1 For see, the day is on its way, blazing like a furnace, and all the proud and every evildoer will be straw; the coming day will set them on fire, says the LORD of hosts, and leave them neither root nor branch.
2 But on you who fear my name the sun of righteousness will rise, with healing in its wings, and you will go out and frisk about like calves let out of the stall.
3 You will trample the wicked; they will be ash under the soles of your feet on the day I am preparing, says the LORD of hosts.
4 Keep in mind the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and ordinances I gave him at Horeb for all Israel.
5 See, I am sending you the prophet Elijah before the coming of the day of the LORD, that great and dreadful day.
6 He will turn fathers' hearts back to their sons and sons' hearts back to their fathers, so that I do not come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.