Malachi 3

«هأَنَذَا أُرْسِلُ مَلاَكِي فَيُهَيِّئُ الطَّرِيقَ أَمَامِي. وَيَأْتِي بَغْتَةً إِلَى هَيْكَلِهِ السَّيِّدُ الَّذِي تَطْلُبُونَهُ، وَمَلاَكُ الْعَهْدِ الَّذِي تُسَرُّونَ بِهِ. هُوَذَا يَأْتِي، قَالَ رَبُّ الْجُنُودِ»

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

وَمَنْ يَحْتَمِلُ يَوْمَ مَجِيئِهِ؟ وَمَنْ يَثْبُتُ عِنْدَ ظُهُورِهِ؟ لأَنَّهُ مِثْلُ نَارِ الْمُمَحِّصِ، وَمِثْلُ أَشْنَانِ الْقَصَّارِ.

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

فَيَجْلِسُ مُمَحِّصًا وَمُنَقِّيًا لِلْفِضَّةِ. فَيُنَقِّي بَنِي لاَوِي وَيُصَفِّيهِمْ كَالذَّهَبِ وَالْفِضَّةِ، لِيَكُونُوا مُقَرَّبِينَ لِلرَّبِّ، تَقْدِمَةً بِالْبِرِّ.

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.

فَتَكُونُ تَقْدِمَةُ يَهُوذَا وَأُورُشَلِيمَ مَرْضِيَّةً لِلرَّبِّ كَمَا فِي أَيَّامِ الْقِدَمِ وَكَمَا فِي السِّنِينَ الْقَدِيمَةِ.

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

«وَأَقْتَرِبُ إِلَيْكُمْ لِلْحُكْمِ، وَأَكُونُ شَاهِدًا سَرِيعًا عَلَى السَّحَرَةِ وَعَلَى الْفَاسِقِينَ وَعَلَى الْحَالِفِينَ زُورًا وَعَلَى السَّالِبِينَ أُجْرَةَ الأَجِيرِ: الأَرْمَلَةِ وَالْيَتِيمِ، وَمَنْ يَصُدُّ الْغَرِيبَ وَلاَ يَخْشَانِي، قَالَ رَبُّ الْجُنُودِ.

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

لأَنِّي أَنَا الرَّبُّ لاَ أَتَغَيَّرُ فَأَنْتُمْ يَا بَنِي يَعْقُوبَ لَمْ تَفْنُوا.

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

«مِنْ أَيَّامِ آبَائِكُمْ حِدْتُمْ عَنْ فَرَائِضِي وَلَمْ تَحْفَظُوهَا. ارْجِعُوا إِلَيَّ أَرْجعْ إِلَيْكُمْ، قَالَ رَبُّ الْجُنُودِ. فَقُلْتُمْ: بِمَاذَا نَرْجعُ؟

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

أَيَسْلُبُ الإِنْسَانُ اللهَ؟ فَإِنَّكُمْ سَلَبْتُمُونِي. فَقُلْتُمْ: بِمَ سَلَبْنَاكَ؟ فِي الْعُشُورِ وَالتَّقْدِمَةِ.

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

قَدْ لُعِنْتُمْ لَعْنًا وَإِيَّايَ أَنْتُمْ سَالِبُونَ، هذِهِ الأُمَّةُ كُلُّهَا.

Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.

هَاتُوا جَمِيعَ الْعُشُورِ إِلَى الْخَزْنَةِ لِيَكُونَ فِي بَيْتِي طَعَامٌ، وَجَرِّبُونِي بِهذَا، قَالَ رَبُّ الْجُنُودِ، إِنْ كُنْتُ لاَ أَفْتَحُ لَكُمْ كُوَى السَّمَاوَاتِ، وَأَفِيضُ عَلَيْكُمْ بَرَكَةً حَتَّى لاَ تُوسَعَ.

Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith 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.

وَأَنْتَهِرُ مِنْ أَجْلِكُمْ الآكِلَ فَلاَ يُفْسِدُ لَكُمْ ثَمَرَ الأَرْضِ، وَلاَ يُعْقَرُ لَكُمُ الْكَرْمُ فِي الْحَقْلِ، قَالَ رَبُّ الْجُنُودِ.

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, saith the LORD of hosts.

وَيُطَوِّبُكُمْ كُلُّ الأُمَمِ، لأَنَّكُمْ تَكُونُونَ أَرْضَ مَسَرَّةٍ، قَالَ رَبُّ الْجُنُودِ.

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

«أَقْوَالُكُمُ اشْتَدَّتْ عَلَيَّ، قَالَ الرَّبُّ. وَقُلْتُمْ: مَاذَا قُلْنَا عَلَيْكَ؟

Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?

قُلْتُمْ: عِبَادَةُ اللهِ بَاطِلَةٌ، وَمَا الْمَنْفَعَةُ مِنْ أَنَّنَا حَفِظْنَا شَعَائِرَهُ، وَأَنَّنَا سَلَكْنَا بِالْحُزْنِ قُدَّامَ رَبِّ الْجُنُودِ؟

Ye 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?

وَالآنَ نَحْنُ مُطَوِّبُونَ الْمُسْتَكْبِرِينَ وَأَيْضًا فَاعِلُو الشَّرِّ يُبْنَوْنَ. بَلْ جَرَّبُوا اللهَ وَنَجَوْا».

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

حِينَئِذٍ كَلَّمَ مُتَّقُو الرَّبِّ كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ قَرِيبَهُ، وَالرَّبُّ أَصْغَى وَسَمِعَ، وَكُتِبَ أَمَامَهُ سِفْرُ تَذْكَرَةٍ لِلَّذِينَ اتَّقُوا الرَّبَّ وَلِلْمُفَكِّرِينَ فِي اسْمِهِ.

Then they that feared the LORD spake 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.

«وَيَكُونُونَ لِي، قَالَ رَبُّ الْجُنُودِ، فِي الْيَوْمِ الَّذِي أَنَا صَانِعٌ خَاصَّةً، وَأُشْفِقُ عَلَيْهِمْ كَمَا يُشْفِقُ الإِنْسَانُ عَلَى ابْنِهِ الَّذِي يَخْدِمُهُ.

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

فَتَعُودُونَ وَتُمَيِّزُونَ بَيْنَ الصِّدِّيقِ وَالشِّرِّيرِ، بَيْنَ مَنْ يَعْبُدُ اللهَ وَمَنْ لاَ يَعْبُدُهُ.

Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.