¹Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the LORD, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.

¹Glej, jaz pošiljam poslanca [Ali: angela.] svojega, da pripravi pot pred menoj. In naglo pride v svoj tempelj Gospod, ki ga iščete, in Angel zaveze, ki ga želite: glej, prihaja, pravi GOSPOD nad vojskami.

²But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:

²Kdo pa more prenesti dan prihoda njegovega in kdo obstoji, kadar se on prikaže? Kajti on bode kakor ogenj topilca in kakor lug belilca.

³And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.

³In sedel bo kakor topilec, ko čisti srebro, in čistil bo sinove Levijeve in jih prečistil kakor zlato in srebro, da bodo prinašali GOSPODU daritve v pravičnosti.

⁴Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.

⁴Tedaj bode darilo Judovo in jeruzalemsko prijetno GOSPODU kakor v dneh starodavnih in kakor v nekdanjih letih.

⁵And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

⁵In približam se vam s sodbo in bodem nagla priča zoper čarovnike in prešeštnike in krivoprisežnike in zoper nje, ki trgajo najemniku plačilo in silo delajo vdovi in siroti ter kratijo pravico tujcu, mene se pa ne boje, pravi GOSPOD nad vojskami.

⁶For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

⁶Kajti jaz, Jehova, se ne izpreminjam, zato vi, sinovi Jakobovi, ne boste pokončani.

⁷Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?

⁷Od dni očetov svojih ste odstopali od mojih postav in jih niste izpolnjevali. Vrnite se k meni, in obrnem se k vam, pravi GOSPOD nad vojskami. Pa pravite: V čem naj se vrnemo?

⁸Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.

⁸Ali sme človek ukanjati Boga, da me ukanjate? Pa pravite: V čem smo te ukanili? V desetinah in v povzdigovalnih darilih.

⁹Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.

⁹S prokletstvom ste prokleti, dokler me ukanjate, vsi iz tega naroda!

¹⁰Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

¹⁰Prinesite vso desetino v žitnice, da bode živeža v hiši moji; in izkusite me vendar v tem, pravi GOSPOD nad vojskami, če vam ne odprem zatvornic na nebu ter vam izlijem blagoslov do preobilice.

¹¹And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.

¹¹In pokaram zavoljo vas požrešnika, da vam sadu zemlje več ne pokvari, tudi trta na polju vam ne bode nerodovitna, pravi GOSPOD nad vojskami.

¹²And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.

¹²In vsi narodi vas bodo blagrovali; kajti dežela bodete blagougodja, pravi GOSPOD nad vojskami.

¹³Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?

¹³Trde so bile besede vaše zoper mene, pravi GOSPOD. Pa pravite: Kaj smo med seboj govorili zoper tebe?

¹⁴Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?

¹⁴Govorili ste: Brezkoristno je služiti Bogu, in kakšen dobiček, da smo stregli na straži njegovi in da smo v žalni obleki hodili pred GOSPODOM nad vojskami?

¹⁵And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.

¹⁵Sedaj torej blagrujemo prevzetneže: ne samo napredujejo, kateri delajo brezbožno, ampak še izkušajo Boga in – so oteti.

¹⁶Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.

¹⁶Tedaj so se pogovarjali, kateri se boje GOSPODA, drug z drugim, in GOSPOD je pazil in poslušal; in spominska knjiga je bila pisana pred njim za tiste, ki se GOSPODA boje, in za nje, ki čislajo ime njegovo.

¹⁷And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.

¹⁷In bodo meni dne, ki ga napravim, pravi GOSPOD nad vojskami, v dragotino, in jim prizanesem, kakor mož prizanese sinu svojemu, ki mu služi.Tedaj se obrnete in boste videli razloček med pravičnim in brezbožnim, med njim, ki služi Bogu, in njim, ki mu ne služi.

¹⁸Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

¹⁸Tedaj se obrnete in boste videli razloček med pravičnim in brezbožnim, med njim, ki služi Bogu, in njim, ki mu ne služi.