Zechariah 7
Berean Standard BibleTranslation
Berean Standard Bible
Freedom Bible (フリーダム・バイブル)
1In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev.
1ダレイオス王の第四年、第九の月、すなわちキスレウの月の四日に、主の言葉がゼカリヤに臨んだ。
2Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech, along with their men, to plead before the LORD
2ベテルの人々は、シャレツェル、レゲム・メレク、およびその部下たちを遣わして、主の恵みを求めさせ、
3by asking the priests of the house of the LORD of Hosts, as well as the prophets, “Should I weep and fast in the fifth month, as I have done these many years?”
3万軍の主の家の祭司たちと預言者たちに尋ねさせた。「私はこれまで長年行ってきたように、第五の月に泣き、身を慎むべきでしょうか。」
4Then the word of the LORD of Hosts came to me, saying,
4すると万軍の主の言葉が私に臨んだ。
5“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?
5「この地のすべての民と祭司たちに告げよ。『あなたがたがこの七十年間、第五の月と第七の月に断食して嘆いた時、本当に私のために断食したのか。まことに私のためだったのか。
6And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves?
6あなたがたが食べる時、自分たちのために食べ、飲む時、自分たちのために飲んでいるのではないか。
7Are these not the words that the LORD proclaimed through the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were populous and prosperous, and the Negev and the foothills were inhabited?’”
7エルサレムとその周囲の町々に人が住んで繁栄し、南の地と低地にも人が住んでいた時、主がかつての預言者たちを通して告げられたのは、これらの言葉ではないか。』」
8Then the word of the LORD came to Zechariah, saying,
8主の言葉がゼカリヤに臨んだ。
9“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.
9「万軍の主はこう言われる。『真実に基づいて裁き、互いに慈しみとあわれみを示せ。
10Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’
10やもめ、みなしご、寄留者、貧しい者を虐げてはならない。心の中で、互いに悪を企んではならない。』
11But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing.
11しかし彼らは聞くことを拒み、背を向け、耳をふさいで聞こうとしなかった。
12They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of Hosts.
12彼らは、律法と、万軍の主がその霊によってかつての預言者たちを通して送られた言葉を聞かないように、その心を火打ち石のように堅くした。それゆえ、万軍の主から激しい怒りが下った。
13And just as I had called and they would not listen, so when they called I would not listen, says the LORD of Hosts.
13『私が呼んでも彼らが聞かなかったように、彼らが呼んでも私は聞かない』と万軍の主は言われた。
14But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known, and the land was left desolate behind them so that no one could come or go. Thus they turned the pleasant land into a desolation.”
14『私は、彼らの知らなかったすべての国々の間に、つむじ風で彼らを散らした。その後、地は荒れ果て、行き来する者もいなくなった。彼らは麗しい地を荒れ果てさせた。』」
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