The Day of the Lord

4 “For look, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and everyone who commits wickedness will become stubble. The coming day will consume them,” says the Lord of Armies, “not leaving them root or branches. ² But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings,^(A) and you will go out and playfully jump like calves from the stall.^{[a] 3} You will trample the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day I am preparing,” says the Lord of Armies.

A Final Warning

⁴ “Remember the instruction of Moses my servant, the statutes and ordinances I commanded him at Horeb^(B) for all Israel. ⁵ Look, I am going to send you the prophet Elijah^(C) before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.^{(D) 6} And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers.^(E) Otherwise, I will come and strike the land^[b] with a curse.”