瑪拉基書

第 1 章

1. 耶和華藉瑪拉基傳給以色列的默示。
An oracle: The word of the LORD to Israel through Malachi.
2. 耶和華說、我曾愛你們.你們卻說、你在何事上愛我們呢.耶和華說、以掃不是雅各的哥哥麼.我卻愛雅各、
"I have loved you," says the LORD. "But you ask, 'How have you loved us?' "Was not Esau Jacob's brother?" the LORD says. "Yet I have loved Jacob,
3. 惡以掃、使他的山嶺荒涼、把他的地業交給曠野的野狗。
but Esau I have hated, and I have turned his mountains into a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals."
4. 以東人說、我們現在雖被毀壞、卻要重建荒廢之處.萬軍之耶和華如此說、任他們建造、我必拆毀.人必稱他們的地、為罪惡之境、稱他們的民、為耶和華永遠惱怒之民。
Edom may say, "Though we have been crushed, we will rebuild the ruins." But this is what the LORD Almighty says: "They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Wicked Land, a people always under the wrath of the LORD.
5. 你們必親眼看見、也必說、願耶和華在以色列境界之外、被尊為大。
You will see it with your own eyes and say, 'Great is the LORD--even beyond the borders of Israel!'
6. 藐視我名的祭司阿、萬軍之耶和華對你們說、兒子尊敬父親、僕人敬畏主人.我既為父親、尊敬我的在那裡呢.我既為主人、敬畏我的在那裡呢。你們卻說、我們在何事上藐視你的名呢。
"A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, where is the honor due me? If I am a master, where is the respect due me?" says the LORD Almighty. "It is you, O priests, who show contempt for my name. "But you ask, 'How have we shown contempt for your name?'
7. 你們將污穢的食物獻在我的壇上、且說、我們在何事上污穢你呢.因你們說、耶和華的桌子、是可藐視的。
"You place defiled food on my altar. "But you ask, 'How have we defiled you?' "By saying that the LORD'S table is contemptible.
8. 你們將瞎眼的獻為祭物、這不為惡麼.將瘸腿的有病的獻上、這不為惡麼.你獻給你的省長、他豈喜悅你、豈能看你的情面麼.這是萬軍之耶和華說的。
When you bring blind animals for sacrifice, is that not wrong? When you sacrifice crippled or diseased animals, is that not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you? Would he accept you?" says the LORD Almighty.
9. 現在我勸你們懇求 神、他好施恩與我們。這妄獻的事、既由你們經手、他豈能看你們的情面麼。這是萬軍之耶和華說的。
"Now implore God to be gracious to us. With such offerings from your hands, will he accept you?"--says the LORD Almighty.
10. 甚願你們中間有一人關上殿門、免得你們徒然在我壇上燒火。萬軍之耶和華說、我不喜悅你們、也不從你們手中收納供物。
"Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would not light useless fires on my altar! I am not pleased with you," says the LORD Almighty, "and I will accept no offering from your hands.
11. 萬軍之耶和華說、從日出之地到日落之處、我的名在外邦中必尊為大.在各處、人必奉我的名燒香、獻潔淨的供物.因為我的名在外邦中必尊為大。
My name will be great among the nations, from the rising to the setting of the sun. In every place incense and pure offerings will be brought to my name, because my name will be great among the nations," says the LORD Almighty.
12. 你們卻褻瀆我的名、說、耶和華的桌子是污穢的、其上的食物是可藐視的。
"But you profane it by saying of the Lord's table, 'It is defiled,' and of its food, 'It is contemptible.'
13. 你們又說、這些事何等煩瑣.並嗤之以鼻.這是萬軍之耶和華說的。你們把搶奪的、瘸腿的、有病的、拿來獻上為祭.我豈能從你們手中收納呢.這是耶和華說的。
And you say, 'What a burden!' and you sniff at it contemptuously," says the LORD Almighty. "When you bring injured, crippled or diseased animals and offer them as sacrifices, should I accept them from your hands?" says the LORD.
14. 行詭詐的在群中有公羊、他許願卻用有殘疾的獻給主、這人是可咒詛的.因為我是大君王、我的名在外邦中是可畏的.這是萬軍之耶和華說的。
"Cursed is the cheat who has an acceptable male in his flock and vows to give it, but then sacrifices a blemished animal to the Lord. For I am a great king," says the LORD Almighty, "and my name is to be feared among the nations.