^{1 1} “For look! The day is about to come, burning like an oven, and all the arrogant and every ⌞evildoer⌟² will be stubble. The coming day will consume³ them,” says Yahweh of hosts. “It will not leave behind for them root or branch.

1. Malachi 4:1–6 in the English Bible is 3:19–24 in the Hebrew Bible
2. Literally “doer of wickedness”
3. Or “devour”

² But for you who revere¹ my name, the sun of righteousness will rise, with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like ⌞fattened calves⌟.²

1. Or “fear”
2. Literally “bull-calves of the animal stall” (on the idiom see HALOT 631 s.v.)

³ You will trample down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day that I am going to act,” says Yahweh of hosts.

⁴ “Remember the instruction¹ of my servant Moses, which I commanded him at Horeb to all Israel, the rules and regulations.

1. Or “law”; Hebrew torah

⁵ Look! I am going to send to you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome day of Yahweh!

⁶ And he will bring back¹ the hearts of the fathers to the sons, and the hearts of the sons to their fathers, so that I will not come and strike the land with a ban.”

1. Or “And he will restore”