of the awesome, fearful day of the LORD. 24He shall reconcile parents with children and children with their parents, so that, when I come, I do not strike the whole land with utter destruction.
Lo, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before
the coming of the awesome, fearful day of the LORD.

a-a Meaning of Heb. uncertain.
b Septuagint and Targum add “should reverence”; cf. next part of verse.
c Septuagint “it.”
a-a Meaning of Heb. uncertain.
b See Hag. 2.10–13; cf. Lev. 10.8–11, Deut. 33.8, 10.
c-c Or: For the lips of a priest are observed;/Knowledge and ruling are sought from his mouth.
d By ruling falsely that an act was licit or an object ritually pure.
e-e Lit. “a second time”; Septuagint reads “which I detest”; cf. v. 16.
f-f Lit. “from your hand.”
a Apparently the messenger of the previous sentence is regarded as Israel’s tutelary angel.
b Lit. “sit.”
c Vv. 6–12 resume the thought of 1.2–5.
d Heb. qaba‘, a play on the name of Jacob (v. 6); cf. Gen. 27.36.
e I.e., the contributions to the priests from the new grain, oil, and wine; see Num. 18.12.
f I.e., the public storehouse; see Neh. 13.10–13.
g Lit. “devourer.”
h-h Lit. “with healing in the folds of its garments”; others “with healing in its wings.”

The End