1 ^g“Behold, I send ^hmy messenger, and ⁱhe will prepare the way before me. And the Lord ^jwhom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and ^kthe messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts. 2 But ^lwho can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For ^mhe is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap. 3 He will sit ⁿas a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring ^oofferings in righteousness to the Lord.¹

The Great Day of the Lord

1 “For behold, ^rthe day is coming, ^sburning like an oven, when ^tall the arrogant and ^tall evildoers ^uwill be stubble. The day that is coming ^ushall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. 2 But for you ^vwho fear my name, ^wthe sun ^xof righteousness shall rise ^ywith healing in its wings. You shall go out ^zleaping like calves from the stall. 3 And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, ^aon the day when I act, says the Lord of hosts.

4 ^b“Remember ^cthe law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules¹ that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel.

5 ^d“Behold, I will send you ^eElijah the prophet ^fbefore the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. 6 And he will ^gturn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and ^hstrike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”²