Malachi 4
The Day of the Lord
1 ▼▼Mal 3:19 in Hb
“For indeed, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and everyone who commits wickedness will become stubble. The coming day will consume them,” says the Lord of ▼▼Hosts/hosts: Military forces consisting of God's angels, sometimes including the sun, moon, and stars, and occasionally, Israel
Hosts, “not leaving them root or branches. 2But for you who ▼▼fear(s) God or the Lord/ the fear of the Lord: No single English word conveys every aspect of the word fear in this phrase. The meaning includes worshipful submission, reverential awe, and obedient respect to the covenant-keeping God of Israel.
fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, d and you will go out and playfully jump like calves from the stall. ▼▼Or like stall-fed calves
3You will trample the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day I am preparing,” says the Lord of Hosts. A Final Warning
4 “Remember the instruction of Moses My servant, the statutes and ordinances I commanded him at Horeb f for all Israel. 5 Look, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet g before the great and awesome Day of the Lord comes. h 6 ▼▼Mal 3:24 in Hb
And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers. j Otherwise, I will come and strike the land ▼▼Or earth
with a curse.”
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