Malachi 3:17--4:3
3:17 “They will belong to me,” says the
Lord who rules over all, “in the day when I prepare my own special property.
I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.
3:18 Then once more you will see that I make a distinction between
the righteous and the wicked, between the one who serves God and the one who does not.
4:1 (3:19) “For indeed the day 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 will not leave even a root or branch.
4:2 But for you who respect my name, the sun of vindication will rise with healing wings, and you will skip about like calves released from the stall.
4:3 You will trample on the wicked, for they will be like ashes under the soles of your feet on the day which I am preparing,” says the Lord who rules over all.