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

30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, (A)“Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”

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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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and I will send to Babylon winnowers,
    and (A)they shall winnow her,
and they shall empty her land,
    when they come against her from every side
    (B)on the day of trouble.

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16 (A)you shall winnow them, and (B)the wind shall carry them away,
    and the tempest shall scatter them.
(C)And you shall rejoice in the Lord;
    in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.

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41 (A)The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all (B)causes of sin and (C)all law-breakers,

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The wicked are not so,
    but are like (A)chaff that the wind drives away.

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20 Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, (A)my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, upon man and beast, upon the trees of the field and the fruit of the ground; (B)it will burn and not be quenched.”

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(A)Every branch in me that does not bear fruit (B)he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, (C)that it may bear more fruit.

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But (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. He will sit (C)as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring (D)offerings in righteousness to the Lord.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Malachi 3:3 Or and they will belong to the Lord, bringers of an offering in righteousness

43 (A)And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to (B)hell,[a] to (C)the unquenchable fire.[b] 45 (D)And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into (E)hell. 47 (F)And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into (G)hell, 48 ‘where (H)their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 9:43 Greek Gehenna; also verse 47
  2. Mark 9:43 Some manuscripts add verses 44 and 46 (which are identical with verse 48)

(A)I have winnowed them with (B)a winnowing fork
    in the gates of the land;
I have bereaved them; I have destroyed my people;
    (C)they did not turn from their ways.

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49 So it will be at (A)the end of the age. The angels will come out and (B)separate the evil from the righteous 50 (C)and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place (D)there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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47 Say to the forest of the Negeb, Hear the word of the Lord: Thus says the Lord God, Behold, (A)I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every (B)green tree in you and every (C)dry tree. The blazing flame shall not be quenched, and (D)all faces from south to north shall be scorched by it. 48 (E)All flesh shall see that I the Lord have kindled it; it shall not be quenched.”

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27 But if you do not listen to me, to (A)keep the Sabbath day holy, (B)and not to bear a burden and enter by the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will (C)kindle a fire in its gates, and it shall (D)devour the palaces of Jerusalem and (E)shall not be quenched.’”

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24 and (A)the oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and fork.

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13 (A)The nations roar like the roaring of many waters,
    (B)but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away,
chased (C)like chaff on the mountains before the wind
    and (D)whirling dust before the storm.

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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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31 And the strong shall become (A)tinder,
    and his work a spark,
and both of them shall burn together,
    with (B)none to quench them.

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Let them be like (A)chaff before the wind,
    with the angel of the Lord driving them away!

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18 That they are like (A)straw before the wind,
    and like (B)chaff that the storm carries away?

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43 Then (A)the righteous will shine like the sun (B)in the kingdom of their Father. (C)He who has ears, let him hear.

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“For behold, I will command,
    (A)and shake the house of Israel among all the nations
as one shakes with a sieve,
    but no pebble shall fall to the earth.

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Therefore they shall be (A)like the morning mist
    or (B)like the dew that goes early away,
(C)like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor
    or (D)like smoke from a window.

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