撒迦利亚书 13
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
13 “到那天，必为大卫家和耶路撒冷的居民开一个泉源，洗净他们的罪恶和污秽。
2 “到那天，我必铲除地上偶像的名号，使它们被人遗忘；我必除去地上的假先知和污秽的灵。这是万军之耶和华说的。 3 若有人再说预言，他的亲生父母必对他说，‘你不得活命，因为你奉耶和华的名说谎。’他说预言的时候，他的亲生父母必把他刺死。 4 到那天，先知必因自己所讲的异象而羞愧，不再穿着毛皮衣欺骗人。 5 他必说，‘我不是先知，我是农夫，我从小便以种田为生。’ 6 若有人问他，‘你胸口上的伤是怎么回事？[a]’他必回答说，‘是在我朋友家弄伤的。’”
牧人被杀
7 万军之耶和华说：
“刀剑啊，醒来吧，
要攻击我的牧人和同伴，
要击打牧人，羊群将四散，
我必出手攻击小羊。
8 地上三分之二的人必遭铲除、毁灭，
只剩下三分之一的人存活。
这是耶和华说的。
9 我必使这三分之一的人受到火一般的考验；
我必像熬炼银子一样熬炼他们，
像试炼金子一样试炼他们。
他们必呼求我的名，
我必回应他们。
我必说，‘这是我的子民。’
他们必说，‘耶和华是我们的上帝。’”
Footnotes
- 13:6 异教的先知有用利器自割或自刺的习惯。
Zechariah 13
The Message
Washing Away Sins
13 “On the Big Day, a fountain will be opened for the family of David and all the leaders of Jerusalem for washing away their sins, for scrubbing their stained and soiled lives clean.
2-3 “On the Big Day”—this is God-of-the-Angel-Armies speaking—“I will wipe out the store-bought gods, erase their names from memory. People will forget they ever heard of them. And I’ll get rid of the prophets who polluted the air with their diseased words. If anyone dares persist in spreading diseased, polluting words, his very own parents will step in and say, ‘That’s it! You’re finished! Your lies about God put everyone in danger,’ and then they’ll stab him to death in the very act of prophesying lies about God—his own parents, mind you!
4-6 “On the Big Day, the lying prophets will be publicly exposed and humiliated. Then they’ll wish they’d never swindled people with their ‘visions.’ No more masquerading in prophet clothes. But they’ll deny they’ve even heard of such things: ‘Me, a prophet? Not me. I’m a farmer—grew up on the farm.’ And if someone says, ‘And so where did you get that black eye?’ they’ll say, ‘I ran into a door at a friend’s house.’
* * *
7-9 “Sword, get moving against my shepherd,
against my close associate!”
Decree of God-of-the-Angel-Armies.
“Kill the shepherd! Scatter the sheep!
The back of my hand against even the lambs!
All across the country”—God’s Decree—
“two-thirds will be devastated
and one-third survive.
I’ll deliver the surviving third to the refinery fires.
I’ll refine them as silver is refined,
test them for purity as gold is tested.
Then they’ll pray to me by name
and I’ll answer them personally.
I’ll say, ‘That’s my people.’
They’ll say, ‘God—my God!’”
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