¹And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chisleu;

¹Zgodi se pa v četrtem letu kralja Darija, da je prišla beseda GOSPODOVA Zahariju, četrti dan devetega meseca, Kisleva.

²When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and Regemmelech, and their men, to pray before the LORD,

²Takrat so poslali iz Betela Sarezerja in Regemeleka ž njegovimi možmi, da prosijo blagovoljnosti GOSPODA

³And to speak unto the priests which were in the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?

³in da govore duhovnikom hiše GOSPODA nad vojskami in prorokom: Ali naj še jočem in se zdržujem v petem mesecu, kakor sem že delal veliko let?

⁴Then came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying,

⁴In prišla mi je beseda GOSPODA nad vojskami, govoreč:

⁵Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?

⁵Reci vsemu ljudstvu dežele in duhovnikom takole: Ko ste se postili v petem in sedmem mesecu teh sedemdesetih let, ste li se postili meni in zavoljo mene?

⁶And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

⁶Ko pa jeste in ko pijete, ne jeste li in ne pijete li zase?

⁷Should ye not hear the words which the LORD hath cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, when men inhabited the south and the plain?

⁷Ne veste li za besede, ki jih je GOSPOD oznanjal po prejšnjih prorokih, ko se je še prebivalo v Jeruzalemu, ko je vladal mir v njem in v mestih okoli njega, in se je prebivalo v južni pokrajini in v nižavi?

⁸And the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah, saying,

⁸In prišla je beseda GOSPODOVA Zahariju, govoreč:

⁹Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:

⁹Tako pravi GOSPOD nad vojskami in veleva: Izvršujte sodbe po resnici ter izkazujte milost in usmiljenje drug drugemu;

¹⁰And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

¹⁰in ne zatirajte vdove in sirote, tujca in ubožca, in nihče naj ne izmišlja hudega v svojem srcu zoper svojega brata!

¹¹But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.

¹¹Ali takrat niso hoteli poslušati in so uporno nastavili pleča in si zatisnili ušesa, da ne bi slišali.

¹²Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.

¹²In srce so si naredili kakor demant, da ne bi slišali postave in besed, ki jih je GOSPOD nad vojskami poslal po svojem duhu s prejšnjimi proroki; zato je prišla velika jeza od GOSPODA nad vojskami.

¹³Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD of hosts:

¹³In zgodilo se je: kakor sem klical jaz, pa niso hoteli poslušati, tako so klicali oni, a nisem hotel slišati, pravi GOSPOD nad vojskami;ali raznesel sem jih kakor z vetrom med vse narode, ki jih niso poznali; in zemlja je bila opustošena za njimi, da nihče ni hodil po njej; in izpremenili so deželo zaželjeno v puščavo.

¹⁴But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.

¹⁴ali raznesel sem jih kakor z vetrom med vse narode, ki jih niso poznali; in zemlja je bila opustošena za njimi, da nihče ni hodil po njej; in izpremenili so deželo zaželjeno v puščavo.