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The Day of the LORD
(Zephaniah 1:7–18; 1 Thessalonians 5:1–11; 2 Peter 3:8–13)
“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”
 
“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings,* 4:2 Or the Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing in His wings and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall. Then you will trample the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day I am preparing,” says the LORD of Hosts.
 
“Remember the law of My servant Moses, the statutes and ordinances I commanded him for all Israel at Horeb. 4:4 That is, Mount Sinai, or possibly a mountain in the range containing Mount Sinai
 
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome 4:5 Or dreadful; LXX glorious Day of the LORD. And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers.§ 4:6 Cited in Luke 1:17 Otherwise, I will come and strike the land with a curse.”

*4:2 4:2 Or the Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing in His wings

4:4 4:4 That is, Mount Sinai, or possibly a mountain in the range containing Mount Sinai

4:5 4:5 Or dreadful; LXX glorious

§4:6 4:6 Cited in Luke 1:17