Книга пророка Малахии 3
1 Се, Аз посылаю Ангела Моего, и призрит на путь пред лицем Моим: и внезапу приидет в церковь Свою Господь, Егоже вы ищете, и Ангел завета, Егоже вы хощете: се, грядет, глаголет Господь Вседержитель.
Behold, I send forth my messenger, and he shall survey the way before me: and the Lord, whom you seek, shall suddenly come into his temple, even the angel of the covenant, whom you take pleasure in: behold, he is coming, says the Lord Almighty.
2 И кто стерпит день пришествия Его? И кто постоит в видении Его? Зане Той входит яко огнь горнила и яко мыло перущих.
And who will abide the day of his coming? or who will withstand at his appearing? for he is coming in as the fire of a furnace and as the herb of fullers.
3 И сядет разваряя и очищая яко сребро и яко злато, и очистит сыны Левиины, и прелиет я яко злато и яко сребро: и будут Господеви приносяще жертву в правде.
He shall sit to melt and purify as it were silver, and as it were gold: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver, and they shall offer to the Lord an offering in righteousness.
4 И угодна будет Господеви жертва Иудова и Иерусалимля, якоже дние века и якоже лета преждняя.
And the sacrifice of Juda and Jerusalem shall be pleasing to the Lord, according to the former days, and according to the former years.
5 И прииду к вам с судом, и буду свидетель скор на чародеи и на прелюбодейцы, и на кленущыяся именем Моим во лжу и на лишающыя мзды наемника, и на насильствующыя вдовиц и пхающыя сирыя, и на укланяющыя суд пришелца и на небоящыяся Мене, глаголет Господь Вседержитель:
And I will draw near to you in judgment; and I will be a sift witness against the witches, and against the adulteresses, and against them that swear falsely by my name, and against them that keep back the hireling's wages, and them that oppress the widow, and afflict orphans, and that wrest the judgment of the stranger, and fear not me, says the Lord Almighty.
6 зане Аз Господь Бог ваш, и не изменяюся, и вы сынове Иаковли не удаляетеся от грех отец ваших.
For I am the Lord your God, and I am not changed:
7 Уклонистеся от законов Моих и не сохранисте: обратитеся ко Мне, и обращуся к вам, глаголет Господь Вседержитель. И ресте: в чесом обратимся?
but you, the sons of Jacob, have not refrained from the iniquities of your fathers: you have perverted my statutes, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord Almighty. But you said, Wherein shall we return?
8 Еда обольстит человек Бога? Зане вы обольщаете Мя. И ресте: в чесом обольстихом Тя? Яко десятины и начатцы с вами суть.
Will a man insult God? for you insult me. But you say, Wherein have we insulted you? In that the tithes and first fruits are with you [still].
9 И взирающе вы взираете, и Мене вы обольщаете.
And you do surely look off from me, and you insult me.
10 Лето скончася, и внесосте вся плоды в сокровища, и будет расхищение Его в дому Его: обратитеся убо о сем, глаголет Господь Вседержитель: аще не отверзу вам хлябий небесных и излию вам благословение Мое, дондеже удовлитеся:
The year is completed, and you have brought all the produce into the storehouses; but there shall be the plunder thereof in its house: return now on this behalf, says the Lord Almighty, [see] if I will not open to you the torrents of heaven, and pour out my blessing upon you, until you are satisfied.
11 и разделю вам в брашно, и не имам истлити вам плодов земных, и не изнеможет ваш виноград на селе, глаголет Господь Вседержитель:
And I will appoint food for you, and I will not destroy the fruit of your land; and your vine in the field shall not fail, says the Lord Almighty.
12 и ублажат вы вси языцы, зане будете вы земля пожеланная, глаголет Господь Вседержитель.
And all nations shall call you blessed: for you shall be a desirable land, says the Lord Almighty.
13 Отяготисте на Мя словеса ваша, глаголет Господь (Вседержитель). И ресте: о чем клеветахом на Тя?
You have spoken grievous words against me, says the Lord. Yet you said, Wherein have we spoken against you?
14 Ресте: суетен работаяй Богу, и что более, яко сохранихом хранения Его и яко идохом молитвенницы пред лицем Господа Вседержителя?
You said, He that serves God labors in vain: and what have we gained in that we have kept his ordinances, and in that we have walked as suppliants before the face of the Lord Almighty?
15 И ныне мы блажим чуждих, и созидаются вси творящии беззаконная, сопротивишася Богови и спасошася.
And now we pronounce strangers blessed; and all they who act unlawfully are built up; and they have resisted God, and [yet] have been delivered.
16 Сия рекоша боящиися Господа, кийждо ко искреннему своему: и внят Господь, и услыша, и написа книгу памяти пред Собою боящымся Господа и благоговеющым имя Его.
Thus spoke they that feared the Lord, every one to his neighbor: and the Lord gave heed, and listened, and he wrote a book of remembrance before him for them that feared the Lord and reverenced his name.
17 И будут Ми, глаголет Господь Вседержитель, в день, егоже Аз творю в снабдение, и изберу я, имже образом избирает человек сына своего (добре) работающа ему.
And they shall be mine, says the Lord Almighty, in the day which I appoint for a peculiar possession; and I will make choice of them, as a man makes choice of his son that serves him.
18 И обратитеся и увидите между праведным и между беззаконным, и между служащим Богови и не служащим Ему.
Then shall you return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, and between him that serves God, and him that serves [him] not.
