Mal 4 | LEB | STEP | “For look! The day is about to come, burning like an oven, and all the arrogant and every ⌞evildoer⌟ will be stubble. The coming day will consume them,” says Yahweh of hosts. “It will not leave behind for them root or branch.

Malachi 4

1 ^{▼▼Malachi 4:1–6 in the English Bible is 3:19–24 in the Hebrew Bible} “For look! The day is about to come, burning like an oven, and all the arrogant and every ⌞evildoer⌟ ^{▼▼Literally “doer of wickedness”} will be stubble. The coming day will consume ^{▼▼Or “devour”} them,” says Yahweh of hosts. “It will not leave behind for them root or branch. 2 But for you who revere ^{▼▼Or “fear”} my name, the sun of righteousness will rise, with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like ⌞fattened calves⌟. ^{▼▼Literally “bull-calves of the animal stall” (on the idiom see HALOT 631 s.v.)} 3 You will trample down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day that I am going to act,” says Yahweh of hosts.

4 “Remember the instruction ^{▼▼Or “law”; Hebrew torah} of my servant Moses, which I commanded him at Horeb to all Israel, the rules and regulations. 5 Look! I am going to send to you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome day of Yahweh! 6 And he will bring back ^{▼▼Or “And he will restore”} the hearts of the fathers to the sons, and the hearts of the sons to their fathers, so that I will not come and strike the land with a ban.”