Malachi 4

THE DAY OF THE LORD

4“For look, 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 Armies, “not leaving them root or branches. ²But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings,^k and you will go out and playfully jump like calves from the stall.^{A 3}You 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 Armies.

A FINAL WARNING

⁴“Remember the instruction of Moses my servant, the statutes and ordinances I commanded him at Horeb^l for all Israel. ⁵Look, I am going to send you the prophet Elijah^m before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.^{n 6}And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers.^o Otherwise, I will come and strike the land^B with a curse.”