1 - "Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and the day that is coming will set them on fire," says the Lord Almighty. "Not a root or a branch will be left to them.
2 - But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays. And you will go out and frolic like well-fed calves.
3 - Then you will trample on the wicked; they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day when I act," says the Lord Almighty.
4 - "Remember the law of my servant Moses, the decrees and laws I gave him at Horeb for all Israel.
5 - "See, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes.
6 - He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents; or else I will come and strike the land with total destruction."