Malachi 4 DBY
Summary: In its short closing chapter (in the Hebrew Bible, the final verses of chapter 3), Malachi and the whole Old Testament canon of the Christian arrangement ends with a final contrast: "the day" is coming, burning like an oven, that will leave the arrogant and evildoers as stubble, but for those who fear God's name, "the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings," and they will go out leaping like calves from the stall (v. 1-2). The people are charged to remember the Law of Moses given at Horeb, and the book's — and the prophetic era's — final promise is that God will send the prophet Elijah before "the great and awesome day of the LORD," who will turn the hearts of fathers to children and children to fathers, lest the land be struck with a curse.
1For behold, the day cometh, burning as a furnace; and all the proud and all that work wickedness shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, so that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
2And unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth and leap like fatted calves.
3And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I prepare, saith Jehovah of hosts.
4Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, the statutes and ordinances.
5Behold, I send unto you Elijah the prophet, before the coming of the great and terrible day of Jehovah.
6And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
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