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1"For indeed the day is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant evildoers will be chaff. The coming day will burn them up," says the LORD who rules over all. "It will not leave even a root or branch. | 1“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.” |
2But for you who respect my name, the sun of vindication will rise with healing wings, and you will skip about like calves released from the stall. | 2“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall. |
3You will trample on the wicked, for they will be like ashes under the soles of your feet on the day which I am preparing," says the LORD who rules over all. | 3Then you 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. |
4"Remember the law of my servant Moses, to whom at Horeb I gave rules and regulations for all Israel to obey. | 4“Remember the law of My servant Moses, the statutes and ordinances I commanded him for all Israel at Horeb. |
5Look, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the LORD arrives. | 5Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD. |
6He will encourage fathers and their children to return to me, so that I will not come and strike the earth with judgment." | 6And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers. Otherwise, I will come and strike the land with a curse.” |
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