Malachi 3:13–4:2

The People Complain Harshly

¹³“Your ^zwords have been ³harsh against Me,”

Says the Lord,

Yet you say,

‘What have we spoken against You?’

^14aYou have said,

‘It is useless to serve God;

What profit is it that we have kept His ordinance,

And that we have walked as mourners

Before the Lord of hosts?

¹⁵So now ^bwe call the proud blessed,

For those who do wickedness are ⁴raised up;

They even ^ctempt God and go free.’ ”

A Book of Remembrance

¹⁶Then those ^dwho feared the Lord ^espoke to one another,

And the Lord listened and heard them;

So ^fa book of remembrance was written before Him

For those who fear the Lord

And who ⁵meditate on His name.

¹⁷“They ^gshall be Mine,” says the Lord of hosts,

“On the day that I make them My ^hjewels. ⁶

And ⁱI will spare them

As a man spares his own son who serves him.”

^18jThen you shall again discern

Between the righteous and the wicked,

Between one who serves God

And one who does not serve Him.

The Great Day of God

4“For behold, ^athe day is coming,

Burning like an oven,

And all ^bthe proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be ^cstubble.

And the day which is coming shall burn them up,”

Says the Lord of hosts,

“That will ^dleave them neither root nor branch.

²But to you who ^efear My name

The ^fSun of Righteousness shall arise

With healing in His wings;

And you shall go out

And grow fat like stall-fed calves.