| English Standard Version | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1“For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the LORD of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. | 1"For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer will be chaff; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze," says the LORD of hosts, "so that it will leave them neither root nor branch." |
| 2But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall. | 2"But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall. |
| 3And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the LORD of hosts. | 3"You will tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day which I am preparing," says the LORD of hosts. |
| 4“Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel. | 4"Remember the law of Moses My servant, even the statutes and ordinances which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel. |
| 5“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes. | 5"Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the LORD. |
| 6And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.” | 6"He will restore the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, so that I will not come and smite the land with a curse." |
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