不认识圣经，就是不认识基督，不认识基督，就是不认识基督所建立的天主教会。
旧约·玛拉基亚
共3章:
第一章(14)
题名
1:1
神谕：上主藉玛拉基亚传于以色列的话。
上主对以民的慈爱
1:2 上主说：我爱了你们，而你们却说：你怎样爱了我们﹖厄撒乌不是雅各伯的哥哥吗﹖──上主的断语──但是我却爱了雅各伯，
1:3
而恨了厄撒乌。我曾使他的山荒凉，使他的产业变为豺狼所住的旷野。
1:4
如果厄东说：我们虽然被毁灭，但我们必要重建废墟。万军的上主却这样说：他们可以重建，但我必加以破坏，人们将称之为「邪恶的地区，」为「上主永远愤恨的人民。」
1:5
你们必要亲眼看见，并且要说：上主连在以色列境界之外，也显示了自己的伟大。
责斥司祭
1:6 儿子应孝敬父亲，仆人应敬畏主人。但如果我是父亲，对我的孝敬在哪里﹖如果我是主人，对我的敬在哪里﹖司祭们!万军的上主对你们说：「你们轻视了我的名。」但你们却说：「我们在什么事上轻视了你的名﹖」
1:7
就在你们以不洁的食物供奉在我的祭坛上。你们又说：「我们在什么事上玷污了它﹖」就是你们说：「上主的台桌是可轻贱的」的时候。
1:8
你们将一只盲目的牲畜献为牺牲，不是罪过吗﹖你们奉献一只跛腿的，或有疾病的，不是罪过吗？将这样的礼品，献给你的省长罢!看他是否会喜欢，会悦纳﹖──万军的上主说。
1:9
现在你们恳求天主开恩，叫他怜恤我们!这事既然是你们经手，看衪是否会对你们垂青﹖──万军的上主说。
预言新祭献取代旧祭献
1:10
惟愿你们中有人关闭殿门，免得你们在我的祭坛上白白地点火!我不喜欢你们──万军的上主说──也不悦纳你们经手所献的祭品，
1:11
因为从日出到日落，我的名在异民中大受显扬，到处有人为我的名焚香献祭，并奉献洁净的祭品，因为我的名在异民中大受显扬──万军的上主说。
1:12
但你们却亵渎了它，即在你们说：「主的台桌是污秽的，上面的食物是可轻贱的」的时候。
1:13
你们还说：「唉，这是多么麻烦!」你们且嗤之以鼻──万军的上主说。你们将夺来的，跛腿的和有疾的拿来献为祭品，我岂能从你们手中悦纳﹖──上主说。
1:14
那在家畜群中原有公的，且许了愿，却拿有残疾的献给上主的骗子，是可诅咒的!我是大王──万军的上主说：我的名在异民中必受敬畏。
第二章(17)
警告司祭
2:1 司祭们！这是向你们提出的警告：
2:2
如果你们不听从，不把光荣我名的事放在心上──万军的上主说──我必使诅咒临到你们身上，必使你们的祝福变为诅咒。我已诅咒了，因为你们中谁也没有把这事放在心上。
2:3
看，我必要砍断你们的手臂，把粪污，即你们祭牲的粪污，撒在你们的脸上，使你们满面惭愧。
司祭有亏职守
2:4 这样你们便知道，我为你们提出了这警告，是为保存我与肋未所订立的盟约──万军的上主说。
2:5
我与他订立的盟约，是有关生命及平安的盟，所以我赐给了他生命和平安；同时又是敬畏的盟约，所以他敬畏我，对我的名有所尊敬；
2:6
在他口中有真实教训，在他唇舌上从不见谎言；他心怀虔诚和正直与我来往，使多人远离了罪恶。
2:7
的确，司祭的唇舌应保卫智识，人也应从他的口中得到教训，因为他是万军上主的使者。
2:8
但是，你们却离弃正道，使许多人在法律上跌倒；你们破坏了我和肋未所立的盟约──万军的上主说。
2:9
为此，我也使你们受全体人民的轻贱卑视，因为你们没有遵行我的道，在施教训上观情顾面。
人民有关婚姻的罪恶
2:10 我们不是共有一个父亲吗﹖不是一个天主造生了我们吗﹖为什么我们彼此欺骗，亵渎我们祖先的盟约﹖
2:11
犹大不守信义，在以色列和耶路撒冷行了丑恶的事，因为犹大亵渎了上主所爱的圣所，娶了供奉异邦神祗的女子。
2:12
惟愿上主将行这事的人，连证人和监誓人，从雅各伯的会幕中铲除，由向万军的上主奉献祭物的集会中铲除。
2:13
其次，你们还行了这件事：你们向上主的祭坛洒尽了眼泪，哭泣呻吟，因为上主不再垂顾你们的祭祀，不再悦纳你们手中的祭品，
2:14
而你们还问：「这是为什么﹖」是因为上主是你与你青年时所娶的妻子之间的证人。她虽是你的伴侣，是你结盟的发妻，你竟对她不守信义。
2:15
上主不是造了他们成为一体，有一个肉身，一个性命吗﹖为什么要结为一体﹖是为求得天主的子女；所以应关心你们的性命，对你青年结发的妻子不要背信。
2:16
上主以色列的天主说：我憎恨休妻，休妻使人在自己的衣服上沾满了不义，万军的上主声明说。所以你们当关心你们的性命，不要不守信义。
责斥人民抱怨天主
2:17
你们的言谈使上主生厌，你们还问：「我们在什么事上使他生厌﹖」即在你们说：「凡作恶的，在天主眼里都是善的，并且他还喜悦他们，」或说：「公义的天主在那里﹖」的时候。
第三章(24)
盟约的使者
3:1 看！我要派遣我的使者，在我前面预备道路。你们所寻求的主宰，必要忽然进入他的殿内；你们所想望的盟约的使者，看！他来了──万军的上主说。
3:2
但是他来临之日，有谁能支持得住﹖他显现时，有谁能站立得住﹖因为他像炼金者用的炉火，又像漂布者用的卤汁
3:3
他必要坐下，像个溶化和炼净银子的人，炼净肋未的子孙，精炼他们像精炼金银一像，使他们能怀着虔诚，向上主奉献祭品：
3:4
那时，犹大和耶路撒冷所献的祭品，必能悦乐上主，有如昔日和往年。
3:5
那时，我必前来与你们接近，执行审判，迅速作证反对术士、犯奸和发虚誓的人，反对欺压佣工，寡妇和孤儿的人，反对侵害外方人的权利，而不敬畏我的人──万军的上主说。
3:6
是的，我是上主，决不改变；但你们总是雅各伯的子孙！
不守法律乃灾祸之因
3:7 自从你们祖先的日子以来你们就离弃了我的法令，而不遵守。现在你们转向我吧!我必转向你们──万军的上主说。你们却说：「我们应怎样转向你呢﹖」
3:8
人岂能欺骗天主﹖可是你们却欺骗了我!你们却说：「我们在什么事上欺骗了你﹖」即在什一文物和应献的祭物上。
3:9
你们全体人民!你们必要遭受严厉的诅咒，因为你们都欺骗了我。
3:10
你们应把什一之物送入府库，好使我的殿宇存有食粮。你们就在这事上试试我吧!──万军的上主说──看我是否给你们开启天闸，将祝福倾注在你们身上，直到你们心意满足。
3:11
我必要为你们吓走那吞食者，不容它再损害你们的田产，也不让你们田间的葡萄树不结果实──万军的上主说。
3:12
万民都要称你们有福，因为你们将成为一片乐土──万军的上主说。
上主之日善恶分明
3:13 上主说：「你们竟然敢用言语顶撞我。你们却说：「我们在什么话上顶撞了你﹖」
3:14
即在你们说：「事奉天主只是徒然!遵守他的诫命，在万军的上主面前，穿苦衣而行，有什么好处﹖
3:15
现在我们该称骄傲人有福；作恶的人，居然顺利，试探天主的人居然免罚!」
3:16
这是敬畏上主的人彼此谈论的。但上主都加以注意而听见了，并且在他面前的记录簿上，为那些敬畏上主和投靠他名号的人予以记录了。
3:17
在我行事的时日──万军的上主说──他们必是属于我的特殊产业，我要怜爱他们，有如人怜爱服事自己的儿子。
3:18
你们将要重新看出义人和恶人，服事天主和不服事天主的人的区别。
3:19
看，那日子来临，势必如冒火焰的火炉，所有的骄傲人和作恶的人都要成为禾楷；那一天来到，必要将他们烧尽──万军的上主说──不给他们留下根和枝条。
3:20
但为你们这些敬畏我名号的人，正义的太阳将要升起，以自己好似箭羽的光芒普施救恩；你们必将出来，蹦蹦跳跳有如出栏的牛犊。
3:21
你们要践踏恶人，因为在我行事之日，他们必要如同在你们脚下的尘土──万军的上主说。
忠告和应许
3:22 你们应记得我仆人梅瑟的法律，即我在曷勒布山，命他传于全以色列的诫命和制度。
3:23
看，在上主伟大及可怕的日子来临以前，我必派遣先知厄里亚到你们这里来；
3:24
他将使父亲的心转向儿子，使儿子的心转向父亲，免得我来临时，以毁灭律打击这地。
BOOK ENDS.
OLD TESTAMENT ENDS. Seraphim, April 2009.
JB MALACHI Chapter 1
1:1 An
oracle. The word of Yahweh to Israel through the ministration of Malachi.[*a]
The love of Yahweh
for Israel
1:2 I have shown my love for you, says Yahweh. But you ask, 'How have you shown your
love?' Was not Esau[*b] Jacob's brother? - it is Yahweh who speaks; yet I showed my love for Jacob
1:3 and my hatred
for Esau. I turned his towns into a wilderness and his heritage into desert
pastures.
1:4 Should Edom say, 'We have
been struck down but we will rebuild our ruins', this is the reply of Yahweh Sabaoth: Let them build! I will pull down. They shall be
known as Unholy Land and Nation-with-which-Yahweh-is-angry-for-ever.
1:5 Your
eyes are going to see this and you will say, 'Yahweh is mighty beyond the
borders of Israel'.
An indictment of
the priests
1:6 The
son honours his father, the slave respects his
master. If I am indeed father, where is my honour? If
I am indeed master, where is my respect? Yahweh Sabaoth
asks this of you, priests, you who despise my name. You ask, 'How have we
despised your name?'
1:7 By
putting polluted food on my altar. You ask, 'How have we polluted it?' By holding the table of Yahweh in contempt.
1:8 When
you bring blind animals for sacrifice, is that not wrong? When you bring the
lame and the diseased, is that not wrong? Try offering them to your high
commissioner, and see if he is pleased with this or receives you graciously,
says Yahweh Sabaoth.
1:9 Now
try pleading with God to take pity on us (this is your own fault); do you think
he will receive you graciously? says Yahweh Sabaoth.
1:10 Oh, is there no one among
you who will shut the doors and stop you from lighting useless fires on my
altar? I am not pleased with you, says Yahweh Sabaoth;
from your hands I find no offerings acceptable.
1:11 But from farthest east to
farthest west my name is honoured among the nations
and everywhere a sacrifice of incense is offered to my name, and a pure
offering too, since my name is honoured among the
nations, says Yahweh Sabaoth.
1:12 But you, you profane it
by thinking of the Lord's table as defiled and by holding in contempt the food
placed on it.
1:13 'How tiresome it all is!'
you say; and you sniff disdainfully at me, says Yahweh Sabaoth.
You bring a stolen, lame or diseased animal, you bring
that as an offering! Am I to accept this from your hand? says
Yahweh Sabaoth.
1:14 Cursed
be the rogue who owns a male which he has vowed to offer from his flock, and
instead sacrifices a blemished animal to me! For I am a great king, says Yahweh
Sabaoth, and my name is feared throughout the nations.
JB MALACHI Chapter 2
2:1 And
now, priests, this warning is for you.
2:2 If you do not listen, if
you do not find it in your heart to glorify my name, says Yahweh Sabaoth, I will send the curse on you and curse your very
blessing.[*a] Indeed I have already cursed it, since there is not a single one
of you who takes this to heart.
2:3 Now
watch how I am going to paralyse your arm and throw
dung in your face - the dung from your very solemnities - and sweep you away
with it.
2:4 Then you shall learn that
it is I who have given you this warning of my intention to abolish my covenant
with Levi, says Yahweh Sabaoth.
2:5 My
covenant was with him: it stood for life and peace, and these were what I gave
him; it stood for fear and trembling, and he respected me and stood in awe of
my name.
2:6 The
teaching of truth was in his mouth, falsehood was not to be found on his lips;
he walked with me in integrity and virtue; he converted many from sinning.
2:7 The
lips of the priest ought to safeguard knowledge; his mouth is where instruction
should be sought, since he is the messenger of Yahweh Sabaoth.
2:8 But
you, you have strayed from the way; you have caused many to stumble by your
teaching. You have destroyed the covenant of Levi, says Yahweh Sabaoth.
2:9 And so I in my turn have
made you contemptible and vile in the eyes of the whole people in repayment for
the way you have not kept to my paths but have shown partiality in your
administration.
Mixed marriage and
divorce
2:10 Have we not all one
Father? Did not one God create us? Why, then, do we break faith with one
another, profaning the covenant of our ancestors?
2:11 Judah has broken faith: a
detestable thing has been done (in Israel and) in Jerusalem. Yes, Judah has
profaned the sanctuary that Yahweh loves. He has married the daughter of an
alien god.
2:12 The
man who does this - whoever he be - may Yahweh cut him off from the tents of
Jacob and from the company of those who present the offering to Yahweh Sabaoth.
2:13 And
here is something else you do: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with
weeping and wailing, because he now refuses to consider the offering or to
accept it from your hands.
2:14 And
you ask, 'Why?' It is because Yahweh stands as witness between you and the wife
of your youth, the wife with whom you have broken faith, even though she was
your partner and your wife by covenant.
2:15 Did
he not create a single being that has flesh and the breath of life? And what is
this single being destined for? God-given offspring.
Be careful for your own life, therefore, and do not break faith with the wife
of your youth.
2:16 For
I hate divorce, says Yahweh the God of Israel, and I hate people to parade
their sins on their cloaks, says Yahweh Sabaoth.
Respect your own life, therefore, and do not break faith like this.
The day of Yahweh
2:17 You
weary Yahweh with your talk. You ask, 'How do we weary him?' When you say, 'Any
evil-doer is good as far as Yahweh is concerned; indeed he likes them best'; or
when you say, 'Where is the God of justice now?'
JB MALACHI Chapter 3
3:1 Look, I am going to send
my messenger to prepare a way before me. And the Lord you are seeking will
suddenly enter his Temple; and the angel of the covenant whom you are longing
for, yes, he is coming, says Yahweh Sabaoth.
3:2 Who
will be able to resist the day of his coming? Who will remain standing when he
appears? For he is like the refiner's fire and the fullers'
alkali.
3:3 He will take his seat as
refiner and purifier; he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold
and silver, and then they will make the offering to Yahweh as it should be
made.
3:4 The
offering of Judah and Jerusalem will then be welcomed by Yahweh as in former
days, as in the years of old.
3:5 I
mean to visit you for the judgement and I am going to
be a ready witness against sorcerer, adulterer and perjurer, against those who
oppress the wage-earner, the widow and the orphan, and who rob the settler of
his rights-no need for you to be afraid of me, says Yahweh Sabaoth.
Temple tithes
3:6 No; I, Yahweh, do not
change; and you, sons of Jacob, you are not ruined yet!
3:7 Since
the days of your ancestors you have evaded my statutes and not observed them.
Return to me and I will return to you, says Yahweh Sabaoth.
You ask, 'How are we to return?
3:8 Can
a man cheat God?' Yet you are cheating me. You ask, 'How are we cheating you?' In the matter of tithes and dues.
3:9 The
curse lies on you because you, yes you the whole nation, are cheating me.
3:10 Bring the full tithes and
dues to the storehouse so that there may be food in my house, and then see if I
do not open the floodgates of heaven for you and pour out blessing for you in
abundance.
3:11 For your sake I will lay
a strict injunction on the locust not to destroy the fruits of your soil nor to
make the vine in your fields barren, says Yahweh Sabaoth.
3:12 All the nations will call
you blessed, for you will be a land of delights, says Yahweh Sabaoth.
The triumph of the
virtuous on the day of Yahweh
3:13 You
say harsh things about me, says Yahweh. You ask, 'What have we said against
you?'
3:14 You
say, 'It is useless to serve God; what is the good of keeping his commands or
of walking mournfully before Yahweh Sabaoth?
3:15 Now we have reached the
point when we call the arrogant blessed; yes, they prosper, these evil-doers;
they try God's patience and yet go free.'
3:16 This
is what those who fear Yahweh used to say to one another. But Yahweh took note
and heard them: a book of remembrance was written in his presence recording
those who fear him and take refuge in his name.
3:17 On
the day which I am preparing, says Yahweh Sabaoth,
they are going to be my own special possession. I will make allowances for them
as a man makes allowances for the son who obeys him.
3:18 Then once again you will
see the difference between an upright man and a wicked one, between the one who
serves God and the one who does not serve him.
3:19 For
the day is coming now, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and the
evil-doers will be like stubble. The day that is coming is going to burn them
up, says Yahweh Sabaoth, leaving them neither root
nor stalk.
3:20 But for you who fear my
name, the sun of righteousness will shine out with healing in its rays; you
will leap like calves going out to pasture.
3:21 You
will trample on the wicked, who will be like ashes under your feet on the day I
am preparing, says Yahweh Sabaoth.
Appendices
3:22 Remember
the Law of my servant Moses to whom at Horeb I
prescribed laws and customs for the whole of Israel.
3:23 Know that I am going to
send you Elijah the prophet before my day comes, that great and terrible day.
3:24 He shall turn the hearts
of fathers towards their children and the hearts of children towards their
fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a curse.
END OF JB
MALACHI [3 Chapters].
END OF JB
OLD TESTAMENT.