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Malachi 4

Highlighted words differ from the WEB. Most differences are matters of wording, style or the age of the English, not of meaning; a few reflect different manuscripts.

  1. 1
    WEB“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.
    KJVFor, 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.
  2. 2
    WEBBut 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.
    KJVBut 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.
  3. 3
    WEBYou 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.
    KJVAnd 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. 4
    WEB“Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.
    KJVRemember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.
  5. 5
    WEBBehold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
    KJVBehold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
  6. 6
    WEBHe 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.”
    KJVAnd 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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