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

Look, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the Lord arrives.

Who can endure the day of his coming? Who can keep standing when he appears? For he will be like a refiner's fire, like a launderer's soap.

"Look, the day! Look, it is coming! Doom has gone out! The staff has budded, pride has blossomed!

Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm signal on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land shake with fear, for the day of the Lord is about to come. Indeed, it is near!

The Lord's great day of judgment is almost here; it is approaching very rapidly! There will be a bitter sound on the Lord's day of judgment; at that time warriors will cry out in battle.

A day of the Lord is about to come when your possessions will be divided as plunder in your midst.

For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and surround you and close in on you from every side.

"But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near.

But by the same word the present heavens and earth have been reserved for fire, by being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

Shall burn

You burn them up like a fiery furnace when you appear; the Lord angrily devours them; the fire consumes them.

The mountains tremble before him, the hills convulse; the earth is laid waste before him, the world and all its inhabitants are laid waste.

Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord's angry judgment. The whole earth will be consumed by his fiery wrath. Indeed, he will bring terrifying destruction on all who live on the earth."

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire."

With flaming fire he will mete out punishment on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

And all the

So now we consider the arrogant to be happy; indeed, those who practice evil are successful. In fact, those who challenge God escape!'"

In the abundance of your majesty you have overthrown those who rise up against you. You sent forth your wrath; it consumed them like stubble.

You remove all the wicked of the earth like slag. Therefore I love your rules.

Indeed, the Lord who commands armies has planned a day of judgment, for all the high and mighty, for all who are proud -- they will be humiliated;

Therefore, as flaming fire devours straw, and dry grass disintegrates in the flames, so their root will rot, and their flower will blow away like dust. For they have rejected the law of the Lord who commands armies, they have spurned the commands of the Holy One of Israel.

Indeed, they are barely planted; yes, they are barely sown; yes, they barely take root in the earth, and then he blows on them, causing them to dry up, and the wind carries them away like straw.

Who stirs up this one from the east? Who officially commissions him for service? He hands nations over to him, and enables him to subdue kings. He makes them like dust with his sword, like windblown straw with his bow.

Look, they are like straw, which the fire burns up; they cannot rescue themselves from the heat of the flames. There are no coals to warm them, no firelight to enjoy.

The descendants of Jacob will be a fire, and the descendants of Joseph a flame. The descendants of Esau will be like stubble. They will burn them up and devour them. There will not be a single survivor of the descendants of Esau!" Indeed, the Lord has spoken it.

Surely they will be totally consumed like entangled thorn bushes, like the drink of drunkards, like very dry stubble.

That it

Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above.

For Israel's sake I destroyed the Amorites. They were as tall as cedars and as strong as oaks, but I destroyed the fruit on their branches and their roots in the ground.

General references

I wipe them out and beat them to death; they cannot get up; they fall at my feet.

You destroy their offspring from the earth, their descendants from among the human race.

Fire goes before him; on every side it burns up his enemies.

For then there will be great suffering unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the world until now, or ever will happen.

And I will perform wonders in the sky above and miraculous signs on the earth below, blood and fire and clouds of smoke.