- 大利烏王第四年九月、就是基斯流月、初四日、耶和華的話臨到撒迦利亞。
- 那時伯特利人已經打發沙利色、和利堅米勒、並跟從他們的人、去懇求耶和華的恩、
- 並問萬軍之耶和華殿中的祭司、和先知說、我歷年以來、在五月間哭泣齋戒、現在還當這樣行麼。
- 萬軍之耶和華的話就臨到我說、
- 你要宣告國內的眾民、和祭司、說、你們這七十年在五月七月禁食悲哀、豈是絲毫向我禁食麼.
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- In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Kislev.
- The people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-Melech, together with their men, to entreat the LORD
- by asking the priests of the house of the LORD Almighty and the prophets, "Should I mourn and fast in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?"
- Then the word of the LORD Almighty came to me:
- "Ask all the people of the land and the priests, 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for the past seventy years, was it really for me that you fasted?
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