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.

¹Tarirai, ndinotuma nhume yangu, iye achandigadzirira nzira yangu pamberi pangu; ipapo Ishe, wamunotsvaka, achasvika pakarepo patemberi yake, iye Mutumwa wesungano, wamunoshuva, tarirai, anouya ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha wehondo.

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:

²Asi ndiani ungatsunga nezuva rokuuya kwake? Ndiani angamira kana achionekwa? nekuti akafanana nomoto womunatsi, nesipo yomusuki.

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.

³Iye achagara pasi akafanana nomunatsi nomuchenesi wesirivha; achachenesa vanakomana vaRevhi, nokuvanatsa sendarama nesirivha; ipapo vachavigira Jehovha zvipiriso nokururama.

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

⁴Ipapo chipiriso chaJudha neJerusaremu zvichafadza Jehovha, sapamazuva akare, sapamakore apakutanga-tanga.

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.

⁵Ndichaswedera kwamuri kuti nditonge; ndichava chapupu chinokurumidza pamusoro pavaroyi, napamusoro pemhombwe, napamusoro pavanopika nhema, napamusoro pavanomanikidza mushandiri pamubayiro wake, nechirikadzi, nenherera, napamusoro pavanodzinga vatorwa, vasingandityi ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha wehondo.

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

⁶nekuti ini Jehovha handishanduki, saka imi, vanakomana vaJakove, mugere kuparadzwa.

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?

⁷Kubva pamazuva amadzibaba enyu makatsauka pane zvandakaraira, mukasazvichengeta. Dzokerai kwandiri, neni ndichadzokera kwamuri ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha wehondo. Asi imwi munoti, Tichadzoka pazvinhu zvipi?

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

⁸Ko munhu angabira Mwari here? Kunyange zvakadaro munondibira. Asi imwi munoti, Takakubirai pazvinhu zvipi? Pane zvegumi nezvipiriso zvinotsaurwa.

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

⁹Makatukwa nokutuka; nekuti munondibira, urwo rudzi urwu rwose.

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.

¹⁰Uyai nezvegumi zvose muimba yokuvigira, kuti zvokudya zvivepo mumba mangu, mundiidze naizvozvi zvino ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha wehondo muone kana ndisingakuzaruriyi mahwindo okudenga, ndikakudururirai mukomborero wamuchashaiwa pokuisa.

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.

¹¹Ndichatukawo udyi nokuda kwenyu, arege kuparadza zvibereko zveminda yenyu; nemizambiringa yenyu haingazuki zvibereko zvayo mumunda, nguva isati yasvika ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha wehondo.

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

¹²Ndudzi dzose dzichati muri vanhu vakafara; nekuti muchava nyika inofadza ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha wehondo.

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

¹³Mashoko enyu akanga ari makukutu kwandiri ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha. Kunyange zvakadaro, munoti, Takataureiko pamusoro penyu?

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?

¹⁴imwi makati, Hazvina maturo kushumira Mwari; takawaneiko zvatakachengeta zvaakaraira, zvatakafamba takapfeka nguvo dzokuchema pamberi paJehovha wehondo?

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

¹⁵Zvino tinoti vanozvikudza ndivo vakafara; zvirokwazvo, vanoita zvakaipa ndivo vanovakiswa; zvirokwazvo, vanoidza Mwari vachipukunyuka.

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.

¹⁶Ipapo vaitya Jehovha vakataurirana, Jehovha akateerera, akanzwa, bhuku yokurangaridza ikanyorwa pamberi pake, nokuda kwavanotya Jehovha, vachirangarira zita rake.

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.

¹⁷Vachava vangu ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha wehondo ivo vangu chaivo, nezuva randichazviita; ndichavanzwira tsitsi, somunhu anonzwira tsitsi mwanakomana wake anomubatira.

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

¹⁸Ipapo muchaonazve kusiyana kowakarurama nowakaipa, koanoshumira Mwari nowasingamushumiri.