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.

¹Ngai in, ka sawltak ka honsawl, aman ka maah lampi a bawlkhol dinga huan TOUPA, na zon uh, a biakin ah thakhatin a hongpai ding; na kipahna uh, thukhun sawltak, ngai un, a hong hi, sepaihte TOUPAN a chi.

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;

²Ahihhangin a hongpaina ni kuan a thuakzou thei dia? a honglat chiangin kua a ding dia? Amah lah hihsiangthou mi mei, leh sahbon bang ahi ngala.

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.

³Huchiin dangka hihsiangthoumi leh siangsakmi bangin a tu dinga Levi tapate a hihsiang dinga, dangkaeng leh dangka bangin amau a khuahsiang ding, huchiin diktatnain TOUPA kiangah thillatte a lan ding uhi.

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

⁴Huaichiangin Juda leh Jerusalem thillat, ni dang lai bang leh tanga kumte bangin TOUPA adingin a nuamta ding hi.

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.

⁵Huan, vaihawmnaah na kiangah ka hongdinga; aisanmite kalhin, angkawmte kalhin, juaua kichiamte kalhin theihpihpa kin ka hi ding, a loh thua migoih nuaisiahte, meithai, nubeipabei, a thuneihna a kipan mikhual kai-heipa, kei hon kihtalou kalhin, sepaihte TOUPAN a chi.

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

⁶Kei TOUPA lah ka zulhzau ngal keia; huaijiakin Jakob tapate aw, halbeiin na om kei uh.

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?’

⁷Na pipute uh damlaia kipan ka thusehte na kilehhei san ua, na jui kei uh. Ka kiangah hongkik unla, na kiang uah ka hongkik ding, sepaihte TOUPAN a chi. Himahleh nou, Koiah i kik ding ua? na chi ua.

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

⁸Min Pathian a lok diam? hinapiin lah non lok uh. Himahleh nou, Koiah kon lok ua eita? na chi ua. Sawm a khatte ah leh thillatah.

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

⁹Hamsiatnaa hamsiat na hi uh; hiai nam pumpi mahmahin, kei no lok jiak un.

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.

¹⁰Ka in sunga an a hongom theihna dingin koihkhomna in ah sawmakhat a vekin honla lut un, huan huaiin kei honentel un, sepaihte TOUPAN a chi, a koihna ding dantan kiching om lou khopin van tohlette kon hongin, vualjawlna kon buakkhe kei na hiam.

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.

¹¹Huan negaimi pen nou jiakin ka sal dinga, na lei gahte uh a suse kei ding; na grepgui u leng lou ah a hun tun main a gah a kesak kei ding hi, sepaihte TOUPAN a chi.

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

¹²Huchiin nam tengtengin nang nuamsa a honchi ding ua; gam kipahhuai na hih ding jiak un, sepaihte TOUPAN a chi.

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

¹³Kei dema na thut uh a khauh hi. TOUPAN a chi, Nou, koiah nang demin thu ka gen ua eita? na chi ua.

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?

¹⁴Pathian nasep a thawn ahi; a thupiak i zuih ua, suna puan silha sepaihte TOUPA maa i om uh bang a phatuama? na chi uh.

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

¹⁵Huchiin tuin kisatheite nuamsa i chi ua; ahi; a gitlouhna nasemte tungdingin a om uh; ahi; Pathian a khem ua hotkhiakin a om uhi.

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.

¹⁶TOUPA kihtate a kihoupih ua; huchiin TOUPAN a ngaikhiaa, a jaa, a maah theihgigena laibu a kigelha, TOUPA kihtaa, a min ngaihtuahte a dingin.

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.

¹⁷Huan, amau keia ka hi ding ua, gou lamdang tak ka bawl ni chiangin, sepaihte TOUPAN a chi; huchiin amau ka hawi dia, min a nasem amah tapa a hawi bangin.Huai hun chiangin na hong kihei ding ua, diktatte leh giloute, PAthian nasem leh amah nasem lou na khen ding uhi.

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

¹⁸Huai hun chiangin na hong kihei ding ua, diktatte leh giloute, PAthian nasem leh amah nasem lou na khen ding uhi.