1‘You can be sure the day of the LORD is coming. My anger will burn like a furnace. All those who are proud will be like straw. So will all those who do what is evil. The day that is coming will set them on fire,’ says the LORD who rules over all. ‘Not even a root or a branch will be left to them.2But here is what will happen for you who have respect for me. The sun that brings life will rise. Its rays will bring healing to my people. You will go out and leap for joy like calves that have just been fed.3Then you will trample on sinful people. They will be like ashes under your feet. That will happen on the day I judge,’ says the LORD.4‘Remember the law my servant Moses gave you. Remember the rules and laws I gave him at Mount Horeb. They were for the whole nation of Israel.5‘I will send the prophet Elijah to you. He will come before the day of the LORD arrives. It will be a great and terrifying day.6Elijah will bring peace between parents and their children. He will also bring peace between children and their parents. If that does not happen, I will come. And I will completely destroy the land.’
Malachi 4
English Standard Version
The Great Day of the Lord
1[1] “For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. (Isa 47:14; Mal 3:2; Mal 3:15; Mal 4:5; Mt 3:12; Lu 3:17; 2Th 1:7)2But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall. (Ps 84:11; Isa 53:5; Jer 23:6; Jer 50:11; Mal 3:16; Lu 1:78; Joh 1:4; Joh 8:12; Joh 9:5; Joh 12:46)3And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the Lord of hosts. (Mal 3:17)4“Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules[2] that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel. (Ex 20:3; De 4:9; De 4:10)5“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. (Joe 2:31; Mal 3:1; Mt 11:14; Mr 9:11; Lu 1:17)6And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”[3] (Isa 11:4; Zec 5:3; Lu 1:17)