مَلَاخِي 3

١ 1 «هَأَنَذَا أُرْسِلُ مَلَاكِي فَيُهَيِّئُ ٱلطَّرِيقَ أَمَامِي. وَيَأْتِي بَغْتَةً إِلَى هَيْكَلِهِ ٱلسَّيِّدُ ٱلَّذِي تَطْلُبُونَهُ، وَمَلَاكُ ٱلْعَهْدِ ٱلَّذِي تُسَرُّونَ بِهِ. هُوَذَا يَأْتِي، قَالَ رَبُّ ٱلْجُنُودِ»

Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the LORD, whom all of you seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom all of you delight in: behold, he shall come, says the LORD of hosts.

٢ 2 وَمَنْ يَحْتَمِلُ يَوْمَ مَجِيئِهِ؟ وَمَنْ يَثْبُتُ عِنْدَ ظُهُورِهِ؟ لِأَنَّهُ مِثْلُ نَارِ ٱلْمُمَحِّصِ، وَمِثْلُ أَشْنَانِ ٱلْقَصَّارِ.

But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appears? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:

٣ 3 فَيَجْلِسُ مُمَحِّصًا وَمُنَقِّيًا لِلْفِضَّةِ. فَيُنَقِّي بَنِي لَاوِي وَيُصَفِّيهِمْ كَٱلذَّهَبِ وَٱلْفِضَّةِ، لِيَكُونُوا مُقَرَّبِينَ لِلرَّبِّ، تَقْدِمَةً بِٱلْبِرِّ.

And 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.

٤ 4 فَتَكُونُ تَقْدِمَةُ يَهُوذَا وَأُورُشَلِيمَ مَرْضِيَّةً لِلرَّبِّ كَمَا فِي أَيَّامِ ٱلْقِدَمِ وَكَمَا فِي ٱلسِّنِينَ ٱلْقَدِيمَةِ.

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

٥ 5 «وَأَقْتَرِبُ إِلَيْكُمْ لِلْحُكْمِ، وَأَكُونُ شَاهِدًا سَرِيعًا عَلَى ٱلسَّحَرَةِ وَعَلَى ٱلْفَاسِقِينَ وَعَلَى ٱلْحَالِفِينَ زُورًا وَعَلَى ٱلسَّالِبِينَ أُجْرَةَ ٱلْأَجِيرِ: ٱلْأَرْمَلَةِ وَٱلْيَتِيمِ، وَمَنْ يَصُدُّ ٱلْغَرِيبَ وَلَا يَخْشَانِي، قَالَ رَبُّ ٱلْجُنُودِ.

And 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 worker in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, says the LORD of hosts.

٦ 6 لِأَنِّي أَنَا ٱلرَّبُّ لَا أَتَغَيَّرُ فَأَنْتُمْ يَا بَنِي يَعْقُوبَ لَمْ تَفْنَوْا.

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

٧ 7 «مِنْ أَيَّامِ آبَائِكُمْ حِدْتُمْ عَنْ فَرَائِضِي وَلَمْ تَحْفَظُوهَا. ٱرْجِعُوا إِلَيَّ أَرْجِعْ إِلَيْكُمْ، قَالَ رَبُّ ٱلْجُنُودِ. فَقُلْتُمْ: بِمَاذَا نَرْجِعُ؟

Even from the days of your fathers all of you are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, says the LORD of hosts. But all of you said, Wherein shall we return?

٨ 8 أَيَسْلُبُ ٱلْإِنْسَانُ ٱللهَ؟ فَإِنَّكُمْ سَلَبْتُمُونِي. فَقُلْتُمْ: بِمَ سَلَبْنَاكَ؟ فِي ٱلْعُشُورِ وَٱلتَّقْدِمَةِ.

Will a man rob God? Yet all of you have robbed me. But all of you say, Wherein have we robbed you? In tithes and offerings.

٩ 9 قَدْ لُعِنْتُمْ لَعْنًا وَإِيَّايَ أَنْتُمْ سَالِبُونَ، هَذِهِ ٱلْأُمَّةُ كُلُّهَا.

All of you are cursed with a curse: for all of you have robbed me, even this whole nation.

١٠ 10 هَاتُوا جَمِيعَ ٱلْعُشُورِ إِلَى ٱلْخَزْنَةِ لِيَكُونَ فِي بَيْتِي طَعَامٌ، وَجَرِّبُونِي بِهَذَا، قَالَ رَبُّ ٱلْجُنُودِ، إِنْ كُنْتُ لَا أَفْتَحُ لَكُمْ كُوَى ٱلسَّمَاوَاتِ، وَأَفِيضُ عَلَيْكُمْ بَرَكَةً حَتَّى لَا تُوسَعَ.

Bring all of you all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in mine house, and prove me now herewith, says 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.

١١ 11 وَأَنْتَهِرُ مِنْ أَجْلِكُمْ ٱلْآكِلَ فَلَا يُفْسِدُ لَكُمْ ثَمَرَ ٱلْأَرْضِ، وَلَا يُعْقَرُ لَكُمُ ٱلْكَرْمُ فِي ٱلْحَقْلِ، قَالَ رَبُّ ٱلْجُنُودِ.

And 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, says the LORD of hosts.

١٢ 12 وَيُطَوِّبُكُمْ كُلُّ ٱلْأُمَمِ، لِأَنَّكُمْ تَكُونُونَ أَرْضَ مَسَرَّةٍ، قَالَ رَبُّ ٱلْجُنُودِ.

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

١٣ 13 «أَقْوَالُكُمُ ٱشْتَدَّتْ عَلَيَّ، قَالَ ٱلرَّبُّ. وَقُلْتُمْ: مَاذَا قُلْنَا عَلَيْكَ؟

Your words have been stout against me, says the LORD. Yet all of you say, What have we spoken so much against you?

١٤ 14 قُلْتُمْ: عِبَادَةُ ٱللهِ بَاطِلَةٌ، وَمَا ٱلْمَنْفَعَةُ مِنْ أَنَّنَا حَفِظْنَا شَعَائِرَهُ، وَأَنَّنَا سَلَكْنَا بِٱلْحُزْنِ قُدَّامَ رَبِّ ٱلْجُنُودِ؟

All of you 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?

١٥ 15 وَٱلْآنَ نَحْنُ مُطَوِّبُونَ ٱلْمُسْتَكْبِرِينَ وَأَيْضًا فَاعِلُو ٱلشَّرِّ يُبْنَوْنَ. بَلْ جَرَّبُوا ٱللهَ وَنَجَوْا».

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

١٦ 16 حِينَئِذٍ كَلَّمَ مُتَّقُو ٱلرَّبِّ كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ قَرِيبَهُ، وَٱلرَّبُّ أَصْغَى وَسَمِعَ، وَكُتِبَ أَمَامَهُ سِفْرُ تَذْكَرَةٍ لِلَّذِينَ ٱتَّقُوا ٱلرَّبَّ وَلِلْمُفَكِّرِينَ فِي ٱسْمِهِ.

Then they that feared the LORD spoke 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.

١٧ 17 «وَيَكُونُونَ لِي، قَالَ رَبُّ ٱلْجُنُودِ، فِي ٱلْيَوْمِ ٱلَّذِي أَنَا صَانِعٌ خَاصَّةً، وَأُشْفِقُ عَلَيْهِمْ كَمَا يُشْفِقُ ٱلْإِنْسَانُ عَلَى ٱبْنِهِ ٱلَّذِي يَخْدِمُهُ.

And they shall be mine, says the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son that serves him.

١٨ 18 فَتَعُودُونَ وَتُمَيِّزُونَ بَيْنَ ٱلصِّدِّيقِ وَٱلشِّرِّيرِ، بَيْنَ مَنْ يَعْبُدُ ٱللهَ وَمَنْ لَا يَعْبُدُهُ.

Then shall all of you return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serves God and him that serves him not.