For 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.
And 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.
And 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.
Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, the statutes and ordinances.
Behold, I send unto you Elijah the prophet, before the coming of the great and terrible day of Jehovah.
And 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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Day of the LORD pictured as burning oven consuming the arrogant, while those who fear God’s name rise with ‘healing in its wings’; admonition to remember Moses’ Law and expect Elijah-like prophet before the great and dreadful day, turning hearts of fathers and children lest the land be struck with a curse.
Rebukes spiritual apathy and foretells a coming messenger.
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