Malachi 4:5
New International Version
“See, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before that great and dreadful day of the LORD comes.

New Living Translation
“Look, I am sending you the prophet Elijah before the great and dreadful day of the LORD arrives.

English Standard Version
“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes.

Berean Standard Bible
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD.

King James Bible
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:

New King James Version
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet Before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.

New American Standard Bible
“Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the LORD.

NASB 1995
“Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the LORD.

NASB 1977
“Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the LORD.

Legacy Standard Bible
“Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome day of Yahweh.

Amplified Bible
“Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the LORD.

Christian Standard Bible
Look, I am going to send you the prophet Elijah before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Look, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome Day of the LORD comes.

American Standard Version
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Jehovah come.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Behold, I am sending you Elijah the Prophet before the great and awesome day of LORD JEHOVAH will come

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And, behold, I will send to you Elias the Thesbite, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes;

Contemporary English Version
I, the LORD, promise to send the prophet Elijah before that great and terrible day comes.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold I will send you Elias the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.

English Revised Version
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the LORD come.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"I'm going to send you the prophet Elijah before that very terrifying day of the LORD comes.

Good News Translation
"But before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes, I will send you the prophet Elijah.

International Standard Version
"Pay attention! I'm sending Elijah the prophet to you before the great and dreadful Day of the LORD comes,

JPS Tanakh 1917
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet Before the coming Of the great and terrible day of the LORD.

Literal Standard Version
Behold, I am sending Elijah the prophet to you, | Before the coming of the great and fearful Day of YHWH.

Majority Standard Bible
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD.

New American Bible
Now I am sending to you Elijah the prophet, Before the day of the LORD comes, the great and terrible day;

NET Bible
Look, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the LORD arrives.

New Revised Standard Version
Lo, I will send you the prophet Elijah before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes.

New Heart English Bible
Look, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes.

Webster's Bible Translation
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:

World English Bible
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.

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.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Great Day of the LORD
4“Remember the law of My servant Moses, the statutes and ordinances I commanded him for all Israel at Horeb. 5Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD. 6And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers. Otherwise, I will come and strike the land with a curse.”…

Cross References
Matthew 11:14
And if you are willing to accept it, he is the Elijah who was to come.

Matthew 17:10
The disciples asked Him, "Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"

Mark 9:11
And they asked Jesus, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"

Luke 1:17
And he will go on before the Lord in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous--to make ready a people prepared for the Lord."

John 1:21
"Then who are you?" they inquired. "Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No."

Isaiah 40:3
A voice of one calling: "Prepare the way for the LORD in the wilderness; make a straight highway for our God in the desert.

Joel 2:31
The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD.


Treasury of Scripture

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:

I will.

Malachi 3:1
Behold, 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 40:3
The 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.

Matthew 11:13,14
For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John…

great.

Malachi 4:1
For, 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.

Joel 2:31
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

Acts 2:19,20
And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: …

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Malachi 4
1. God's judgment on the wicked;
2. and his blessing on the good.
4. He exhorts to the study of the law;
5. and tells of Elijah's coming and office.














(5) Elijah.--There is no more reason to suppose that this refers actually to "Elijah" the prophet, and that he is to appear upon earth, than to imagine from Hosea 3:5; Ezekiel 24:23; Ezekiel 37:24; Jeremiah 30:9; that David himself is to come again in the flesh. When John the Baptist answered the question of the deputies of the Sanhedrim, "Art thou Elias?" by "I am not," he simply gave a negative reply to their question, which was formulated on their misapprehension. On the other hand, that John the Baptist is the "messenger" of Malachi 3:1 and the "Elijah" of this verse is shown conclusively (as far as Christians are concerned) by Luke 1:16-17 before his birth, by Matthew 3:1-12, Mark 1:2-8, Luke 3:2-18, at the commencement of his ministry. Moreover, our Lord Himself assured the people that John was this "messenger" and "Elijah" (Matthew 11:10, seq.; Luke 7:27, seq.), and His disciples that he had appeared, and not been recognised (Matthew 17:11, seq.; Mark 9:1, seq.). Finally, it is a significant fact that these two greatest of Old Testament prophets, Moses and Elias, who are mentioned together in this last prophetic exhortation, are the two who appeared with Christ on the Mount of Transfiguration, when all that which is contained in the Law and the prophets was about to be fulfilled. . . . Verse 5. - Elijah the prophet. This is not the same personage as the "messenger" in Malachi 3:1; for the latter comes before the first advent of the Lord, the former appears before the day of judgment; one comes to prepare the way of the Lord, and is followed immediately by Messiah's coming to his temple; the other is sent to convert the chosen people, lest the land be smitten with a curse. There seems to be no valid reason for not holding the literal sense of the words, and seeing in them a promise that Elijah the prophet, who was taken alive from the earth, shall at the last day coma again to carry out God's wise purposes. That this was the view adopted by the Jews in all ages we see by the version of the LXX., who have here, "Elijah the Tishbite;" by the allusion in Ecclus. 48:10; and by the question of our Lard's disciples in Matthew 17:10, "Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come." Christ himself confirms this opinion by answering, "Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things." lie cannot be referring here to John the Baptist, because he uses the future tense; and when he goes on to say that "Elias is come already," he is referring to what was past, and he himself explains that he means John, who was announced to come in the spirit and power of Elias (Luke 1:17), but of whom it could not be said that he "restored all things." The same opinion is found in the Revelation (Revelation 11:3, 6), where one of the witnesses is very commonly supposed to be Elijah. It is argued by Keil, Reinke, and others, that, as the promise of King David in such passages as Jeremiah 30:9; Ezekiel 34:23; Ezekiel 37:24; Hosea 3:5, etc., cannot imply the resurrection of David and his return to earth, so we cannot think of an actual reappearance of Elijah himself, but only of the coming of some prophet with his spirit and power. But, as Knabenbauer points out, for the attribution of the name David to Messiah, long and careful preparation had been made; e.g. by his being called "the rod of Jesse," the occupant of David's throne, etc.; and all who heard the expression would at once understand the symbolical application, especially as David was known to have died and been buried. But when they found Malachi speaking of the reappearance of "Elijah the prophet," who, as they were well aware, had never died, of whose connection with the coming Messenger they had never heard, they could not avoid the conclusion to which they came, viz. that before the great day of judgment Elias should again visit the earth in person. This prophecy concerns the very last days, and intimates that before the final consummation, when iniquity shall abound, God will send this great and faithful preacher of repentance, whose mission shall have such effects that the purpose of God for the salvation of Israel shall be accomplished. We may therefore assume that in the gospel the appellation "Elias" stands both for John and for Elijah himself; for the messenger who prepared the way for Christ's first advent, and for the prophet who was to convert the Israelites before the judgment day; for him who came in spirit and power, and him who shall come in bodily presence. The great and dreadful day. The day of final judgment. No other crisis could be named in such terms (see Joel 2:31, whence the words are taken).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Behold,
הִנֵּ֤ה (hin·nêh)
Interjection
Strong's 2009: Lo! behold!

I
אָֽנֹכִי֙ (’ā·nō·ḵî)
Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's 595: I

will send
שֹׁלֵ֣חַ (šō·lê·aḥ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 7971: To send away, for, out

you
לָכֶ֔ם (lā·ḵem)
Preposition | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew

Elijah
אֵלִיָּ֣ה (’ê·lî·yāh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 452: Elijah -- 'Yah is God', a well-known prophet of Israel, also three other Israelites

the prophet
הַנָּבִ֑יא (han·nā·ḇî)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5030: A spokesman, speaker, prophet

before
לִפְנֵ֗י (lip̄·nê)
Preposition-l | Noun - common plural construct
Strong's 6440: The face

the coming
בּ֚וֹא (bō·w)
Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

of the great
הַגָּד֖וֹל (hag·gā·ḏō·wl)
Article | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 1419: Great, older, insolent

and dreadful
וְהַנּוֹרָֽא׃ (wə·han·nō·w·rā)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Verb - Nifal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 3372: To fear, to revere, caus, to frighten

Day
י֣וֹם (yō·wm)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3117: A day

of the LORD.
יְהוָ֔ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel


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