1 "For behold, the day is coming, 1burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and everyevildoer* will be 2chaff; and the day that is coming will 3set them ablaze," says the LORD of hosts, "so that it will leave them neitherrootnorbranch."
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"But for you who fear My name, the 4sun of righteousness will rise with 5healing in its wings; and you will goforth and 6skipabout like calves from the stall.
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"You will 7treaddown the wicked, for they will be 8ashesunder the soles of your feet9on the daywhich I am preparing," says the LORD of hosts.
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"10Remember the law of Moses My servant, even the statutes and ordinanceswhich I commanded him in Horeb for allIsrael.
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"Behold, I am going to send you 11Elijah the prophetbefore the coming of the great and terribleday of the LORD.
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"He will 12restore the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, so that I will not come and 13smite the land with a curse."