¹هانذا ارسل ملاكي فيهيء الطريق امامي ويأتي بغتة الى هيكله السيد الذي تطلبونه وملاك العهد الذي تسرّون به هوذا يأتي قال رب الجنود.

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.

²ومن يحتمل يوم مجيئه ومن يثبت عند ظهوره. لانه مثل نار الممحص ومثل اشنان القصّار.

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.

³فيجلس ممحصا ومنقيا للفضة فينقي بني لاوي ويصفيهم كالذهب والفضة ليكونوا مقربين للرب تقدمة بالبر.

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.

⁴فتكون تقدمة يهوذا واورشليم مرضية للرب كما في ايام القدم وكما في السنين القديمة.

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

⁵واقترب اليكم للحكم واكون شاهدا سريعا على السحرة وعلى الفاسقين وعلى الحالفين زورا وعلى السالبين اجرة الاجير والارملة واليتيم ومن يصدّ الغريب ولا يخشاني قال رب الجنود.

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.

⁶لاني انا الرب لا اتغيّر فانتم يا بني يعقوب لم تفنوا

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

⁷من ايام آبائكم حدتم عن فرائضي ولم تحفظوها. ارجعوا اليّ ارجع اليكم قال رب الجنود. فقلتم بماذا نرجع.

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?`

⁸أيسلب الانسان الله. فانكم سلبتموني. فقلتم بم سلبناك. في العشور والتقدمة.

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!

⁹قد لعنتم لعنا واياي انتم سالبون هذه الامة كلها.

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

¹⁰هاتوا جميع العشور الى الخزنة ليكون في بيتي طعام وجربوني بهذا قال رب الجنود ان كنت لا افتح لكم كوى السموات وافيض عليكم بركة حتى لا توسع.

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.

¹¹وانتهر من اجلكم الآكل فلا يفسد لكم ثمر الارض ولا يعقر لكم الكرم في الحقل قال رب الجنود.

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.

¹²ويطوّبكم كل الامم لانكم تكونون ارض مسرّة قال رب الجنود

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

¹³اقوالكم اشتدّت عليّ قال الرب. وقلتم ماذا قلنا عليك.

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

¹⁴قلتم عبادة الله باطلة وما المنفعة من اننا حفظنا شعائره واننا سلكنا بالحزن قدام رب الجنود.

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?

¹⁵والآن نحن مطوّبون المستكبرين وايضا فاعلو الشر يبنون بل جربوا الله ونجوا

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

¹⁶حينئذ كلّم متّقو الرب كل واحد قريبه والرب اصغى وسمع وكتب امامه سفر تذكرة للذين اتقوا الرب وللمفكرين في اسمه.

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.

¹⁷ويكونون لي قال رب الجنود في اليوم الذي انا صانع خاصة واشفق عليهم كما يشفق الانسان على ابنه الذي يخدمه.

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.

¹⁸فتعودون وتميزون بين الصدّيق والشرير بين من يعبد الله ومن لا يعبده

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.