The Day of the Lord

[a]“For indeed, 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 Hosts, “not leaving them root or branches. 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.[b] 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 Hosts.

A Final Warning

“Remember the instruction of Moses My servant, the statutes and ordinances I commanded him at Horeb(B) for all Israel. Look, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet(C) before the great and awesome Day of the Lord comes.(D) [c]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[d] with a curse.”

Footnotes

  1. Malachi 4:1 Mal 3:19 in Hb
  2. Malachi 4:2 Or like stall-fed calves
  3. Malachi 4:6 Mal 3:24 in Hb
  4. Malachi 4:6 Or earth

主严惩恶人

万军之耶和华说:“那日临近,势如烧着的火炉,凡狂傲的和行恶的必如碎秸,在那日必被烧尽,根本、枝条一无存留。 但向你们敬畏我名的人,必有公义的日头出现,其光线[a]有医治之能。你们必出来,跳跃如圈里的肥犊。 你们必践踏恶人,在我所定的日子,他们必如灰尘在你们脚掌之下。这是万军之耶和华说的。

劝众遵律守诫

“你们当记念我仆人摩西的律法,就是我在何烈山为以色列众人所吩咐他的律例、典章。

预言以利亚奉遣而至

“看哪,耶和华大而可畏之日未到以前,我必差遣先知以利亚到你们那里去。 他必使父亲的心转向儿女,儿女的心转向父亲,免得我来咒诅遍地。”

Footnotes

  1. 玛拉基书 4:2 “光线”原文作“翅膀”。