< 瑪拉基書 4 >
1 看,那日子來臨,勢必如冒火燄的火爐,所有的驕傲人和惡的人都要成為禾楷;那一天來到,必要將他們燒盡──萬軍的上主說──不給他們留下根和枝條。
For, behold, the day is coming, which shall burn as an oven; and all the presumptuous, yea, and all who practise wickedness shall be stubble: and the day that is coming shall set them on fire, saith the Lord of hosts, who will not leave them root or bough.
2 但為你們這些敬畏我名號的人,正義的太陽將要升起,以自己好似箭羽的光芒普施救恩;你們必將出來,蹦蹦跳跳有如出欄的牛犢。
But there shall rise unto you that fear my name the sun of righteousness with healing in his wings: and ye will go forth, and grow fat as calves of the stall.
3 你們要踐踏惡人,因為在我行事之日,他們必要如同在你們腳下的塵土──萬軍的上說。
And ye will tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day that I create, saith the Lord of hosts.
4 你們應記得我僕人梅瑟的法律,即我在曷黎布山,命他傳於全以色列的誡命和制度。
Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, whom I commanded on Horeb for all Israel, statutes and ordinances.
5 看,在上主偉大及可怕的日子來臨以前,我必派遺先知厄里亞到你們這裏來;
Behold, I send unto you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the day of the Lord, the great and the dreadful.
6 衪將使父親的心轉向兒子,使兒子的心轉向父親,免得我來臨時,以毀滅律打擊這地。
And he shall turn back the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers: lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.