1 “See, I am sending My messenger, and he shall prepare the way before Me. Then suddenly the Aḏon you are seeking comes to His Hĕyḵal, even the Messenger of the Covenant, in whom you delight. See, He is coming,” said 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 of hosts.
2 “And who is able to bear the day of His coming, and who is able to stand when He appears? For He is like the fire of a refiner, and like the soap of a launderer.
3 “And He shall sit as a refiner and a cleanser of silver. And He shall cleanse the sons of Lĕwi, and refine them as gold and silver, and they shall belong to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, bringing near an offering in righteousness.
4 “Then shall the offering of Yahuḏah and Yerushalayim be pleasant to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, as in the days of old, as in former years.
5 “And I shall draw near to you for right-ruling. And I shall be a swift witness against the practisers of witchcraft, and against adulterers, and against them that swear to falsehood, and against those who oppress the wage earner in his wages and widows and the fatherless, and those who turn away a sojourner and do not revere Me,” said of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 of hosts.
6 “For I am 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, I shall not change, and you, O sons of Ya’aqoḇ, shall not come to an end.
7 “From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from My Laws and did not guard them. Turn back to Me, and I shall turn back to you,” said 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 of hosts. “But you said, ‘In what shall we turn back?’
8 “Would a man rob Elohim? Yet you are robbing Me! But you said, ‘In what have we robbed You?’ In the tithe and the offering!
9 “You have cursed Me with a curse, for you are robbing Me, this nation, all of it!
10 “Bring all the tithes into the store-house, and let there be food in My house. And please prove Me in this,” said 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 of hosts, “whether I do not open for you the windows of the shamayim, and shall pour out for you boundless beraḵah!
11 “And I shall rebuke the devourer for you, so that it does not destroy the fruit of your ground, nor does the vine fail to bear fruit for you in the field,” said 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 of hosts.
12 “And all nations shall call you baruḵ, for you shall be a land of delight,” said 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 of hosts.
13 “Your words have been harsh against Me,” said 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, “but you have said, ‘What have we spoken against You?’
14 “You have said, ‘It is worthless to serve Elohim. And what did we gain when we guarded His Charge, and when we walked as mourners before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 of hosts?
15 And now we are calling the proud baruḵ – not only are the doers of wickedness built up, but they also try Elohim and escape.’ ”
16 Then shall those who revere 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 speak to one another, and 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 listen and hear, and a book of remembrance be written before Him, of those who revere 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and those who think upon His Name.
17 “And they shall be Mine,” said 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 of hosts, “on the day that I prepare a treasured possession. And I shall spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.
18 “Then you shall again see between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves Elohim and one who does not serve Him.