Discovery BoxMalachi 2:9 
Context2:9 “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
Context3:16 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
Context4:3 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
