Zechariah 7

1 In the fourth year of the reign of King Darius, on the fourth day of Chislev, the ninth month, the message of the Lord came to Zechariah.

ダリヨス王の四年の九月すなはちキスリウといふ月の四日にヱホバの言ゼカリヤに臨めり

2 The city of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech and their men, to entreat the favour of the Lord,

ベテルかの時シヤレゼル、レゲンメレクおよびその從者を遣してヱホバを和めさせ

3 and to ask the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts, and the prophets ‘Should I continue to mourn in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done for many years?’

かつ萬軍のヱホバの室にをる祭司に問しめ且預言者に問しめて言けらく我今まで年久しく爲きたりしごとく尚五月をもて哭きかつ齋戒すべきやと

4 Then this message of the Lord of hosts came to me:

ここにおいて萬軍のヱホバの言我に臨めり云く

5 Tell all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month, for these seventy years, did you really fast for me?

國の諸民および祭司に告て言へ汝らは七十年のあひだ五月と七月とに斷食しかつ哀哭せしがその斷食せし時果して我にむかひて斷食せしや

6 When you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

汝ら食ひかつ飮は全く己のために食ひ己のために飮ならずや

7 Wasn’t it this which the Lord proclaimed by the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and prosperous, and her towns surrounding her and the Negreb and the Shephelah were inhabited?’

在昔ヱルサレムおよび周圍の邑々人の住ふありて平安なりし時南の地および平野にも人の住ひをりし時に已往の預言者によりてヱホバの宣ひたりし言を汝ら知ざるや

8 The Lord gave this message to Zechariah:

ヱホバの言ゼカリヤに臨めり云く

9 The Lord of hosts says, execute true judgments. Show kindness and mercy to each other.

萬軍のヱホバかく宣へり云く正義き審判を行ひ互に相愛しみ相憐め

10 Do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the resident foreigner or the poor. Let none of you devise evil against another in your hearts.

寡婦孤兒旅客および貧者を虐ぐるなかれ人を害せんと心に圖る勿れと

11 But they refused to listen, and turned a stubborn shoulder, and stopped their ears so they wouldn’t hear.

然るに彼等は肯て耳を傾けず背を向け耳を鈍くして聽ず

12 They made their hearts as hard as stone so they wouldn’t accept the teaching and the words that the Lord of hosts had sent by his spirit through the earlier prophets. Great was the anger of the Lord of hosts:

且その心を金剛石のごとくし萬軍のヱホバがその御霊をもて已往の預言者に由て傳へたまひし律法と言詞に聽したがはざりき是をもて大なる怒萬軍のヱホバより出て臨めり

13 I called and they would not hear, so they call and I do not hear, says the Lord of hosts.

彼かく呼はりたれども彼等聽ざりき其ごとく彼ら呼はるとも我聽じ萬軍のヱホバこれを言ふ

14 I scattered them by a whirlwind out among nations unknown to them. The land was left desolate behind them, with no one crossing or returning, for they made the pleasant land a desolation.

我かれらをその識ざる諸の國に吹散すべし其後にてこの地は荒て往來する者なきに至らん彼等かく美しき國を荒地となす