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The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or and just decrees">b</a></sup></span> that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> comes. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The Hebrew term rendered decree of utter destruction refers to things devoted (or set apart) to the Lord (or by the Lord) for destruction">c</a></sup></span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> Ch 4:1 - 6 is ch 3:19 - 24 in Hebrew<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">and</span> just decrees</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> The Hebrew term rendered <i class="catch-word">decree of utter destruction</i> refers to things devoted (or set apart) to the Lord (or by the Lord) for destruction<br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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