Malachi 4 GNV
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 commeth that shall burne as an ouen, and all the proude, yea, and all that doe wickedly, shall be stubble, and the day that commeth, shall burne them vp, sayeth the Lord of hostes, and shall leaue them neither roote nor branche.
2But vnto you that feare my Name, shall the sunne of righteousnesse arise, and health shall be vnder his wings, and ye shall goe forth, and growe vp as fat calues.
3And ye shall treade downe the wicked: for they shall be dust vnder the soles of your feete in the day that I shall doe this, sayeth the Lord of hostes.
4Remember the lawe of Moses my seruant, which I commanded vnto him in Horeb for all Israel with the statutes and iudgements.
5Beholde, I will sende you Eliiah the Prophet before the comming of the great and fearefull day of the Lord.
6And he shall turne 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 cursing.
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