Malachi 3:13-4:6

New King James Version

The People Complain Harshly

¹³“Your^(A) words have been ^[a]harsh against Me,”
Says the Lord,
“Yet you say,
‘What have we spoken against You?’
¹⁴^(B)You have said,
‘It is useless to serve God;
What profit is it that we have kept His ordinance,
And that we have walked as mourners
Before the Lord of hosts?
¹⁵So now ^(C)we call the proud blessed,
For those who do wickedness are ^[b]raised up;
They even ^(D)tempt God and go free.’ ”

A Book of Remembrance

¹⁶Then those ^(E)who feared the Lord ^(F)spoke to one another,
And the Lord listened and heard them;
So ^(G)a book of remembrance was written before Him
For those who fear the Lord
And who ^[c]meditate on His name.

¹⁷“They^(H) shall be Mine,” says the Lord of hosts,
“On the day that I make them My ^(I)jewels.^[d]
And ^(J)I will spare them
As a man spares his own son who serves him.”
¹⁸^(K)Then you shall again discern
Between the righteous and the wicked,
Between one who serves God
And one who does not serve Him.

The Great Day of God

4 “For behold, ^(L)the day is coming,
Burning like an oven,
And all ^(M)the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be ^(N)stubble.
And the day which is coming shall burn them up,”
Says the Lord of hosts,
“That will ^(O)leave them neither root nor branch.
²But to you who ^(P)fear My name
The ^(Q)Sun of Righteousness shall arise
With healing in His wings;
And you shall go out
And grow fat like stall-fed calves.
³^(R)You shall trample the wicked,
For they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet
On the day that I do this,”
Says the Lord of hosts.

⁴“Remember the ^(S)Law of Moses, My servant,
Which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel,
With ^(T)the statutes and judgments.
⁵Behold, I will send you ^(U)Elijah the prophet
^(V)Before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.
⁶And ^(W)he will turn
The hearts of the fathers to the children,
And the hearts of the children to their fathers,
Lest I come and ^(X)strike the earth with ^(Y)a curse.”