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Final Admonition
1 “1For behold, the day is coming, Aburning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer will be Bchaff; and the day that is coming will Cset them ablaze,” says the Lord of hosts, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.” 2 “But for you who 1fear My name, the Asun of righteousness will rise with Bhealing in its wings; and you will go forth and Cskip about like calves from the stall. 3 You will Atread down the wicked, for they will be Bashes under the soles of your feet Con the day 1which I am preparing,” says the Lord of hosts.
4 “1ARemember the law of Moses My servant, even the statutes and ordinances which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel.
5 “Behold, I am going to send you AElijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord. 6 He will 1Arestore the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, so that I will not come and Bsmite the land with a 2curse.”
1 4:1 Ch 3:19 in Heb A 4:1 Ps 21:9; Nah 1:5, 6; Mal 3:2, 3; 2 Pet 3:7 B 4:1 Is 5:24; Obad 18 C 4:1 Is 9:18, 19 1 4:2 Or revere A 4:2 2 Sam 23:4; Is 30:26; 60:1 B 4:2 Jer 30:17; 33:6 C 4:2 Is 35:6 A 4:3 Job 40:12; Is 26:6; Mic 5:8 B 4:3 Ezek 28:18 C 4:3 Mal 3:17 1 4:3 Or when I act 1 4:4 Ch 3:22 in Heb A 4:4 Deut 4:23; 8:11, 19 A 4:5 Matt 11:14; 17:10-13; Mark 9:11-13; Luke 1:17; John 1:21 1 4:6 Or turn A 4:6 Luke 1:17 B 4:6 Is 11:4; Rev 19:15 2 4:6 Or ban of destruction