The Day of the Lord Will Revitalize the Faithful

¹³You have spoken hard words against Me—said the Lord. But you ask, “What have we been saying among ourselves against You?” ¹⁴You have said, “It is useless to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His charge and walking in abject awe of the Lord of Hosts? ¹⁵And so, we account the arrogant happy: they have indeed done evil and endured; they have indeed dared God and escaped.” ¹⁶In this vein have those who revere the Lord been talking to one another. The Lord has heard and noted it, and a scroll of remembrance has been written at His behest concerning those who revere the Lord and esteem His name. ¹⁷And on the day that I am preparing, said the Lord of Hosts, they shall be My treasured possession; I will be tender toward them as a man is tender toward a son who ministers to him. ¹⁸And you shall come to see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between him who has served God and him who has not served Him.

¹⁹For lo! That day is at hand, burning like an oven. All the arrogant and all the doers of evil shall be straw, and the day that is coming—said the Lord of Hosts—shall burn them to ashes and leave of them neither stock nor boughs. ²⁰But for you who revere My name a sun of victory shall rise to bring healing. You shall go forth and stamp like stall-fed calves, ²¹and you shall trample the wicked to a pulp, for they shall be dust beneath your feet on the day that I am preparing—said the Lord of Hosts.

²²Be mindful of the Teaching of My servant Moses, whom I charged at Horeb with laws and rules for all Israel.

²³Lo, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before the coming of the awesome, fearful day of the Lord. ²⁴He shall reconcile parents with children and children with their parents, so that, when I come, I do not strike the whole land with utter destruction.