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# Malachi 4

Malachi 4 is chapter 4 of 4 in the Book of Malachi. Here are all 6 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> The judgment of the wicked, and reward of the just. An exhortation to observe the law. Elias shall come for the conversion of the Jews.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Malachi 4 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. For, behold, the day will arrive, kindled like a furnace, and all the arrogant and all those who act impiously will be stubble. And the approaching day will inflame them, says the Lord of hosts; it will leave behind for them neither root, nor sprout.
2. But unto you, who fear my name, the Sun of justice will arise, and health will be in his wings. And you will go forth and leap like the calves of the herd.
3. And you will trample the impious, while they will be ashes under the sole of your foot, on the day that I act, says the Lord of hosts.
4. Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded him on Horeb for all Israel, the precepts and the judgments.
5. Behold, I will send to you Elijah the prophet, before the arrival of the great and terrible day of the Lord.
6. And he will turn the heart of the fathers to the sons, and the heart of the sons to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with anathema.

## Malachi 4 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Ecce enim dies veniet succensa quasi caminus: et erunt omnes superbi et omnes facientes impietatem stipula: et inflammabit eos dies veniens, dicit Dominus exercituum, quæ non derelinquet eis radicem et germen.
2. Et orietur vobis timentibus nomen meum sol justitiæ, et sanitas in pennis ejus: et egrediemini, et salietis sicut vituli de armento.
3. Et calcabitis impios, cum fuerint cinis sub planta pedum vestrorum, in die qua ego facio, dicit Dominus exercituum.
4. Mementote legis Moysi servi mei, quam mandavi ei in Horeb ad omnem Israël, præcepta et judicia.
5. Ecce ego mittam vobis Eliam prophetam, antequam veniat dies Domini magnus et horribilis.
6. Et convertet cor patrum ad filios, et cor filiorum ad patres eorum: ne forte veniam, et percutiam terram anathemate.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 678: To Judge the Living and the Dead ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 6: By bringing over the Jews to the faith of Christ, he shall reconcile them to their fathers, viz., the partiarchs and prophets; whose hearts for many ages have been turned away from them, because of their refusing to believe in Christ.-- Ibid.
- Verse 6: “With anathema” … In the Hebrew, Cherem, that is, with utter destruction.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Wed, Dec 23, 2026: Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Advent — First Reading, Malachi 3:1-4, 23-24
- Thu, Oct 7, 2027 (computed): Our Lady of the Rosary — First Reading, Malachi 3:13-20b
- Thu, Dec 23, 2027 (computed): Thursday of the Fourth Week of Advent — First Reading, Malachi 3:1-4, 23-24
- Sun, Nov 19, 2028 (computed): Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time — First Reading, Malachi 3:19-20a

1 more date through December 31, 2028, in the [liturgical calendar](https://blessbible.app/calendar/).

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).