| NET Bible | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1"For indeed the day is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant evildoers will be chaff. The coming day will burn them up," says the LORD who rules over all. "It will not leave even a root or branch. | 1For indeed, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and everyone who commits wickedness will become stubble. The coming day will consume them," says the LORD of Hosts, "not leaving them root or branches. |
| 2But for you who respect my name, the sun of vindication will rise with healing wings, and you will skip about like calves released from the stall. | 2But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and playfully jump like calves from the stall. |
| 3You will trample on the wicked, for they will be like ashes under the soles of your feet on the day which I am preparing," says the LORD who rules over all. | 3You will trample the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day I am preparing," says the LORD of Hosts." |
| 4"Remember the law of my servant Moses, to whom at Horeb I gave rules and regulations for all Israel to obey. | 4Remember the instruction of Moses My servant, the statutes and ordinances I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel. |
| 5Look, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the LORD arrives. | 5Look, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome Day of the LORD comes. |
| 6He will encourage fathers and their children to return to me, so that I will not come and strike the earth with judgment." | 6And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers. Otherwise, I will come and strike the land with a curse." |
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