Malachi 3:15
Context3:15 So now we consider the arrogant to be happy; indeed, those who practice evil are successful. 1 In fact, those who challenge 2 God escape!’”
Malachi 1:4
Context1:4 Edom 3 says, “Though we are devastated, we will once again build the ruined places.” So the Lord who rules over all 4 responds, “They indeed may build, but I will overthrow. They will be known as 5 the land of evil, the people with whom the Lord is permanently displeased.
Malachi 4:1
Context4:1 (3:19) 6 “For indeed the day 7 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 8 will not leave even a root or branch.


[3:15] 1 tn Heb “built up” (so NASB); NIV, NRSV “prosper”; NLT “get rich.”
[3:15] 2 tn Or “test”; NRSV, CEV “put God to the test.”
[1:4] 3 sn Edom, a “brother” nation to Israel, became almost paradigmatic of hostility toward Israel and God (see Num 20:14-21; Deut 2:8; Jer 49:7-22; Ezek 25:12-14; Amos 1:11-12; Obad 10-12).
[1:4] 4 sn The epithet
[1:4] 5 tn Heb “and they will call them.” The third person plural subject is indefinite; one could translate, “and people will call them.”
[4:1] 5 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.
[4:1] 6 sn This day is the well-known “day of the
[4:1] 7 tn Heb “so that it” (so NASB, NRSV). For stylistic reasons a new sentence was begun here in the translation.