¹Ja kuningas Daarjavese neljandal aastal tuli Issanda sõna Sakarjale üheksanda kuu, kislevikuu neljandal päeval.

¹It happened in the fourth year of king Darius that the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev.

²Peetel oli saatnud Sareseri ja Regem-Meleki oma meestega leevendama Issanda palet

²The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech, and their men, to entreat Yahweh’s favor,

³ja küsima preestreilt, kes olid vägede Issanda kojas, ja prohveteilt nõnda: 'Kas ma pean viiendas kuus nutma ja paastuma, nagu ma nii palju aastaid olen teinud?'

³and to speak to the priests of the house of Yahweh of Armies, and to the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?”

⁴Ja mulle tuli vägede Issanda sõna; ta ütles:

⁴Then the word of Yahweh of Armies came to me, saying,

⁵'Räägi kogu maa rahvale ja preestreile ning ütle: Kui te olete paastunud ja kurtnud viiendas ja seitsmendas kuus need seitsekümmend aastat, kas te siis mulle olete paastunud?

⁵“Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?

⁶Ja kui te olete söönud ja joonud, eks te ole siis söönud ja joonud iseendile?

⁶When you eat, and when you drink, don’t you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

⁷Kas pole need samad sõnad, mis Issand kuulutas endiste prohvetite läbi, kui Jeruusalemm ja selle ümberkaudsed linnad elasid alles rahus ja Lõunamaa ja Madalmaa olid asustatud?'

⁷Aren’t these the words which Yahweh proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and its cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?’”

⁸Ja Issanda sõna tuli Sakarjale; ta ütles:

⁸The word of Yahweh came to Zechariah, saying,

⁹'Nõnda räägib vägede Issand ja ütleb: Mõistke kohut tões, osutage heldust ja halastust igaüks oma vennale!

⁹“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

¹⁰Ärge tehke liiga lesknaisele ja vaeslapsele, võõrale ja viletsale, ning ärge kavatsege südames üksteisele kurja!

¹⁰Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

¹¹Aga nad tõrkusid tähele panemast ja tegid oma kaela kangeks ja kõrvad kurdiks kuulma.

¹¹But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

¹²Ja nad tegid oma südame teemandi sarnaseks, et mitte kuulda Seadust ja sõnu, mis vägede Issand oli läkitanud oma Vaimuga endiste prohvetite läbi; seepärast tuli see vägede Issanda suur viha.

¹²Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Armies.

¹³Ja samuti kui mina hüüdsin ja nemad ei kuulnud, hüüavad nemad, aga mina ei kuule, ütleb vägede Issand.

¹³It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen,” said Yahweh of Armies;

¹⁴Ma puhusin nad laiali kõigi paganate juurde, keda nad ei tundnud, ja maa nende taga jäi tühjaks minejaist ja tulijaist. Nõnda muudeti ihaldatud maa kõrbeks.'

¹⁴“but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate.”