Zechariah 7
1 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.
Потом четврте године цара Дарија дође реч Господња Захарији четвртог дана деветог месеца, Хаслева,
2 When Sarasar, and Rogommelech, and the men that were with him, sent to the house of God, to entreat the face of the Lord:
Кад послаше у дом Божји Сарасара и Регемелеха и људе своје да моле Господа,
3 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?
И да говоре свештеницима, који беху у дому Господа над војскама, и пророцима, и кажу: Хоћемо ли плакати петог месеца одвајајући се, како чинисмо већ толико година?
4 And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying:
И дође ми реч Господња Говорећи:
5 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?
Кажи свему народу земаљском и свештеницима, и реци: Кад постисте и тужисте петог и седмог месеца за седамдесет година, еда ли мени постисте?
6 And when you did eat and drink, did you not eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
А кад једете и пијете, не једете ли и не пијете ли сами?
7 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?
Нису ли то речи које је Господ прогласио преко пређашњих пророка, кад Јерусалим беше насељен и миран и градови његови око њега, и кад беше насељен јужни крај и равница?
8 And the word of the Lord came to Zacharias, saying:
Дође реч Господња Захарији говорећи:
9 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, saying: Judge ye true judgment, and shew ye mercy and compassion every man to his brother.
Овако говори Господ над војскама: Судите право и будите милостиви и жалостиви један другом.
10 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.
И не чините криво удовици ни сироти, иностранцу ни сиромаху, и не мислите зло један другом у срцу свом.
11 But they would not hearken, and they turned away the shoulder to depart: and they stopped their ears, not to hear.
Али не хтеше слушати, и узмакоше раменом натраг, и затискоше уши своје да не чују.
12 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.
И срцем својим отврднуше као дијамант да не чују закон и речи које сла Господ над војскама духом својим преко пророка пређашњих; зато дође велик гнев од Господа над војскама.
13 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.
Зато као што Он вика, а они не слушаше, тако и они викаше а ја их не слушах, говори Господ над војскама.
14 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.
Него их разметнух вихором по свим народима, којих не познаваше, и земља опусте иза њих да нико у њу не дохођаше нити се из ње враћаше, и обратише милу земљу у пустош.
