耶和华的日子

“万军之耶和华说,‘那日要来临了,就像烧红的火炉,所有狂妄自大、作恶多端的人都要像碎秸一样被火烧尽,连根带枝,荡然无存。 但必有公义的太阳为你们这些敬畏我名的人升起,它的光芒有医治的能力。你们必像栏中出来的牛犊一样欢欣跳跃。 到我所定的日子,你们必践踏恶人,他们必成为你们脚下的尘土。’这是万军之耶和华说的。

“你们要记住我仆人摩西的律法,就是我在何烈山借着他传给以色列人的律例和典章。

“看啊,在耶和华那伟大而可畏的日子来临以前,我必差遣以利亚先知到你们那里。 他必使父亲的心转向儿女,儿女的心转向父亲,免得我来用咒诅毁灭这地方。”

The Day of the Lord Brings Judgment

[a]“Certainly the day is coming! It will burn like a furnace. All arrogant people and all evildoers will be ⌞like⌟ straw. The day that is coming will burn them up completely,” says the Lord of Armies. “It won’t leave a single root or branch.

“The Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing in his wings for you people who fear my name. You will go out and leap like calves let out of a stall. You will trample on wicked people, because on the day I act they will be ashes under the soles of your feet,” says the Lord of Armies.

Remember What God Has Done and Will Do

“Remember the teachings of my servant Moses, the rules and regulations that I gave to him at Horeb for all Israel.

“I’m going to send you the prophet Elijah before that very terrifying day of the Lord comes. He will change parents’ attitudes toward their children and children’s attitudes toward their parents. If not, I will come and reclaim my land by destroying you.”

Footnotes

  1. 4:1 Malachi 4:1–6 in English Bibles is Malachi 3:19–24 in the Hebrew Bible.

Final Admonition

“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant (proud, self-righteous, haughty), and every evildoer shall be stubble; and the day that is coming shall set them on fire,” says the Lord of hosts, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.(A) But for you who fear My name [with awe-filled reverence] the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings. And you will go forward and leap [joyfully] like calves [released] from the stall. You will trample the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day that I do this,” says the Lord of hosts.

“Remember [with thoughtful concern] the Law of Moses My servant, the statutes and the ordinances which I commanded him on [Mount] Horeb [to give] to all Israel.

“Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord.(B) He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers [a reconciliation produced by repentance], so that I will not come and strike the land with a curse [of complete destruction].”(C)

耶和華的日子

「萬軍之耶和華說,『那日要來臨了,就像燒紅的火爐,所有狂妄自大、作惡多端的人都要像碎稭一樣被火燒盡,連根帶枝,蕩然無存。 但必有公義的太陽為你們這些敬畏我名的人升起,它的光芒有醫治的能力。你們必像欄中出來的牛犢一樣歡欣跳躍。 到我所定的日子,你們必踐踏惡人,他們必成為你們腳下的塵土。』這是萬軍之耶和華說的。

「你們要記住我僕人摩西的律法,就是我在何烈山藉著他傳給以色列人的律例和典章。

「看啊,在耶和華那偉大而可畏的日子來臨以前,我必差遣以利亞先知到你們那裡。 他必使父親的心轉向兒女,兒女的心轉向父親,免得我來用咒詛毀滅這地方。」