ゼカリヤ書 7
Freedom Bible (フリーダム・バイブル)Translation
Freedom Bible (フリーダム・バイブル)
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
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。
1And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of the Lord came to Zacharias, in the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Casleu.
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、
2When Sarasar, and Rogommelech, and the men that were with him, sent to the house of God, to entreat the face of the Lord:
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。」
3To speak to the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts, and to the prophets, saying: Must I weep in the fifth month, or must I sanctify myself as I have now done for many years?
4すると万軍の主の言葉が私に臨んだ。
4And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying:
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。
5Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying: When you fasted, and mourned in the fifth and the seventh month for these seventy years: did you keep a fast unto me?
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。
6And when you did eat and drink, did you not eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
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。』」
7Are not these the words which the Lord spoke by the hand of the former prophets, when Jerusalem as yet was inhabited, and was wealthy, both itself and the cities round about it, and there were inhabitants towards the south, and in the plain?
8主の言葉がゼカリヤに臨んだ。
8And the word of the Lord came to Zacharias, saying:
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。
9Thus saith the Lord of hosts, saying: Judge ye true judgment, and shew ye mercy and compassion every man to his brother.
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。』
10And oppress not the widow, and the fatherless, and the stranger, and the poor: and let not a man devise evil in his heart against his brother.
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。
11But they would not hearken, and they turned away the shoulder to depart: and they stopped their ears, not to hear.
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。
12And they made their heart as the adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts sent in his spirit by the hand of the former prophets: so a great indignation came from 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。
13And it came to pass that as he spoke, and they heard not: so shall they cry, and I will not hear, saith the Lord of hosts.
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。』」
14And I dispersed them throughout all kingdoms, which they know not: and the land was left desolate behind them, so that no man passed through or returned: and they changed the delightful land into a wilderness.
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