Zechariah · Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Zechariah 1 Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
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Notes on this text (2)
- The Old Testament is translated from the Hebrew, not from the Septuagint read in the Orthodox Church; there are no deuterocanonical books.
- Katharevousa (learned 19th-century Greek), as in the CrossWire module (text from theword.gr).
1 Εν τω ογδόω μηνί, τω δευτέρω έτει του Δαρείου, έγεινε λόγος Κυρίου προς Ζαχαρίαν, τον υιόν του Βαραχίου υιού του Ιδδώ, τον προφήτην, λέγων,
1 In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, Yahweh’s word came to the prophet Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, saying,
2 Ο Κύριος ωργίσθη μεγάλως επί τους πατέρας σας.
2 “Yahweh was very displeased with your fathers.
3 Διά τούτο ειπέ προς αυτούς, Ούτω λέγει ο Κύριος των δυνάμεων· Επιστρέψατε προς εμέ, λέγει ο Κύριος των δυνάμεων, και θέλω επιστρέψει προς εσάς, λέγει ο Κύριος των δυνάμεων.
3 Therefore tell them, Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Return to me,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will return to you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.
4 Μη γίνεσθε ως οι πατέρες σας, προς τους οποίους οι πρότεροι προφήται έκραξαν λέγοντες, Ούτω λέγει ο Κύριος των δυνάμεων. Επιστρέψατε τώρα από των οδών υμών των πονηρών και των πράξεων υμών των πονηρών· και δεν υπήκουσαν και δεν έδωκαν προσοχήν εις εμέ, λέγει Κύριος.
4 Don’t you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Yahweh of Armies says, ‘Return now from your evil ways and from your evil doings;’ but they didn’t hear nor listen to me, says Yahweh.
5 Οι πατέρες σας που είναι, και οι προφήται μήπως θέλουσι ζήσει εις τον αιώνα;
5 Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
6 Αλλ' οι λόγοι μου και τα διατάγματά μου, τα οποία προσέταξα εις τους δούλους μου τους προφήτας, δεν έφθασαν εις τους πατέρας σας; και αυτοί εστράφησαν και είπον, Καθώς ο Κύριος των δυνάμεων εβουλεύθη να κάμη εις ημάς, κατά τας οδούς ημών και κατά τας πράξεις ημών, ούτως έκαμεν εις ημάς.
6 But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn’t they overtake your fathers? “Then they repented and said, ‘Just as Yahweh of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.’”
7 Εν τη εικοστή τετάρτη ημέρα του ενδεκάτου μηνός, όστις είναι ο μην Σαβάτ, εν τω δευτέρω έτει του Δαρείου, έγεινε λόγος Κυρίου προς Ζαχαρίαν τον υιόν του Βαραχίου υιού του Ιδδώ τον προφήτην, λέγων,
7 On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, Yahweh’s word came to the prophet Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, saying,
8 Είδον την νύκτα και ιδού, άνθρωπος ιππεύων εφ' ίππου κοκκίνου και ούτος ίστατο μεταξύ των μυρσινών, αίτινες ήσαν εν κοιλώματι· και όπισθεν αυτού, ίπποι κόκκινοι, ποικίλοι και λευκοί.
8 “I had a vision in the night, and behold, a man riding on a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in a ravine; and behind him there were red, brown, and white horses.
9 Και είπα, Κύριέ μου, τι είναι ούτοι; Και είπε προς εμέ ο άγγελος ο λαλών μετ' εμού, Εγώ θέλω σοι δείξει τι είναι ταύτα.
9 Then I asked, ‘My lord, what are these?’” The angel who talked with me said to me, “I will show you what these are.”
10 Και ο άνθρωπος ο ιστάμενος μεταξύ των μυρσινών απεκρίθη και είπεν, Ούτοι είναι εκείνοι, τους οποίους ο Κύριος εξαπέστειλε να περιοδεύσωσι την γην.
10 The man who stood among the myrtle trees answered, “They are the ones Yahweh has sent to go back and forth through the earth.”
11 Και απεκρίθησαν προς τον άγγελον του Κυρίου τον ιστάμενον μεταξύ των μυρσινών και είπον, Ημείς περιωδεύσαμεν την γην και ιδού, πάσα η γη κάθηται και ησυχάζει.
11 They reported to Yahweh’s angel who stood among the myrtle trees, and said, “We have walked back and forth through the earth, and behold, all the earth is at rest and in peace.”
12 Και ο άγγελος του Κυρίου απεκρίθη και είπε, Κύριε των δυνάμεων, έως πότε δεν θέλεις σπλαγχνισθή συ την Ιερουσαλήμ και τας πόλεις του Ιούδα κατά των οποίων ηγανάκτησας τα εβδομήκοντα ταύτα έτη;
12 Then Yahweh’s angel replied, “O Yahweh of Armies, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?”
13 Και ο Κύριος απεκρίθη προς τον άγγελον τον λαλούντα μετ' εμού λόγους καλούς λόγους παρηγορητικούς.
13 Yahweh answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words.
14 Και είπε προς εμέ ο άγγελος ο λαλών μετ' εμού, Φώνησον, λέγων, Ούτω λέγει ο Κύριος των δυνάμεων· Είμαι ζηλότυπος διά την Ιερουσαλήμ και διά την Σιών εν ζηλοτυπία μεγάλη·
14 So the angel who talked with me said to me, “Proclaim, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
15 και είμαι σφόδρα ωργισμένος κατά των εθνών των αμεριμνούντων· διότι ενώ εγώ ωργίσθην ολίγον, αυτά επεβοήθησαν το κακόν.
15 I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity.”
16 Διά τούτο ούτω λέγει Κύριος· Εγώ επέστρεψα εις την Ιερουσαλήμ εν οικτιρμοίς· ο οίκός μου θέλει ανοικοδομηθή εν αυτή, λέγει ο Κύριος των δυνάμεων, και σχοινίον θέλει εκτανθή επί την Ιερουσαλήμ.
16 Therefore Yahweh says: “I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy. My house shall be built in it,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and a line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.”’
17 Φώνησον έτι λέγων, Ούτω λέγει ο Κύριος των δυνάμεων· Αι πόλεις μου ότι θέλουσι πλημμυρήσει από αγαθών και ο Κύριος θέλει παρηγορήσει έτι την Σιών και θέλει εκλέξει πάλιν την Ιερουσαλήμ.
17 “Proclaim further, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and Yahweh will again comfort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem.”’”
18 Και ύψωσα τους οφθαλμούς μου και είδον και ιδού, τέσσαρα κέρατα·
18 I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, four horns.
19 και είπα προς τον άγγελον τον λαλούντα μετ' εμού, Τι είναι ταύτα; Ο δε απεκρίθη προς εμέ, Ταύτα είναι τα κέρατα, τα οποία διεσκόρπισαν τον Ιούδαν, τον Ισραήλ και την Ιερουσαλήμ.
19 I asked the angel who talked with me, “What are these?” He answered me, “These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”
20 Και ο Κύριος έδειξεν εις εμέ τέσσαρας τέκτονας·
20 Yahweh showed me four craftsmen.
21 και είπα, Τι έρχονται ούτοι να κάμωσι; Και απεκρίθη λέγων, ταύτα είναι τα κέρατα τα οποία διεσκόρπισαν τον Ιούδαν, ώστε ουδείς εσήκωσε την κεφαλήν αυτού· και ούτοι ήλθον διά να φοβίσωσιν αυτά, διά να εκτινάξωσι τα κέρατα των εθνών, τα οποία εσήκωσαν το κέρας εναντίον της γης του Ιούδα διά να διασκορπίσωσιν αυτήν.
21 Then I asked, “What are these coming to do?” He said, “These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man lifted up his head; but these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations that lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.”
People & places in this chapter
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People
Berechiah
Son of Iddo and father of the prophet Zechariah.
Cited in the guide: Zechariah 1:1; Zechariah 1:7
Iddo
Named as the father of Berechiah and grandfather of the prophet Zechariah.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 5:1; Ezra 6:14; Zechariah 1:1
Zechariah
The prophet, son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, to whom the word of the LORD came in the eighth month of Darius's second year. Ezra 5:1 and 6:14 call him 'son of Iddo'; Zechariah…
Cited in the guide: Ezra 5:1; Ezra 6:14; Zechariah 1:1
Cross references (21)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Nehemiah 12:4; Matthew 23:35; Zechariah 1:7; Haggai 1:1; Ezra 4:24–5:1
- 2 Jeremiah 44:6; Ezekiel 22:31; Psalm 79:5–6; Lamentations 5:7; Zephaniah 2:1–3
- 3 Jeremiah 3:22; Malachi 3:7; Joel 2:12; Deuteronomy 30:2–10; Jeremiah 4:1
- 4 Psalm 78:8; Ezekiel 33:11; Jeremiah 35:15; Psalm 106:6–7; Isaiah 1:16–19
- 5 2 Peter 3:2–4; Ecclesiastes 12:5; Psalm 90:10; Hebrews 9:27; Ecclesiastes 12:7
- 6 Lamentations 2:17; Ezekiel 12:25–28; Deuteronomy 28:15; Jeremiah 23:20; Matthew 24:35
- 7 Zechariah 1:1
- 8 Revelation 6:4; Isaiah 55:13; Revelation 2:1; Isaiah 41:19; Zechariah 13:7
- 9 Zechariah 4:4–5; Revelation 7:13–14; Genesis 31:11; Zechariah 2:3; Daniel 9:22–23
- 10 Zechariah 1:11; Zechariah 6:5–8; Hebrews 1:14; Job 2:1–2; Zechariah 1:8
- 11 Zechariah 1:10; Matthew 24:30–31; Zechariah 1:8; Psalm 103:20–21; Zechariah 1:15
- 12 Jeremiah 29:10; Psalm 74:10; Daniel 9:2; Zechariah 7:5; Psalm 102:13
- 13 Isaiah 40:1–2; Jeremiah 29:10; Zechariah 2:4–12; Zechariah 4:1; Zephaniah 3:14–20
- 14 Joel 2:18; Isaiah 40:6; Zechariah 1:17; Isaiah 40:1; Zechariah 1:9
- 15 Jeremiah 51:24; Ezekiel 25:12–17; Isaiah 54:8; Isaiah 47:6–9; Isaiah 10:5–7
- 16 Zechariah 8:3; Ezekiel 37:24–28; Zechariah 2:10–11; Ezra 6:14–15; Zechariah 4:9
- 17 Isaiah 51:3; Zechariah 2:12; Ezekiel 36:10–11; Isaiah 61:4–6; Psalm 69:35
- 18 2 Kings 24:1–20; Joshua 5:13; Daniel 8:3–14; Zechariah 5:9; 2 Kings 15:29
- 19 Zechariah 1:21; Ezra 4:4; Zechariah 2:2; Zechariah 8:14; Ezra 4:1
- 20 Zechariah 10:3–5; Zechariah 12:2–6; Zechariah 9:12–16; Obadiah 21; Micah 5:5–6
- 21 Psalm 75:10; Psalm 75:4–5; Lamentations 2:17; Zechariah 1:19; Daniel 12:7
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What the Fathers said
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
Turning herself she prays that God too would turn to her: as it is said, "Turn ye unto Me, and I will turn unto you, saith the Lord." Or is it to be understood according to that way of speaking, "Turn, O Lord," that is make me turn, since the soul in this her turning feels difficulty and toil?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
… rest; and Haggai, Because I am with you, saith the Lord of Hosts; and My Spirit remaineth in the midst of you; and in like manner Zechariah, But receive My words and My statutes which I command by My Spirit, to My servants the Prophets; and other passages.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)