Malachi 4:1

Catholic Public Domain Version

For, behold, the day will arrive, kindled like a furnace, and all the arrogant and all those who act impiously will be stubble. And the approaching day will inflame them, says the Lord of hosts; it will leave behind for them neither root, nor sprout.

Cross References

Job 18:16

Let his roots be dried up from beneath him, and his harvest be crushed from above.

Psalm 37:9

I have been afflicted and greatly humbled. I bellowed from the groaning of my heart.

Exodus 15:7

And in the multitude of your glory you have put down your adversaries. You sent out your wrath, which devoured them like stubble.

Isaiah 40:24

And certainly, their stalk was neither planted, nor sown, nor rooted in the ground. He has suddenly blown them across them, and they have withered, and a whirlwind will carry them away like chaff.

Isaiah 41:2

Who has raised up a just man from the east, and has called him to follow him? He will place the nations under his gaze, and he will rule over kings. He will cause them to be like dust before his sword, like chaff driven by the wind before his bow.

Isaiah 47:14

Behold, they have become like stubble. Fire has consumed them. They will not free themselves from the power of the flames. These are not coals by which they may be warmed, nor is this a fire which they may sit beside.

Isaiah 5:24

Because of this, as the tongue of fire devours stubble, and as the heat of a flame burns it completely, so will their root become like glowing embers, and so will their offshoot ascend like dust. For they have cast aside the law of the Lord of hosts, and they have blasphemed the eloquence of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 9:18

For impiety has been kindled like a fire: it will devour brier and thorn, and it will burn in the dense forest, and it will be interwoven with the ascending smoke.

Isaiah 9:19

The earth has been shaken by the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and the people will become like fuel for the fire. A man will not spare his own brother.

Ezekiel 20:38

And I will select, from among you, the transgressors and the impious. And I will lead them away from the land of their sojourn, but they shall not enter into the land of Israel. And you shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 21:32

You will be food for the fire; your blood will be in the midst of the land; you will be delivered to oblivion. For I, the Lord, have spoken."

Ezekiel 24:11

Also, place it empty on burning coals, so that it may be heated, and its brass may melt. And let the filth of it be melted in its midst, and let its rust be consumed.

Ezekiel 34:17

But as for you, O my flocks, thus says the Lord God: Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, among rams and among he-goats.

Ezekiel 7:10

Behold, the day! Behold, it approaches! Destruction has gone forth, the rod has blossomed, arrogance has germinated.

Joel 2:1

Blow the trumpet in Zion, wail on my holy mountain, let all the inhabitants of the land be stirred up. For the day of the Lord is on its way; for it is near:

Joel 2:31

The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord shall arrive.

Amos 2:9

Yet I exterminated the Amorites before their face, whose height was like the height of cedars, and whose strength was like the oak. And I crushed his fruit from above and his roots below.

Obadiah 1:18

And the house of Jacob will be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble. And they will be set on fire among them, and they will devour them. And there will be no remnant of the house of Esau, for the Lord has spoken.

Nahum 1:10

For just as thorns entwine one another, so also, while they are feasting and drinking together, they will be consumed like stubble that is completely dry.

Zephaniah 1:14

The great day of the Lord is near; it is near and exceedingly swift. The voice of the day of the Lord is bitter; the strong will be tested there.

Zephaniah 1:18

Neither their silver, nor their gold, will be able to free them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. All the land will be devoured in the fire of his zeal, for with all speed, he will bring to consummation every inhabitant of the land.

Zechariah 14:1

Behold, the days of the Lord will arrive, and your spoils will be divided in your midst.

Malachi 3:15

Therefore, we now call the arrogant blessed, as if those who work impiety have been built up, and as if they have tempted God and been saved."

Malachi 3:18

And you shall be converted, and you will see the difference between the just and the impious, and between those who serve God and those who do not serve him.

Malachi 3:2

And who will be able to consider the day of his advent, and who will stand firm in order to see him? For he is like a refining fire, and like the fuller's herb.

Malachi 3:3

And he will sit refining and cleansing the silver, and he will purge the sons of Levi, and he will gather them like gold and like silver, and they will offer sacrifices to the Lord in justice.

Malachi 4:5

Behold, I will send to you Elijah the prophet, before the arrival of the great and terrible day of the Lord.

Matthew 3:12

His winnowing fan is in his hand. And he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. And he will gather his wheat into the barn. But the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire."

Luke 19:43

For the days will overtake you. And your enemies will encircle you with a valley. And they will surround you and hem you in on every side.

Luke 21:20

Then, when you will have seen Jerusalem encircled by an army, know then that its desolation has drawn near.

Luke 6:23

Be glad in that day and exult. For behold, your reward is great in heaven. For these same things their fathers did to the prophets.

2 Thessalonians 1:8

granting vindication, by a flame of fire, against those who do not know God and who are not obedient to the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Peter 3:7

But the heavens and the earth that exist now were restored by the same Word, being reserved unto fire on the day of judgment, and unto the perdition of impious men.