Malashi 3
1 « Nakotinda ntoma na Ngai; ye nde akoya liboso mpo na kobongisela Ngai nzela. Boye Yawe oyo bozali kozela akoya na pwasa kati na Tempelo na Ye; ntoma ya boyokani oyo bolingi akoya, » elobi Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga.
“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 Kasi nani akobika na mokolo oyo akoya? Nani akotelema na mokolo oyo akomonana? Pamba te azali lokola moto ya monyangwisi bibende na moto, lokola sabuni oyo etelisaka bilamba.
“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 Akovanda lokola monyangwisi bibende mpe mopetoli palata na moto. Akopetola bana mibali ya Levi mpe akolekisa bango na moto ndenge bapetolaka wolo mpe palata, mpe bakokoma mpo na Yawe bato oyo bamemelaka Ye makabo kolanda ndenge esengeli kozala.
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 Bongo makabo ya Yuda mpe ya Yelusalemi ekosepelisa Yawe, ndenge ezalaki na tango ya kala.
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 « Nakopusana pene na bino mpo na kosambisama, nakosala na lombangu mpo na kofunda bato ya maji, ya ekobo, bato oyo balapaka ndayi ya lokuta, bato oyo banyokolaka basali na bango, basi bakufisa mibali mpe bana bitike, oyo banyokolaka bapaya mpe batosaka Ngai te, » elobi Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga.
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 don’t fear me,” says the LORD of Armies.
6 « Ngai Yawe, nabongwanaka te. Mpo na yango, bino bana mibali ya Jakobi, bozali kaka.
“For I, the LORD, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.
7 Wuta na tango ya bakoko na bino, bozalaki kaka kobuka mibeko na Ngai mpe bozalaki kotosa Ngai te. Bozonga epai na Ngai, mpe Ngai nakozonga epai na bino, » elobi Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga. « Kasi bozali komituna: ‹ Tokozonga ndenge nini? ›
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 Boni, moto akoki solo kokosa Nzambe? Nzokande bino, bozali kokosa Ngai. Kasi bozali koloba: ‹ Tokosi Yo na likambo nini? › Bokosi Ngai na eteni na bino ya zomi mpe na makabo.
Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings.
9 Bozali na se ya elakeli mabe, pamba te bino nyonso, ekolo oyo mobimba, bozali kokosa Ngai.
You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation.
10 Boye, bomema biteni na bino nyonso ya zomi, na mobimba na yango, na ebombelo bomengo ya Tempelo mpo ete bilei ezanga te kati na Ndako na Ngai. Na bongo, bomeka Ngai, » elobi Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga, « mpo na kotala soki nakofungolela bino te maninisa ya Lola mpe soki nakosopela bino te lipamboli na Ngai, na bofuluki oyo ezanga ndelo.
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 Nakopekisa banyama mike-mike kolia bambuma ya bilanga na bino, bongo bilanga na bino ya vino ekotikala kozanga bambuma te, » elobi Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga.
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 « Bato ya bikolo nyonso bakoloba ete bozali bato ya esengo, pamba te mokili na bino ekozala mokili ya malamu mpo na kovanda, » elobi Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga.
“All nations shall call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land,” says the LORD of Armies.
13 Yawe alobi: « Bozali koloba makambo mabe mpo na kotelemela Ngai. Kasi bozali kotuna: ‹ Maloba nini ya mabe tolobi mpo na kotelemela Yo? ›
“Your words have been harsh against me,” says the LORD. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’
14 Bozali lisusu koloba: ‹ Kosalela Nzambe ezali na tina te. Litomba nini penza ezali na kotosa mibeko na Ye mpe na komiboya liboso ya Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga?
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 Tosengeli sik’oyo komona bato ya lofundu lokola bato ya esengo, bato mabe bazali kokende liboso. Atako bazali kobeta tembe na Nzambe, kasi bazali kaka kolonga. › »
Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’
16 Ndenge wana nde bato oyo batosaka Yawe bazalaki kosolola bango na bango, kasi Yawe ayokaki masolo na bango. Boye buku moko ya ekaniseli ekomamaki liboso ya Yawe mpo na bato oyo batosaka Yawe mpe bapesaka Kombo na Ye lokumu.
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 « Na mokolo oyo nakomonisa nguya na Ngai, bakokoma bato na Ngai, bomengo na Ngai ya talo. Nakobatela bango ndenge tata abatelaka mwana oyo asalelaka ye, » elobi Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga.
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 « Bongo bokomona lisusu bokeseni kati na moto ya sembo mpe moto mabe, kati na moto oyo asalelaka Nzambe mpe moto oyo asalelaka Ye te.
Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.
