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And it happened in the fourth year under Darius the king that a word of the Lord came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chaseleu.
saying to the priests who were in the house of the Lord Almighty and to the prophets, saying: The consecration has come in here in the fifth month, just as I have already done for a good many years.
對全能之主殿中的祭司和眾先知說:五月間那分別為聖的事已經進到這裡了,正如我已經這樣行了好些年。
7:4
καὶἐγένετολόγοςκυρίουτῶνδυνάμεωνπρόςμελέγων
And a word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying:
Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying: When you fasted or mourned in the fifth or in the seventh months, and behold, these seventy years, was it really for me that you fasted a fast?
你要對這地的眾民和祭司說:你們在五月或七月禁食悲哀,看哪,已有七十年了;你們豈真是為我禁食嗎?
7:6
καὶἐὰνφάγητεἢπίητεοὐχὑμεῖςἔσθετεκαὶὑμεῖςπίνετε
And when you eat or drink, is it not you who eat and you who drink?
Are these not the words that the Lord spoke by the hands of the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and prosperous, and her cities round about, and the hill country and the lowland were inhabited?
And they made their heart disobedient, so as not to listen to my law or to the words that the Lord Almighty sent by his spirit through the hands of the former prophets; and there came great wrath from the Lord Almighty.
And I will drive them out among all the nations that they had not known, and the land shall be made desolate behind them, with no one passing through or returning; and they made a choice land into a desolation.