| 匝加利亞 |
Zechariah |
| 1黎巴嫩！打開你的門，讓火來吞滅你的香柏！ |
1Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars! |
| 2松樹，哀號罷！因為香柏已被伐倒，高大者已被摧毀；巴商的橡樹，哀號罷！因為不可深入的樹林全已倒下。 |
2Wail, you cypress trees, for the cedars are fallen, the mighty have been despoiled. Wail, you oaks of Bashan, for the impenetrable forest is cut down! |
| 3聽，牧人在哀號，因為他們的光榮巳被破壞；聽！幼獅在咆哮，因為約但的豪華已遭摧殘。 |
3Hark! the wailing of the shepherds, their glory has been ruined. Hark! the roaring of the young lions, the jungle of the Jordan is laid waste. |
| 4上主，我的天主這樣說：「你要牧放這待宰的羊群！ |
4 Thus said the LORD, my God: Shepherd the flock to be slaughtered. |
| 5那些購買牠們來宰殺的，以為無過；那賣出牠們的還說：上主應受讚美，因為我成了富翁！那牧放牠們的，毫不憐惜牠們。 |
5For they who buy them slay them with impunity; while those who sell them say, "Blessed be the LORD, I have become rich!" Even their own shepherds do not feel for them. |
| 6我也決不再憐恤這地上的居民──上主的斷語；看，我要將每個人交在他的牧人手中，和他的君王手中，讓他們毀滅這地，我決不由他們手中搶救。 |
6(Nor shall I spare the inhabitants of the earth any more, says the LORD. Yes, I will deliver each of them into the power of his neighbor, or into the power of his king; they shall crush the earth, and I will not deliver it out of their power.) |
| 7這樣我就代替賣羊的人牧放待宰的羊群。我取了兩根棍杖：一根我稱它為『愛護』，一根我叫它作『聯合』；我這樣牧放了羊群。 |
7So I became the shepherd of the flock to be slaughtered for the sheep merchants. I took two staffs, one of which I called "Favor," and the other, "Bonds," and I fed the flock. |
| 8在一個月內，我竟廢除了三個牧人；終於我的心神也厭煩羊群，而他們的心也厭惡我。 |
8In a single month I did away with the three shepherds. I wearied of them, and they behaved badly toward me. |
| 9我於是說：我不願再牧放你們：那要死的，就讓他死去；那要喪亡的，就讓他喪亡；那剩下的，就讓他們彼此吞食。 |
9"I will not feed you," I said. "What is to die, let it die; what is to perish, let it perish, and let those that are left devour one another's flesh." |
| 10以後，我就拿起我的棍杖『愛護』，把它折斷，藉以廢除我與眾百姓所結的盟約。 |
10Then I took my staff "Favor" and snapped it asunder, breaking off the covenant which I had made with all peoples; |
| 11盟約便在那一天廢除了；於是那些注視我的羊販子，便都知道這是上主的話。 |
11that day it was broken off. The sheep merchants who were watching me understood that this was the word of the LORD. |
| 12以後，我對他們說：如果你們看着好，就給我工資；不然，就算了。他們於是衡量了三十兩銀子作我的工資。 |
12I said to them, "If it seems good to you, give me my wages; but if not, let it go." And they counted out my wages, thirty pieces of silver. |
| 13那時上主對我說：你把他們對我所估計的高價投入寶庫內！我就拿了那三十兩銀子，投入上主殿內寶庫裏。 |
13But the LORD said to me, "Throw it in the treasury, the handsome price at which they valued me." So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the treasury in the house of the LORD. |
| 14然後我又折斷了我的另一根棍杖『聯合』，藉以廢除猶大與以色列間的手足情誼。」 |
14Then I snapped asunder my other staff, "Bonds," breaking off the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. |
| 15上主又對我說：「你再為你取一套愚昧牧人的服裝， |
15The LORD said to me: This time take the gear of a foolish shepherd. |
| 16因為，看，我將在地上興起一個牧人：那喪失的，他不去尋找；那迷途的，他不去搜索；那受傷的，他不去醫治；那病弱的，他不去扶持；卻要擇肥而食，並且剝去牠們的蹄子。 |
16For I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will take no note of those that perish, nor seek the strays, nor heal the injured, nor feed what survives--he will eat the flesh of the fat ones and tear off their hoofs! |
| 17禍哉！那拋棄羊群的愚昧牧人！願刀劍落在他的臂膊和他的右眼上！願他的臂膊枯槁！願他的右眼完全失明！」 |
17Woe to my foolish shepherd who forsakes the flock! May the sword fall upon his arm and upon his right eye; Let his arm wither away entirely, and his right eye be blind forever! |
