Zechariah 7
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1In the fourth year of King Darius, the LORD’s word came to Zechariah in 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。
2The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech and their men to entreat the LORD’s favor,
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 to the priests of the house of the LORD of Armies 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 the word of the LORD of Armies came to me, saying,
4すると万軍の主の言葉が私に臨んだ。
5“Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really 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。
6When you eat and when you drink, don’t you eat for yourselves and drink 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。
7Aren’t these the words which the LORD proclaimed by the former prophets when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and its cities around 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。』」
8The LORD’s word came to Zechariah, saying,
8主の言葉がゼカリヤに臨んだ。
9“Thus has the LORD of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness 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。
10Don’t oppress the widow, the fatherless, the foreigner, 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 listen, and turned their backs, 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。
12Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law and the words which the LORD of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from the LORD of Armies.
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。
13It has come to pass that, as he called and they refused to listen, so they will call and I will not listen,” said the LORD of Armies;
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。
14“but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned; for they made 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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