Malachi 3
1 देखो, मैं अपने दूत को भेजता हूं, और वह मार्ग को मेरे आगे सुधारेगा, और प्रभु, जिसे तुम ढूंढ़ते हो, वह अचानक अपने मन्दिर में आ जाएगा; हां वाचा का वह दूत, जिसे तुम चाहते हो, सुनो, वह आता है, सेनाओं के यहोवा का यही वचन है।
2 परन्तु उसके आने के दिन की कौन सह सकेगा? और जब वह दिखाई दे, तब कौन खड़ा रह सकेगा? क्योंकि वह सोनार की आग और धोबी के साबुन के समान है।
3 वह रूपे का ताने वाला और शुद्ध करने वाला बनेगा, और लेवियों को शुद्ध करेगा और उन को सोने रूपे की नाईं निर्मल करेगा, तब वे यहोवा की भेंट धर्म से चढ़ाएंगे।
4 तब यहूदा और यरूशलेम की भेंट यहोवा को ऐसी भाएगी, जैसी पहिले दिनों में और प्राचीनकाल में भावती थी॥
5 तब मैं न्याय करने को तुम्हारे निकट आऊंगा; और टोन्हों, और व्यभिचारियों, और झूठी किरिया खाने वालों के विरुद्ध, और जो मजदूर की मजदूरी को दबाते, और विधवा और अनाथों पर अन्धेर करते, और परदेशी का न्याय बिगाड़ते, और मेरा भय नहीं मानते, उन सभों के विरुद्ध मैं तुरन्त साक्षी दूंगा, सेनाओं के यहोवा का यही वचन है॥
6 क्योंकि मैं यहोवा बदलता नहीं; इसी कारण, हे याकूब की सन्तान तुम नाश नहीं हुए।
7 अपने पुरखाओं के दिनों से तुम लोग मेरी विधियों से हटते आए हो, ओर उनका पालन नहीं करते। तुम मेरी ओर फिरो, तब मैं भी तुम्हारी ओर फिरूंगा, सेनाओं के यहोवा का यही वचन है; परन्तु तुम पूछते हो, हम किस बात में फिरें?
8 क्या मनुष्य परमेश्वर को धोखा दे सकता है? देखो, तुम मुझ को धोखा देते हो, और तौभी पूछते हो कि हम ने किस बात में तुझे लूटा है? दशमांश और उठाने की भेंटों में।
9 तुम पर भारी शाप पड़ा है, क्योंकि तुम मुझे लूटते हो; वरन सारी जाति ऐसा करती है।
10 सारे दशमांश भण्डार में ले आओ कि मेरे भवन में भोजनवस्तु रहे; और सेनाओं का यहोवा यह कहता है, कि ऐसा कर के मुझे परखो कि मैं आकाश के झरोखे तुम्हारे लिये खोल कर तुम्हारे ऊपर अपरम्पार आशीष की वर्षा करता हूं कि नहीं।
11 मैं तुम्हारे लिये नाश करने वाले को ऐसा घुड़कूंगा कि वह तुम्हारी भूमि की उपज नाश न करेगा, और तुम्हारी दाखलताओं के फल कच्चे न गिरेंगे, सेनाओं के यहोवा का यही वचन है॥
12 तब सारी जातियां तुम को धन्य कहेंगी, क्योंकि तुम्हारा देश मनोहर देश होगा, सेनाओं के यहोवा का यही वचन है॥
13 यहोवा यह कहता है, तुम ने मेरे विरुद्ध ढिठाई की बातें कही हैं। परन्तु तुम पूछते हो, हम ने तेरे विरुद्ध में क्या कहा है?
14 तुम ने कहा है कि परमेश्वर की सेवा करनी व्यर्थ है। हम ने जो उसके बताए हुए कामों को पूरा किया और सेनाओं के यहोवा के डर के मारे शोक का पहिरावा पहिने हुए चले हैं, इस से क्या लाभ हुआ?
15 अब से हम अभिमानी लोगों को धन्य कहते हैं; क्योंकि दुराचारी तो सफल बन गए हैं, वरन वे परमेश्वर की परीक्षा करने पर भी बच गए हैं॥
16 तब यहोवा का भय मानने वालों ने आपस में बातें की, और यहोवा ध्यान धर कर उनकी सुनता था; और जो यहोवा का भय मानते और उसके नाम का सम्मान करते थे, उनके स्मरण के निमित्त उसके साम्हने एक पुस्तक लिखी जाती थी।
17 सेनाओं का यहोवा यह कहता है, कि जो दिन मैं ने ठहराया है, उस दिन वे लोग मेरे वरन मेरे निज भाग ठहरेंगे, और मैं उन से ऐसी कोमलता करूंगा जैसी कोई अपने सेवा करने वाले पुत्र से करे।
18 तब तुम फिरकर धर्मी और दुष्ट का भेद, अर्थात जो परमेश्वर की सेवा करता है, और जो उसकी सेवा नहीं करता, उन दोनों को भेद पहिचान सकोगे॥
1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.
2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:
3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.
4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord, as in the days of old, and as in former years.
5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.
6 For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
7 Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?
8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.
10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the Lord of hosts.
12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the Lord of hosts.
13 Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?
14 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts?
15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
16 Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.
17 And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
1 And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom.
2 And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the people: for the people heard say that day how the king was grieved for his son.
3 And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
4 But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!
5 And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines;
6 In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends. For thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes nor servants: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.
7 Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants: for I swear by the Lord, if thou go not forth, there will not tarry one with thee this night: and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that befell thee from thy youth until now.
8 Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. And they told unto all the people, saying, Behold, the king doth sit in the gate. And all the people came before the king: for Israel had fled every man to his tent.
9 And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king saved us out of the hand of our enemies, and he delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom.
10 And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?
11 And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, even to his house.
12 Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?
13 And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not of my bone, and of my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.
14 And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as the heart of one man; so that they sent this word unto the king, Return thou, and all thy servants.
15 So the king returned, and came to Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to conduct the king over Jordan.
16 And Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite, which was of Bahurim, hasted and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.
17 And there were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went over Jordan before the king.
18 And there went over a ferry boat to carry over the king’s household, and to do what he thought good. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, as he was come over Jordan;
19 And said unto the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.
20 For thy servant doth know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, I am come the first this day of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.
21 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the Lord’s anointed?
22 And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries unto me? shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know that I am this day king over Israel?
23 Therefore the king said unto Shimei, Thou shalt not die. And the king sware unto him.
24 And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came again in peace.
25 And it came to pass, when he was come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said unto him, Wherefore wentest not thou with me, Mephibosheth?
26 And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go to the king; because thy servant is lame.
27 And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in thine eyes.
28 For all of my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?
29 And the king said unto him, Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba divide the land.
30 And Mephibosheth said unto the king, Yea, let him take all, forasmuch as my lord the king is come again in peace unto his own house.
31 And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim, and went over Jordan with the king, to conduct him over Jordan.
32 Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.
33 And the king said unto Barzillai, Come thou over with me, and I will feed thee with me in Jerusalem.
34 And Barzillai said unto the king, How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem?
35 I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?
36 Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?
37 Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.
38 And the king answered, Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good unto thee: and whatsoever thou shalt require of me, that will I do for thee.
39 And all the people went over Jordan. And when the king was come over, the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned unto his own place.
40 Then the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him: and all the people of Judah conducted the king, and also half the people of Israel.
41 And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said unto the king, Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen thee away, and have brought the king, and his household, and all David’s men with him, over Jordan?
42 And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is near of kin to us: wherefore then be ye angry for this matter? have we eaten at all of the king’s cost? or hath he given us any gift?
43 And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.