Zacarias 7
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Tinuligsa ang Pakunwaring Pag-aayuno
7 Noong ikaapat na taon ng pamamahala ni Haring Dario, muling nagpahayag kay Zacarias si Yahweh. Naganap ito noong ikaapat na araw ng ikasiyam na buwan ng taon. 2 Ang mga pangkat nina Sarezer at Regemmelec ay sinugo ng mga taga-Bethel upang makiusap kay Yahweh 3 at itanong sa mga pari at sa mga propeta kung kailangan pa nilang magluksa sa ika-5 buwan, tulad ng dati nilang ginagawa.
4-5 Ito ang mga mensaheng ibinigay sa akin ni Yahweh na Makapangyarihan sa lahat para sa mga mamamayan ng buong lupain at sa mga pari: “Ang pagluluksa at pag-aayunong ginagawa ninyo tuwing ika-5 at ika-7 buwan sa loob ng pitumpung taon ay hindi parangal sa akin. 6 Hindi ba't nagkakainan at nag-iinuman kayo para lamang mabusog at masiyahan?”
7 Hindi ba't ito rin ang sinabi ni Yahweh sa pamamagitan ng mga unang propeta, nang ang Jerusalem at ang mga lunsod sa paligid nito kasama ang Negeb at mga bulubunduking lalawigan ay hindi pa nawawasak at nasa panahon ng kaunlaran.
Ang Dahilan ng Pagkabihag
8 Pinahayag ni Yahweh kay Zacarias, “Sabihin mo sa kanila, 9 ‘Pairalin ninyo ang katarungan at maging mahabagin kayo sa isa't isa. 10 Huwag ninyong aapihin ang mga biyuda, ang mga ulila, ang mga dayuhan o ang mahihirap. Huwag kayong magbabalak ng masama laban sa inyong kapwa.’
11 “Ngunit hindi nila ito pinakinggan; matigas ang kanilang ulo at sila'y nagbingi-bingihan. 12 Ipinilit nila ang sariling kagustuhan at hindi dininig ang sinabi ni Yahweh na Makapangyarihan sa lahat sa pamamagitan ng mga propeta. Dahil dito, labis siyang nagalit sa kanila. 13 ‘Nang magsalita ako sa kanila, hindi nila ako pinakinggan, kaya ganoon din ang ginawa ko nang sila naman ang magsalita sa akin. 14 At ipinakalat ko sila sa lahat ng panig ng daigdig, sa mga lugar na di nila dating napupuntahan. Dahil dito, napabayaan ang dating magandang lupain; wala na ring dumaraan at naninirahan doon.’”
Zechariah 7
Contemporary English Version
A Question about Going without Eating
7 On the fourth day of Chislev, the ninth month of the fourth year that Darius was king of Persia,[a] the Lord again spoke to me. 2-3 It happened after the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer with Regem-Melech and his men to ask the priests in the Lord's temple and the prophets to pray for them. So they prayed, “Should we mourn and go without eating during the fifth month,[b] as we have done for many years?”
4-5 It was then that the Lord All-Powerful told me to say to everyone in the country, including the priests:
For 70 years you have gone without eating during the fifth and seventh months of the year. But did you really do it for me? 6 And when you eat and drink, isn't it for your own enjoyment? 7 My message today is the same one I commanded the earlier prophets[c] to speak to Jerusalem and its villages when they were prosperous, and when all of Judah, including the Southern Desert and the hill country, was filled with people.
8-9 So once again, I, the Lord All-Powerful, tell you, “See that justice is done and be kind and merciful to one another! 10 Don't mistreat widows or orphans or foreigners or anyone who is poor, and stop making plans to hurt each other.”
11-12 But everyone who heard those prophets, stubbornly refused to obey. Instead, they turned their backs on everything my Spirit[d] had commanded the earlier prophets to preach. So I, the Lord, became angry 13 and said, “You people paid no attention when I called out to you, and now I'll pay no attention when you call out to me.”
14 That's why I came with a whirlwind and scattered them among foreign nations, leaving their lovely country empty of people and in ruins.[e]
Footnotes
- 7.1 Chislev … fourth year … king of Persia: Chislev, the ninth month of the Hebrew calendar, from about mid-November to mid-December; the fourth year of the rule of Darius was 518 b.c.
- 7.2,3 fifth month: Ab, the fifth month of the Hebrew calendar, from about mid-July to mid-August. The temple was destroyed by the Babylonians in the year 587 or 586 b.c.
- 7.7 the earlier prophets: See the note at 1.4.
- 7.11,12 my Spirit: Or “I.”
- 7.14 leaving their … in ruins: Or “because they had ruined their lovely country.”
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