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Zechariah 7
New King James Version
Zechariah 7
New King James Version
Obedience Better than Fasting
7 Now in the fourth year of King Darius it came to pass that the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, on the fourth day of the ninth month, Chislev, 2 when [a]the people sent [b]Sherezer, with Regem-Melech and his men, to [c]the house of God, [d]to pray before the Lord, 3 and to (A)ask the priests who were in the house of the Lord of hosts, and the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in (B)the fifth month and [e]fast as I have done for so many years?”
4 Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying, 5 “Say to all the people of the land, and to the priests: ‘When you (C)fasted and mourned in the fifth (D)and seventh months (E)during those seventy years, did you really fast (F)for Me—for Me? 6 (G)When you eat and when you drink, do you not eat and drink for yourselves? 7 Should you not have obeyed the words which the Lord proclaimed through the (H)former prophets when Jerusalem and the cities around it were inhabited and prosperous, and (I)the [f]South and the Lowland were inhabited?’ ”
Disobedience Resulted in Captivity
8 Then the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying, 9 “Thus says the Lord of hosts:
(J)‘Execute true justice,
Show [g]mercy and compassion
Everyone to his brother.
10 (K)Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless,
The alien or the poor.
(L)Let none of you plan evil in his heart
Against his brother.’
11 “But they refused to heed, (M)shrugged[h] their shoulders, and (N)stopped[i] their ears so that they could not hear. 12 Yes, they made their (O)hearts like flint, (P)refusing to hear the law and the words which the Lord of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets. (Q)Thus great wrath came from the Lord of hosts. 13 Therefore it happened, that just as He proclaimed and they would not hear, so (R)they called out and I would not listen,” says the Lord of hosts. 14 “But (S)I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they had not known. Thus the land became desolate after them, so that no one passed through or returned; for they made the pleasant land desolate.”
Footnotes
- Zechariah 7:2 Lit. they, cf. v. 5
- Zechariah 7:2 Or Sar-Ezer
- Zechariah 7:2 Heb. Bethel
- Zechariah 7:2 Or to entreat the favor of
- Zechariah 7:3 Lit. consecrate myself
- Zechariah 7:7 Heb. Negev
- Zechariah 7:9 Or lovingkindness
- Zechariah 7:11 Lit. gave a stubborn or rebellious shoulder
- Zechariah 7:11 Lit. made their ears heavy
Zaharija 7
Biblija: suvremeni hrvatski prijevod
Zaharija 7
Biblija: suvremeni hrvatski prijevod
Provodite pravdu i slušajte Boga!
7 Četvrtog dana devetog mjeseca, mjeseca Kisleva[a], četvrte godine vladavine kralja Darija[b], BOG je progovorio Zahariji.
2 A građani Betela poslali su Saresera i Regem Meleka[c] sa svojim ljudima da mole BOGA za blagoslov.
3 Oni su pitali svećenike u Hramu BOGA Svevladara i proroke: »Trebamo li u petome mjesecu[d] tugovati i postiti zbog uništenja Hrama, kao što smo činili toliko godina?«
4 Tada mi je BOG Svevladar rekao: 5 »Reci čitavom narodu ove zemlje i svećenicima: ‘Kad ste u petom i sedmome mjesecu postili i tugovali tijekom ovih sedamdeset godina, jeste li zaista postili radi mene? 6 A kad ste jeli i pili, zar niste radi sebe jeli i pili, a ne radi mene? 7 Zar to nije ono što je BOG objavio preko prijašnjih proroka? Bilo je to u vrijeme kad je Jeruzalem bio naseljen i živio u blagostanju, a tako i gradovi oko njega; u vrijeme kad su i krajevi Negev i Šefela bili naseljeni.’«
8 BOG je poručio Zahariji: 9 »Ovako je rekao BOG Svevladar: ‘Provodite istinsku pravdu. Budite odani i milosrdni jedni drugima. 10 Ne ugnjetavajte udovice, siročad, strance ni siromašne. Ne smišljajte zlo drugima.’«
11 No oni nisu htjeli poslušati. Prkosno su okrenuli leđa i začepili uši. 12 Otvrdnuli su svoja srca kao kamen. Nisu htjeli slušati zakon ni riječi koje im je BOG Svevladar svojim Duhom prenosio preko prijašnjih proroka. Zato se BOG Svevladar silno razljutio.
13 »Kad sam ih zvao, nisu me slušali. Zato, kad su oni zvali mene, ja njih nisam slušao«, kaže BOG Svevladar. 14 »Poput vihora, raspršio sam ih među narode koje nisu poznavali. Zemlja je iza njih ostala prazna. Nitko njome nije prolazio. Tako su prouzročili opustošenost dobre zemlje.«
Footnotes
- 7,1 mjesec Kislev Deveti mjesec hebrejskoga kalendara. Približno od sredine studenoga do sredine prosinca.
- 7,1 Oko 518. godine pr. Kr.
- 7,2 Regem Melek Umjesto imena, ovo bi mogla biti titula koja znači »kraljev glasnogovornik«.
- 7,3 peti mjesec Hebrejski mjesec Ab. Približno od sredine srpnja do sredine kolovoza.
Zechariah 7
New International Version
Zechariah 7
New International Version
Justice and Mercy, Not Fasting
7 In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah(A) on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Kislev.(B) 2 The people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-Melek, together with their men, to entreat(C) the Lord(D) 3 by asking the priests of the house of the Lord Almighty and the prophets, “Should I mourn(E) and fast in the fifth(F) month, as I have done for so many years?”
4 Then the word of the Lord Almighty came to me: 5 “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted(G) and mourned in the fifth and seventh(H) months for the past seventy years,(I) was it really for me that you fasted? 6 And when you were eating and drinking, were you not just feasting for yourselves?(J) 7 Are these not the words the Lord proclaimed through the earlier prophets(K) when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were at rest(L) and prosperous, and the Negev and the western foothills(M) were settled?’”(N)
8 And the word of the Lord came again to Zechariah: 9 “This is what the Lord Almighty said: ‘Administer true justice;(O) show mercy and compassion to one another.(P) 10 Do not oppress the widow(Q) or the fatherless, the foreigner(R) or the poor.(S) Do not plot evil against each other.’(T)
11 “But they refused to pay attention; stubbornly(U) they turned their backs(V) and covered their ears.(W) 12 They made their hearts as hard as flint(X) and would not listen to the law or to the words that the Lord Almighty had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets.(Y) So the Lord Almighty was very angry.(Z)
13 “‘When I called, they did not listen;(AA) so when they called, I would not listen,’(AB) says the Lord Almighty.(AC) 14 ‘I scattered(AD) them with a whirlwind(AE) among all the nations, where they were strangers. The land they left behind them was so desolate that no one traveled through it.(AF) This is how they made the pleasant land desolate.(AG)’”
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