Malachi 4:1

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Summary

For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

The day

Shall burn

2 Thessalonians 1:8

And all the

That it

Job 18:16

Amos 2:9

General references

Acts 2:19

Bible References

The day

See, I am sending you Elijah the prophet before the day of the Lord comes, that great day, greatly to be feared.

But by whom may the day of his coming be faced? and who may keep his place when he is seen? for he is like the metal-tester's fire and the cleaner's soap.

See, the day; see, it is coming: the crowning time has gone out; the twisted way is flowering, pride has put out buds.

Let the horn be sounded in Zion, and a war-cry in my holy mountain; let all the people of the land be troubled: for the day of the Lord is coming;

The great day of the Lord is near, it is near and coming very quickly; the bitter day of the Lord is near, coming on more quickly than a man of war.

See, a day of the Lord is coming when they will make division of your goods taken by force before your eyes.

For the time will come when your attackers will put a wall round you, and come all round you and keep you in on every side,

But when you see armies all round about Jerusalem, then be certain that her destruction is near.

But the present heaven and the present earth have been kept for destruction by fire, which is waiting for them on the day of the judging and destruction of evil men.

Shall burn

You will make them like a flaming oven before you; the Lord in his wrath will put an end to them, and they will be burned up in the fire.

The mountains are shaking because of him, and the hills flowing away; the earth is falling to bits before him, the world and all who are in it.

Even their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the day of the Lord's wrath; but all the land will be burned up in the fire of his bitter wrath: for he will put an end, even suddenly, to all who are living in the land.

In whose hand is the instrument with which he will make clean his grain; he will put the good grain in his store, but the waste will be burned up in the fire which will never be put out.

To give punishment to those who have no knowledge of God, and to those who do not give ear to the good news of our Lord Jesus:

And all the

And now to us the men of pride seem happy; yes, the evil-doers are doing well; they put God to the test and are safe.

When you are lifted up in power, all those who come against you are crushed: when you send out your wrath, they are burned up like dry grass.

All the sinners of the earth are like waste metal in your eyes; and for this cause I give my love to your unchanging word.

For the day of the Lord of armies is coming on all the pride of men, and on all who are high and lifted up;

For this cause, as the waste of the grain is burned up by tongues of fire, and as the dry grass goes down before the flame, so their root will be like the dry stems of grain, and their flower will go up in dust: because they have gone against the law of the Lord of armies, and have given no honour to the word of the Holy One of Israel.

They have only now been planted, and their seed put into the earth, and they have only now taken root, when he sends out his breath over them and they become dry, and the storm-wind takes them away like dry grass.

Who sent out from the east one who is right wherever he goes? he gives the nations into his hands, and makes him ruler over kings; he gives them as the dust to his sword, as dry stems before the wind to his bow.

Truly, they have become like dry stems, they have been burned in the fire; they are not able to keep themselves safe from the power of the flame: it is not a coal for warming them, or a fire by which a man may be seated.

And the children of Jacob will be a fire and those of Joseph a flame, and the children of Esau dry stems of grass, burned up by them till all is gone: and there will be no people living in Esau; for the Lord has said it.

For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.

That it

Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.

Though I sent destruction on the Amorite before them, who was tall as the cedar and strong as the oak-tree, cutting off his fruit from on high and his roots from under the earth.

General references

I have sent destruction on them and given them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.

Their fruit will be cut off from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.

Fire goes before him, burning up all those who are against him round about.

Because in those days there will be great sorrow, such as there has not been from the start of the world till now, or ever will be.

And wonders will be seen in heaven, and signs on the earth, blood and fire and smoke: