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 messenger, and he will prepare the way before me! The Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple. Behold, the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, is coming!” says the LORD of Armies.
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 can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ 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 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 the LORD offerings 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 the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasant to the LORD as in the days of old and as in 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
I will come near to you to judgement. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, 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 the LORD of Armies.
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, the LORD, don’t change; therefore 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
From the days of your fathers you have turned away from my ordinances and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Armies. “But you say, ‘How 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 you rob me! But you say, ‘How 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
You are cursed with the curse; for you rob 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 the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says the LORD of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be enough room for.
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
I 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 the LORD of Armies.
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
“All nations shall call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land,” says the LORD of Armies.
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 harsh against me,” says the LORD. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken 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
You 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 the LORD of Armies?
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 we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’
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 feared the LORD spoke one with another; and the LORD listened and heard, and a book of memory was written before him for those who feared the LORD and who honoured 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
They shall be mine,” says the LORD of Armies, “my own possession in the day that I make. I will spare them, as a man spares his own 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
Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.
