1 大利乌王第四年九月， 就是基斯流月初四日， 耶和华的话临到撒迦利亚。 2 那时， 伯特利人差派了沙利色、利坚米勒和他的随从， 去恳求耶和华施恩。 3 他们询问万军之耶和华殿里的众祭司， 以及众先知说： "我们还要在五月哭泣和禁食， 像我们这许多年来所行的吗？" 4 万军之耶和华的话临到我， 说： 5 "你要告诉这地的人民和祭司说： ‘这七十年来， 你们在五月和七月禁食哀哭， 岂是真的为我禁食呢？ 6 你们吃， 你们喝， 岂不是为你们自己吃， 为你们自己喝吗？ 7 这些话耶和华不是曾借着从前的先知宣告了吗？那时， 耶路撒冷和四围的城镇都有人居住， 很是兴旺， 南地和高地都有人居住。’" 8 耶和华的话又临到撒迦利亚说： 9 "万军之耶和华曾这样告诉你们的列祖说： ‘你们要执法公正， 各人要以慈爱和怜悯待自己的兄弟。 10 寡妇、孤儿、寄居的和贫穷人， 你们都不可欺压， 也不可各自心里图谋恶事， 陷害自己的兄弟。’ 11 但他们不肯听从， 反而硬着颈项， 充耳不闻。 12 他们使自己的心刚硬如金钢石， 不肯听从律法和万军之耶和华借着他的灵、透过从前的先知所说的话。因此， 万军之耶和华非常忿怒。 13 我曾呼唤他们， 他们不听； 照样， 将来他们呼求我， 我也不听。这是万军之耶和华说的。 14 我用旋风把他们吹散到他们不认识的列国去， 他们留下的地就荒凉了， 以致无人来往经过， 因为他们使这美好之地变为荒凉了。"

1 And it cometh to pass, in the fourth year of Darius the king hath a word of Jehovah been unto Zechariah, in the fourth of the ninth month, in Chisleu.2 And Beth-El sendeth Sherezer and Regem-Melech, and its men, to appease the face of Jehovah,3 speaking unto the priests who [are] at the house of Jehovah of Hosts, and unto the prophets, saying, `Do I weep in the fifth month -- being separated -- as I have done these so many years?`4 And there is a word of Jehovah of Hosts unto me, saying:5 `Speak unto all the people of the land, and unto the priests, saying:6 When ye fasted with mourning in the fifth and in the seventh [months] -- even these seventy years -- did ye keep the fast [to] Me -- Me? And when ye eat, and when ye drink, is it not ye who are eating, and ye who are drinking?7 `Are not [these] the words that Jehovah proclaimed by the hand of the former prophets, in Jerusalem`s being inhabited, and [in] safety, and its cities round about it, and the south and the plain -- abiding?`8 And there is a word of Jehovah unto Zechariah, saying:9 `Thus spake Jehovah of Hosts, saying: True judgment judge ye, And kindness and mercy do one with another.10 And widow, and fatherless, Sojourner, and poor, ye do not oppress, And the calamity of one another ye do not devise in your heart.11 And they refuse to attend, And they give a refractory shoulder, And their ears have made heavy against hearing.12 And their heart they have made adamant, Against hearing the law, and the words, That Jehovah of Hosts sent by His Spirit, By the hand of the former prophets, And their is great wrath from Jehovah of Hosts.13 And it cometh to pass, as He called, And they have not hearkened, So do they call, and I do not hearken, Said Jehovah of Hosts.14 And I toss them on all the nations, That they have not known, The land hath been desolate behind them, Of any passing by and turning back, And they set a desirable land for a desolation!