1 "For behold, the day comes, burning like a furnace, when all the proud and all who work wickedness will be stubble. The day that comes will burn them up," says Yahweh of Armies, "so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. 2 But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out and leap like calves of the stall. 3 You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make," says Yahweh of Armies.

4 "Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.

5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes. 6 He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse."

1 万军之耶和华说： "看哪！ 那日来到， 像烧着的火炉一样； 骄傲的和作恶的， 都必成为碎秸； 那要来的日子， 必把他们烧尽， 不给他们留下一根一枝。

2 可是， 对你们敬畏我名的人， 必有公义的太阳升起来； 它的光线有医治的功能； 你们必出来跳跃， 像栏里的肥牛犊。"

3 万军之耶和华说： "你们必践踏恶人； 在我施行作为的日子， 他们必在你们脚掌之下成为尘土。

4 "你们要谨记我仆人摩西的律法， 就是我在何烈山为以色列众人所吩咐他的律例和典章。

5 "看哪！ 在耶和华大而可畏的日子来到以先， 我必差派以利亚先知到你们那里去。

6 他要使父亲的心转向儿女， 儿女的心转向父亲， 免得我来击打这地， 以至完全毁灭。"（本章第1-6节在《马索拉抄本》为3:19-24）