Malakhi 3

1 Khenhaw! Ka cei nahane lamthung ka rakueng hane ka patoune ka patoun han. Nangmouh ni na tawng awh e Bawipa, na ngaihawi awh e lawkkam e laicei teh amae bawkim dawk tang a tho han. Khenhaw! Hote Bawipa teh a tho lahun ransahu BAWIPA ni a ti.

"Look, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, look, he comes." says YHWH of hosts.

2 A thonae hnin nah apinimaw a khang thai han. A kamnue toteh apimaw kangdout thai han. Bangkongtetpawiteh Bawipa teh ngun sôlêinae hmai hoi a kâvan teh hno pâsunae sapet hoi a kâvan.

But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is coming like a refiner's fire, and like launderer's soap.

3 Ngun hah a sôlêi teh ka thoungsak e ni sui ngun a sôlêi e patetlah Levih miphun a thoungsak dawkvah, ahnimouh teh BAWIPA hanelah kalan e pasoum hno hah a thueng awh han.

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 YHWH offerings in righteousness.

4 Judah catounnaw hoi Jerusalem khocanaw e pasoum hno hah ayan e kumtha, hnin dawk e patetlah BAWIPA ni a ngai e lah ao han.

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

5 Nangmouh na tanouk hanelah nangmouh koe ka tho han. Tami ka ân e, ka uicuk e, kamsoumhoehe lah thoe ka kâbo e, aphu poe laipalah ka rektap e, lahmai naranaw ka rektap e, imyinnaw kamsoumhoehe lah lawk ka ceng e, Kai na ka taket hoeh e taminaw e avanglah, kapanuekkhaikung lah tang ka o han telah ransahu BAWIPA ni a ti.

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and 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 do not fear me," says YHWH of hosts.

6 Kai Jehovah teh, kâthungnae awm hoeh. Hatdawkvah Jakop catounnaw nangmouh teh na rawk awh mahoeh.

"For I, YHWH, do not change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

7 Mintoenaw koehoi kamtawng teh, nangmouh ni ka phung lawk na tarawi awh hoeh, na roun awh toe. Kai koe bout ban awh haw, kai hai nangmouh koe lah ka ban van han telah ransahu BAWIPA ni ati. Bangtelah hoi maw bout ka ban han na ti awh.

From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you," says YHWH of hosts. "But you say, 'How shall we return?'

8 Tami ni Cathut e hno lawp kawi namaw. Hatei, nangmouh ni teh kaie hno na lawp awh toe. Bangtelamaw na lawp awh vaw na tet awh pawiteh, pung hra pung touh thoseh, pasoum hnonaw hai thoseh na lawp awh toe.

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

9 Nangmouh teh thoebo e lah na o awh toe. Bangkongtetpawiteh, khocanaw pueng ni ka hno na lawp awh toe.

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

10 Hra touh dawk buet touh pueng teh hno pâkhuengnae im dawk hmouk awh. Kaie im dawk ca kawi ao nahanelah sak awh. Kalvan tho ka paawng hoi paawng hoeh e, yawhawinae na rabawk sin hoi rabawk sin hoeh e, hottelah hoi na tanouk awh haw telah ransahu BAWIPA ni a ti.

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

11 Na talai dawk e a pawhiknaw hah ahriainaw koe ka raphoe sak mahoeh. Nangmae misurkung teh a paw paw laipalah awm mahoeh telah ransahu BAWIPA ni a ti.

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 YHWH of hosts.

12 Miphun pueng ni nangmouh teh a yaw kahawi e tami telah na kaw awh han. Na ram hai ngai kaawm e ram lah ao han telah ransahu BAWIPA ni a ti.

"All nations shall call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land," says YHWH of hosts.

13 BAWIPA koe lawk kahram lahoi na dei awh nahlangva vah, nangmouh ni bangtelamaw ka dei payon awh vaw, khuet na ti awh vaw.

"Your words have been stout against me," says YHWH. "Yet you say, 'What have we spoken against you?'

14 Cathut e thaw ka tawk nakunghai ahawinae awm hoeh. Cangkhai e naw ka tarawi awh teh, ransahu BAWIPA hmalah rawca ka hai awh nakunghai bangmaw ahawinae kaawm.

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 YHWH of hosts?

15 Ka kâoup e taminaw hah a yaw kahawi e taminaw telah kaimouh ni ka ti awh. Atangcalah, yonnae ka saknaw law teh a tawnta awh. Cathut a tanouk nakunghai a hlout awh telah na ti awh.

Now we call the proud blessed; indeed, evildoers prosper. They even tempt God and escape.'

16 Hatnavah BAWIPA kabarinaw teh buet touh hoi buet touh a kâpato awh. BAWIPA ni hai a hnâpakeng teh a thai pouh. BAWIPA ka taket ni teh a min alawkpui lah ka tat e taminaw teh, a hmalah cayin a pakhum pouh.

Then those who feared YHWH spoke one with another; and YHWH listened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him, for those who feared YHWH, and who honored his name.

17 Ahnimanaw teh lawk ka ceng hnin vah ka coe e hno lah ao awh han. A na pa e thaw ka tawk e capa hah na pa ni pasai e patetlah ahnimanaw hah ka pasai han telah ransahu BAWIPA ni a ti.

They shall be mine," says YHWH of hosts, "my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.

18 Hahoi, nangmouh teh, na lung a kâthung awh teh kalan e tami, kalan hoeh e tami, Cathut e thaw ka tawk e tami, ka tawk hoeh e taminaw hah na panue awh han.

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