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:

1. Osmoga mjeseca druge godine Darijeve doðe rijeè Jahvina proroku Zahariji, sinu Berekjinu, sinu Idonovu.

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

2. "Jahve se teško razgnjevio na oce vaše!

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.

3. Zatim im reci: 'Ovako govori Jahve nad Vojskama: Vratite se meni, i ja æu se vratiti vama' - rijeè je Jahve nad Vojskama.

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.

4. 'Ne budite poput svojih otaca koje su pozivali negdašnji proroci.' Ovako govori Jahve nad Vojskama: 'Vratite se sa zlih putova svojih i od zlih djela. Ali oni nisu slušali ni pazili na mene' - govori Jahve.

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

5. Gdje su sad oci vaši? Zar æe dovijeka živjeti proroci?

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.

6. Ali moje rijeèi i odredbe, koje sam naložio slugama svojim prorocima, nisu li stigle vaše oce? Oni se obratiše i priznaše: 'Jahve nad Vojskama uèinio je s nama kako bijaše namislio uèiniti prema našim putovima i našim djelima.'"

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:

7. Dvadeset i èetvrtog dana, jedanaestoga mjeseca, a to je mjesec Šebat, druge godine Darijeve, doðe rijeè Jahvina proroku Zahariji, sinu Berekjinu, sinu Idonovu.

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.

8. Imao sam noæu viðenje. Gle, na riðanu èovjek jaše meðu mirtama koje imaju duboko korijenje, a iza njega konji riði, smeði i bijeli.

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.”

9. Upitah: "Koji su ovi, gospodaru?" Anðeo koji je sa mnom govorio reèe mi: "Ja æu ti pokazati koji su."

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.”

10. Èovjek koji stajaše meðu mirtama odgovori: "Ovo su oni koje je poslao Jahve da obilaze zemlju."

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.”

11. Oni se obratiše anðelu Jahvinu, koji stajaše meðu mirtama, i kazaše: "Obišli smo zemlju, i gle: sva zemlja poèiva i miruje."

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.”

12. Tada progovori anðeo Jahvin i reèe: "Jahve nad Vojskama, kada æeš se veæ jednom smilovati Jeruzalemu i gradovima judejskim na koje se veæ sedamdeset godina ljuto srdiš?"

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

13. A Jahve anðelu koji je govorio sa mnom odgovori utješnim rijeèima.

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.

14. I anðeo koji je govorio sa mnom reèe mi: "Objavi ovo: 'Ovako govori Jahve nad Vojskama: Ljubavlju ljubomornom gorim za Jeruzalem i za Sion,

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.

15. a velikim gnjevom plamtim na ohole narode, jer kad se ono malo rasrdih, oni prijeðoše mjeru.'

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.

16. Zato ovako govori Jahve: 'Vraæam se Jeruzalemu s milosrðem; opet æe u njemu sagraditi Dom moj' - rijeè je Jahve nad Vojskama - 'i opet æe se u Jeruzalemu protezati uže mjeraèko.'

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.

17. I ovo poruèi: 'Ovako govori Jahve nad Vojskama: Moji æe se gradovi opet prelijevati obiljem, i Jahve æe utješiti Sion, izabrati Jeruzalem.'"

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

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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.”

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20. And the Lord showed me four workmen.

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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.”

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