| New American Standard Bible 1995 | New International Version |
| 1"For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer will be chaff; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze," says the LORD of hosts, "so that it will leave them neither root nor branch." | 1"Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and the day that is coming will set them on fire," says the LORD Almighty. "Not a root or a branch will be left to them. |
| 2"But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall. | 2But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays. And you will go out and frolic like well-fed calves. |
| 3"You will tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day which I am preparing," says the LORD of hosts. | 3Then you will trample on the wicked; they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day when I act," says the LORD Almighty. |
| 4"Remember the law of Moses My servant, even the statutes and ordinances which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel. | 4"Remember the law of my servant Moses, the decrees and laws I gave him at Horeb for all Israel. |
| 5"Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the LORD. | 5"See, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before that great and dreadful day of the LORD comes. |
| 6"He will restore the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, so that I will not come and smite the land with a curse." | 6He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents; or else I will come and strike the land with total destruction." |
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