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Zechariah 1 Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars! 黎巴嫩！打开你的门，让火来吞灭你的香柏！ 2 Wail, you cypress trees, for the cedars are fallen, the mighty have been despoiled. Wail, you oaks of 松树，哀号吧！因为香柏已被伐倒，高大者已被摧毁；巴商的橡树，哀号吧！因为不可深入的树林全已倒下。 3 Hark! the wailing of the shepherds, their glory has been ruined. Hark! the roaring of the young lions, the jungle of the 听，牧人在哀号，因为他们的的光荣己被破坏；听，幼狮在咆哮，因为约旦的豪华已遭摧毁。 4 1 Thus said the LORD, my God: Shepherd the flock to be slaughtered. 上主，我的天主这样说：＂你要牧放这待宰的羊群！ 5 For they who buy them slay them with impunity; while those who sell them say, ＂Blessed be the LORD, I have become rich!＂ Even their own shepherds do not feel for them. 那些购买它们来宰杀的，以为无过；那卖出他们的的还说；上主应受赞美，因为我成了富翁！那牧放它们的，毫不怜惜它们。 6 (Nor shall I spare the inhabitants of the earth any more, says the LORD. Yes, I will deliver each of them into the power of his neighbor, or into the power of his king; they shall crush the earth, and I will not deliver it out of their power.) 我也决不再怜恤这地上的居民──上主的断语；看，我要将每个人交在他的的牧人手中．和他的君王手中，让他们毁灭这地，我决不由他们手中抢救。 7 So I became the shepherd of the flock to be slaughtered for the sheep merchants. I took two staffs, one of which I called ＂Favor,＂ and the other, ＂Bonds,＂ and I fed the flock. 这样我就代替卖羊人牧放待宰的羊群。我取了两根棍杖：一根我称它为＂爱护＂，一根我叫它作＂联合＂；我这样牧放了羊群。 8 In a single month I did away with the three shepherds. I wearied of them, and they behaved badly toward me. 在一个月内，我竟废除了三个牧人；终于我的心神也厌烦了羊群，而他们的心也厌恶我。 9 ＂I will not feed you,＂ I said. ＂What is to die, let it die; what is to perish, let it perish, and let those that are left devour one another's flesh.＂ 我于是说：我不愿再牧放你们：那要死的，就让他死去；那要丧亡的，就让他丧亡；那劓剩下的，就让他们彼此吞食。 10 Then I took my staff ＂Favor＂ and snapped it asunder, breaking off the covenant which I had made with all peoples; 以后，我就拿起我的棍杖＂爱护＂，把它折断，藉以废除我与众百姓所结的盟约。 11 that day it was broken off. The sheep merchants who were watching me understood that this was the word of the LORD. 盟约便在那一天废除了；于是那些注视我的羊贩子，便都知道这是上主的话。 12 I said to them, ＂If it seems good to you, give me my wages; but if not, let it go.＂ And they counted out my wages, thirty pieces of silver. 以后，我对他们说：如果你们看着好，就给我工资，不然，就算了。他们于是衡量了三十两银子作我的工资。 13 But the LORD said to me, ＂Throw it in the treasury, the handsome price at which they valued me.＂ So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the treasury in the house of the LORD. 那时上主对我说：＂你把他们对我所估计的高价投入宝内！我就是拿了那三十两银子，投入上主殿内宝库里 14 Then I snapped asunder my other staff, ＂Bonds,＂ breaking off the brotherhood between 然后，我又折断我的另一根棍杖＂联合＂，藉以废除犹大与以色列间的手足情谊。 15 The LORD said to me: This time take the gear of a foolish shepherd. 上主又对我说：＂你再为你取一套愚昧牧人的服装， 16 For I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will take no note of those that perish, nor seek the strays, nor heal the injured, nor feed what survives--he will eat the flesh of the fat ones and tear off their hoofs! 因为．看，我将在地上兴起一个牧人：那丧失的，他不去寻找；那迷途的，他不去搜索；那受伤的，他不去医治；那病弱的，他不去扶持；却要择肥而食，并且剥去它们的蹄子。 17 Woe to my foolish shepherd who forsakes the flock! May the sword fall upon his arm and upon his right eye; Let his arm wither away entirely, and his right eye be blind forever! 祸哉！那拋弃羊群的愚昧牧人！愿刀剑落在他的臂膊和他的右眼上！愿他的臂膊枯槁！愿他的右眼完全失明！ Footnotes（注解） 1 [4-17] In this allegory the prophet becomes the good shepherd of God's flock, which is being slaughtered; he is the defender of the people exploited by bad rulers. The three shepherds, rulers in general, are to destroy one another in a short time (a single month). The service of the good shepherd is contemptuously valued at thirty pieces of silver, the legal indemnity (Exodus 21:32) for a gored slave. The prophet is thus a type of Christ, whose mission of salvation to his people was appraised by the Sanhedrists, the false shepherds, at the same base price (Matthew 26:14-16). In the case of the prophet as well as of Christ (Matthew 27:5), the money is thrown into the temple treasury, i. e., paid to God, showing thereby how shamefully his divine love and care are requited. |
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