Malachi 3
1 "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 Jehovah of hosts.
Ecce ego mitto angelum meum, et praeparabit viam ante faciem meam. Et statim veniet ad templum suum Dominator, quem vos quaeritis, et angelus testamenti, quem vos vultis. Ecce venit, dicit Dominus exercituum:
2 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.
et quis poterit cogitare diem adventus eius, et quis stabit ad videndum eum? Ipse enim quasi ignis conflans, et quasi herba fullonum:
3 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 Jehovah offerings in righteousness.
et sedebit conflans, et emundans argentum, et purgabit filios Levi, et colabit eos quasi aurum, et quasi argentum, et erunt Domino offerentes sacrificia in iustitia.
4 Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasant to Jehovah, as in the days of old, and as in ancient years.
Et placebit Domino sacrificium Iuda, et Ierusalem sicut dies saeculi, et sicut anni antiqui.
5 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 Jehovah of hosts.
Et accedam ad vos in iudicio, et ero testis velox maleficis, et adulteris, et periuris, et qui calumniantur mercedem mercenarii, et humiliant viduas, et pupillos, et opprimunt peregrinum, nec timuerunt me, dicit Dominus exercituum.
6 "For I, Jehovah, do not change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.
Ego enim Dominus, et non mutor: et vos filii Iacob non estis consumpti.
7 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 Jehovah of hosts. "But you say, 'How shall we return?'
A diebus enim patrum vestrorum recessistis a legitimis meis, et non custodistis. Revertimini ad me, et revertar ad vos, dicit Dominus exercituum. Et dixistis: In quo revertemur?
8 Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me. But you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In tithes and offerings.
Si affliget homo Deum, quia vos configitis me? Et dixistis: In quo configimus te? In decimis, et in primitiis.
9 You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation.
Et in penuria vos maledicti estis, et me vos configitis gens tota.
10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this," says Jehovah 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.
Inferte omnem decimam in horreum, et sit cibus in domo mea, et probate me super hoc, dicit Dominus: si non aperuero vobis cataractas caeli, et effudero vobis benedictionem usque ad abundantiam,
11 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 Jehovah of hosts.
et increpabo pro vobis devorantem, et non corrumpet fructum terrae vestrae: nec erit sterilis vinea in agro, dicit Dominus exercituum.
12 "All nations shall call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land," says Jehovah of hosts.
Et beatos vos dicent omnes Gentes: eritis enim vos terra desiderabilis, dicit Dominus exercituum.
13 "Your words have been stout against me," says Jehovah. "Yet you say, 'What have we spoken against you?'
Invaluerunt super me verba vestra, dicit Dominus.
14 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 Jehovah of hosts?
Et dixistis: Quid locuti sumus contra te? Dixistis: Vanus est, qui servit Deo: et quod emolumentum quia custodivimus praecepta eius, et quia ambulavimus tristes coram Domino exercituum?
15 Now we call the proud blessed; indeed, evildoers prosper. They even tempt God and escape.'
ergo nunc beatos dicimus arrogantes: siquidem aedificati sunt facientes impietatem, et tentaverunt Deum, et salvi facti sunt.
16 Then those who feared Jehovah spoke one with another; and Jehovah listened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him, for those who feared Jehovah, and who honored his name.
Tunc locuti sunt timentes Dominum, unusquisque cum proximo suo: Et attendit Dominus, et audivit: et scriptus est liber monumenti coram eo timentibus Dominum, et cogitantibus nomen eius.
17 They shall be mine," says Jehovah 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.
Et erunt mihi, ait Dominus exercituum, in die, qua ego facio, in peculium: et parcam eis, sicut parcit vir filio suo servienti sibi.
18 Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn't serve him.
Et convertimini, et videbitis quid sit inter iustum, et impium: et inter servientem Deo, et non servientem ei.
