Malachi 2:9

2:9 “Therefore, I have caused you to be ignored and belittled before all people to the extent to which you are not following after me and are showing partiality in your 1  instruction.”

Malachi 3:16

3:16 Then those who respected 2  the Lord spoke to one another, and the Lord took notice. 3  A scroll 4  was prepared before him in which were recorded the names of those who respected the Lord and honored his name.

Malachi 4:3

4:3 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.

1 tn Heb “in the instruction” (so NASB). The Hebrew article is used here as a possessive pronoun (cf. NRSV, NLT).

2 tn Or “fear” (so NAB); NRSV “revered”; NCV “honored.”

3 tn Heb “heard and listened”; NAB “listened attentively.”

4 sn The scroll mentioned here is a “memory book” (סֵפֶר זִכָּרוֹן, sefer zikkaron) in which the Lord keeps an ongoing record of the names of all the redeemed (see Exod 32:32; Isa 4:3; Dan 12:1; Rev 20:12-15).