OrthJBC - II Peter - 3

3:1  Chaverim, this now is the second letter I am writing to you; in these letters my tachlis is to arouse your sincere levavot by way of tizkoret (reminder):

3:2  remember the divrei torah having been previously spoken by the Nevi'im haKedoshim and the mitzvot of Adoneynu and Moshieynu spoken by your shluchim.

3:3  Knowing this first, that during the acharit hayamim there will come letzim (mockers/scorners) mocking, going after their own ta'avot,

3:4  and saying, "Where is the havtachah (promise) of the Bias Moshiach? From the time Avoteynu fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the Bri'ah (Creation)."

3:5  For this is hidden from them (but they want it that way): that the Shomayim existed from long ago and ha'aretz out of mayim and through mayim BIDVAR Hashem NA'ASU ("By the word of the L-rd were made"--TEHILLIM 33:6).

3:6  Through this very mayim, the tevel (world) of that time perished in the mabbul.

3:7  But the present Shomayim v'ha'aretz are being reserved by the same Dvar Hashem, being kept for Aish (Fire) for Yom haDin and for the destruction of anshei resha (men of wickedness).

3:8  Chaverim, let not this one thing escape your notice, that KI ELEF SHANIM B'EINECHAH K'YOM ("A thousand years in the eyes of Hashem is like one day"--TEHILLIM 90:4) and one day like a thousand years.

3:9  But Hashem is not slow concerning his havtachah (promise), as some consider slowness, but is demonstrating zitzfleisch (patience--3:15) toward you, not wanting any to perish but all to come to teshuvah (repentance).

3:10  But the Yom Hashem will come as a ganav (thief), in which the Shomayim with great suddenness will pass away and the elements, burning up, will be destroyed, and the Olam Hazeh and its ma'asim will be found out [BAMIDBAR 32:23].

3:11  Als (Since) all these things will thus be destroyed, what kinds of persons ought you to be in hitnahagut (conduct) that is characterized by kedusha and chassidus,

3:12  awaiting and hastening the Bias of the Yom Hashem, because of which the Shomayim will be turned into Aish (Fire) and destroyed and the elements set ablaze and melted.

3:13  But SHOMAYIM CHADASHIM VA'ARETZ CHADASHA [YESHAYAH 65:17 cf. 66:22] according to the havtachah (promise) of Hashem we await, in which Tzidkanut (Righteousness) dwells.

3:14  Chaverim, als (since) you await these things, be eager to be found by Him in shalom TAMIM U'MUM ("unblemished and unspotted" --SHEMOT 12:5; VAYIKRA 22:20; YESHAYAH 53:7-9).

3:15  And regard the zitzfleisch (patience) of Adoneynu as Yeshu'at Eloheynu. So also our chaver and ach b'Moshiach Sha'ul, according to the chochmah (wisdom) having been given to him, wrote to you.

3:16  As also in all his letters speaking in them concerning these things, in which are some things lomdish (intricate and complicated to understand), which those unstable and without da'as twist, as also the other Kitvei Hakodesh, to their own destuction.

3:17  Chaverim, you therefore, knowing beforehand, guard yourselves lest with the toyus (error) of the mufkarim (lawless ones) having been led away, you fall from your own stability.

3:18  But grow in the Chen v'Chesed and Da'as of Adoneinu and Moshieinu, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua. Lo hakavod gam haYom v'gam l'Yom haOlam. Omein.