Malachi 4:1
For see, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and all the evildoers will become stubble. The day that is coming will burn them up,” says Yahweh of hosts, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
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Job 18:16His roots will be dried up beneath; 1 above will his branch be cut off. 1
Psalms 37:9Evildoers will be cut off, 1 but those who wait for Yahweh will inherit the land. 1
Isaiah 2:12For there will be a day of Yahweh of hosts 1 against everyone who is proud and raised up, and against everyone who is arrogant—and he will be brought down— 1
Isaiah 40:24They are barely planted, barely sown, their stem has barely taken root in the earth, 1 when he blows upon them and they wither, and the wind carries them away like straw. 1
Isaiah 47:14See, they will become like stubble. The fire will burn them up. 1 They will not save themselves from the hand of the flame. 1 There are no coals to warm them and no fire for them to sit by! 1
Joel 2:1Blow the trumpet in Zion, 1 and sound an alarm on my holy mountain! 1 Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble in fear, 1 for the day of Yahweh is coming; 1 indeed, it is near. 1
Matthew Henry on Malachi 4:1
We have here proper instructions given us (very proper to close the canon of the Old Testament with), I. Concerning the state of recompence and retribution that is before us, the misery of the wicked and the happiness of the righteous in that state, ver. 1-3 . And this is represented to us under a prophecy of the destruction of Jerusalem, and the unbelieving Jews with it, and of the comforts and triumphs of those among them that received the gospel. II. Concerning the state of trial and preparation we are now in,… Read the whole commentary →