Sixth Oracle of Malachi (the 12th Prophet of the BOOK OF THE TWELVE) - Nebi'im Prophets of Hebrew Bible

Translation included in

Volume 25D (Anchor Bible Volume series)

by Andrew E. Hill, Wheaton College

ISBN : 0385-46892-X

Your words against me have

been harsh, Yahweh said.

But you have said, "How have we

spoken against you?"

You have said, "It is futile to serve

God!  What profit [is there] because

we have kept his charge, or because

we have paraded mournfully before

Yahweh of Hosts?  So now we

consider the arrogant fortunate.

Not only have those doing evil been

built up, but also they have tested

God and escaped!"

Then the fearers of Yahweh spoke

together, each one with his companion.

And so Yahweh took notice and he

listened.  A book of remembrance was

recorded in his presence, [enrolling]

the fearers of Yahweh and those

esteeming his name.

"They will be mine," Yahweh of

Hosts has said, "a prized possession

during the day when I act.  Then

I will show compassion upon them,

even as a man shows compassion

for his son, the one who serves him.

Once again you will see the difference

between a righteous and a wicked

one, between one who serves God,

and one who has not served him."

"For indeed, the day is coming, 

burning like an oven, when all

[the] arrogant and all evildoers

will be stubble.  And this coming

day will devour them,"

Yahweh of Hosts has said, "so that

it will leave them neither a root

nor a branch.  But a sun of

righteousness will arise

for you, those revering

my name; and healing

[is] in her wings.   And

so you will go out and 

you will frisk about like

stall-fed calves.  And you

will trample the wicked,

indeed they will be ashes

beneath the soles of your

feet, during the day I

am preparing," Yahweh of

Hosts has said.

4:4 (Appendix)

Remember the Torah of Moses my

servant, whom I commanded at

Horeb on behalf of all Israel --

[the] statutes and [the] ordinances!

4:5 (Second appendix)

See!  I am sending Elijah the

prophet to you before the coming

Day of Yahweh -- the great and the

terrible [day]!  And he will turn

the heart of the forefathers toward

the[it] descendants and the heart

of the descendants toward their

forefathers; or else [when] I come

I will strike the land [with] a curse

[for destruction].