Maleakhi 1
1 Inilah pesan TUHAN kepada Maleakhi untuk umat Israel.
An oracle: the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.
2 TUHAN berkata kepada umat-Nya, "Aku mengasihi kamu." Tetapi mereka menjawab, "Bagaimana TUHAN mengasihi kami?" TUHAN menjawab, "Bukankah Esau abang Yakub? Tetapi Yakub Kukasihi,
"I have loved you," says the LORD. Yet you say, "How have you loved us?" "Wasn't Esau Jacob's brother?" says the LORD, "Yet I loved Jacob;
3 sedangkan Esau Kubenci. Daerah berbukit Esau sudah Kuhancurkan, dan tanahnya Kuserahkan kepada binatang-binatang buas di padang gurun."
but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness."
4 Andaikata keturunan Esau, orang-orang Edom itu berkata, "Kota-kota kami sudah dihancurkan, tapi kami akan membangunnya kembali," maka TUHAN akan menjawab, "Mereka boleh membangun kembali, tetapi Aku akan merobohkannya. Mereka akan disebut 'Negeri durhaka' dan 'Bangsa yang kena murka TUHAN untuk selama-lamanya.'"
Whereas Edom says, "We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places;" thus says the LORD of hosts, "They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them 'The Wicked Land,' even the people against whom the LORD shows wrath forever."
5 Bangsa Israel akan melihatnya sendiri, dan berkata, "Sungguh besarlah TUHAN; kekuasaan-Nya sampai di luar tanah Israel!"
Your eyes will see, and you will say, "The LORD is great—even beyond the border of Israel."
6 TUHAN Yang Mahakuasa berkata kepada para imam, "Seorang anak menghormati bapaknya, dan seorang pelayan menghormati tuannya. Aku ini Bapakmu; mengapa kamu tidak menghormati Aku? Aku ini majikanmu; mengapa kamu tidak takut kepada-Ku? Kamu menghina Aku, tetapi kamu bertanya, 'Dengan cara bagaimana kami menghina Engkau?'
"A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? says the LORD of hosts to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, 'How have we despised your name?'
7 Dengan mengurbankan makanan yang tak pantas dikurbankan di atas mezbah-Ku. Lalu kamu bertanya, 'Dengan cara bagaimana kami meremehkan Engkau?' Dengan mencemarkan mezbah-Ku.
You offer defiled bread on my altar. You say, 'How have we defiled you?' In that you say, 'The LORD's table is despised, and its fruit, its food, is despised.'
8 Kalau kamu mempersembahkan kepada-Ku binatang yang buta, yang sakit atau yang lumpuh, bukankah itu perbuatan yang salah? Coba memberi binatang semacam itu kepada gubernur! Apakah ia akan senang dan memperlakukan kamu dengan baik?"
When you offer the blind for sacrifice, isn't that evil? And when you offer the lame and sick, isn't that evil? Present it now to your governor. Will he be pleased with you? Or will he accept your person?" says the LORD of hosts.
9 Sekarang, hai imam-imam, cobalah mohon kepada Allah supaya Ia mengasihani kita. Ia tak akan menjawab doamu, dan itu salahmu sendiri.
"Now, please entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us. With this, will he accept any of you?" says the LORD of hosts.
10 TUHAN Yang Mahakuasa berkata, "Lebih baik pintu Rumah-Ku ditutup, sebab sia-sia kamu menyalakan api di atas mezbah-Ku. Aku tidak suka kepada kamu, dan tak mau menerima persembahanmu.
"Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain. I have no pleasure in you," says the LORD of hosts, "neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
11 Aku dihormati oleh bangsa-bangsa di seluruh dunia. Di mana-mana dibakar dupa untuk menghormati nama-Ku dan dipersembahkan kurban-kurban yang pantas, sebab semua bangsa menghormati Aku!
For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations," says the LORD of hosts.
12 Tetapi kamu menghina Aku karena menganggap mezbah-Ku tidak berharga, dan mempersembahkan di situ makanan yang kamu tolak.
"But you profane it, in that you say, 'The LORD's table is defiled, and its fruit, its food, is despised.'
13 Katamu, 'Kita sudah bosan dengan semua itu', dan kamu meremehkan Aku. Kamu membawa binatang curian, binatang yang lumpuh atau yang sakit untuk dipersembahkan kepada-Ku. Kamu pikir Aku mau menerima persembahanmu itu?
You say also, 'Look, what a weariness it is.' and you sniff scornfully at it," says the LORD of hosts; "and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this from your hand?" says the LORD of hosts.
14 Terkutuklah si penipu yang mempersembahkan kepada-Ku binatang yang tidak berharga, kalau di antara ternaknya ada binatang baik yang sudah dijanjikannya kepada-Ku! Sebab Akulah Raja Agung, dan dihormati oleh semua bangsa."
"But the deceiver is cursed, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the LORD a blemished thing; for I am a great King," says the LORD of hosts, "and my name is awesome among the nations."
