¹立约的使者快临

¹Lo, I am sending My messenger, And he hath prepared a way before Me, And suddenly come in unto his temple Doth the Lord whom ye are seeking, Even the messenger of the covenant, Whom ye are desiring, Lo, he is coming, said Jehovah of Hosts.

²可是，他来的日子，谁能当得起呢？他显现的时候，谁能站立得住呢？因为他像炼金之人的火，又像漂布之人的碱。

²And who is bearing the day of his coming? And who is standing in his appearing? For he [is] as fire of a refiner, And as soap of a fuller.

³他必坐着，像熬炼和洁净银子的人；他必洁净利未人，炼净他们像炼净金银一样。这样，他们就会凭公义献礼物给耶和华。

³And he hath sat, a refiner and purifier of silver, And he hath purified the sons of Levi, And hath refined them as gold and as silver, And they have been to Jehovah bringing nigh a present in righteousness.

⁴那时，犹大和耶路撒冷所献的礼物，必蒙耶和华悦纳，正如古时的日子，也像往昔之年一样。

⁴And sweet to Jehovah hath been the present of Judah and Jerusalem, As in days of old, and as in former years.

⁵万军之耶和华说：“我必临近你们施行审判；我要快快指证那些行邪术的、犯奸淫的、起假誓的、在工钱上欺压雇工的、欺压孤儿寡妇的、屈枉寄居的和不敬畏我的。”

⁵And I have drawn near to you for judgment, And I have been a witness, Making haste against sorcerers, And against adulterers, And against swearers to a falsehood, And against oppressors of the hire of an hireling, Of a widow, and of a fatherless one, And those turning aside a sojourner, And who fear Me not, said Jehovah of Hosts.

⁶万军之耶和华说：“因为我耶和华是不改变的，所以你们雅各的子孙也不会灭没。

⁶For I [am] Jehovah, I have not changed, And ye, the sons of Jacob, Ye have not been consumed.

⁷当纳十分之一“从你们列祖的日子以来，你们就偏离了我的律例而不遵守。现在你们要转向我，我就必转向你们。你们还问：‘我们要怎样回转呢？’

⁷Even from the days of your fathers Ye have turned aside from My statutes, And ye have not taken heed. Turn back unto Me, and I turn back to you, Said Jehovah of Hosts. And ye have said, `In what do we turn back?`

⁸人怎可抢夺　神之物呢？你们却抢夺属我之物，竟还问：‘我们抢夺了你的什么呢？’就是抢夺了当纳的十分之一和当献的祭物。

⁸Doth man deceive God? but ye are deceiving Me, And ye have said: `In what have we deceived Thee?` The tithe and the heave-offering!

⁹你们要受严厉的咒诅，因你们全国的人都抢夺了属我之物。”

⁹With a curse ye are cursed! And Me ye are deceiving — this nation — all of it.

¹⁰万军之耶和华说：“你们要把当纳的十分之一，全部送入仓库，使我家中有粮；借此试验我，看我是不是为你们敞开天窗，把福气倒给你们，直到充足有余呢。”

¹⁰Bring in all the tithe unto the treasure-house, And there is food in My house; When ye have tried Me, now, with this, Said Jehovah of Hosts, Do not I open to you the windows of heaven? Yea, I have emptied on you a blessing till there is no space.

¹¹万军之耶和华说：“我必为你们斥责那吞吃者，不容他毁坏你们地上的果实，也不让你们田间的葡萄在未熟以先就掉下来。”

¹¹And I have pushed for you against the consumer, And He doth not destroy to you the fruit of the ground, Nor miscarry to you doth the vine in the field, Said Jehovah of Hosts.

¹²万军之耶和华说：“万国都要称你们为有福，因为你们的地必成为喜乐之地。”

¹²And declared you happy have all the nations, For ye are a delightful land, said Jehovah of Hosts.

¹³指摘以色列狂傲自大耶和华说：“你们用无礼的话顶撞我。你们还问：‘我们用什么话顶撞了你呢？’

¹³Hard against Me have been your words, Said Jehovah, and ye have said: `What have we spoken against Thee?`

¹⁴你们说：‘事奉　神是白费的；遵守他的吩咐，在万军之耶和华面前哀痛而行，有什么益处呢？

¹⁴Ye have said, `A vain thing to serve God! And what gain when we kept His charge? And when we have gone in black, Because of Jehovah of Hosts?

¹⁵现在我们称骄傲的人为有福，作恶的人得建立；他们虽然试探　神，却得以逃脱。’”

¹⁵And now, we are declaring the proud happy, Yea, built up have been those doing wickedness, Yea they have tempted God, and escape.`

¹⁶敬畏耶和华的必蒙怜恤那时，敬畏耶和华的人彼此谈论，耶和华也留意细听；在他面前有记录册，记录那些敬畏耶和华和思念他名的人。

¹⁶Then have those fearing Jehovah spoken one to another, And Jehovah doth attend and hear, And written is a book of memorial before Him Of those fearing Jehovah, And of those esteeming His name.

¹⁷万军之耶和华说：“在我施行作为的日子，他们要属我，作特别的产业；我必怜恤他们，好像人怜恤那服事自己的儿子一样。

¹⁷And they have been to Me, said Jehovah of Hosts, In the day that I am appointing — a peculiar treasure, And I have had pity on them, As one hath pity on his son who is serving him.

¹⁸那时，你们就要再看出义人与恶人、事奉　神的人和不事奉他的人之间有什么分别。”

¹⁸And ye have turned back and considered, Between the righteous and the wicked, Between the servant of God and him who is not His servant.