Zechariah 1

1 In the eighth month, in the second year of king Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying:

Pada bulan kedelapan dalam tahun kedua pemerintahan Raja Darius atas Persia, TUHAN menyampaikan pesan ini kepadaku, Nabi Zakharia anak Berekhya dan cucu Ido.

2 The Lord has become angry over the resentful anger of your fathers.

TUHAN memerintahkan aku untuk berkata begini kepada umat-Nya, "Di zaman lampau Aku, TUHAN Yang Mahakuasa, amat marah kepada nenek moyangmu.

3 And you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord of hosts: Turn to me, says the Lord of hosts, and I will turn to you, says the Lord of hosts.

Tetapi sekarang Aku berkata kepadamu: Kembalilah kepada-Ku, maka Aku juga akan kembali kepadamu.

4 Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried out, saying: Thus says the Lord of hosts: Turn from your evil ways and from your wicked thoughts. But they did not heed, and neither did they pay attention to me, says the Lord.

Janganlah seperti nenek moyangmu. Dahulu kala para nabi menyampaikan pesan-Ku kepada mereka agar mereka jangan lagi berbuat jahat dan berbuat dosa. Tetapi mereka tidak perduli dan tak mau taat kepada-Ku.

5 Your fathers, where are they? And will the prophets live unceasingly?

Di manakah nenek moyangmu dan nabi-nabi itu sekarang? Mereka sudah tidak ada lagi.

6 Yet truly my words and my lawfulness, which I entrusted to my servants the prophets, were indeed comprehended by your fathers, and so they were converted, and they said: Just as the Lord of hosts decided to do to us, according to our ways and according to our inventions, so has he done to us.

Melalui para nabi hamba-hamba-Ku itu, Kusampaikan perintah-perintah dan peringatan-peringatan-Ku kepada nenek moyangmu. Tetapi mereka tidak menghiraukannya sehingga mereka harus menanggung akibatnya. Lalu mereka menyesal dan mengakui bahwa Aku, TUHAN Yang Mahakuasa, telah menghukum mereka setimpal dengan kesalahan mereka, dan sesuai dengan ketentuan-Ku."

7 On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is called Shevat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying:

Pada tanggal dua puluh empat bulan Syebat, yaitu bulan sebelas, dalam tahun kedua pemerintahan Raja Darius, TUHAN menyampaikan pesan-Nya kepadaku. Dalam suatu penglihatan pada waktu malam,

8 I saw by night, and behold, a man riding on a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees, which were in the chasm. And behind him were horses: red, speckled, and white.

aku melihat malaikat TUHAN menunggang seekor kuda merah. Ia berhenti di sebuah lembah di antara pohon-pohon murad. Di belakangnya berdiri beberapa ekor kuda yang lain, ada yang merah, yang merah jambu dan yang putih.

9 And I said, “What are these, my lord?” And the angel, who was speaking with me, said to me, “I will reveal to you what these are.”

Aku bertanya kepadanya, "Tuan, apakah artinya semua kuda ini?" Ia menjawab, "Akan kutunjukkan artinya kepadamu.

10 And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, “These are they, whom the Lord has sent in order to walk through the earth.”

Mereka dikirim TUHAN untuk memeriksa bumi."

11 And those who stood among the myrtle trees answered the angel of the Lord, and they said, “We have walked through the earth, and behold, all the earth is inhabited and is at rest.”

Semua kuda itu melaporkan kepada malaikat, "Kami telah menjelajahi seluruh muka bumi, ternyata dunia ini tenang dan tentram."

12 And the angel of the Lord answered and said, “Lord of hosts, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, with which you have been angry? This is now the seventieth year.”

Lalu malaikat itu berkata, "TUHAN Yang Mahakuasa, tujuh puluh tahun lamanya Engkau murka kepada Yerusalem dan kota-kota di Yehuda. Sampai kapan Engkau akan tetap marah dan tidak mengampuni mereka?"

13 And the Lord answered the angel, who had been speaking with me, good words, consoling words.

TUHAN menjawab malaikat itu dengan kata-kata yang menghibur,

14 And the angel, who was speaking with me, said to me: Cry out, saying: Thus says the Lord of hosts: I have been zealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great zeal.

dan malaikat itu menyuruh aku menyampaikan apa yang dikatakan oleh TUHAN Yang Mahakuasa, "Aku amat mengasihi dan memprihatinkan kota Yerusalem, kota-Ku yang suci.

15 And, with a great anger, I am angry with the wealthy nations. Though I had been angry a little, truly they advanced further in evil.

Tetapi Aku amat marah kepada bangsa-bangsa yang merasa aman dan tentram. Karena ketika Aku menahan kemarahan-Ku atas umat-Ku, bangsa-bangsa itu menambah penderitaan umat-Ku.

16 Because of this, thus says the Lord: I will be turned back, towards Jerusalem, with mercies; and my house will be built upon this, says the Lord of hosts. And the building line will be extended over Jerusalem.

Sekarang Aku kembali ke Yerusalem untuk memberi pengampunan kepada kota itu. Rumah-Ku akan dibangun kembali dan kota Yerusalem akan dipulihkan lagi."

17 Until then, cry out saying: Thus says the Lord of hosts: Until then, my cities will flow with good things, and, until then, the Lord will comfort Zion, and, until then, he will single out Jerusalem.

Malaikat itu menyuruh aku menyampaikan pesan ini juga, "TUHAN Yang Mahakuasa berjanji bahwa kota-kota-Nya akan menjadi makmur kembali dan bahwa sekali lagi Ia akan menolong Yerusalem dan mengakuinya sebagai milik-Nya sendiri."

18 And I lifted up my eyes, and I saw. And behold: four horns.

Dalam penglihatan yang lain, aku melihat empat tanduk sapi.

19 And I said to the angel, who was speaking with me, “What are these?” And he said to me, “These are the horns that have winnowed Judah and Israel and Jerusalem.”

Aku bertanya kepada malaikat yang telah berbicara kepadaku, "Apakah arti tanduk-tanduk itu?" Ia menjawab, "Tanduk-tanduk itu adalah lambang kerajaan-kerajaan kuat yang menceraiberaikan penduduk Yehuda, Israel dan Yerusalem."

20 And the Lord showed me four workmen.

Lalu TUHAN memperlihatkan kepadaku empat orang tukang besi yang membawa palu.

21 And I said, “What have these come to do?” He spoke, saying, “These are the horns that have winnowed Judah, through every single man, and none of them lifted up his head. And these have come to frighten them away, so as to cast down the horns of the Gentiles, which have lifted up a horn over the land of Judah, so as to scatter it.”

Aku bertanya, "Apa maksud kedatangan mereka?" Ia menjawab, "Untuk menggetarkan dan menggulingkan bangsa-bangsa yang telah menghancurleburkan Yehuda serta menceraiberaikan penduduknya."