Malachi 4:1
1[Heb. 3:19] ▼ “For indeed the day ▼▼ This day is the well-known “day of the Lord” so pervasive in OT eschatological texts (see Joel 2:30–31; Amos 5:18; Obad 15). For the believer it is a day of grace and salvation; for the sinner, a day of judgment and destruction.
is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant evildoers will be chaff. The coming day will burn them up,” says the Lord who rules over all. “It ▼▼Heb “so that it” (so NASB, NRSV). For stylistic reasons a new sentence was begun here in the translation.
will not leave even a root or branch.
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