Malachi 4:1

“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.”

Cross References (28)

  • 2 Thessalonians 1:8 (20)

    in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

  • 2 Peter 3:7 (18)

    And by that same word, the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destr

  • Malachi 3:2 (14)

    But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He will be like a refiner’s fire, like

  • Isaiah 47:14 (11)

    Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. Th

  • Isaiah 5:24 (10)

    Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and

  • Obadiah 1:18 (8)

    Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire, and the house of Joseph a burning flame; but the house of Esau will be s

  • Malachi 3:15 (7)

    So now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.’”

  • Joel 2:1 (6)

    Blow the ram’s horn in Zion; sound the alarm on My holy mountain! Let all who dwell in the land tremble, for the Day of

  • Isaiah 2:12–17 (6)

    For the Day of the LORD of Hosts will come against all the proud and lofty, against all that is exalted—it will be humbl

  • Zephaniah 1:18 (6)

    Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the Day of the LORD’s wrath. The whole earth will be

  • Job 18:16 (6)

    The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.

  • Zephaniah 1:14 (5)

    The great Day of the LORD is near—near and coming quickly. Listen, the Day of the LORD! Then the cry of the mighty will

  • Malachi 4:5 (5)

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

  • Exodus 15:7 (5)

    You overthrew Your adversaries by Your great majesty. You unleashed Your burning wrath; it consumed them like stubble.

  • Zechariah 14:1 (5)

    Behold, a day of the LORD is coming when your plunder will be divided in your presence.

  • Matthew 3:12 (5)

    His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn u

  • Luke 21:20 (5)

    But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you will know that her desolation is near.

  • Nahum 1:10 (5)

    For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard—like stubble that is fully dry.

  • Nahum 1:5–6 (5)

    The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence—the world and all its dwelle

  • Malachi 3:18 (5)

    So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”

  • Joel 2:31 (4)

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

  • Psalms 119:119 (4)

    All the wicked on earth You discard like dross; therefore I love Your testimonies.

  • Luke 19:43 (4)

    For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side.

  • Ezekiel 7:10 (3)

    Behold, the day is here! It has come! Doom has gone out, the rod has budded, arrogance has bloomed.

  • Isaiah 40:24 (3)

    No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground, than He blows

  • Isaiah 41:2 (3)

    Who has aroused one from the east and called him to his feet in righteousness? He hands nations over to him and subdues

  • Amos 2:9 (3)

    Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, though his height was like that of the cedars, and he was as strong

  • Psalms 21:9–10 (3)

    You will place them in a fiery furnace at the time of Your appearing. In His wrath the LORD will engulf them, and the fi