Malachi

1万军之耶和华说：「我要差遣我的使者在我前面预备道路。你们所寻求的主必忽然进入他的殿；立约的使者，就是你们所仰慕的，快要来到。」

2他来的日子，谁能当得起呢？他显现的时候，谁能立得住呢？因为他如炼金之人的火，如漂布之人的硷。

3他必坐下如炼净银子的，必洁净利未人，熬炼他们像金银一样；他们就凭公义献供物给耶和华。

4那时，犹大和耶路撒冷所献的供物必蒙耶和华悦纳，仿佛古时之日、上古之年。

5万军之耶和华说：「我必临近你们，施行审判。我必速速作见证，警戒行邪术的、犯奸淫的、起假誓的、亏负人之工价的、欺压寡妇孤儿的、屈枉寄居的，和不敬畏我的。」

十分之一捐献

6「因我—耶和华是不改变的，所以你们雅各之子没有灭亡。

7万军之耶和华说：从你们列祖的日子以来，你们常常偏离我的典章而不遵守。现在你们要转向我，我就转向你们。你们却问说：『我们如何才是转向呢？』

8人岂可夺取 神之物呢？你们竟夺取我的供物。你们却说：『我们在何事上夺取你的供物呢？』就是你们在当纳的十分之一和当献的供物上。

9因你们通国的人都夺取我的供物，咒诅就临到你们身上。

10万军之耶和华说：你们要将当纳的十分之一全然送入仓库，使我家有粮，以此试试我，是否为你们敞开天上的窗户，倾福与你们，甚至无处可容。

11万军之耶和华说：我必为你们斥责蝗虫，不容它毁坏你们的土产。你们田间的葡萄树在未熟之先也不掉果子。

12万军之耶和华说：万国必称你们为有福的，因你们的地必成为喜乐之地。」

神应许施怜悯

13耶和华说：「你们用话顶撞我，你们还说：『我们用什么话顶撞了你呢？』

14你们说：『事奉 神是徒然的，遵守 神所吩咐的，在万军之耶和华面前苦苦斋戒，有什么益处呢？

15如今我们称狂傲的人为有福，并且行恶的人得建立；他们虽然试探 神，却得脱离灾难。』」

16那时，敬畏耶和华的彼此谈论，耶和华侧耳而听，且有纪念册在他面前，记录那敬畏耶和华、思念他名的人。

17万军之耶和华说：「在我所定的日子，他们必属我，特特归我。我必怜恤他们，如同人怜恤服事自己的儿子。

18那时你们必归回，将善人和恶人，事奉 神的和不事奉 神的，分别出来。」

1Behold I send my angel, and he shall prepare the way before my face. And presently the Lord, whom you seek, and the angel of the testament, whom you desire, shall come to his temple. Behold he cometh, saith the Lord of hosts.

2And who shall be able to think of the day of his coming? and who shall stand to see him? for he is like a refining fire, and like the fuller’s herb:

3And he shall sit refining and cleansing the silver, and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and shall refine them as gold, and as silver, and they shall offer sacrifices to the Lord in justice.

4And the sacrifice of Juda and of Jerusalem shall please the Lord, as in the days of old, and in the ancient years.

5And I will come to you in judgment, and will be a speedy witness against sorcerers, and adulterers, and false swearers, and them that oppress the hireling in his wages; the widows, and the fatherless: and oppress the stranger, and have not feared me, saith the Lord of hosts.

6For I am the Lord, and I change not: and you the sons of Jacob are not consumed.

7For from the days of your fathers you have departed from my ordinances, and have not kept them: Return to me, and I will return to you, saith the Lord of hosts. And you have said: Wherein shall we return?

8Shall a man afflict God? for you afflict me. And you have said: Wherein do we afflict thee? in tithes and in firstfruits.

9And you are cursed with want, and you afflict me, even the whole nation of you.

10Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in my house, and try me in this, saith the Lord: if I open not unto you the flood-gates of heaven, and pour you out a blessing even to abundance.

11And I will rebuke for your sakes the devourer, and he shall not spoil the fruit of your land: neither shall the vine in the field be barren, saith the Lord of hosts.

12And all nations shall call you blessed: for you shall be a delightful land, saith the Lord of hosts.

13Your words have been unsufferable to me, saith the Lord.

14And you have said: What have we spoken against thee? You have said: He laboureth in vain that serveth God, and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinances, and that we have walked sorrowful before the Lord of hosts?

15Wherefore now we call the proud people happy, for they that work wickedness are built up, and they have tempted God and are preserved.

16Then they that feared the Lord spoke every one with his neighbour: and the Lord gave ear, and heard it: and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that fear the Lord, and think on his name.

17And they shall be my special possession, saith the Lord of hosts, in the day that I do judgment: and I will spare them, as a man spareth his son that serveth him.

18And you shall return, and shall see the difference between the just and the wicked: and between him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not.