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

Behold, I send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the LORD:

But who may abide the time of his coming? and who shall stand when he appears? for he shall be like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap:

Behold the day, behold, it comes; the morning is gone forth; the rod has blossomed; pride has budded.

Blow the shofar in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain; let all the inhabitants of the earth tremble for the day of the LORD comes, for it is near at hand;

The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hastens greatly, the bitter voice of the day of the LORD; the mighty man shall cry there.

Behold, the day of the LORD comes, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.

For the days shall come upon thee that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee and compass thee round and constrain thee on every side

And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is near.

but the heavens, which are now, and the earth are conserved by the same word, kept unto the fire in the day of judgment and of perdition of the ungodly men.

Shall burn

Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger; the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.

The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, and the world and all that dwell therein.

Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD's wrath, but the whole earth shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all those that dwell in the earth.

whose fan is in his hand; and he will thoroughly purge his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the storehouse, but he will burn up the chaff with fire that shall never be quenched.

with flaming fire, to take vengeance on those that do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ,

And all the

We say, therefore, now, that blessed are the proud and even that those that work wickedness are prospered; those that tempted God have escaped.

And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown those that rose up against thee; thou didst send forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.

Thou dost cause all the wicked of the earth to come undone like dross; therefore I have loved thy testimonies.

For the day of the LORD of the hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:

Therefore as the fire devours the stubble and the flame consumes the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go away as dust because they have cast away the law of the LORD of the hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

As if they had never been planted, as if they had never been sown, as if their stock had never taken root in the earth; even blowing upon them, they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.

Who raised up righteousness from the east, called him that he might follow him, gave the Gentiles before him, and made him rule over kings? He gave them as the dust to his sword and as driven stubble to his bow.

Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver their lives from the hand of the flame; there shall not be a coal left to warm at, nor light to sit before it.

And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it.

For while they are entwined together as thorns, and while the drunkards shall be drinking, they shall be devoured as stubble full of dryness.

That it

His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above his branch shall be cut off.

Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as an oak; yet I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath.

General references

And I consumed them and wounded them, and they did not arise; they are fallen under my feet.

Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth and their seed from among the children of men.

A fire shall go before him and burn up his enemies round about.

for then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

and I will show wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath: blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke;