Malachi 4:1

Bible in Basic English 1965

For see, the day is coming, it is burning like an oven; all the men of pride and all who do evil will be dry stems of grass: and in the day which is coming they will be burned up, says the Lord of armies, till they have not a root or a branch.

Cross References

Job 18:16

Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.

Psalm 119:119

All the sinners of the earth are like waste metal in your eyes; and for this cause I give my love to your unchanging word.

Psalm 37:9

For the evil-doers will be cut off: but those who have faith in the Lord will have the earth for their heritage.

Exodus 15:7

When you are lifted up in power, all those who come against you are crushed: when you send out your wrath, they are burned up like dry grass.

Isaiah 40:24

They have only now been planted, and their seed put into the earth, and they have only now taken root, when he sends out his breath over them and they become dry, and the storm-wind takes them away like dry grass.

Isaiah 41:2

Who sent out from the east one who is right wherever he goes? he gives the nations into his hands, and makes him ruler over kings; he gives them as the dust to his sword, as dry stems before the wind to his bow.

Isaiah 47:14

Truly, they have become like dry stems, they have been burned in the fire; they are not able to keep themselves safe from the power of the flame: it is not a coal for warming them, or a fire by which a man may be seated.

Isaiah 5:24

For this cause, as the waste of the grain is burned up by tongues of fire, and as the dry grass goes down before the flame, so their root will be like the dry stems of grain, and their flower will go up in dust: because they have gone against the law of the Lord of armies, and have given no honour to the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 9:18

For evil was burning like a fire; the blackberries and thorns were burned up; the thick woods took fire, rolling up in dark clouds of smoke.

Isaiah 9:19

The land was dark with the wrath of the Lord of armies: the people were like those who take men's flesh for food.

Ezekiel 20:38

Clearing out from among you all those who are uncontrolled and who are sinning against me; I will take them out of the land where they are living, but they will not come into the land of Israel: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 21:32

You will be food for the fire; your blood will be drained out in the land; there will be no more memory of you: for I the Lord have said it.

Ezekiel 24:11

And I will put her on the coals so that she may be heated and her brass burned, so that what is unclean in her may become soft and her waste be completely taken away.

Ezekiel 34:17

And as for you, O my flock, says the Lord, truly, I will be judge between sheep and sheep, the he-sheep and the he-goats.

Ezekiel 7:10

See, the day; see, it is coming: the crowning time has gone out; the twisted way is flowering, pride has put out buds.

Joel 2:1

Let the horn be sounded in Zion, and a war-cry in my holy mountain; let all the people of the land be troubled: for the day of the Lord is coming;

Joel 2:31

The sun will be made dark and the moon turned to blood, before the great day of the Lord comes, a day to be feared.

Amos 2:9

Though I sent destruction on the Amorite before them, who was tall as the cedar and strong as the oak-tree, cutting off his fruit from on high and his roots from under the earth.

Obadiah 1:18

And the children of Jacob will be a fire and those of Joseph a flame, and the children of Esau dry stems of grass, burned up by them till all is gone: and there will be no people living in Esau; for the Lord has said it.

Nahum 1:10

For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.

Zephaniah 1:14

The great day of the Lord is near, it is near and coming very quickly; the bitter day of the Lord is near, coming on more quickly than a man of war.

Zephaniah 1:18

Even their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the day of the Lord's wrath; but all the land will be burned up in the fire of his bitter wrath: for he will put an end, even suddenly, to all who are living in the land.

Zechariah 14:1

See, a day of the Lord is coming when they will make division of your goods taken by force before your eyes.

Malachi 3:15

And now to us the men of pride seem happy; yes, the evil-doers are doing well; they put God to the test and are safe.

Malachi 3:18

Then you will again see how the upright man is different from the sinner, and the servant of God from him who is not.

Malachi 3:2

But by whom may the day of his coming be faced? and who may keep his place when he is seen? for he is like the metal-tester's fire and the cleaner's soap.

Malachi 3:3

He will take his seat, testing and cleaning the sons of Levi, burning away the evil from them as from gold and silver; so that they may make offerings to the Lord in righteousness.

Malachi 4:5

See, I am sending you Elijah the prophet before the day of the Lord comes, that great day, greatly to be feared.

Matthew 3:12

In whose hand is the instrument with which he will make clean his grain; he will put the good grain in his store, but the waste will be burned up in the fire which will never be put out.

Luke 19:43

For the time will come when your attackers will put a wall round you, and come all round you and keep you in on every side,

Luke 21:20

But when you see armies all round about Jerusalem, then be certain that her destruction is near.

Luke 6:23

Be glad in that day, and be lifted up for joy, for your reward in heaven will be great: for their fathers did these same things to the prophets.

2 Thessalonians 1:8

To give punishment to those who have no knowledge of God, and to those who do not give ear to the good news of our Lord Jesus:

2 Peter 3:7

But the present heaven and the present earth have been kept for destruction by fire, which is waiting for them on the day of the judging and destruction of evil men.