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 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.
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
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:
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 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.
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
Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former 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 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.
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, I change not; therefore all of you sons of Jacob are not 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
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?
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
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.
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
All of you are cursed with a curse: for all of you have robbed me, even this whole nation.
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 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.
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 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.
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 shall call you blessed: for all of you shall be a delightsome 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 been stout against me, says the LORD. Yet all of you say, What have we spoken so much against you?
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
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?
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
And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
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 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.
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 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.
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
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.
