Книга пророка Захарии 7

1 И бысть в четвертое лето, при Дарии цари, бысть слово Господне ко Захарии в четвертый месяца девятаго, иже есть Хаселев.

And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of the Lord came to Zacharias, in the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Casleu.

2 И посла в Вефиль Сарасар и Арвесеер царь и мужие его молити Господа,

When Sarasar, and Rogommelech, and the men that were with him, sent to the house of God, to entreat the face of the Lord:

3 глаголя ко священником, иже во храме Господа (Бога) Вседержителя, и пророком, глаголя: аще вниде зде в пятый месяц святыня, (плачя или постяся, ) якоже сотворих уже многа лета.

To speak to the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts, and to the prophets, saying: Must I weep in the fifth month, or must I sanctify myself as I have now done for many years?

4 И бысть слово Господа Вседержителя ко мне глаголя:

And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying:

5 рцы ко всем людем земли и ко священником глаголя: аще постистеся или плачевопльствисте в пятинах или седминах (месяца), и се, седмьдесят лет, постом ли постистеся Ми?

Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying: When you fasted, and mourned in the fifth and the seventh month for these seventy years: did you keep a fast unto me?

6 И аще ясте или пиете, не вы ли ясте и пиете?

And when you did eat and drink, did you not eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

7 Не сия ли суть словеса, яже глагола Господь руками пророков прежних, егда бе Иерусалим населен и гобзующь, и гради его окрест, и нагорная и подольная населена бяху?

Are not these the words which the Lord spoke by the hand of the former prophets, when Jerusalem as yet was inhabited, and was wealthy, both itself and the cities round about it, and there were inhabitants towards the south, and in the plain?

8 И бысть слово Господне ко Захарии глаголя:

And the word of the Lord came to Zacharias, saying:

9 сице глаголет Господь Вседержитель: суд праведен судите и милость и щедроты творите кийждо ко брату своему,

Thus saith the Lord of hosts, saying: Judge ye true judgment, and shew ye mercy and compassion every man to his brother.

10 а вдовицы и сира, и пришелца и убога не насильствуйте, и злобы кийждо брата своего да не помнит в сердцах своих.

And oppress not the widow, and the fatherless, and the stranger, and the poor: and let not a man devise evil in his heart against his brother.

11 И не покоришася, еже внимати, и даша плещы презирающыя, и ушеса своя отяготиша, еже не слышати,

But they would not hearken, and they turned away the shoulder to depart: and they stopped their ears, not to hear.

12 и сердце свое учиниша непокориво, не послушати закона Моего и словес, яже посла Господь Вседержитель Духом Своим рукою пророков прежних: и бысть гнев великий от Господа Вседержителя.

And they made their heart as the adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts sent in his spirit by the hand of the former prophets: so a great indignation came from the Lord of hosts.

13 И будет, якоже рече, и не услышаша Его: сице возопиют, и не имам услышати, глаголет Господь Вседержитель:

And it came to pass that as he spoke, and they heard not: so shall they cry, and I will not hear, saith the Lord of hosts.

14 и отвергу я во вся языки, иже не разумеша, и земля запустеет последи их от проходящаго и от возвращающагося: и учиниша избранную землю в запустение.

And I dispersed them throughout all kingdoms, which they know not: and the land was left desolate behind them, so that no man passed through or returned: and they changed the delightful land into a wilderness.