Malakia 3
1 Indro, haniraka ny irako Aho, ary izy hanamboatra lalana eo alohako; ary ny Tompo Izay tadiavinareo dia ho avy tampoka ho eo an-tempoliny; ary ny Anjelin’ ny fanekena Izay irinareo, dia, indro, tamy Izy, hoy Jehovah, Tompon’ ny maro.
“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 Hosts.
2 Nefa iza no mahatanty ny andro hihaviany? Ary iza no mahajanona, raha miseho Izy? Fa Izy dia tahaka ny afon’ ny mpandrendrika sy ny savonin’ ny mpanasa lamba.
“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 Ary hipetraka handrendrika sy hanadio volafotsy Izy; eny, hanadio ny taranak’ i Levy Izy sy handrendrika azy toy ny fandrendrika volamena sy volafotsy, ka dia ho an’ i Jehovah ireny ho mpanatitra fanatitra amim-pahamarinana.
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 Dia ho mamin’ i Jehovah ny fanatitry ny Joda sy Jerosalema toy ny tamin’ ny andro fahiny sy toy ny tamin’ ny taona taloha.
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 Ary hanatona anareo ho fitsarana Aho ka ho vavolombelona faingana hanameloka ny mpanana ody sy ny mpijangajanga sy ny mpianian-tsy tò sy ny mpampahory ny mpikarama amin’ ny karamany mbamin’ ny mpitondratena sy ny kamboty ary izay mampahory ny vahiny; fa tsy matahotra Ahy izy, hoy Jehovah, Tompon’ ny maro.
I will come near to you to judgement. 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 Hosts.
6 Fa Izaho Jehovah dia tsy miova, ary ianareo, ry taranak’ i Jakoba, dia tsy fongana.
“For I, the LORD, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.
7 Hatramin’ ny andron’ ny razanareo dia efa niala tamin’ ny didiko ianareo ka tsy nitandrina azy. Miverena amiko, dia mba hiverina ho aminareo kosa Aho, hoy Jehovah, Tompon’ ny maro. Nefa hoy ianareo: Ahoana ary no ho fiverinay?
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 Hosts. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’
8 Handroba an’ Andriamanitra va ny olona, no mandroba Ahy ianareo? Nefa hoy ianareo: Amin’ inona moa no androbanay Anao? Amin’ ny fahafolon-karena sy ny fanatitra.
Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings.
9 Voaozona amin’ ny ozona ianareo nefa Izaho no robainareo, dia izao ianareo rehetra iray firenena izao.
You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation.
10 Entonareo ny fahafolon-karena rehetra ho ao amin’ ny trano firaketako, mba hasian-kanina ao an-tranoko, ary izahao toetra amin’ izany Aho, hoy Jehovah, Tompon’ ny maro, raha tsy hovohako ny varavaran’ ny lanitra ho anareo ka hampidinako fitahiana manana amby ampy ho anareo.
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 Hosts, “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 Ary hasiako teny mafy ny valala noho ny aminareo, ka tsy hanimba ny vokatry ny tany intsony ireny, ka dia hahavanom-boa ny voalobokareo any an-tsaha, hoy Jehovah, Tompon’ ny maro.
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 Hosts.
12 Ary ianareo hataon’ ny firenena rehetra hoe sambatra; fa ho tany mahafinaritra ianareo, hoy Jehovah, Tompon’ ny maro.
“All nations shall call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land,” says the LORD of Hosts.
13 Ny teninareo dia mahery mamely Ahy hoy Jehovah. Nefa hoy ianareo: Inona no resakay nentinay namely Anao?
“Your words have been harsh against me,” says the LORD. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’
14 Tamin’ ny nanaovanareo hoe: zava-poana ny manompo an’ Andriamanitra; ary inona moa no soa efa azo tamin’ ny fitandremantsika izay nasainy notandremana sy tamin’ ny nandehanantsika nitafy lamba fisaonana teo anatrehan’ i Jehovah, Tompon’ ny maro.
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 Hosts?
15 Ary ankehitriny isika dia midera ny mpirehareha hoe sambatra; eny, voaorina tsara izay nanao ratsy, sady efa naka fanahy an’ Andriamanitra izy, nefa afa-nandositra ihany.
Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’
16 Ary tamin’ izany izay natahotra an’ i Jehovah dia samy niresaka tamin’ ny namany avy; ary Jehovah nihaino ka nandre izany; ary nisy boky nosoratana teo anatrehany ho fahatsiarovana izay matahotra an’ i Jehovah sy mihevitra ny anarany.
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 honoured his name.
17 Ary ho rakitra soa ho Ahy ireny amin’ ny andro izay hotendreko, hoy Jehovah, Tompon’ ny maro, ary ho antra azy Aho toy ny olona antra ny zananilahy izay manompo azy.
They shall be mine,” says the LORD of Hosts, “my own possession in the day that I make. I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.
18 Ka dia ho hitanareo indray ny tsi-fitovian’ ny marina sy ny meloka, dia ny manompo an’ Andriamanitra sy ny tsy manompo Azy.
Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.
