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.

¹A bolo štvrtého roku kráľa Dária, že sa stalo slovo Hospodinovo k Zachariášovi štvrtého dňa, deviateho mesiaca, mesiaca kisleva.

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

²Vtedy poslal Bét-el Šarecera a Regem-melecha i svojich mužov modliť sa pred tvárou Hospodinovou a upokojiť ju

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?”

³a aby povedali kňazom, ktorí boli pre dom Hospodina Zástupov, a prorokom: Či mám plakať piateho mesiaca zdržujúc sa nazarejsky, jako som činil toto už toľko rokov?

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

⁴A stalo sa slovo Hospodina Zástupov ku mne povediac:

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?

⁵Povedz všetkému ľudu zeme i kňazom a vrav: Keď ste sa postievali a smútili ste piateho a siedmeho mesiaca, a to už sedemdesiat rokov, či ste sa to azda mne postili?

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

⁶Alebo keď jete a keď pijete, či to nejete vy a nepijete vy?

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?’”

⁷Či tu nejde o slová, ktoré hlásal Hospodin skrze drievnych prorokov, keď ešte bol Jeruzalem obývaný a mal pokoj i jeho mestá vôkol neho, a keď tak býval i juh i rovina?

⁸The word of Yahweh came to Zechariah, saying,

⁸A stalo sa slovo Hospodinovo k Zachariášovi povediac:

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

⁹Takto hovorí Hospodin Zástupov: Súďte súd podľa pravdy a majte milosrdenstvo a zľutovanie; to čiňte každý so svojím bratom.

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.’

¹⁰A neutiskujte vdovy a siroty, pohostína a chudobného a nemyslite nikto zlého na svojho brata vo svojom srdci.

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

¹¹Avšak nechceli pozorovať ušami, ale dali spurné plece a obťažili svoje uši, aby nepočuli;

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.

¹²urobili svoje srdce jako hrot diamantu, aby nepočuli zákona ani slov, ktoré posielal Hospodin Zástupov svojím Duchom skrze drievnych prorokov, a preto povstal veľký hnev, vyšlý od Hospodina Zástupov.

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;

¹³A stalo sa, že jako keď on volal, a oni nepočuli, tak potom, oni volali, ale som nepočul, hovorí Hospodin Zástupov.

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.”

¹⁴A rozptýlil som ich víchricou na všetky národy, ktorých neznali, a zem spustla po nich, takže nebolo toho, kto by bol prešiel cez ňu alebo sa vrátil, a tak obrátili rozkošnú a žiadúcnu zem na púšť.