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Malachi 4 Bible in Basic English

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  • Scholarly edition
  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew (not verified)
  • NT: Critical text (not verified)
  • Protestant (66 books)
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  • 1965
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RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
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1 For see, the day is coming, it is burning like an oven; all the men of pride and all who do evil will be dry stems of grass: and in the day which is coming they will be burned up, says the Lord of armies, till they have not a root or a branch.
1 PORQUE he aquí, viene el día ardiente como un horno; y todos los soberbios, y todos los que hacen maldad, serán estopa; y aquel día que vendrá, los abrasará, ha dicho Jehová de los ejércitos, el cual no les dejará ni raíz ni rama.
1 “For behold, the day comes, burning like a furnace, when all the proud and all who work wickedness will be stubble. The day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
2 But to you who give worship to my name, the sun of righteousness will come up with new life in its wings; and you will go out, playing like young oxen full of food.
2 Mas á vosotros los que teméis mi nombre, nacerá el Sol de justicia, y en sus alas [traerá] salud: y saldréis, y saltaréis como becerros de la manada.
2 But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out and leap like calves of the stall.
3 And the evil-doers will be crushed under you, they will be dust under your feet, in the day when I do my work, says the Lord of armies.
3 Y hollaréis á los malos, los cuales serán ceniza bajo las plantas de vuestros pies, en el día que yo hago, ha dicho Jehová de los ejércitos.
3 You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make,” says Yahweh of Armies.
4 Keep in mind the law of Moses, my servant, which I gave him in Horeb for all Israel, even the rules and the decisions.
4 Acordaos de la ley de Moisés mi siervo, al cual encargué en Horeb ordenanzas y leyes para todo Israel.
4 “Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.
5 See, I am sending you Elijah the prophet before the day of the Lord comes, that great day, greatly to be feared.
5 He aquí, yo os envío á Elías el profeta, antes que venga el día de Jehová grande y terrible.
5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
6 And by him the hearts of fathers will be turned to their children, and the hearts of children to their fathers; for fear that I may come and put the earth under a curse.
6 El convertirá el corazón de los padres á los hijos, y el corazón de los hijos á los padres: no sea que yo venga, y con destrucción hiera la tierra.
6 He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”
Cross references (6)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 2 Thessalonians 1:8; 2 Peter 3:7; Malachi 3:2; Isaiah 47:14; Isaiah 5:24
  2. 2 Jeremiah 33:6; Psalm 84:11; Isaiah 30:26; Luke 1:78; John 8:12
  3. 3 Job 40:12; Romans 16:20; Micah 7:10; Zechariah 10:5; Malachi 3:17
  4. 4 Deuteronomy 4:10; James 2:9–13; Galatians 5:24–25; Romans 3:31; Luke 16:29–31
  5. 5 Luke 1:17; Matthew 17:10–13; Mark 9:11–13; Matthew 11:13–14; Malachi 3:1
  6. 6 Luke 1:16–17; Isaiah 11:4; Hebrews 10:26–31; Matthew 23:35–38; Daniel 9:11

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 4:1 Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies (Book IV, Preface)

    "For the day of the Lord cometh as a burning furnace, and all sinners shall be stubble, they who do evil things, and the day shall burn them up." Now, who this Lord is that brings such a day about, John the Baptist points out, when he says of Christ, "He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with …

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  2. Quotes verse 4:4 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book XX, Chapters 27–29)

    In the succeeding words, "Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel," the prophet opportunely mentions precepts and statutes, after declaring the important distinction hereafter to be made between those who observe and those who despise the law.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)

  3. Quotes verse 4:2 Augustine of Hippo, Our Lord's Sermon on the Mount (Book I, Chapter XXIII)

    … of which it is said, "She is the brightness of the everlasting light;" of which it is also said, "The Sun of righteousness has arisen upon me;" and again, "But unto you that fear the name of the Lord shall the Sun of righteousness arise:" so that you would also understand the rain as being the watering with the doctrine …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)

  4. Quotes verse 4:2 Augustine of Hippo, Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament (Sermon VIII)

    Let then your wrath at length pass away also, now that we are celebrating the days of the great Sun, of that Sun of which Scripture saith, "Unto you shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in His wings." What is, "in His wings"?

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)