v1
^[Malachi 4:1–6 in the English Bible is 3:19–24 in the Hebrew Bible] “For look! The day is about to come, burning like an oven, and all the arrogant and every evildoer ^[Literally “doer of wickedness”] will be stubble. The coming day will consume ^[Or “devour”] them,” says Yahweh of hosts. “It will not leave behind for them root or branch.
v2
But for you who revere ^[Or “fear”] my name, the sun of righteousness will rise, with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like fattened calves. ^[Literally “bull-calves of the animal stall” (on the idiom see HALOT 631 s.v.)]
v3
You will trample down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day that I am going to act,” says Yahweh of hosts.
v4
“Remember the instruction ^[Or “law”; Hebrew torah] of my servant Moses, which I commanded him at Horeb to all Israel, the rules and regulations.
v5
Look! I am going to send to you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome day of Yahweh!
v6
And he will bring back ^[Or “And he will restore”] the hearts of the fathers to the sons, and the hearts of the sons to their fathers, so that I will not come and strike the land with a ban.”