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 unto Zechariah in the fourth [day] of the ninth month, [even] in Chisleu;
2 И посла в Вефиль Сарасар и Арвесеер царь и мужие его молити Господа,
When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and Regem-melech, and their men, to pray before 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.
[And] to speak unto the priests which [were] in the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?
4 И бысть слово Господа Вседержителя ко мне глаголя:
Then came the word of the LORD of hosts unto 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 unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh [month], even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, [even] to me?
6 И аще ясте или пиете, не вы ли ясте и пиете?
And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye 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?
[Should ye] not [hear] the words which the LORD hath cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, when [men] inhabited the south and the plain?
8 И бысть слово Господне ко Захарии глаголя:
And the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah, saying,
9 сице глаголет Господь Вседержитель: суд праведен судите и милость и щедроты творите кийждо ко брату своему,
Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions 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, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
11 И не покоришася, еже внимати, и даша плещы презирающыя, и ушеса своя отяготиша, еже не слышати,
But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not 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.
Yea, they made their hearts [as] an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.
13 И будет, якоже рече, и не услышаша Его: сице возопиют, и не имам услышати, глаголет Господь Вседержитель:
Therefore it is come to pass, [that] as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would 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.
But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.
