24 Therefore, (A)as the tongue of fire devours the stubble,
    and as dry grass sinks down in the flame,
so (B)their root will be (C)as rottenness,
    and their blossom go up like dust;
for they have (D)rejected the law of the Lord of hosts,
    and have (E)despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

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12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel,
“Because you despise this word
    and trust in (A)oppression and perverseness
    and rely on them,

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16 His (A)roots dry up beneath,
    and his branches (B)wither above.

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17 His (A)winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to (B)gather the wheat into his barn, (C)but the chaff he will burn with (D)unquenchable fire.”

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(A)As with the rumbling of chariots,
    they leap on the tops of the mountains,
like the crackling of (B)a flame of fire
    devouring the stubble,
(C)like a powerful army
    drawn up for battle.

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14 Behold, (A)they are like stubble;
    (B)the fire consumes them;
they cannot deliver themselves
    from the power of the flame.
No coal for warming oneself is this,
    no fire to sit before!

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(A)For they are a rebellious people,
    lying children,
children unwilling to hear
    the instruction of the Lord;

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In the (A)greatness of your majesty you overthrow your adversaries;
    you send out your fury; it (B)consumes them like stubble.

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Therefore (A)whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, (B)who gives his Holy Spirit to you.

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12 Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— 13 (A)each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed (B)by fire, and (C)the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.

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41 (A)“‘Look, you scoffers,
    be astounded and perish;
for I am doing a work in your days,
    a work that you will not believe, even if one tells it to you.’”

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48 (A)The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; (B)the word that I have spoken will judge him (C)on the last day.

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16 (A)“The one who hears you hears me, and (B)the one who rejects you rejects me, and (C)the one who rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

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30 (A)but the Pharisees and (B)the lawyers (C)rejected (D)the purpose of God for themselves, not having been baptized by him.)

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12 His (A)winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and (B)gather his wheat into the barn, (C)but the chaff he will burn with (D)unquenchable fire.”

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The Great Day of the Lord

[a] “For behold, (A)the day is coming, (B)burning like an oven, when (C)all the arrogant and (D)all evildoers (E)will be stubble. The day that is coming (F)shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.

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Footnotes

  1. Malachi 4:1 Ch 4:1–6 is ch 3:19–24 in Hebrew

10 For they are (A)like entangled thorns,
    like drunkards as they drink;
    (B)they are consumed like stubble fully dried.

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“Yet (A)it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them,
    (B)whose height was like the height of the cedars
    and who was as strong as the oaks;
(C)I destroyed his fruit above
    and his roots beneath.

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16 Ephraim is stricken;
    (A)their root is dried up;
    they shall bear no fruit.
Even (B)though they give birth,
    (C)I will put their beloved children to death.

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12 But I am (A)like a moth to Ephraim,
    and (B)like dry rot to the house of Judah.

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(A)The wise men shall be put to shame;
    they shall be dismayed (B)and taken;
behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord,
    so what wisdom is in them?

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19 Hear, O earth; behold, I am bringing disaster upon this people,
    (A)the fruit of their devices,
because they have not paid attention to my words;
    and as for my law, they have rejected it.

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14 So the Lord cut off from Israel (A)head and tail,
    palm branch and reed in one day—
15 (B)the elder and honored man is the head,
    and (C)the prophet who teaches lies is the tail;
16 for those who guide this people have been leading them astray,
    and those who are guided by them are swallowed up.
17 Therefore the Lord does not (D)rejoice over their young men,
    and has no compassion on their fatherless and widows;
for everyone is (E)godless and an evildoer,
    and every mouth speaks (F)folly.[a]
(G)For all this his anger has not turned away,
    and his hand is stretched out still.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 9:17 Or speaks disgraceful things

“Because this people has refused the waters of (A)Shiloah that flow gently, and rejoice over (B)Rezin and the son of Remaliah,

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17 (A)For you hate discipline,
    (B)and you cast my words behind you.

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