Zechariah 7
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
Freedom Bible (フリーダム・バイブル)
1And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in 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。
2When Bethel-sarezer, and Regem-melech and his men, had sent to entreat the favour of 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、
3and to speak unto the priests of the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying: 'Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so 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 came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying:
4すると万軍の主の言葉が私に臨んだ。
5'Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying: When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month, even these seventy years, did ye at all fast unto Me, even to Me?
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 ye eat, and when ye drink, are ye not they that eat, and they that drink?
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。
7Should ye not hearken to the words which the LORD hath proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, and the South and the Lowland 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。』」
8And the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah, saying:
8主の言葉がゼカリヤに臨んだ。
9'Thus hath the LORD of hosts spoken, saying: Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassion every man to his brother;
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。
10and oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.
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 attend, and turned a stubborn shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.
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。
12Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts had sent by His spirit by the hand of the former prophets; therefore came there great wrath 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 it came to pass that, as He called, and they would not hear; so they shall call, and I will not hear, said 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 will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned; for they laid the pleasant land desolate.'
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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