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Malachi 4:3

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.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Malachi;   Righteous;   Wicked (People);   Scofield Reference Index - Day (of Jehovah);   Thompson Chain Reference - Battle of Life;   Satan;   Victory;   The Topic Concordance - Day of the Lord;   Fear;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Wicked, the, Are Compared to;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Day of the lord;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Herd;   John the Baptist;   Joshua;   Makkedah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Justification (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ashes;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Death;   Eschatology of the Old Testament (with Apocryphal and Apocalyptic Writings);   Malachi;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Judaism;   Optimism and Pessimism;   Purgatory;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
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 Armies.
King James Version (1611)
And yee shall treade downe the wicked: for they shall bee ashes vnder the soles of your feet, in the day that I shall doe this, saith the Lord of hosts.
King James Version
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.
English Standard Version
And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the Lord of hosts.
New American Standard Bible
"And you will crush the wicked underfoot, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day that I am preparing," says the LORD of armies.
New Century Version
Then you will crush the wicked like ashes under your feet on the day I will do this," says the Lord All-Powerful.
Amplified Bible
"You will trample the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day that I do this," says the LORD of hosts.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And ye shall treade downe the wicked: for they shall be dust vnder the soles of your feete in the day that I shall doe this, sayeth the Lorde of hostes.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You will tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day which I am preparing," says the LORD of hosts.
Legacy Standard Bible
And you will tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day which I am preparing," says Yahweh of hosts.
Contemporary English Version
When I come to bring justice, you will trample those who are evil, as though they were ashes under your feet. I, the Lord All-Powerful, have spoken!
Darby Translation
And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I prepare, saith Jehovah of hosts.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then you will walk on the evil people—they will be like ashes under your feet. I will make this happen at the time of judgment." This is what the Lord All-Powerful said.
George Lamsa Translation
And you shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, says the LORD of hosts.
Good News Translation
On the day when I act, you will overcome the wicked, and they will be like dust under your feet.
Lexham English Bible
You will trample down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day that I am going to act," says Yahweh of hosts.
Literal Translation
And you shall tread under the wicked, for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day which I am preparing, says Jehovah of Hosts.
American Standard Version
And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make, saith Jehovah of hosts.
Bible in Basic English
And the evil-doers will be crushed under you, they will be dust under your feet, in the day when I do my work, says the Lord of armies.
Hebrew Names Version
You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make," says the LORD of Hosts.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
[3:21] And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I do make, saith the LORD of hosts.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And ye shall treade downe the vngodly, for they shalbe dust vnder the soles of your feete in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lorde of hoastes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And ye shall trample the wicked; for they shall be ashes underneath your feet in the day which I appoint, saith the Lord Almighty.
English Revised Version
And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I do make, saith the LORD of hosts.
World English Bible
You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make," says Yahweh of Hosts.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And ye schulen to-trede vnpitouse men, whanne thei schulen be aische vndur the soole of youre feet, in the dai in which Y do, seith the Lord of oostis.
Update Bible Version
And you shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make, says Yahweh of hosts.
Webster's Bible Translation
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.
New English Translation
You will trample on the wicked, for they will be like ashes under the soles of your feet on the day which I am preparing," says the Lord who rules over all.
New King James Version
You shall trample the wicked, For they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet On the day that I do this," Says the LORD of hosts.
New Living Translation
On the day when I act, you will tread upon the wicked as if they were dust under your feet," says the Lord of Heaven's Armies.
New Life Bible
You will crush the sinful under foot. They will be ashes under your feet on the day when I do these things," says the Lord of All.
New Revised Standard
And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the Lord of hosts.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And ye shall tread down the lawless, for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet, - in the day when I am working with effect, saith Yahweh of hosts.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And you shall tread down the wicked when they shall be ashes under the sole of your feet in the day that I do this, saith the Lord of hosts.
Revised Standard Version
And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the LORD of hosts.
Young's Literal Translation
And ye have trodden down the wicked, For they are ashes under the soles of your feet, In the day that I am appointing, Said Jehovah of Hosts.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Ye shal treade downe ye vngodly: for they shalbe like the asshes vnder the soles of youre fete, in the daye yt I shal make, sayeth the LORDE of hoostes.

Contextual Overview

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." 2"But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall. 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.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

tread down: Genesis 3:15, Joshua 10:24, Joshua 10:25, 2 Samuel 22:43, Job 40:12, Psalms 91:13, Isaiah 25:10, Isaiah 26:6, Isaiah 63:3-6, Daniel 7:18, Daniel 7:27, Micah 5:8, Micah 7:10, Zechariah 10:5, Romans 16:20, Revelation 11:15, Revelation 14:20

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 22:39 - General 1 Kings 5:3 - put 2 Kings 9:33 - and he trode 2 Chronicles 22:7 - destruction Psalms 7:5 - tread Psalms 9:5 - destroyed Psalms 18:42 - cast Psalms 49:14 - upright Psalms 60:12 - tread Psalms 119:118 - trodden Proverbs 14:19 - General Isaiah 16:4 - oppressors Isaiah 27:4 - who would Lamentations 1:15 - trodden Ezekiel 28:18 - I will bring

Cross-References

Genesis 4:1
And Adam had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. "With the help of the LORD I have brought forth a man," she said.
Genesis 4:11
Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
Numbers 18:12
I give you all the freshest olive oil and all the finest new wine and grain that the Israelites give to the LORD as their firstfruits.
1 Kings 17:7
Some time later, however, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.
Nehemiah 13:6
While all this was happening, I was not in Jerusalem, because I had returned to King Artaxerxes of Babylon in the thirty-second year of his reign. Some time later I obtained leave from the king

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And ye shall tread down the wicked,.... As grapes in the winepress, as Christ did before them, Isaiah 63:2 and they by virtue of him; who makes them more than conquerors through himself, over all their enemies, spiritual and temporal:

for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet; this refers to the burning of them, Malachi 4:1 and may be literally understood of their being burnt with the city and temple; when afterwards, as Grotius observes, the city of Jerusalem being in some measure rebuilt, and called Aelia, there was a Christian church in it, governed by bishops, who were converted Jews; and so might be literally said to trample upon the ashes of the wicked, who had persecuted them in times past, they being upon the very spot where these men were destroyed by fire:

in the day that I shall do [this], saith the Lord of hosts: or "in the day which I make" m; that is, by the rising of the sun of righteousness, the Gospel day. The Talmud n interprets this verse of the bodies of the wicked in hell, which after twelve months will be consumed, and the wind will scatter them under the soles of the feet of the righteous.

m ביום אשר אני עשה "eo die, quem ego facio", Cocceius. n T. Bab. Roshhashanah, fol. 17. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And ye shall tread down the wicked, for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet. It shall be a great reversal. He that exalteth himself shall be abased, and he, that humbleth himself shall be exalted - Here the wicked often have the pre-eminence. This was the complaint of the murmurers among the Jews; in the morning of the Resurrection Psalms 49:14, “the upright shall have dominion over them.” The wicked, he had said, shall be as stubble, and that day Psalms 4:1, “shall burn them up;” here, then, they are as the ashes, the only remnant of the stubble, as the dust under the feet. “The elect shall rejoice, that they have, in mercy, escaped such misery. Therefore they shall be kindled inconceivably with the divine love, and shall from their inmost heart give thanks unto God.” And being thus of one mind with God, and seeing all things as He seeth, they will rejoice in His judgments, because they are His. For they cannot have one slightest velleity, other than the all-perfect Will of God. So Isaiah closes his prophecy Isaiah 66:24, “And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men, that have transgressed against Me, for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched, and they shall be an abhorring to all flesh. So Psalms 58:10. The righteous shall rejoice, when he seeth the vengeance;” and another Psalmist Psalms 107:42, “The righteous shall see and rejoice; and all wickedness shall stop her mouth; and Job Job 22:19. The righteous see and are glad, and the innocent laugh them to scorn.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Malachi 4:3. Ye shall tread down — This may be the commission given to the Romans: Tread down the wicked people, tread down the wicked place; set it on fire, and let the ashes be trodden down under your feet.


 
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