Malachi 3:13–4:2

^13yYour words have been stout against me, saith the Lord.

^hYet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?

^14yzYe have said, ^aIt is vain to serve God:

And ^awhat profit is it that we have ^bkept ^†his ordinance,

And that we have walked ^†mournfully before the Lord of hosts?

^15cAnd now we ^dcall ^ethe proud happy;

^cYea, ^ethey that work wickedness ^†are set up;

^cYea, they that ^ftempt God are even delivered.

¹⁶Then ^gthey that feared the Lord ^hspake often one to another:

And the Lord hearkened, and heard it,

And ⁱa book of remembrance was written before him

For ^gthem that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.

¹⁷And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts,

^kIn that day when ^lI make up my ^||mjewels;

And ⁿI will spare them, ^oas a man spareth his own son ^pthat serveth him.

¹⁸Then shall ye return, and ^qdiscern between the righteous and the wicked,

^qBetween him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

4For, behold, ^athe day cometh, ^bthat shall burn ^cas an oven;

And all ^dthe proud, yea, and all ^dthat do wickedly, ^eshall be stubble:

And ^fthe day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts,

That it shall ^gleave them neither ^hroot nor branch.

²But unto you ⁱthat fear my name shall ^kthe Sun of ^lrighteousness arise

^mWith healing in ⁿhis wings;

And ye shall go forth, and ^ogrow up ^pas calves of the stall.