Malaki 3
1 “Neuru, abiro oro jaotena mabiro losona yo kapok abiro. Bangʼe, apoya nono Ruoth mudwarono nobi e hekalune; jaote mar singruok, ma ugombo, nobi,” Jehova Nyasaye Maratego owacho.
“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 Yahweh of Armies.
2 To en ngʼa manyalo siro chiengʼ biro mare? Koso en ngʼa manyalo chungʼ e nyime ka othinyore? Nimar enobed kaka mach mar jatheth kata sabund jaluoko malwoko maler.
“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;
3 Nobed piny kaka jachung kendo japwodh fedha; nopwodh jo-Lawi kendo nochung-gi mana ka dhahabu gi fedha. Bangʼe Jehova Nyasaye nobedi gi joma kare manokelne chiwo,
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 Yahweh offerings in righteousness.
4 kendo Jehova Nyasaye norwak chiwo mag Juda kod Jerusalem mana kaka ndalo mokadho.
Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasant to Yahweh as in the days of old and as in ancient years.
5 Jehova Nyasaye Maratego wacho niya, “Omiyo abiro sudo machiegni kodu mondo angʼadnu bura, anabi mapiyo mondo abed janeno ka kwedo ajuoke, jochode kod jogo makwongʼore kariambo, joma mayo jotijegi e yor chudo, jogo matimo marach ne mon ma chwogi otho kod nyithind kiye, kod jogo matamo jodak e adiera margi, nikech ok giluora.”
I will come near to you to judgment. 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 Yahweh of Armies.
6 Jehova Nyasaye Maratego wacho niya, “An Jehova Nyasaye ok alokra ngangʼ. Omiyo un, yaye nyikwa Jakobo, ok osetieku.
“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.
7 Nyaka chakre ndalo kwereu uselokoru uweyo yorega, kendo pok uritogi. Dwoguru ira to anaduog iru.” “To upenjo ni, ‘Ere kaka dwaduog iri?’
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 Yahweh of Armies. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’
8 “Bende dhano nyalo mayo Nyasaye? To kata kamano, umaya. “Umedo penjo ni, ‘Kare ere kaka wamayi?’ “Umaya kuom chiwo mar achiel kuom apar kod chiwo mamoko.
Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings.
9 Okwongʼ, ogandau duto, nikech umaya.”
You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation.
10 Jehova Nyasaye Maratego wacho niya, “Keluru achiel kuom apar duto e od keno, mondo chiemo obed e oda. Tema uruane mondo une-ane ka donge dayawnu dirise mag dhorangeye polo mi aolnu gweth mogundho ma ok unyal yudo thuolo kama dukanie.
Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be enough room for.
11 Anagengʼ kute ma ok noketh chambu, kendo mzabibu manie puotheu olembgi ok notow mi lwar kapok ochiek,” Jehova Nyasaye Maratego owacho.
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 Yahweh of Armies.
12 “Eka ogendini duto noluongu ni joma ogwedhi nikech pinyu nobed piny maber,” Jehova Nyasaye Maratego owacho.
“All nations shall call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land,” says Yahweh of Armies.
13 Jehova Nyasaye wacho niya, “Usewuoyo marach kuoma. “To upenjo ni, ‘En angʼo ma wasewacho kuomi?’
“Your words have been harsh against me,” says Yahweh. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’
14 “Usewacho kama, ‘Tiyone Nyasaye onge tiende. En ohala mane ma wayudo kuom timo dwache kendo kuom wuotho ka waywagore e nyim Jehova Nyasaye Maratego?
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 Yahweh of Armies?
15 To waneno ni joma timbegi richo ema igwedho. Chutho joma timbegi richo dhi maber kendo kata gikwedo Nyasaye to gitony.’”
Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’
16 Eka joma ne oluoro Nyasaye nowuoyo e kindgi giwegi, kendo Jehova Nyasaye nochiko ite mowinjogi. Nying joma oluoro Jehova Nyasaye kendo mamiyo nyinge duongʼ nondiki e kitabu moro e nyime.
Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened and heard, and a book of memory was written before him for those who feared Yahweh and who honored his name.
17 Jehova Nyasaye Maratego wacho niya, “Ginibed joga, odiechiengʼno kendo anaketgi kaka mwanduna mageno. Anakechgi mana kaka ngʼato kecho wuode matiyone.
They shall be mine,” says Yahweh of Armies, “my own possession in the day that I make. I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.
18 Kendo unuchak une pogruok mane kind joma kare kod joma timbegi richo, kendo e kind joma tiyone Nyasaye gi joma ok tine.”
Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.
