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١ 1 «هَا أَنَا أُرْسِلُ رَسُولِي فَيُمَهِّدُ الطَّرِيقَ أَمَامِي وَيَأْتِي الرَّبُّ الَّذِي تَطْلُبُونَهُ فَجْأَةً إِلَى هَيْكَلِهِ وَيُقْبِلُ أَيْضاً مَلاكُ الْعَهْدِ الَّذِي تُسَرُّونَ بِهِ» يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ الْقَدِيرُ

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me! The Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple. Behold, the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, is coming!” says the LORD of Hosts.

٢ 2 وَلَكِنْ مَنْ يَحْتَمِلُ يَوْمَ مَجِيئِهِ؟ وَمَنْ يَثْبُتُ عِنْدَ ظُهُورِهِ؟ فَإِنَّهُ مِثْلُ نَارِ الْمُمَحِّصِ أَوْ أَشْنَانِ الْقَصَّارِينَ.

“But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ soap;

٣ 3 فَيَجْلِسُ مُمَحِّصاً وَمُنَقِّياً لِلْفِضَّةِ لِيُطَهِّرَ أَبْنَاءَ لاوِي وَيُمَحِّصَهُمْ كَالْفِضَّةِ وَالذَّهَبِ، حَتَّى يُقَرِّبُوا لِلرَّبِّ تَقْدِمَاتٍ بِقُلُوبٍ طَاهِرَةٍ.

and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to the LORD offerings in righteousness.

٤ 4 عِنْدَئِذٍ تَكُونُ تَقْدِمَةُ يَهُوذَا وَشَعْبِ أُورُشَلِيمَ مَرْضِيَّةً عِنْدَ الرَّبِّ، كَالْعَهْدِ بِها فِي سَالِفِ الأَيَّامِ وَفِي السِّنِينَ الْغَابِرَةِ.

Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasant to the LORD as in the days of old and as in ancient years.

٥ 5 وَأَقْتَرِبُ مِنْكُمْ لأَكُونَ شَاهِداً سَرِيعاً ضِدَّ السَّحَرَةِ وَالزُّنَاةِ وَالْحَالِفِينَ بِالزُّورِ وَالْمُسْتَغِلِّينَ لأُجْرَةِ الْعَامِلِ وَمُضْطَهِدِي الأَرَامِلِ وَالأَيْتَامِ، وَالَّذِينَ يَظْلِمُونَ الْغُرَبَاءَ وَلا يَخَافُونَنِي.

I will come near to you to judgement. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says the LORD of Hosts.

٦ 6 فَإِنِّي أَنَا الرَّبُّ لَا أَتَغَيَّرُ، لِذَلِكَ أَنْتُمْ أَيْضاً لَمْ تَفْنَوْا يَا أَبْنَاءَ يَعْقُوبَ.

“For I, the LORD, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

٧ 7 إِنَّ شَأْنَكُمْ كَشَأْنِ آبَائِكُمْ. ابْتَعَدْتُمْ عَنْ فَرَائِضِي وَلَمْ تُطِيعُوهَا. ارْجِعُوا إِلَيَّ فَأَرْجِعَ إِلَيْكُمْ، يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ الْقَدِيرُ، وَلَكِنَّكُمْ تَسْأَلُونَ كَيْفَ نَرْجِعُ؟

From the days of your fathers you have turned away from my ordinances and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’

٨ 8 أَيَسْلُبُ الإِنْسَانُ اللهَ؟ لَقَدْ سَلَبْتُمُونِي! وَتَسْأَلُونَ: بِمَاذَا سَلَبْنَاكَ؟ فِي الْعُشُورِ وَالْقَرَابِينِ.

Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings.

٩ 9 أَنْتُمْ، بَلِ الأُمَّةُ كُلُّهَا، تَحْتَ اللَّعْنَةِ لأَنَّكُمْ سَلَبْتُمُونِي.

You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation.

١٠ 10 هَاتُوا الْعُشُورَ جَمِيعَهَا إِلَى بَيْتِ الْخَزِينَةِ لِيَتَوافَرَ فِي هَيْكَلِي طَعَامٌ، وَاخْتَبِرُونِي لِتَرَوْا إِنْ كُنْتُ لَا أَفْتَحُ كُوَى السَّمَاءِ وَأَفِيضُ عَلَيْكُمْ بَرَكَةً وَفِيرَةً، يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ الْقَدِيرُ.

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says the LORD of Hosts, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be enough room for.

١١ 11 وَأَكُفُّ عَنْكُمْ أَذَى الْجَرَادِ الْمُلْتَهِمِ، فَلا يُتْلِفُ لَكُمْ غَلّاتِ الأَرْضِ، وَلا تُصَابُ كُرُومُكُمْ بِالْعُقْمِ، يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ الْقَدِيرُ.

I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast its fruit before its time in the field,” says the LORD of Hosts.

١٢ 12 عِنْدَئِذٍ تَدْعُوكُمْ جَمِيعُ الشُّعُوبِ «بِالأُمَّةِ الْمُبَارَكَةِ» لأَنَّ أَرْضَكُمْ تَكُونُ أَرْضَ بَهْجَةٍ، يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ الْقَدِيرُ.

“All nations shall call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land,” says the LORD of Hosts.

١٣ 13 لَقَدْ قَسَوْتُمْ فِي كَلامِكُمْ عَلَيَّ يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ، وَمَعَ ذَلِكَ تَقُولُونَ: بِمَاذَا تَكَلَّمْنَا ضِدَّكَ؟

“Your words have been harsh against me,” says the LORD. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’

١٤ 14 لَقَدْ قُلْتُمْ: مِنَ الْعَبَثِ عِبَادَةُ اللهِ، وَأَيُّ جَدْوَى مِنْ حِفْظِنَا شَعَائِرَهُ، وَالنُّواحِ أَمَامَ حَضْرَةِ الرَّبِّ الْقَدِيرِ؟

You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God,’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of Hosts?

١٥ 15 وَهَا نَحْنُ الآنَ نَغْبِطُ الْمُسْتَكْبِرِينَ، وَنَرَى فَاعِلِي الشَّرِّ يَزْدَهِرُونَ، بَلْ إِنَّهُمْ تَحَدُّوا اللهَ وَنَجَوْا.

Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’

١٦ 16 ثُمَّ حَدَّثَ خَائِفُو الرَّبِّ بَعْضُهُمْ بَعْضاً. فَأَصْغَى الرَّبُّ إِلَى كَلامِهِمْ وَسَمِعَهُمْ، فَتَمَّ تَدْوِينُ أَسْمَاءِ مُتَّقِيِّ الرَّبِّ وَالْمُتَأَمِّلِينَ بِاسْمِهِ أَمَامَهُ فِي كِتَابِ تَذْكِرَةٍ، وَرَدَ فِيهِ:

Then those who feared the LORD spoke one with another; and the LORD listened and heard, and a book of memory was written before him for those who feared the LORD and who honoured his name.

١٧ 17 «سَيَكُونُونَ لِي»، يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ الْقَدِيرُ، «فِي الْيَوْمِ الَّذِي أَصْنَعُ فِيهِ نَفَائِسِي، وَأُحَافِظُ عَلَيْهِمْ كَمَا يُحَافِظُ الْوَالِدُ عَلَى ابْنِهِ الَّذِي يَخْدُمُهُ.

They shall be mine,” says the LORD of Hosts, “my own possession in the day that I make. I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.

١٨ 18 فَتَشْرَعُونَ ثَانِيَةً فِي التَّمْيِيزِ بَيْنَ الصَّالِحِ وَالطَّالِحِ، بَيْنَ مَنْ يَعْبُدُ اللهَ وَمَنْ لَا يَعْبُدُهُ».

Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.