Malachi 4:1

God's Word

“Certainly the day is coming! It will burn like a furnace. All arrogant people and all evildoers will be ⌞like⌟ straw. The day that is coming will burn them up completely,” says the Lord of Armies. “It won’t leave a single root or branch.

Cross References

Job 18:16

His roots dry up under him. His branches wither over him.

Psalm 119:119

You get rid of all wicked people on earth as if they were rubbish. That is why I love your written instructions.

Psalm 37:9

Evildoers will be cut off ⌞from their inheritance⌟, but those who wait with hope for the Lord will inherit the land.

Exodus 15:7

With your unlimited majesty, you destroyed those who attacked you. You sent out your burning anger. It burned them up like straw.

Isaiah 40:24

They have hardly been planted. They have hardly been sown. They have hardly taken root in the ground. Then he blows on them and they wither, and a windstorm sweeps them away like straw.

Isaiah 41:2

“Who has raised up from the east someone to whom the Lord gives victory with every step he takes? Nations are handed over to him. He defeats kings. With his sword he turns them into dust. With his bow he turns them into straw blown by the wind.

Isaiah 47:14

They are like straw. Fire burns them. They can’t rescue themselves from the flames. There are no glowing coals to keep them warm and no fire for them to sit by.

Isaiah 5:24

As flames burn up straw and dry grass shrivels in flames, so their roots will rot, and their blossoms will blow away like dust. They have rejected the teachings of the Lord of Armies and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 9:18

Surely wickedness burns like fire. It burns up briars and thorns. It sets the underbrush in the forest on fire, and it whirls upward in clouds of smoke.

Isaiah 9:19

The land is scorched by the fury of the Lord of Armies, and the people are like fuel for the fire. No one shows concern for others:

Ezekiel 20:38

I will get rid of rebels and those who do wrong against me. I will bring you out of the land where you are living. You will never enter Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 21:32

You will be fuel for the fire. You will die in the land. You will no longer be remembered. I, the Lord, have spoken.’ ”

Ezekiel 24:11

Then set the empty pot on the coals so that it gets hot and its copper glows. Its impurities will melt away, and its tarnish will burn off.

Ezekiel 34:17

“ ‘As for you, my sheep, this is what the Almighty Lord says: I will judge disputes between one sheep and another, between rams and male goats.

Ezekiel 7:10

“The day is near! It is coming! Destruction is coming! Wrongdoing has blossomed. Arrogance has flourished.

Joel 2:1

Blow the ram’s horn in Zion. Sound the alarm on my holy mountain. Everyone who lives in the land should tremble, because the day of the Lord is coming. Certainly, it is near.

Joel 2:31

The sun will become dark, and the moon will become as red as blood before the terrifying day of the Lord comes.”

Amos 2:9

I destroyed the Amorites in front of them, although the Amorites were as tall as cedars and as strong as oaks. I destroyed their fruit above the ground and their roots below it.

Obadiah 1:18

The descendants of Jacob will be like a fire. The descendants of Joseph will be like a flame. But the descendants of Esau will be like straw. They will be burned and destroyed. There will be no one left among the descendants of Esau.” The Lord has spoken.

Nahum 1:10

⌞The people of Nineveh will be⌟ like tangled thorns and like people drunk on their own drink. They will be completely burned up like very dry straw.

Zephaniah 1:14

The frightening day of the Lord is near. It is near and coming very quickly. Listen! Warriors will cry out bitterly on the day of the Lord.

Zephaniah 1:18

Their silver and their gold will not be able to rescue them on the day of the Lord’s overflowing fury. The whole earth will be consumed by his fiery anger, because he will put an end, a frightening end, to those who live on earth.

Zechariah 14:1

A day is going to come for the Lord when the loot you have taken will be divided among you.

Malachi 3:15

So now we call arrogant people blessed. Not only are evildoers encouraged, they even test God and get away with it.’ ”

Malachi 3:18

Then you will again see the difference between righteous people and wicked people, between the one who serves God and the one who doesn’t serve him.

Malachi 3:2

But who will be able to endure the day he comes? Who will be able to survive on the day he appears? He is like a purifying fire and like a cleansing soap.

Malachi 3:3

He will act like a refiner and a purifier of silver. He will purify Levi’s sons and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will bring acceptable offerings to the Lord.

Malachi 4:5

“I’m going to send you the prophet Elijah before that very terrifying day of the Lord comes.

Matthew 3:12

His winnowing  shovel is in his hand, and he will clean up his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into a barn, but he will burn the husks in a fire that can never be put out.”

Luke 19:43

The time will come when enemy armies will build a wall to surround you and close you in on every side.

Luke 21:20

“When you see armies camped around Jerusalem, realize that the time is near for it to be destroyed.

Luke 6:23

Rejoice then, and be very happy! You have a great reward in heaven. That’s the way their ancestors treated the prophets.

2 Thessalonians 1:8

He will take revenge on those who refuse to acknowledge God and on those who refuse to respond to the Good News about our Lord Jesus.

2 Peter 3:7

By God’s word, the present heaven and earth are designated to be burned. They are being kept until the day ungodly people will be judged and destroyed.