撒迦利亚书 7

1 大流士王第四年九月，就是基斯流月初四日，耶和华的话临到撒迦利亚。

And it came about in the fourth year of King Darius, that the word of the Lord came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month Chislev.

2 那时伯特利人已经打发沙利色和利坚米勒，并跟从他们的人，去恳求耶和华的恩，

Now they of Beth-el had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech to make a request for grace from the Lord,

3 并问万军之耶和华殿中的祭司和先知说：“我历年以来，在五月间哭泣斋戒，现在还当这样行吗？”

And to say to the priests of the house of the Lord of armies and to the prophets, Am I to go on weeping in the fifth month, separating myself as I have done in past years?

4 万军之耶和华的话就临到我说：

Then the word of the Lord of armies came to me, saying

5 “你要宣告国内的众民和祭司，说：‘你们这七十年，在五月、七月禁食悲哀，岂是丝毫向我禁食吗？

Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, When you went without food and gave yourselves to grief in the fifth and the seventh months for these seventy years, did you ever do it because of me?

6 你们吃喝，不是为自己吃，为自己喝吗？

And when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it only for yourselves?

7 当耶路撒冷和四围的城邑有居民，正兴盛，南地高原有人居住的时候，耶和华借从前的先知所宣告的话，你们不当听吗？’”

Are not these the words which the Lord said to you by the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem was full of people and wealth, and the towns round about her and the South and the Lowland were peopled?

8 耶和华的话又临到撒迦利亚说：

And the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying,

9 “万军之耶和华曾对你们的列祖如此说：‘要按至理判断，各人以慈爱怜悯弟兄。

This is what the Lord of armies has said: Let your judging be upright and done in good faith, let every man have mercy and pity for his brother:

10 不可欺压寡妇、孤儿、寄居的，和贫穷人。谁都不可心里谋害弟兄。’”

Do not be hard on the widow, or the child without a father, on the man from a strange country, or on the poor; let there be no evil thought in your heart against your brother.

11 他们却不肯听从，扭转肩头，塞耳不听，

But they would not give attention, turning their backs and stopping their ears from hearing;

12 使心硬如金钢石，不听律法和万军之耶和华用灵借从前的先知所说的话。故此，万军之耶和华大发烈怒。

And they made their hearts like the hardest stone, so that they might not give ear to the law and the words which the Lord of armies had said by the earlier prophets: and there came great wrath from the Lord of armies.

13 万军之耶和华说：“我曾呼唤他们，他们不听；将来他们呼求我，我也不听！

And it came about that as they would not give ear to his voice, so I would not give ear to their voice, says the Lord of armies:

14 我必以旋风吹散他们到素不认识的万国中。这样，他们的地就荒凉，甚至无人来往经过，因为他们使美好之地荒凉了。”

But with a storm-wind I sent them in flight among all the nations of whom they had no knowledge. So the land was waste after them, so that no man went through or came back: for they had made waste the desired land.