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.

¹“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies.

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

²“But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderer’s soap;

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

³and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to Yahweh offerings in righteousness.

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

⁴Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasant to Yahweh, as in the days of old, and as in ancient years.

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.

⁵I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

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

⁶“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

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

⁷From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says Yahweh of Armies. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’

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

⁸Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings.

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

⁹You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation.

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.

¹⁰Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for.

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

¹¹I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast its fruit before its time in the field,” says Yahweh of Armies.

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

¹²“All nations shall call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land,” says Yahweh of Armies.

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

¹³“Your words have been stout against me,” says Yahweh. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’

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

¹⁴You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God;’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?

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

¹⁵Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’

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

¹⁶Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.

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

¹⁷They shall be mine,” says Yahweh of Armies, “my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.

¹⁸Ipapo muchaonazve kusiyana kowakarurama nowakaipa, koanoshumira Mwari nowasingamushumiri.

¹⁸Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.