The Day of the Lord

1“For indeed, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and everyone who commits wickedness will become stubble. The coming day will consume them,” says the LORD of •Hosts, “not leaving them root or branches. 2But for you who •fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings,a and you will go out and playfully jump like calves from the stall.b 3You will trample the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day I am preparing,” says the LORD of Hosts.

A Final Warning

4“Remember the instruction of Moses My servant, the statutes and ordinances I commanded him at Horebc for all Israel. 5Look, I am going to send you Elijah the prophetd before the great and awesome Day of the LORD comes.e 6fAnd he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers.g Otherwise, I will come and strike the landh with a curse.”