Zechariah 7

1 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.

Ary tamin’ ny taona fahefatra nanjakan’ i Dariosa no nahatongavan’ ny tenin’ i Jehovah tamin’ i Zakaria, tamin’ ny andro fahefatra tamin’ ny volana fahasivy (Kisleva izany);

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

ary Betela efa naniraka an’ i Serezera sy Regema-meleka sy ny olony hifona amin’ i Jehovah

3 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?

ka hiteny amin’ ny mpisoron’ ny tranon’ i Jehovah, Tompon’ ny maro, sy amin’ ny mpaminany hoe: Hitomany amin’ ny volana fahadimy va aho ka hifady toy ny fanaoko tamin’ ny taon-dasa ela?

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

Dia tonga tamiko ny tenin’ i Jehovah, Tompon’ ny maro, nanao hoe:

5 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?

Lazao amin’ ny vahoaka rehetra amin’ ny tany sy amin’ ny mpisorona hoe: Raha nifady hanina sy nitomany tamin’ ny volana fahadimy sy ny fahafito tamin’ izao fito-polo taona izao, ianareo moa nifady ho Ahy va ianareo?

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

Ary raha mihinana sy misotro ianareo, moa tsy mihinana sy misotro ho an’ ny tenanareo ihany va ianareo?

7 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?

Moa tsy tokony ho nihaino ny teny izay nasain’ i Jehovah nantsoin’ ny mpaminany fahiny va ianareo, fony mbola nonenana sy nandry fahizay Jerosalema sy ny zana-bohiny manodidina azy, sady nonenana koa ny tany atsimo sy ny tany lemaka amoron-tsiraka?

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

Ary tonga tamin’ i Zakaria ny tenin’ i Jehovah nanao hoe:

9 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:

Izao no lazain’ i Jehovah, Tompon’ ny maro: Manaova fitsarana marina, ary samia mifampiantra sy mifamindra fo amin’ ny rahalahiny avy;

10 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.

ary aza mampahory ny mpitondratena na ny kamboty, na ny vahiny, na ny mahantra; ary aza misy mihevitra ao am-ponareo hanisy ratsy ny rahalahinareo ianareo.

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

Nefa tsy nety nihaino ireny, fa nampihemotra ny sorony, ary nataony lalodalovana ny sofiny; mba tsy handre.

12 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.

Eny, nanao ny fony ho mafy, toy ny diamondra Izy, mba tsy hihaino ny lalàna sy ny teny izay nampitondrain’ ny Fanahin’ i Jehovah, Tompon’ ny maro, holazain’ ny mpaminany fahiny, ka dia tonga izay fahatezerana mafy avy tamin’ i Jehovah, Tompon’ ny maro,

13 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:

Koa toy ny niantsoan’ ireny, fa tsy nohenoiny, dia ho toy izany no hiantsoany kosa, fa tsy hohenoiko, hoy Jehovah, Tompon’ ny maro;

14 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.

fa haeliko amin’ ny tafio-drivotra ho any amin’ ny firenena rehetra izay tsy fantany izy. Toy izany no nahalao ny tany tao aoriany, ka tsy nisy olona nandroso na niverina; fa nahatonga ny tany mahafinaritra ho tany lao izy.