Malachi 3
1 ‘I am about to send my messenger and he will clear a path before me: And the Lord, who you are seeking, will suddenly come to his temple. The messenger of the covenant who you long for is already coming, says the Lord of hosts.
Evo, ja æu poslati anðela svojega, koji æe pripraviti put preda mnom, i iznenada æe doæi u crkvu svoju Gospod, kojega vi tražite, i anðeo zavjetni, kojega vi želite, evo doæi æe, veli Gospod nad vojskama.
2 But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand firm when he appears? He is like a refiner’s fire, and like a launderer’s soap,
Ali ko æe podnijeti dan dolaska njegova? i ko æe se održati kad se pokaže? jer je on kao oganj livèev i kao milo bjeljarsko.
3 and he will sit as a refiner and purifier. He will purify the descendants of Levi, and refine them like gold and silver, until they are fit to bring offerings to the Lord.
I sješæe kao onaj koji lije i èisti srebro, i oèistiæe sinove Levijeve, i pretopiæe ih kao zlato i srebro, i oni æe prinositi Gospodu prinose u pravdi.
4 Then will the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant to the Lord, as in the days of old, and as in former years.
I ugodan æe biti Gospodu prinos Judin i Jerusalimski kao u staro vrijeme i kao preðašnjih godina.
5 ‘I will come to you in judgment. I will be quick to testify against the sorcerers, adulterers, perjurers, those who cheat workers, or widows, or orphans, deny justice to immigrants, and do not fear me,’ says the Lord of hosts.
I doæi æu k vama na sud, i biæu brz svjedok protiv vraèara i protiv preljuboèinaca, i protiv onijeh koji se kunu krivo i protiv onijeh koji zakidaju najam najamniku, i udovici i siroti i došljaku krivo èine i ne boje se mene, veli Gospod nad vojskama.
6 ‘For I, the Lord, do not change; and you have not ceased to be descendants of Jacob.’
Jer ja Gospod ne mijenjam se; zato vi, sinovi Jakovljevi, ne izgiboste.
7 ‘From the days of your ancestors, you have turned aside from my statutes, and you have not kept them. Turn to me and I will turn to you,’ says the Lord. ‘You say, “How should we turn?”
Od vremena otaca svojih otstupiste od uredaba mojih i ne držaste ih. Vratite se k meni, i ja æu se vratiti k vama, veli Gospod nad vojskama. Ali velite: u èem bismo se vratili?
8 Can a human rob God? Yet you robbed me. You ask, “How have we robbed you?” In tithes and gifts!
Eda li æe èovjek zakidati Boga? a vi mene zakidate; i govorite: u èem te zakidamo? u desetku i u prinosu.
9 You – your entire nation – are all cursed, because you rob me.
Prokleti ste, jer me zakidate, vi, sav narod.
10 ‘Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there is food in my house. Test me in this way. See if I will not open to you the windows of the sky, and pour you out a blessing, until there is more than enough.
Donesite sve desetke u spreme da bude hrane u mojoj kuæi, i okušajte me u tom, veli Gospod nad vojskama, hoæu li vam otvoriti ustave nebeske i izliti blagoslov na vas da vam bude dosta.
11 I will rebuke for your sakes the devouring locust and he will not destroy your crops, nor will the vine fail to ripen its fruit in the field, says the Lord of hosts,
I zaprijetiæu vas radi proždrljivcu, te vam neæe kvariti roda zemaljskoga, i vinova loza u polju neæe vam biti nerodna, veli Gospod nad vojskama.
12 and all nations will call you happy, for you will be a delightful land,’ says the Lord of hosts.
I zvaæe vas blaženim svi narodi, jer æete biti zemlja mila, veli Gospod nad vojskama.
13 ‘You have said terrible things about me,’ says the Lord. ‘You ask, “What have we said about you?”
Žestoke bjehu vaše rijeèi na me, veli Gospod; a vi velite: šta govorismo na tebe?
14 You have said, “It is useless to serve God, and what do we gain from the Lord of hosts by keeping his commands, and walking mournfully in funeral garb before him?
Rekoste: zaludu je služiti Bogu, i kaka æe biti korist da držimo što je naredio da se drži, i da hodimo žalosni pred Gospodom nad vojskama?
15 So now we call the proud happy, evildoers thrive: they dare God and escape unharmed.”’
Zato hvalimo ponosite da su sreæni; napreduju koji èine bezakonje, i koji iskušavaju Boga, izbavljaju se.
16 Such things those who revered the Lord spoke to one another, and the Lord took notice, and a record was written before him of those who revered the Lord and those who keep in mind his name.
Tada koji se boje Gospoda govoriše jedan drugome, i pogleda Gospod, i èu, i napisa se knjiga za spomen pred njim za one koji se boje Gospoda i misle o imenu njegovu.
17 ‘They will be mine,’ says the Lord of hosts, ‘my special possession on that day that I am preparing. I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.
Ti æe mi biti blago, veli Gospod nad vojskama, u onaj dan kad ja uèinim, i biæu im milostiv kao što je otac milostiv svome sinu koji mu služi.
18 Once again my people will see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between the person who serves God and the person who does not.’
Tada æete se obratiti i vidjeæete razliku izmeðu pravednika i bezbožnika, izmeðu onoga koji služi Bogu i onoga koji mu ne služi.
