瑪拉基書 1
1 神諭：上主藉瑪拉基亞傳於以色列的話。
An oracle. The message of the Lord to Israel through Malachi.
2 上主說：我愛了你們，而你們卻說：你怎樣愛了我們﹖厄撒烏不是雅各伯的哥哥嗎﹖──上主的斷語──但是我卻愛了雅各伯，
“I have loved you,” says the Lord. “But you ask, ‘How have you shown love to us?’ Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” explains the Lord of hosts, “yet I loved Jacob,
3 而恨了厄撒烏。我曾使他的山荒涼，使他的產業變為豺狼所住的曠野。
but hated Esau, and made his mountains a desolation, and transformed his ancestral land into a wilderness.
4 如果厄東說：我們雖然被毀滅，但我們必要重建廢墟。萬軍的上主卻這樣說：他們可以重建，但我必加以破壞，人們將稱之為「邪惡的地區，」為「上主永遠憤恨的人民。」
When Edom says, ‘We are beaten down, but we will return and rebuild the ruined places’” the Lord of hosts says, “They may build, but I will throw down. They will be called, ‘The border land of wickedness,’ the people against whom the Lord is angry forever.
5 你們必要親眼看見，並且要說：上主連在以色列境界之外，也顯示了自己的偉大。
Your own eyes will see this, and you will say, ‘the Lord’s greatness reaches beyond the border of Israel.’”
6 兒子應孝敬父親，僕人應敬畏主人。但如果我是父親，對我的孝敬在哪裏﹖如果我是主人，對我的敬在哪裏﹖司祭們! 萬軍的上主對你們說：「你們輕視了我的名。」但你們卻說：「我們在什麼事上輕視了你的名﹖」
“A son honors his father and servant their master. If I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the one who fears me? So says the Lord to you, priests who despise my name. You ask, ‘How have we despised your name?’
7 就在你們以不潔的食物供奉在我的祭壇上。你們又說：「我們在什麼事上玷污了它﹖」就是你們說：「上主的台桌是可輕賤的」的時候。
You offer on my altar bread that is polluted. You ask, ‘How have we polluted it?’ Because you say, ‘The table of the Lord is contemptible.’
8 你們將一隻盲目的牲畜獻為犧牲，不是罪過嗎﹖將這樣的禮品，獻給你的市長吧! 看他是否會喜歡，會悅納﹖──萬軍的上主說。
When you offer the blind animal for sacrifice, ‘It doesn’t matter!’ And when you offer the lame and the sick ‘It doesn’t matter!’ Give an animal like that to your governor; will he be pleased with it? Will he receive you favorably?” says the Lord of hosts.
9 現在你們懇求上主開恩，叫衪憐恤我們! 這事既然是你們經手，看衪是否會對你們垂青﹖──萬軍的上主說。
Now, plead for the favor of God with such an offering, so that he may be gracious to us. “Would I receive any of you favorably?” says the Lord of hosts.
10 惟願你們中間有人關閉殿門，免得你們在我的祭壇上白白地點火! 我不你們──萬軍的上主說──也不悅納你們經手所獻的祭品，
“If only one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you could not kindle useless fires on my altar! I have no pleasure in you,” says the Lord of hosts, “Nor will I accept an offering from your hand.
11 因為從日出到日落，我的名在異民中大受顯揚，到處有人為我的名焚香獻祭，並奉獻潔淨的祭品，因為我的名在異民中大受顯揚──萬軍的上主說。
For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name is great among the nations, and in every place they offer to my name a pure offering. For my name is great among the nations,” says the Lord of hosts.
12 但你們卻褻瀆了它，即在你們說：「主的台桌是污穢的，上面的食物是可輕賤的」的時候。
“But you profane me when you say, ‘The table of the Lord is polluted, and its food is contemptible.’
13 你們還說：「唉，這是多麼麻煩! 」你們且嗤之以鼻──萬軍的上主說。你們將奪來的，跛腿的和有疾的拿來獻為祭品，我豈能從你們手中悅納﹖──上主說。
You say also, ‘How tired we are of all this!’ and you sniff contemptuously at it. You have brought the blind, the lame and the sick as offerings. Should I accept this from your hand?” says the Lord of hosts.
14 那在家畜群中原有公的，且許了願，卻拿有殘疾的獻給上主的騙子，是可詛咒的! 我是大王──萬軍的上主說：卜名在異民中必受敬畏。
“Cursed be the cheat, who has in his flock a valuable male, but vows and sacrifices to the Lord a blemished animal! For I am a great king,” says the Lord of hosts, “and my name is feared among the nations.”
