Malachi 3:13–4:2

¹³You have spoken harsh words against me, says the Lord. Yet you say, “How have we spoken against you?”^{* 14}You have said, “It is vain to serve God. What do we profit by keeping his command or by going about as mourners before the Lord of hosts?^{* 15}Now we count the arrogant happy; evildoers not only prosper, but when they put God to the test they escape.”^*

The Reward of the Faithful

¹⁶Then those who revered the Lord spoke with one another. The Lord took note and listened, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who revered the Lord and thought on his name.^{* 17}They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, my special possession on the day when I act, and I will spare them as parents spare their children who serve them.^{* 18}Then once more you shall see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.^*

The Great Day of the Lord

⁴ⁿSee, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.^{* 2}But for you who revere my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.^*