December 23, 2013, Lêzing

Matthew 3: 1-18

:1 Sjuch, I send my angel, and he will prepare the way before my face. And presently the Sovereign, whom you seek, and the angel of testimony, whom you desire, will arrive at his temple. Sjuch, he approaches, seit de Heare der hearskaren.

3:2 And who will be able to consider the day of his advent, and who will stand firm in order to see him? For he is like a refining fire, and like the fuller’s herb.

3:3 And he will sit refining and cleansing the silver, and he will purge the sons of Levi, and he will gather them like gold and like silver, and they will offer sacrifices to the Lord in justice.

3:4 And the sacrifice of Judah and of Jerusalem will please the Lord, just as in the days of past generations, and as in the ancient years.

3:5 And I will approach you in judgment, and I will be a swift witness against evil-doers, and adulterers, and perjurers, and those who cheat the hired hand in his wages, the widows and the orphans, and who oppress the traveler, and who have not feared me, seit de Heare der hearskaren.

3:6 For I am the Lord, and I do not change. And you, the sons of Jacob, have not been consumed.

3:7 Foar, from the days of your fathers, you have withdrawn from my ordinances and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, seit de Heare der hearskaren. En jo hawwe sein, “In what way, shall we return?”

3:8 If a man will afflict God, then you greatly afflict me. En jo hawwe sein, “In what way, do we afflict you?” In tithes and in first-fruits.

3:9 And you have been cursed with privation, and you greatly afflict me, even your entire people.

3:10 Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, and let there be food in my house. And test me about this, seit de Heare, as to whether I will not open to you the floodgates of heaven, and pour out to you a blessing, all the way to abundance.

3:11 And I will rebuke for your sakes the devourer, and he will not corrupt the fruit of your land. Neither will the vine in the field be barren, seit de Heare der hearskaren.

3:12 And all nations will call you blessed. For you will be a desirable land, seit de Heare der hearskaren.

3:13 Jo wurden hawwe krêft oer my sammele, seit de Heare.

3:14 En jo hawwe sein, "Wat hawwe wy tsjin dy sprutsen?"Jo hawwe sein, "Hy wurket om 'e nocht dy't God tsjinnet,"en, "Wat foardiel is it dat wy syn foarskriften hâlden hawwe, en dat wy yn 'e eagen fan' e Heare der hearskaren fertrietlik rûn hawwe?

3:15 Dêrom, wy neame no de arrogante sillige, as binne dejingen dy't goddeleaze wurkje opboud, en as hawwe se God fersocht en rêden."

3:16 Doe sprieken dejingen dy't de Heare freze, elk mei syn neiste. En de Heare joech oandacht en achte. En in boek fan oantinken waard skreaun foar syn eagen, foar dyjingen dy't de Heare freze en foar dyjingen dy't syn namme beskôgje.

3:17 En se sille myn bysûndere besit wêze, seit de Heare der hearskaren, op de dei dat ik hannelje. En ik sil se sparje, lyk as in man syn soan sparret dy't him tsjinnet.

3:18 En jimme scille bekeard wirde, en dû sille it ferskil sjen tusken de rjochtfeardige en de goddeleazen, and between those who serve God and those who do not serve him.