Malachi 3

1 Seyè a pale, li di konsa: -Men m'ap voye mesaje mwen devan pou l' pare yon chemen pou mwen. N'ap rete konsa, n'ap wè Seyè n'ap plede chache a ap vini nan tanp li a. Mesaje nou te anvi wè a, men l'ap vini pou l' fè tout moun konnen kontra a.

“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 the LORD of Armies.

2 Men, ki moun ki ka sipòte jou l'ap vini an? Ki moun ki va rete kanpe devan l' lè la parèt la? L'ap tankou dife yo sèvi pou fonn fè. L'ap tankou gwo savon yo sèvi pou blanchi rad.

“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 La vini tankou moun k'ap fonn fè pou wete kras ki ladan l'. L'ap netwaye pitit pitit Levi yo, l'ap wete tou sa ki pa bon nan yo tankou yo netwaye lò ak ajan, pou yo ka nan kondisyon ankò pou yo prezante ofrann bay Bondye jan yo dwe fè l' la.

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 the LORD offerings in righteousness.

4 Lè sa a, ofrann moun peyi Jida yo ak ofrann moun lavil Jerizalèm yo va fè Seyè a plezi, jan sa te konn ye nan tan lontan, depi nan konmansman.

Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasant to the LORD as in the days of old and as in ancient years.

5 Seyè ki gen tout pouvwa a di ankò: -m'a vin jwenn nou pou rann jistis. Parèt mwen parèt, m'ap denonse moun k'ap fè maji, moun k'ap fè adiltè, moun k'ap fè sèman pou twonpe moun, moun k'ap kenbe nan lajan moun k'ap travay pou yo, moun k'ap peze fanm ki pèdi mari yo ak timoun ki pèdi papa yo, moun k'ap pwofite sou moun lòt nasyon, moun ki pa genyen m' krentif.

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 do not fear me,” says the LORD of Armies.

6 Mwen se Seyè a, mwen p'ap chanje. Se poutèt sa nou menm, pitit pitit Jakòb yo, nou pa disparèt nèt.

“For I, the LORD, do not change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

7 Depi sou tan zansèt nou yo nou pa okipe sa m' te ban nou lòd fè. Nou pa swiv yo. Tounen vin jwenn mwen. Mwen menm, m'a tounen vin jwenn nou tou. Se Seyè ki gen tout pouvwa a menm ki di sa. N'ap mande m' sa pou nou fè pou nou tounen vin jwenn mwen?

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 the LORD of Armies. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’

8 Mwen menm m'ap mande nou: Eske yon moun ka twonpe Bondye? Non. Men, se twonpe n'ap twonpe m'. N'ap mande ki jan n'ap twonpe m' lan. M'ap reponn nou: Nan keksyon ladim ak lòt bagay nou fèt pou nou ofri m' yo.

Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings.

9 Gen yon madichon ki gen pou tonbe sou nou tout, paske tout moun nan peyi a ap twonpe m'.

You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation.

10 Pote tout ladim lan nèt nan tanp lan, san wete anyen ladan l', pou ka gen manje nan tanp lan. Se pou nou fè sa pou nou wè si mwen p'ap kenbe pawòl mwen vre. n'a wè si mwen p'ap louvri syèl la fè lapli tonbe, si mwen p'ap vide benediksyon sou nou an kantite.

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says the LORD 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 Mwen p'ap kite chini vini pou detwi rekòt jaden nou ankò, ni pou anpeche pye rezen nou yo donnen. Se Seyè ki gen tout pouvwa a menm ki di sa.

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 the LORD of Armies.

12 Lè sa a, moun toupatou sou latè va rekonèt jan Bondye beni nou, paske sa pral bon nèt pou moun k'ap viv nan peyi nou an. Se Seyè ki gen tout pouvwa a ki di sa.

“All nations shall call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land,” says the LORD of Armies.

13 Seyè a di ankò: -Nou te pale m' mal. Men nou reponn: Kisa nou di sou ou konsa?

“Your words have been harsh against me,” says the LORD. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’

14 Nou te di: Sa pa sèvi anyen pou yon moun sèvi Bondye. Sa sa ap rapòte yon moun pou li fè sa Seyè a mande, pou li fè Seyè a wè li gen lapenn pou sa li fè ki mal?

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 the LORD of Armies?

15 Koulye a, nou tou wè se awogan yo k'ap viv ak kè kontan. Moun k'ap fè mal yo, se yo ki wè zafè yo ap mache. Yo sonde Bondye pou wè kote li ye ak yo epi anyen pa rive yo.

Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’

16 Men koze ki te nan bouch moun ki gen krentif pou Bondye yo. Tansèlman, Seyè a t'ap swiv yo, li tande tou sa yo t'ap di. Li pran yon liv, li fè ekri non tout moun ki gen krentif pou li epi ki respekte l'.

Then those who feared the LORD spoke one with another; and the LORD listened and heard, and a book of memory was written before him for those who feared the LORD and who honored his name.

17 Seyè a di konsa: Y'ap yon pèp apa pou mwen. Jou m'a deside pou m' aji a, se moun pa m' nèt y'ap ye. m'a gen pitye pou yo, menm jan yon papa gen pitye pou pitit gason l' k'ap sèvi l'.

They shall be mine,” says the LORD 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 Lè sa a ankò, n'a wè diferans ant moun k'ap mache dwat ak moun k'ap fè sa ki mal, ant moun k'ap sèvi Bondye ak moun ki p'ap sèvi l'.

Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who does not serve him.