萬軍之耶和華說：「那日臨近，勢如燒著的火爐，凡狂傲的和行惡的必如碎秸，在那日必被燒盡，根本枝條一無存留。
“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.
但向你們敬畏我名的人必有公義的日頭出現，其光線有醫治之能〔「光線」原文作「翅膀」〕。你們必出來跳躍如圈裏的肥犢。
But 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.
你們必踐踏惡人；在我所定的日子，他們必如灰塵在你們腳掌之下。這是萬軍之耶和華說的。
And 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.
「你們當記念我僕人
“Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel.
「看哪，耶和華大而可畏之日未到以前，我必差遣先知
“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes.
他必使父親的心轉向兒女，兒女的心轉向父親，免得我來咒詛遍地。」
And 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.”