Malachi 4 WEB
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.
1“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
2But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.
3You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make,” says Yahweh of Armies.
4“Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.
5Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
6He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”
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