< Malachi 4 >
1 "For, look, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up," says Jehovah of hosts, "that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
萬軍之耶和華說:「那日臨近,勢如燒着的火爐,凡狂傲的和行惡的必如碎稭,在那日必被燒盡,根本枝條一無存留。
2 But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.
但向你們敬畏我名的人必有公義的日頭出現,其光線有醫治之能。你們必出來跳躍如圈裏的肥犢。
3 You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make," says Jehovah of hosts.
你們必踐踏惡人;在我所定的日子,他們必如灰塵在你們腳掌之下。這是萬軍之耶和華說的。
4 "Remember the Law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.
「你們當記念我僕人摩西的律法,就是我在何烈山為以色列眾人所吩咐他的律例典章。
5 Look, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of Jehovah comes.
「看哪,耶和華大而可畏之日未到以前,我必差遣先知以利亞到你們那裏去。
6 He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.
他必使父親的心轉向兒女,兒女的心轉向父親,免得我來咒詛遍地。」