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. 2  But 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. 3  You 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.

4 “Remember the law of my servant Moses, to whom at Horeb I gave rules and regulations for all Israel to obey. 5  Look, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the Lord arrives. 6  He will encourage fathers and their children to return to me, so that I will not come and strike the earth with judgment.”