¹Hľa, posielam svojho anjela, a upraví cestu pred mojou tvárou. Prijde náhle do svojho chrámu Pán, ktorého vy hľadáte, a anjel smluvy, po ktorom túžite, hľa, prijde, hovorí Hospodin Zástupov.

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.

²Ale kto znesie deň jeho príchodu, a kto obstojí, keď sa ukáže?! Lebo on je ako prepaľujúci oheň a jako lúh práčov.

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.

³A bude sedieť prepaľujúc a prečisťujúc striebro, a tak prečistí synov Léviho a očistí ich ako zlato a jako striebro, a budú Hospodinovi, donášajúc obetný dar obilný v spravedlivosti.

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.

⁴Vtedy bude príjemný Hospodinovi obetný dar obilný Júdu a Jeruzalema jako za dní drievneho veku a jako za dávnych rokov.

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

⁵A priblížim sa k vám na súd a budem rýchlym svedkom proti čarodejníkom, proti cudzoložníkom a proti krivoprísažníkom i proti tým, ktorí utiskujú čo do mzdy nájomníka, vdovu a sirotu a krivdia pohostínovi a neboja sa ma, hovorí Hospodin Zástupov.

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.

⁶Lebo ja Hospodin sa nemením, preto ste vy, synovia Jakobovi, ešte nevyhynuli.

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

⁷Odo dní svojich otcov ste sa odchyľovali od mojich ustanovení a neostríhali ste. Navráťte sa ku mne, a navrátim sa k vám, hovorí Hospodin Zástupov. Ale hovoríte: V čom sa máme navrátiť?

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?`

⁸Či azda má človek okrádať Boha? Lebo vy okrádate mňa a hovoríte: V čom ťa okrádame? V desiatku a v obeti pozdvihnutia!

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!

⁹Zlorečení ste zlorečením a mňa jednako okrádate, celý národ, čo vás je.

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

¹⁰Doneste celý desiatok do domu pokladu, aby bola potrava v mojom dome, a nože ma potom zkúste v tom, hovorí Hospodin Zástupov, či vám nepootváram nebeských prieduchov a nevylejem vám požehnania až prehojne.

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.

¹¹A pokarhám vám to, čo požiera, a nebude vám kaziť plodu zeme ani vám pred časom nepomece vinič na poli, hovorí Hospodin Zástupov.

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.

¹²A budú vás blahoslaviť všetky národy, lebo vy budete rozkošnou zemou ľúbou, hovorí Hospodin Zástupov.

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

¹³Drzé sú vaše slová proti mne, hovorí Hospodin a hovoríte: Čože hovoríme proti tebe?

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

¹⁴Hovoríte: Márna vec je slúžiť Bohu, a jaký vraj z toho zisk, keď budeme strážiť jeho stráž? Alebo keď budeme chodiť čierno pred Hospodinom Zástupov?

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?

¹⁵Preto teraz my blahoslavíme spurných, aj sa budujú tí, ktorí páchajú bezbožnosť, aj pokúšajú Boha a vše uniknú.

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

¹⁶Vtedy sa shovárali medzi sebou tí, ktorí sa báli Hospodina, druh s druhom, a Hospodin pozoroval ušima a počul, a bola písaná pred ním pamätná kniha pre tých, ktorí sa boja Hospodina a myslia na jeho meno.

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.

¹⁷A budú moji, hovorí Hospodin Zástupov, na deň, ktorý ja učiním, zvláštnym vlastníctvom, a zľutujem sa nad nimi, jako sa zľutuje človek nad svojím synom, ktorý mu slúži.

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.

¹⁸Vtedy sa navrátite a budete vidieť rozdiel medzi spravedlivým a bezbožným, medzi tým, kto slúži Bohu, a tým, kto mu neslúži.

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.