Malachi 3

1 “See, I am about to send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. Then the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple. The messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, see, he will come,” says Yahweh of hosts.

look! I to send: depart messenger my and to turn way: road to/for face: before my and suddenly to come (in): come to(wards) temple his [the] lord which you(m. p.) to seek and messenger [the] covenant which you(m. p.) delighting behold to come (in): come to say LORD Hosts

2 But who will be able to endure the day of his coming? Who will be able to stand when he appears? For he will be like a refiner's fire and like laundry soap.

and who? to sustain [obj] day to come (in): come he and who? [the] to stand: stand in/on/with to see: see he for he/she/it like/as fire to refine and like/as lye to wash

3 He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi. He will refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings of righteousness to Yahweh.

and to dwell to refine and be pure silver: money and be pure [obj] son: descendant/people Levi and to refine [obj] them like/as gold and like/as silver: money and to be to/for LORD to approach: bring offering in/on/with righteousness

4 Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to Yahweh, as in the days of old, and as in ancient years.

and to please to/for LORD offering Judah and Jerusalem like/as day forever: antiquity and like/as year eastern: older

5 “Then I will approach you for judgment. I will quickly become a witness against the sorcerers, the adulterers, the false witnesses, and against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, those who oppress the widow and the fatherless, against those who turn away the foreigner, and against those who do not honor me,” says Yahweh of hosts.

and to present: come to(wards) you to/for justice: judgement and to be witness to hasten in/on/with to practice sorcery and in/on/with to commit adultery and in/on/with to swear to/for deception and in/on/with to oppress wages hired widow and orphan and to stretch sojourner and not to fear: revere me to say LORD Hosts

6 “For I, Yahweh, have not changed; therefore you, sons of Jacob, have not come to an end.

for I LORD not to change and you(m. p.) son: descendant/people Jacob not to end: destroy

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 Yahweh of hosts. “But you say, 'How will we return?'

to/for from day father your to turn aside: turn aside from statute: decree my and not to keep: obey to return: return to(wards) me and to return: return to(wards) you to say LORD Hosts and to say in/on/with what? to return: return

8 Would a person rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In tithes and offerings.

to rob man God for you(m. p.) to rob [obj] me and to say in/on/with what? to rob you [the] tithe and [the] contribution

9 You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation.

in/on/with curse you(m. p.) to curse and [obj] me you(m. p.) to rob [the] nation all his

10 Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of hosts, “if I do not open to you the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing on you, until there is no more room for it all.

to come (in): bring [obj] all [the] tithe to(wards) house: home [the] treasure and to be prey in/on/with house: home my and to test me please in/on/with this to say LORD Hosts if not to open to/for you [obj] window [the] heaven and to empty to/for you blessing till without sufficiency

11 I will speak against those who destroy your crops, so that they do not destroy the harvest of your land. Your vines in the fields will not lose their fruit,” says Yahweh of hosts.

and to rebuke to/for you in/on/with to eat and not to ruin to/for you [obj] fruit [the] land: soil and not be bereaved to/for you [the] vine in/on/with land: country to say LORD Hosts

12 “All the nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight,” says Yahweh of hosts.

and to bless [obj] you all [the] nation for to be you(m. p.) land: country/planet pleasure to say LORD Hosts

13 “Your words against me have been strong,” says Yahweh. “But you say, 'What have we said among ourselves against you?'

to strengthen: strengthen upon me word your to say LORD and to say what? to speak: speak upon you

14 You have said, 'It is useless to serve God. What profit is it that we have kept his requirements or walked mournfully before Yahweh of hosts?

to say vanity: vain to serve: minister God and what? unjust-gain for to keep: obey charge his and for to go: walk mournfully from face: before LORD Hosts

15 So now we call the arrogant blessed. Evildoers not only prosper, but they even test God and escape.'”

and now we to bless arrogant also to build to make: [do] wickedness also to test God and to escape

16 Then those who feared Yahweh spoke with one another. Yahweh paid attention and listened, and a book of remembrance was written before him about those who feared Yahweh and honored his name.

then to speak: speak afraid LORD man: anyone with neighbor his and to listen LORD and to hear: hear and to write scroll: book memorial to/for face: before his to/for afraid LORD and to/for to devise: count name his

17 “They will be mine,” says Yahweh of hosts, “my own treasured possession, on the day that I act. I will pity them, as a man pities his own son who serves him.

and to be to/for me to say LORD Hosts to/for day which I to make possession and to spare upon them like/as as which to spare man: anyone upon son: child his [the] to serve [obj] him

18 Then once again you will distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between one who worships God and one who does not worship him.

and to return: again and to see: see between righteous to/for wicked between to serve: minister God to/for which not to serve: minister him