| 1 | For behold, the day comes that shall burn like an oven, and all the proud
and
arrogant, yes, and all that do wickedly
and
are lawless, shall be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. |
| 2 | But unto you who revere
and
worshipfully fear My name shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in His wings
and
His beams, and you shall go forth and gambol like calves [released] from the stall
and
leap for joy. |
| 3 | And you shall tread down the lawless
and
wicked, for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, says the Lord of hosts. |
| 4 | [Earnestly] remember the law of Moses, My servant, the statutes and the ordinances which I commanded him on [Mount] Horeb [to give] to all Israel. |
| 5 | Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes. |
| 6 | And he shall turn
and
reconcile the hearts of the [estranged] fathers to the [ungodly] children, and the hearts of the [rebellious] children to [the piety of] their fathers [a reconciliation produced by repentance of the ungodly], lest I come and smite the land with a curse
and
a ban of utter destruction. |
Cross references:
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Malachi 4:1 : Isa. 5:21-25; Matt. 3:12.
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Malachi 4:5 : Matt. 11:14; 17:10-13.
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Malachi 4:6 : Luke 1:17.
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