KJV King James Version
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
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Malachi 4:5
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD.
WEB World English Bible
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
ASV American Standard Version
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Jehovah come.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Lo, I am sending to you Elijah the prophet, Before the coming of the day of Jehovah, The great and the fearful.
Surrounding context — Malachi 4
2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do [this], saith the LORD of hosts.
4 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, [with] the statutes and judgments.
5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
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 smite the earth with a curse.
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הִנֵּ֤הH2009 · hin.nehbeholdאָֽנֹכִי֙H595 · a.no.khiIשֹׁלֵ֣חַH7971 · sha.lachto send: departלָכֶ֔םH9036 · khemyouאֵ֖תH853 · et[Obj.]אֵלִיָּ֣הH452 · e.liy.yahElijahהַנָּבִ֑יאH5030 · na.viprophetלִפְנֵ֗יH6440 · pa.nehface: beforeבּ֚וֹאH935 · boto come (in): comeי֣וֹםH3117 · yomdayיְהוָ֔הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDהַגָּד֖וֹלH1419 · ga.dolgreat: largeוְהַנּוֹרָֽא׃H3372 · ya.reto fear
Cross-references
Luke 1:17And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.Matthew 17:10-13And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?Mark 9:11-13And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elias must first come?Matthew 11:13-14For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.Malachi 3:1Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.Isaiah 40:3The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.John 1:21And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.Joel 2:31The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.Malachi 4:1For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.Matthew 27:47-49Some of them that stood there, when they heard [that], said, This [man] calleth for Elias.Luke 7:26-28But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet.Revelation 6:17For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?John 1:25And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?Luke 9:30And, behold, there talked with him two men, which were Moses and Elias:Acts 2:19-20And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
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