18AND YOU WILL RETURN AND YOU WILL SEE BETWEEN A RIGHTEOUS [PERSON] AND A WICKED [PERSON] BETWEEN [ONE WHO] SERVES <OF> GOD AND [ONE] WHO NOT HE SERVES HIM 18So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not
1FOR HERE! THE DAY [IS] COMING BURNING LIKE <THE> FURNACE AND THEY WILL BE ALL ARROGANT [PEOPLE] AND EVERY [ONE WHO] DOES <OF> WICKEDNESS STUBBLE AND IT WILL SET ABLAZE <OBJ.> THEM THE DAY <THE> COMING HE SAYS YAHWEH OF HOSTS THAT NOT IT WILL LEAVE FOR THEM ROOT AND BRANCH The Day of the LORD (Zephaniah 1:7–18; 1 Thessalonians 5:1–11; 2 Peter 3:8–13) 1“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.”
2AND IT WILL RISE FOR YOU [THOSE] FEARING <OF> NAME MY A SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND HEALING [WILL BE] IN WINGS ITS AND YOU WILL GO OUT AND YOU WILL SKIP LIKE CALVES OF [THE] STALL 2“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings,*NoteCloseOr the Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing in His wings and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.
3AND YOU WILL TREAD DOWN WICKED [PEOPLE] FOR THEY WILL BE ASH[ES] UNDER [THE] SOLES OF FEET YOUR ON THE DAY WHEN I [WILL BE] ACTING HE SAYS YAHWEH OF HOSTS 3Then 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.
4REMEMBER [THE] INSTRUCTION OF MOSES SERVANT MY WHICH I COMMANDED <OBJ.> HIM AT HOREB ON ALL ISRAEL STATUTES AND JUDGMENTS 4“Remember the law of My servant Moses, the statutes and ordinances I commanded him for all Israel at Horeb.*NoteCloseThat is, Mount Sinai, or possibly a mountain in the range containing Mount Sinai
5HERE! I [AM] ABOUT TO SEND TO YOU <OBJ.> ELIJAH THE PROPHET <TO> BEFORE COMES [THE] DAY OF YAHWEH <THE> GREAT AND <THE> AWESOME 5Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome*NoteCloseOr dreadful; LXX glorious Day of the LORD.
6AND HE WILL TURN BACK [THE] HEART OF FATHERS TO SONS AND [THE] HEART OF SONS TO FATHERS THEIR LEST I SHOULD COME AND I WILL STRIKE <OBJ.> THE LAND TOTAL DESTRUCTION 6And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers.*NoteCloseCited in Luke 1:17 Otherwise, I will come and strike the land with a curse.”