1 For look, the day is coming, burning like a furnace. All the arrogant and all who do evil will be stubble. The coming day will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of hosts, “leaving them neither root nor branch. 2 But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings. You will go out and leap like calves from the stall. 3 You will trample the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day I act,” says the LORD of hosts.

4 “Remember the law of Moses my servant, the statutes and ordinances I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel. 5 I am sending you Elijah the prophet before the great and fearsome day of the LORD comes. 6 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 utter destruction.”