. जेव्हा यरूशलेम ही एक भरभराट झालेली आणि लोकांनी गजबजलेली नगरी होती, यरूशलेमेच्या भोवतालच्या गावात, नेगेबला व पश्चिमेकडील डोंगरपायथ्याशी वस्ती होती. तेव्हादेखील देवाने हीच वचने सांगितली होती.”
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].”
Yahweh gave another message to me, saying
9 ९ सेनाधीश परमेश्वर असे म्हणतो की “जे सत्य व न्याय्य आहे तेच तुम्ही करा. एकमेकांवर प्रेम व करुणा दाखवा. प्रत्येक मनुष्याने आपल्या बंधू बरोबर असे वागावे.
“[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.
Do not (oppress/treat cruelly) widows or orphans or foreigners or poor people. Do not even think about doing evil to anyone else.’”
11 ११ पण त्या लोकांनी ऐकण्याचे नाकारले व मान ताठ केली, देवाची वाणी ऐकू येऊ नये म्हणून त्यांनी आपले कान झाकून घेतले.
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 १२ जे नियम सेनाधीश परमेश्वराने आपल्या आत्म्याचा उपयोग करून जे धर्मशास्त्र व संदेष्ट्यांद्वारे वचन पाठवले ते लोक ऐकेनात. त्यांनी आपली मने पाषाणासारखी कठीण केली, तेव्हा सेनाधीश परमेश्वर कोपला.
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 १३ तेव्हा असे झाले की, त्याने आवाहन केले पण त्यांनी प्रतिसाद दिला नाही. त्याच प्रकारे, सेनाधीश परमेश्वर म्हणतो, “त्यांनी माझा धावा केल्यास, मी उत्तर देणार नाही.
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 १४ एखाद्या वावटळीच्या वाऱ्याप्रमाणे मी त्यांना अनोळखी राष्ट्रांमध्ये पांगवीन. त्यांचा देश त्यांच्या मागे ओसाड पडेल व तेथे कोणी ये-जा करणार नाही, कारण, त्यांनी उत्तम देश वैराण केला आहे.”
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).”
