マラキ書 3

1 視よ我わが使者を遣さん かれ我面の前に道を備へん また汝らが求むるところの主すなはち汝らの悦樂ぶ契約の使者忽然その殿に來らん 視よ彼來らんと萬軍のヱホバ云たまふ

Behold, I send my angel, and he will prepare the way before my face. And presently the Sovereign, whom you seek, and the angel of testimony, whom you desire, will arrive at his temple. Behold, he approaches, says the Lord of hosts.

2 されど其來る日には誰か堪えんや その顯著る時には誰か立えんや 彼は金をふきわくる者の火の如く布晒の灰汁のごとくならん

And who will be able to consider the day of his advent, and who will stand firm in order to see him? For he is like a refining fire, and like the fuller’s herb.

3 かれは銀をふきわけてこれを潔むる者のごとく坐せん 彼はレビの裔を潔め金銀の如くかれらをきよめん 而して彼等は義をもて獻物をヱホバにささげん

And he will sit refining and cleansing the silver, and he will purge the sons of Levi, and he will gather them like gold and like silver, and they will offer sacrifices to the Lord in justice.

4 その時ユダとエルサレムの獻物はむかし日の如く又先の年のごとくヱホバに悦ばれん

And the sacrifice of Judah and of Jerusalem will please the Lord, just as in the days of past generations, and as in the ancient years.

5 われ汝らにちかづきて審判をなし巫術者にむかひ姦淫を行ふ者にむかひ僞の誓をなせる者にむかひ傭人の價金をかすめ寡婦と孤子をしへたげ異邦人を推抂げ我を畏れざるものどもにむかひて速に證をなさんと萬軍のヱホバ云たまふ

And I will approach you in judgment, and I will be a swift witness against evil-doers, and adulterers, and perjurers, and those who cheat the hired hand in his wages, the widows and the orphans, and who oppress the traveler, and who have not feared me, says the Lord of hosts.

6 それわれヱホバは易らざる者なり 故にヤコブの子等よ汝らは亡されず

For I am the Lord, and I do not change. And you, the sons of Jacob, have not been consumed.

7 なんぢら其先祖等の日よりこのかたわが律例をはなれてこれを守らざりき 我にかへれ われ亦なんぢらに歸らん 萬軍のヱホバこれを言ふ 然るに汝らはわれら何においてかへるべきやと言り

For, from the days of your fathers, you have withdrawn from my ordinances and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. And you have said, “In what way, shall we return?”

8 ひと神の物をぬすむことをせんや されど汝らはわが物を盗めり 汝らは又何において汝の物をぬすみしやといへり 十分の一および獻物に於てなり

If a man will afflict God, then you greatly afflict me. And you have said, “In what way, do we afflict you?” In tithes and in first-fruits.

9 汝らは呪詛をもて詛はる またなんぢら一切の國人はわが物をぬすめり

And you have been cursed with privation, and you greatly afflict me, even your entire people.

10 わが殿に食物あらしめんために汝ら什一をすべて我倉にたづさへきたれ 而して是をもて我を試みわが天の窓をひらきて容べきところなきまでに恩澤を汝らにそそぐや否やを見るべし 萬軍のヱホバこれを言ふ

Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, and let there be food in my house. And test me about this, says the Lord, as to whether I will not open to you the floodgates of heaven, and pour out to you a blessing, all the way to abundance.

11 我また噬食ふ者をなんぢらの爲に抑へてなんぢらの地の產物をやぶらざらしめん 又なんぢらの葡萄の樹をして時のいたらざる前にその實を圃におとさざらしめん 萬軍のヱホバこれをいふ

And I will rebuke for your sakes the devourer, and he will not corrupt the fruit of your land. Neither will the vine in the field be barren, says the Lord of hosts.

12 又萬國の人なんぢらを幸福なる者ととなへん そは汝ら樂しき地となるべければなり 萬軍のヱホバこれをいふ

And all nations will call you blessed. For you will be a desirable land, says the Lord of hosts.

13 ヱホバ云たまふ 汝らは言詞をはげしくして我に逆らへり しかるも汝らは我儕なんぢらにさからひて何をいひしやといへり

Your words have gathered strength over me, says the Lord.

14 汝らは言らく神に服事ることは徒然なり われらその命令をまもりかつ萬軍のヱホバの前に悲みて歩みたりとて何の益あらんや

And you have said, “What have we spoken against you?” You have said, “He labors in vain who serves God,” and, “What advantage is it that we have kept his precepts, and that we have walked sorrowfully in the sight of the Lord of hosts?”

15 今われらは驕傲ものを幸福なりと稱ふ また惡をおこなふものも盛になり 神を試むるものすらも救はると

Now, therefore, we call the arrogant blessed, as if those who work impiety have been built up, and as if they have tempted God and been saved.

16 その時ヱホバをおそるる者互に相かたりヱホバ耳をかたむけてこれを聽たまへり またヱホバを畏るる者およびその名を記憶る者のためにヱホバの前に記念の書をかきしるせり

Then those who fear the Lord spoke, each one with his neighbor. And the Lord paid attention and heeded. And a book of remembrance was written in his sight, for those who fear the Lord and for those who consider his name.

17 萬軍のヱホバいひたまふ 我わが設くる日にかれらをもて我寳となすべし また人の己につかふる子をあはれむがごとく我彼等をあはれまん

And they will be my special possession, says the Lord of hosts, on the day that I act. And I will spare them, just as a man spares his son who serves him.

18 その時汝らは更にまた義者と惡きものと神に服事るものと事へざる者との區別をしらん

And you shall be converted, and you will see the difference between the just and the impious, and between those who serve God and those who do not serve him.