| NET Bible | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 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. | 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 respect my name, the sun of vindication will rise with healing wings, and you will skip about like calves released 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. |
| 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. | 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, to whom at Horeb I gave rules and regulations for all Israel to obey. | 4"Remember the law of Moses My servant, even the statutes and ordinances which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel. |
| 5Look, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the LORD arrives. | 5"Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the LORD. |
| 6He will encourage fathers and their children to return to me, so that I will not come and strike the earth with judgment." | 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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