祭司们啊,这诫命是传给你们的。 万军之耶和华说:“如果你们不听从我的话,也不从内心尊崇我的名,我必使咒诅临到你们,把你们的福气变成咒诅。事实上,因为你们不把我的诫命放在心上,我已经咒诅了你们。 我必斥责你们的子孙,把你们祭牲的粪便抹在你们脸上,又把你们和粪便一同丢掉, 你们便知道我这样告诫你们,是为了维持我与你们祖先利未所立的约。这是万军之耶和华说的。 我与他所立的是生命和平安之约,我将生命和平安赐给他,使他心存敬畏。他就尊崇我,敬畏我的名。 他口中教导真理,嘴里毫无诡诈。他与我同行,过着平安正直的生活,并引导许多人远离罪恶。 祭司的嘴唇应持守知识,人民应从他口中寻求训诲,因为他是万军之耶和华的使者。 然而,你们却偏离正道,你们的教导使许多人跌倒,破坏了我和利未所立的约。”这是万军之耶和华说的。 “因此,我必使你们在众人面前遭藐视、轻贱。因为你们不遵守我的道,在教导上偏心待人。”

10 难道我们不是出于同一位父亲,由同一位上帝所造吗?为何我们竟彼此欺骗,背弃上帝与我们祖先所立的约呢? 11 犹大人不忠贞,在以色列和耶路撒冷做了可憎的事,他们娶信奉外邦神明的女子为妻,亵渎了耶和华所爱的圣所。 12 愿耶和华从雅各的帐篷中铲除所有做这事并献供物给万军之耶和华的人!

13 另外,你们哀哭悲叹,眼泪甚至淹没了耶和华的祭坛,因为耶和华不再理会你们的供物,不再悦纳你们所献的。 14 你们还问为什么。因为耶和华在你和你的发妻中间作证,她是你的配偶,是你盟约的妻子,你却对她不忠。 15 上帝不是把你们结合为一体,叫你们肉体和心灵都归祂吗[a]?祂为何这样做?是为了得敬虔的后裔。所以,你们要小心谨慎,不可对自己的发妻不忠。 16 以色列的上帝耶和华说:“我憎恶休妻和以暴虐待妻子的人。所以你们要小心谨慎,不可有不忠的行为。”这是万军之耶和华说的。 17 你们说的话使耶和华厌烦,然而,你们还说:“我们在何事上令祂厌烦呢?”因为你们说:“耶和华将所有作恶者视为好人,并且喜悦他们”,还说:“公义的上帝在哪里?”

Footnotes

  1. 2:15 此句希伯来文语意不清。

Okulabula Bakabona

(A)“Kale nno, mmwe bakabona, ekiragiro kino kyammwe. (B)Bwe mutaakyuse ku mpisa zammwe n’engeri zammwe, bwe mutaafeeyo kuwa linnya lyange kitiibwa,” bw’ayogera Mukama ow’Eggye, “kale ndibasindikira ekikolimo era emikisa gyammwe girifuuka ekikolimo. Ate ddala mmaze okubakolimira kubanga ebikulu gye ndi temubitaddeeko mwoyo.

(C)“Kale laba, ndibonereza ezzadde lyammwe, mbasiige n’obusa mu maaso, obusa bwa ssaddaaka zammwe, era mbagobewo mu maaso gange. (D)Olwo lwe mulimanya nga mbawadde ekiragiro kino, endagaano yange ne Leevi eryoke etuukirire,” bw’ayogera Mukama ow’Eggye. (E)“Endagaano eri mu mateeka ago yali egenderedde kuleeta bulamu na mirembe era n’embimuwa asobole okuntya, era n’antya n’ayimirira ng’atya erinnya lyange. (F)Amateeka ag’amazima gali mu kamwa ke era nga tewali bulimba busangibwa mu kamwa ke. Yatambula nange mu mirembe ne mu butuukirivu era n’aggya bangi mu kibi.

(G)“Kubanga emimwa gy’abasumba gisaana okukuuma eby’amagezi ebya Katonda era abantu basaana okunoonya okutegeera okuva mu bo, kubanga be babaka ba Mukama ow’Eggye. (H)Naye mwakyama ne muva mu kkubo; mwesittaza bangi olw’ebyo bye muyigiriza; mwayonoona endagaano ya Leevi,” bw’ayogera Mukama ow’Eggye. (I)“Noolwekyo nabafuula ekinyoomebwa era ekisekererwa mu maaso g’abantu bonna olw’obutagoberera makubo gange era musala emisango nga musaliriza.”

Okulabula eri Abatali Beesigwa mu Maka

10 (J)Kale ffenna tetulina kitaffe omu? Si Katonda omu eyatutonda? Lwaki kale tetuli beesigwa eri bantu bannaffe, ne twonoona endagaano ya bakitaffe?

11 (K)Yuda takuumye bwesigwa n’eby’omuzizo ne bikolebwa mu Isirayiri ne mu Yerusaalemi. Kubanga Yuda yayonoona ekifo kya Mukama ekitukuvu, ky’ayagala ennyo, bwe yawasa omuwala wa lubaale. 12 (L)Buli muntu yenna akola kino, oba kabona oba muntu wa bulijjo, Mukama alimuggya mu kika kya Yakobo, newaakubadde ng’aleeta ebiweebwayo eri Mukama ow’Eggye!

13 (M)Ekirala kye mukola kye kino: Ekyoto kya Mukama mukijjuzza amaziga, nga mukaaba nga mukuba ebiwoobe kubanga ebiweebwayo byammwe takyabifaako. 14 (N)Kale mubuuza nti, “Lwaki tabifaako?” Kubanga Mukama yali mujulirwa wakati wo ne mukazi wo ow’omu buvubuka bwo, naye ggwe tewali mwesigwa, ng’olimbalimba newaakubadde nga yali munno era mukazi wo gwe walagaana naye endagaano.

15 (O)Katonda teyabafuula omu mu mwoyo? Era lwaki yabafuula omu? Kubanga yali anoonya ezzadde eriritya Katonda. Kale mwekuume nnyo waleme kubaawo agoba mukazi we, era alimbalimba mukazi we ow’omu buvubuka bwe.

16 (P)“Kubanga nkyawa abafumbo okwawukana,” bw’ayogera Mukama Katonda wa Isirayiri, “n’omusajja ajooga mukazi we,” bw’ayogera Mukama ow’Eggye.

Kale mwekuumenga mu mwoyo gwammwe mubeerenga beesigwa.

Olunaku olw’Okusala Omusango

17 (Q)Mukama mumukooyezza n’ebigambo byammwe.

Naye mubuuza nti, “Tumukooyezza tutya?”

Kubanga mwogera nti buli akola ekibi, mulungi mu maaso ga Mukama, era abasanyukira; oba nti, “Ali ludda wa Katonda ow’obwenkanya?”

And now, to you [is] this charge, O priests,

If ye hearken not, and if ye lay [it] not to heart, To give honour to My name, said Jehovah of Hosts, I have sent against you the curse, And I have cursed your blessings, Yea, I have also cursed it, Because ye are not laying [it] to heart.

Lo, I am pushing away before you the seed, And have scattered dung before your faces, Dung of your festivals, And it hath taken you away with it.

And ye have known that I have sent unto you this charge, For My covenant being with Levi, Said Jehovah of Hosts.

My covenant hath been with him of life and of peace, And I make them to him a fear, and he doth fear Me, And because of My name he hath been affrighted.

The law of truth hath been in his mouth, And perverseness hath not been found in his lips, In peace and in uprightness he walked with Me, And many he brought back from iniquity.

For the lips of a priest preserve knowledge, And law they do seek from his mouth, For a messenger of Jehovah of Hosts he [is].

And ye, ye have turned from the way, Ye have caused many to stumble in the law, Ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, Said Jehovah of Hosts.

And I also, I have made you despised and low before all the people, Because ye are not keeping My ways, And are accepting persons in the law.

10 Have we not all one father? Hath not our God prepared us? Wherefore do we deal treacherously, Each against his brother, To pollute the covenant of our fathers?

11 Dealt treacherously hath Judah, And abomination hath been done in Israel, and in Jerusalem, For polluted hath Judah the holy thing of Jehovah, That He hath loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.

12 Cut off doth Jehovah the man who doth it, Tempter and tempted -- from the tents of Jacob, Even he who is bringing nigh a present to Jehovah of Hosts.

13 And this a second time ye do, Covering with tears the altar of Jehovah, With weeping and groaning, Because there is no more turning unto the present, Or receiving of a pleasing thing from your hand.

14 And ye have said, `Wherefore?' Because Jehovah hath testified between thee And the wife of thy youth, That thou hast dealt treacherously against her, And she thy companion, and thy covenant-wife.

15 And He did not make one [only], And He hath the remnant of the Spirit. And what [is] the one [alone]! He is seeking a godly seed. And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And with the wife of thy youth, None doth deal treacherously.

16 For [I] hate sending away, said Jehovah, God of Israel, And He [who] hath covered violence with his clothing, said Jehovah of Hosts, And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And ye do not deal treacherously.

17 Ye have wearied Jehovah with your words, And ye have said: `In what have we wearied Him?' In your saying: `Every evil-doer [is] good in the eyes of Jehovah, And in them He is delighting,' Or, `Where [is] the God of judgment?'