Malachi 4:1

Modern English Version

Surely the day is coming, burning like an oven; all the proud, yes, all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming will burn them up, says the Lord of Hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.

Cross References

Job 18:16

His roots will be dried up beneath, and above his branch will dry up.

Psalm 119:119

You destroy all the wicked of the earth like dross; therefore I love Your testimonies.

Psalm 37:9

For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait on the Lord shall inherit the earth.

Exodus 15:7

In the greatness of Your excellence, You overthrow those who rise up against You. You send out Your wrath; it consumes them like stubble.

Isaiah 40:24

Scarcely shall they be planted; scarcely shall they be sown; scarcely shall their tree take root in the earth, when He will also blow on them, and they will wither, and the whirlwind will take them away as stubble.

Isaiah 41:2

Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to His foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? He makes them as the dust with his sword, and as driven stubble with his bow.

Isaiah 47:14

Behold, they shall be as stubble, the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame; it shall not be coal to be warmed by nor a fire to sit before.

Isaiah 5:24

Therefore, as the fire devours the stubble and the flame consumes the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have cast away the law of the Lord of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 9:18

For wickedness burns as a fire; it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall ignite in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like rising smoke.

Isaiah 9:19

Through the wrath of the Lord of Hosts is the land burned up, and the people shall be as fuel for the fire; no man shall spare his brother.

Ezekiel 20:38

And I will purge from among you the rebels and those who transgress against Me. I will bring them out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel. And you shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 21:32

You shall be fuel to the fire; your blood shall be in the midst of the land. You shall be no more remembered, for I the Lord have spoken.

Ezekiel 24:11

Then set it empty on its coals, so that it may be hot and its bronze may glow, and its filthiness may be melted in it, and its rust may be consumed.

Ezekiel 34:17

As for you, O My flock, thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will judge between sheep and cattle, between the rams and the male goats.

Ezekiel 7:10

Behold, the day is coming! Behold, your doom has gone out; the rod has blossomed, pride has budded.

Joel 2:1

Blow the ram’s horn in Zion, sound the alarm on My holy mountain! All the inhabitants of the earth will tremble, because the day of the Lord has come, because it is near—

Joel 2:31

The sun will be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awe-inspiring day of the Lord comes.

Amos 2:9

Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars. He was strong as the oaks, yet I destroyed his fruit above and his roots below.

Obadiah 1:18

The house of Jacob shall be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, but the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivors from the house of Esau, for the Lord has spoken.

Nahum 1:10

Because they are like interwoven thorns and as drunkards imbibing, they are consumed like completely dry stubble.

Zephaniah 1:14

The great day of the Lord is near, near and hastening quickly. The sound of the day of the Lord is bitter; the mighty man shall cry out there.

Zephaniah 1:18

Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the day of the Lord’s wrath. But the whole earth will be consumed by the fire of His jealousy, for He will make a sudden end of all those who dwell on the earth.

Zechariah 14:1

Behold, a day of the Lord is coming when your spoil will be divided in your midst.

Malachi 3:15

And now we call the proud blessed, for those who do wickedness are built up; they even test God and escape.”

Malachi 3:18

Then you will again discern between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve Him.

Malachi 3:2

But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap.

Malachi 3:3

He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; he will purify the Levites, and refine them like gold and silver, and they will present to the Lord offerings in righteousness.

Malachi 4:5

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreaded day of the Lord.

Matthew 3:12

His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean His floor and gather His wheat into the granary, but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

Luke 19:43

For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you and surround you, and press you in on every side.

Luke 21:20

“When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then you know that its desolation has drawn near.

Luke 6:23

“Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven. For in like manner their fathers treated the prophets.

2 Thessalonians 1:8

in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Peter 3:7

But by the same word, the heavens and the earth that now exist are being reserved for fire, kept for the Day of Judgment and destruction of the ungodly.