Malachi 3
New King James Version
The Coming Messenger
3 “Behold, (A)I send My messenger,
And he will (B)prepare the way before Me.
And the Lord, whom you seek,
Will suddenly come to His temple,
(C)Even the Messenger of the covenant,
In whom you delight.
Behold, (D)He is coming,”
Says the Lord of hosts.
2 “But who can endure (E)the day of His coming?
And (F)who can stand when He appears?
For (G)He is like a refiner’s fire
And like launderers’ soap.
3 (H)He will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver;
He will purify the sons of Levi,
And [a]purge them as gold and silver,
That they may (I)offer to the Lord
An offering in righteousness.
4 “Then (J)the offering of Judah and Jerusalem
Will be [b]pleasant to the Lord,
As in the days of old,
As in former years.
5 And I will come near you for judgment;
I will be a swift witness
Against sorcerers,
Against adulterers,
(K)Against perjurers,
Against those who (L)exploit wage earners and (M)widows and orphans,
And against those who turn away an alien—
Because they do not fear Me,”
Says the Lord of hosts.
6 “For I am the Lord, (N)I do not change;
(O)Therefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob.
7 Yet from the days of (P)your fathers
You have gone away from My ordinances
And have not kept them.
(Q)Return to Me, and I will return to you,”
Says the Lord of hosts.
(R)“But you said,
‘In what way shall we return?’
Do Not Rob God
8 “Will a man rob God?
Yet you have robbed Me!
But you say,
‘In what way have we robbed You?’
(S)In tithes and offerings.
9 You are cursed with a curse,
For you have robbed Me,
Even this whole nation.
10 (T)Bring all the tithes into the (U)storehouse,
That there may be food in My house,
And try Me now in this,”
Says the Lord of hosts,
“If I will not open for you the (V)windows of heaven
And (W)pour out for you such blessing
That there will not be room enough to receive it.
11 “And I will rebuke (X)the devourer for your sakes,
So that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground,
Nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for you in the field,”
Says the Lord of hosts;
12 “And all nations will call you blessed,
For you will be (Y)a delightful land,”
Says the Lord of hosts.
The People Complain Harshly
13 “Your(Z) words have been [c]harsh against Me,”
Says the Lord,
“Yet you say,
‘What have we spoken against You?’
14 (AA)You have said,
‘It is useless to serve God;
What profit is it that we have kept His ordinance,
And that we have walked as mourners
Before the Lord of hosts?
15 So now (AB)we call the proud blessed,
For those who do wickedness are [d]raised up;
They even (AC)tempt God and go free.’ ”
A Book of Remembrance
16 Then those (AD)who feared the Lord (AE)spoke to one another,
And the Lord listened and heard them;
So (AF)a book of remembrance was written before Him
For those who fear the Lord
And who [e]meditate on His name.
17 “They(AG) shall be Mine,” says the Lord of hosts,
“On the day that I make them My (AH)jewels.[f]
And (AI)I will spare them
As a man spares his own son who serves him.”
18 (AJ)Then you shall again discern
Between the righteous and the wicked,
Between one who serves God
And one who does not serve Him.
Footnotes
- Malachi 3:3 Or refine
- Malachi 3:4 pleasing
- Malachi 3:13 Lit. strong
- Malachi 3:15 Lit. built
- Malachi 3:16 Or esteem
- Malachi 3:17 Lit. special treasure
Malahija 3
Biblija: suvremeni hrvatski prijevod
3 BOG Svevladar kaže: »Uskoro ću poslati svoga glasnika da preda mnom pripremi put. Tada će Gospodar kojeg tražite iznenada doći u svoj Hram. Zaista, glasnik saveza, za kojim čeznete, uskoro dolazi«.
2 No tko će podnijeti dan njegovog dolaska? I tko će opstati kad se on pojavi? Jer, on je kao vatra koja pročišćava metal i kao lužina koja izbjeljuje. 3 Postupit će kao onaj što lijeva i pročišćava srebro. Očistit će Levite i pročistiti ih kao zlato i srebro. Tada će BOG imati svećenike koji prinose žrtve s ispravnim stavom. 4 Tada će žrtve, koje prinosi narod Jude i Jeruzalema, biti ugodne BOGU, kao u prošlim danima i davnim godinama.
5 »Doći ću da vam sudim. Odmah ću svjedočiti protiv vračara, preljubnika i onih koji se lažno zaklinju. Svjedočit ću protiv onih koji zakidaju plaću radnicima, tlače udovice i siročad, strancima uskraćuju prava, a mene ne poštuju«, kaže BOG Svevladar.
Povratak Bogu
6 »Ja sam BOG i nisam se promijenio. A vi ste Jakovljevi potomci i niste prestali biti poput njega.
7 Još od vremena svojih predaka odstupate od mojih zakona i ne pridržavate ih se. Vratite mi se i ja ću se vratiti vama«, kaže BOG Svevladar.
»Ali vi pitate: ‘Zbog čega se uopće trebamo vratiti?’
8 Može li čovjek krasti od Boga? A vi ipak kradete od mene.
Vi pitate: ‘Kako krademo od tebe?’
Ne dajete punu desetinu svojih prinosa, ni druge propisane priloge. 9 Prokletstvo je na vama jer svi vi—cijeli ovaj narod—kradete od mene.
10 Donesite čitave desetine prinosa[a] u riznicu, da bude hrane u mom Hramu. Iskušajte me na taj način«, kaže BOG Svevladar, »i vidjet ćete kako ću otvoriti nebeske brane i izliti na vas obilje blagoslova. 11 Zabranit ću štetočinama da vam proždiru usjeve, a loza će vam biti rodna«, kaže BOG Svevladar. 12 »Tada će vas svi narodi zvati sretnima jer ćete biti divna zemlja«, kaže BOG Svevladar.
Vrijeme Božjeg suda
13 »Teške ste riječi izgovorili protiv mene«, kaže BOG.
»A vi pitate: ‘Što smo to govorili protiv tebe?’
14 Govorili ste: ‘Uzalud je služiti Bogu. Kakva je korist od držanja njegovih zapovijedi? I od toga što smo se u žalosti kajali pred BOGOM Svevladarom? 15 Sad nam se čini da su bahati ljudi oni koji dobro prolaze. Zločinci ne samo što napreduju nego izazivaju Boga i prolaze nekažnjeno.’«
16 Tada su oni koji su poštovali BOGA poveli razgovor među sobom, a BOG je pažljivo slušao. Imena onih koji su poštovali BOGA i iskazivali čast njegovom imenu bila su u njegovoj prisutnosti zapisana u knjigu kao podsjetnik.
17 »Oni će biti moji onog dana kad ih uzmem kao svoje dragocjeno vlasništvo«, kaže BOG Svevladar. »Bit ću im dobrostiv kao što je otac dobrostiv sinu koji mu služi. 18 Tada ćete ponovo razlikovati pravednoga od zloga; onoga tko služi Bogu od onoga tko mu ne služi.«
Footnotes
- 3,10 desetine prinosa Vidi Pnz 14,22-29.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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