Final Admonition
4 “[a]For behold, the day is coming, (A)burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer will be (B)chaff; and the day that is coming will (C)set them ablaze,” says the Lord of hosts, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.” 2 “But for you who [b]fear My name, the (D)sun of righteousness will rise with (E)healing in its wings; and you will go forth and (F)skip about like calves from the stall. 3 You will (G)tread down the wicked, for they will be (H)ashes under the soles of your feet (I)on the day [c]which I am preparing,” says the Lord of hosts.
4 “[d](J)Remember the law of Moses My servant, even the statutes and ordinances which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel.
5 “Behold, I am going to send you (K)Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord. 6 He will [e](L)restore the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, so that I will not come and (M)smite the land with a [f]curse.”
Footnotes
- Malachi 4:1 Ch 3:19 in Heb
- Malachi 4:2 Or revere
- Malachi 4:3 Or when I act
- Malachi 4:4 Ch 3:22 in Heb
- Malachi 4:6 Or turn
- Malachi 4:6 Or ban of destruction
Cross references
- Malachi 4:1 : Ps 21:9; Nah 1:5, 6; Mal 3:2, 3; 2 Pet 3:7
- Malachi 4:1 : Is 5:24; Obad 18
- Malachi 4:1 : Is 9:18, 19
- Malachi 4:2 : 2 Sam 23:4; Is 30:26; 60:1
- Malachi 4:2 : Jer 30:17; 33:6
- Malachi 4:2 : Is 35:6
- Malachi 4:3 : Job 40:12; Is 26:6; Mic 5:8
- Malachi 4:3 : Ezek 28:18
- Malachi 4:3 : Mal 3:17
- Malachi 4:4 : Deut 4:23; 8:11, 19
- Malachi 4:5 : Matt 11:14; 17:10-13; Mark 9:11-13; Luke 1:17; John 1:21
- Malachi 4:6 : Luke 1:17
- Malachi 4:6 : Is 11:4; Rev 19:15