Ephesians 2:21

2:21 In him ¹  the whole building, ²  being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,

Hosea 14:5-7

14:5 I will be like the dew to Israel;

he will blossom like a lily,

he will send down his roots like a cedar of ³  Lebanon.

14:6 His young shoots will grow;

his splendor will be like an olive tree,

his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.

14:7 People will reside again ⁴  in his shade;

they will plant and harvest grain in abundance. ⁵ 

They will blossom like a vine,

and his fame will be like the wine from Lebanon.

Malachi 4:2

4:2 But for you who respect my name, the sun of vindication ⁶  will rise with healing wings, ⁷  and you will skip about ⁸  like calves released from the stall.

Malachi 4:1

4:1 (3:19) ⁹  “For indeed the day ¹⁰  is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant evildoers will be chaff. The coming day will burn them up,” says the Lord who rules over all. “It ¹¹  will not leave even a root or branch.

Malachi 2:2

2:2 If you do not listen and take seriously ¹²  the need to honor my name,” says the Lord who rules over all, “I will send judgment ¹³  on you and turn your blessings into curses – indeed, I have already done so because you are not taking it to heart.

Malachi 2:2

2:2 If you do not listen and take seriously ¹⁴  the need to honor my name,” says the Lord who rules over all, “I will send judgment ¹⁵  on you and turn your blessings into curses – indeed, I have already done so because you are not taking it to heart.

Malachi 3:18

3:18 Then once more you will see that I make a distinction between ¹⁶  the righteous and the wicked, between the one who serves God and the one who does not.

¹ tn Grk “in whom” (v. 21 is a relative clause, subordinate to v. 20).

² tc Although several important witnesses (א¹ A C P 6 81 326 1739^c 1881) have πᾶσα ἡ οἰκοδομή (pasa Jh oikodomh), instead of πᾶσα οἰκοδομή (the reading of א* B D F G Ψ 33 1739* Ï), the article is almost surely a scribal addition intended to clarify the meaning of the text, for with the article the meaning is unambiguously “the whole building.”

³ tn Heb “like Lebanon” (so KJV; also in the following verse). The phrase “a cedar of” does not appear in the Hebrew text; it is supplied in translation for clarity. Cf. TEV “the trees of Lebanon”; NRSV “the forests of Lebanon.”

⁴ tn Hosea uses the similar-sounding terms יָשֻׁבוּ יֹשְׁבֵי (yashuvu yoshve, “the dwellers will return”) to create a wordplay between the roots שׁוּב (shuv, “to return”) and יָשַׁב (yashav, “to dwell; to reside”).

⁵ tn Heb “they will cause the grain to live” or “they will revive the grain.” Some English versions treat this as a comparison: “they shall revive as the corn” (KJV); “will flourish like the grain” (NIV).

⁶ tn Here the Hebrew word צְדָקָה (tsÿdaqah), usually translated “righteousness” (so KJV, NIV, NRSV, NLT; cf. NAB “justice”), has been rendered as “vindication” because it is the vindication of God’s people that is in view in the context. Cf. BDB 842 s.v. צְדָקָה 6; “righteousness as vindicated, justification, salvation, etc.”

⁷ sn The point of the metaphor of healing wings is unclear. The sun seems to be compared to a bird. Perhaps the sun’s “wings” are its warm rays. “Healing” may refer to a reversal of the injury done by evildoers (see Mal 3:5).

⁸ tn Heb “you will go out and skip about.”

⁹ sn Beginning with 4:1, the verse numbers through 4:6 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 4:1 ET = 3:19 HT, 4:2 ET = 3:20 HT, etc., through 4:6 ET = 3:24 HT. Thus the book of Malachi in the Hebrew Bible has only three chapters, with 24 verses in ch. 3.

¹⁰ sn This day is the well-known “day of the Lord” so pervasive in OT eschatological texts (see Joel 2:30-31; Amos 5:18; Obad 15). For the believer it is a day of grace and salvation; for the sinner, a day of judgment and destruction.

¹¹ tn Heb “so that it” (so NASB, NRSV). For stylistic reasons a new sentence was begun here in the translation.

¹² tn Heb “and if you do not place upon [the] heart”; KJV, NAB, NRSV “lay it to heart.”

¹³ tn Heb “the curse” (so NASB, NRSV); NLT “a terrible curse.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “and if you do not place upon [the] heart”; KJV, NAB, NRSV “lay it to heart.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “the curse” (so NASB, NRSV); NLT “a terrible curse.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “you will see between.” Cf. NRSV, TEV, NLT “see the difference.”