Malachi 3:13–4:2

¹³“Your words have been ¹arrogant against Me,” says the Lord. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against You?’

¹⁴“You have said, ‘It is ^avain to serve God; and what ^bprofit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked in mourning before the Lord of hosts?

¹⁵‘So now we ^acall the arrogant blessed; not only are the doers of wickedness built up but they also test God and ^bescape.’ ”

The Book of Remembrance

¹⁶Then those who ¹feared the Lord spoke to one another, and the Lord ^agave attention and heard it, and a ^bbook of remembrance was written before Him for those who fear the Lord and who esteem His name.

¹⁷“They will be ^aMine,” says the Lord of hosts, “on the ^bday that I ¹prepare My ^2cown possession, and I will ³spare them as a man ^dspares his own son who serves him.”

¹⁸So you will again ^adistinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve Him.

Chapter 4

Final Admonition

¹“¹For behold, the day is coming, ^aburning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer will be ^bchaff; and the day that is coming will ^cset them ablaze,” says the Lord of hosts, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.”

²“But for you who ¹fear My name, the ^asun of righteousness will rise with ^bhealing in its wings; and you will go forth and ^cskip about like calves from the stall.