Zechariah 1
1 In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the LORD’s word came to the prophet Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, saying,
達理安二年八月，上主的話傳給依多的孫子，貝勒基雅的兒子匝加利亞說：「
2 “The LORD was very displeased with your fathers.
上主曾對你們的祖先大發憤怒；
3 Therefore tell them, the LORD of Armies says: ‘Return to me,’ says the LORD of Armies, ‘and I will return to you,’ says the LORD of Armies.
但是如今你應對他們說：「萬軍的上主這樣說：你們歸向我吧! ──萬軍上主的斷語──我必轉向你們，萬軍的上主說。
4 Don’t you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: The LORD of Armies says, ‘Return now from your evil ways and from your evil doings;’ but they didn’t hear nor listen to me, says the LORD.
你們不要如同你們的祖先；以前的先知曾對你們宣告說：說：萬軍的上主這樣說：你們轉身離開你們的邪道，和你們的惡行吧! 但是他們不聽，也不理會我──上主的斷語。
5 Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
你們的祖先在哪裏﹖先知難道能永遠生存﹖
6 But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn’t they overtake your fathers? “Then they repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.’”
苦我吩咐我的僕人先知們所傳的話和定案，豈不是臨到你們的祖先身上了嗎﹖致使他們翻悔說：萬軍的上主真按照衪的決定，並按照我們的行徑和作為對待了我們。[第一個神視：上主的騎士]
7 On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the LORD’s word came to the prophet Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, saying,
達理亞二年十一月，即「舍巴特」月二十四日，上主的話傳給依多的孫子，貝勒基雅的兒子匝加利亞說：
8 “I had a vision in the night, and behold, a man riding on a red horse, and he stood amongst the myrtle trees that were in a ravine; and behind him there were red, brown, and white horses.
夜間我看見一個人騎著栗色的馬，立在地的長春樹中間，他後面尚有栗色、色和白色的馬。
9 Then I asked, ‘My lord, what are these?’” The angel who talked with me said to me, “I will show you what these are.”
遂間說：「我主，這是什麼意思﹖」那與我談話的使者對我說：「我要給你解釋這有什麼意義。」
10 The man who stood amongst the myrtle trees answered, “They are the ones the LORD has sent to go back and forth through the earth.”
但那站在長春樹中間的人卻答說：「這些是上主派遺巡視大地的。」
11 They reported to the LORD’s angel who stood amongst the myrtle trees, and said, “We have walked back and forth through the earth, and behold, all the earth is at rest and in peace.”
他們答覆那站在長春樹中間的上主的使者說：「我們已經巡視了大地，見全地都安寧平靖。」
12 Then the LORD’s angel replied, “O LORD of Armies, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?”
上主的使者說：「萬軍的上主! 你拒絕憐恤耶路撒冷和猶大城邑，要到何時呢﹖你向他們發怒，至今已是七十年了! 」
13 The LORD answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words.
上主就用鼓舞慰藉的話答覆了那與我談話的使者。
14 So the angel who talked with me said to me, “Proclaim, saying, ‘The LORD of Armies says: “I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
那與我談話的使者便對我說：「你要宣佈說：萬軍的上主這樣說：我仍要以極度的熱情愛耶路撒冷和熙雍；
15 I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity.”
但我極腦怒那些傲慢的異民，因為我對我的百姓稍一發怒，他們便大加虐待。
16 Therefore the LORD says: “I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy. My house shall be built in it,” says the LORD of Armies, “and a line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.”’
為此上主這樣說：我要再以慈悲對待耶路撒冷，我的殿宇必要在其中重建來──萬軍上主的斷語──繩墨必要再拉在耶路撒冷上。
17 “Proclaim further, saying, ‘The LORD of Armies says: “My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and the LORD will again comfort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem.”’”
你要再宣佈說：萬軍的上主這樣說：我的城吧必再充滿幸福，上主必再憐恤熙雍，再揀選耶路撒冷。」
18 I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, four horns.
第二個神視：四隻角和四個工匠]我又舉目觀看，望見有四隻角。
19 I asked the angel who talked with me, “What are these?” He answered me, “These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”
我問那與我談話的使者說：「這是什麼意思﹖」他回答我說：「這就是驅散了猶大、以色列和耶路撒冷的角。」
20 The LORD showed me four craftsmen.
此後上主使我看見四個工匠。
21 Then I asked, “What are these coming to do?” He said, “These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man lifted up his head; but these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations that lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.”
我問說：「這樣人來做什麼﹖」他答說：「那些角驅散了猶大，以致沒有人敢抬頭，這些人來是為恐嚇那些角，因為他們曾對猶大地舉起角來驅散了她。」[第三個神視：手拿繩墨的人] ]
