Malachi 4 (DRB)

Chapter Text

4:1 For behold the day shall come kindled as a furnace: and all the proud, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall set them on fire, saith the Lord of hosts, it shall not leave them root, nor branch.

4:2 But unto you that fear my name, the Sun of justice shall arise, and health in his wings: and you shall go forth, and shall leap like calves of the herd.

4:3 And you shall tread down the wicked when they shall be ashes under the sole of your feet in the day that I do this, saith the Lord of hosts.

4:4 Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel, the precepts, and judgments.

4:5 Behold, I will send you Elias the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.

4:6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers: lest I come, and strike the earth with anathema.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "behold", "shall", "come", "kindled", "furnace", "proud", and "wickedly". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "behold" and "shall", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The local DRB text gives this verse as the immediate unit, so "behold" and "shall" carries the first interpretive weight. In Malachi context, the local focus is covenant faithfulness, priestly corruption, divine justice, and the coming day of the LORD.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "behold" and "shall" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.