Behold, (A)the day of the Lord comes,
Cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger,
To lay the land desolate;
And He will destroy (B)its sinners from it.

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See, the day(A) of the Lord is coming
    —a cruel(B) day, with wrath(C) and fierce anger(D)
to make the land desolate
    and destroy the sinners within it.

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14 (A)The great day of the Lord is near;
It is near and hastens quickly.
The noise of the day of the Lord is bitter;
There the mighty men shall cry out.
15 (B)That day is a day of wrath,
A day of trouble and distress,
A day of devastation and desolation,
A day of darkness and gloominess,
A day of clouds and thick darkness,
16 A day of (C)trumpet and alarm
Against the fortified cities
And against the high towers.

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14 The great day of the Lord(A) is near(B)
    near and coming quickly.
The cry on the day of the Lord is bitter;
    the Mighty Warrior shouts his battle cry.
15 That day will be a day of wrath—
    a day of distress and anguish,
        a day of trouble and ruin,
    a day of darkness(C) and gloom,
        a day of clouds and blackness(D)
16     a day of trumpet and battle cry(E)
against the fortified cities
    and against the corner towers.(F)

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The Great Day of God

“For behold, (A)the day is coming,
Burning like an oven,
And all (B)the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be (C)stubble.
And the day which is coming shall burn them up,”
Says the Lord of hosts,
“That will (D)leave them neither root nor branch.

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Judgment and Covenant Renewal

[a]“Surely the day is coming;(A) it will burn like a furnace.(B) All the arrogant(C) and every evildoer will be stubble,(D) and the day that is coming will set them on fire,(E)” says the Lord Almighty. “Not a root or a branch(F) will be left to them.

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Footnotes

  1. Malachi 4:1 In Hebrew texts 4:1-6 is numbered 3:19-24.

Behold, I will send you (A)Elijah the prophet
(B)Before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.

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“See, I will send the prophet Elijah(A) to you before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes.(B)

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And (A)he will turn
The hearts of the fathers to the children,
And the hearts of the children to their fathers,
Lest I come and (B)strike the earth with (C)a curse.”

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He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children,(A) and the hearts of the children to their parents; or else I will come and strike(B) the land with total destruction.”(C)

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