Malachi 4:1

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The Great Day of the Lord

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

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2 Thessalonians 1:8

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⁸^(A)in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those ^(B)who do not know God and on those who ^(C)do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

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2 Peter 3:7

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⁷But by the same word ^(A)the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and ^(B)destruction of the ungodly.

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Malachi 3:2

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²But ^(A)who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For ^(B)he is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap.

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Isaiah 47:14

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¹⁴Behold, ^(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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Isaiah 5:24

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²⁴Therefore, ^(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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Obadiah 18

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¹⁸^(A)The house of Jacob shall be a fire,
    and the house of Joseph a flame,
    and the house of Esau ^(B)stubble;
they shall burn them and consume them,
    ^(C)and there shall be no survivor for the house of Esau,
for the Lord has spoken.

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Malachi 3:15

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¹⁵And now we call ^(A)the arrogant blessed. ^(B)Evildoers not only prosper but ^(C)they put God to the test and they escape.’”

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Zephaniah 1:18

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¹⁸^(A)Neither their silver nor their gold
    shall be able to deliver them
    on the day of the wrath of the Lord.
^(B)In the fire of his jealousy,
    ^(C)all the earth shall be consumed;
^(D)for a full and sudden end
    he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.

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Isaiah 2:12-17

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¹²^(A)For the Lord of hosts has a day
    against all that is proud and lofty,
    against all that is lifted up—and it shall be brought low;
¹³against all the ^(B)cedars of Lebanon,
    lofty and lifted up;
    and against all the ^(C)oaks of Bashan;
¹⁴against all ^(D)the lofty mountains,
    and against all the uplifted hills;
¹⁵against every high tower,
    and against every fortified wall;
¹⁶against all ^(E)the ships of Tarshish,
    and against all the beautiful craft.
¹⁷^(F)And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled,
    and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low,
    and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.