(4:1a) "The day cometh, that shall burn as an oven."
(4:1b-3) "All the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall
burn them up ... And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet."
God will burn "the wicked" and the "righteous" will walk around on their ashes.
(4:5) "I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great
and dreadful day of the LORD." (See note for 3:1)
(4:6) "Lest I come and smite the earth with a curse."
The Old Testament ends fittingly with these words: "Lest I come and smite the
earth with a curse." Will God curse the earth (again)?
4:1
For, behold, the day cometh,that shall burn as an oven; and all the
proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that
cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them
neither root nor branch.
4:2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with
healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the
stall.
4:3And ye shall tread down
the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day
that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.
4:4Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in
Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.
4:5
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great
and dreadful day of the LORD:
4:6
And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart
of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
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