Malachi 4:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.

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  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And he shall turn{H7725} the heart{H3820} of the fathers{H1} to the children,{H1121} and the heart{H3820} of the children{H1121} to their fathers;{H1} lest I come{H935} and smite{H5221} the earth{H776} with a curse.{H2764}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And he shall turn{H7725}{(H8689)} the heart{H3820} of the fathers{H1} to the children{H1121}, and the heart{H3820} of the children{H1121} to their fathers{H1}, lest I come{H935}{(H8799)} and smite{H5221}{(H8689)} the earth{H776} with a curse{H2764}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    He shall turne the hertes of the fathers to their children and the hertes of the children to their fathers, that I come not, and smyte the earth with cursynge.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And he shall turne the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with cursing.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    He shal turne the heart of the fathers to their children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with cursing.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse."

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And he hath turned back the heart of fathers to sons, And the heart of sons to their fathers, Before I come and have utterly smitten the land!

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers; lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers; lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    And by him the hearts of fathers will be turned to their children, and the hearts of children to their fathers; for fear that I may come and put the earth under a curse.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse."

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    He will encourage fathers and their children to return to me, so that I will not come and strike the earth with judgment.”

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 11:4 : 4 But with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked.
  • Luke 1:16-17 : 16 He will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God. 17 He will go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
  • Matt 23:35-38 : 35 that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 36 Truly I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation. 37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you, how often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! 38 See, your house is left to you desolate.
  • Zech 5:3 : 3 Then he said to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole earth: for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on this side; and everyone who swears shall be cut off according to it on that side.
  • Heb 10:26-31 : 26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins, 27 But a certain fearful expectation of judgment and fiery indignation, which will devour the adversaries. 28 Anyone who despised Moses' law died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know him who has said, Vengeance belongs to me, I will repay, says the Lord. And again, The Lord will judge his people. 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
  • Isa 65:15 : 15 You shall leave your name as a curse for my chosen, for the Lord GOD will slay you and call his servants by another name.
  • Dan 9:11 : 11 Yes, all Israel has transgressed Your law, even by departing, that they might not obey Your voice; therefore, the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against Him.
  • Dan 9:26-27 : 26 And after sixty-two weeks, the Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; its end shall be with a flood, and until the end of the war desolations are determined. 27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the middle of the week, he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations, he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
  • Deut 29:19-29 : 19 And it comes to pass, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of my heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: 20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven. 21 And the LORD shall separate him for disaster out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law: 22 So that the generation to come of your children that rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD has laid upon it; 23 And that the whole land is brimstone, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger and in his wrath: 24 Even all nations shall say, Why has the LORD done thus to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean? 25 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: 26 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given to them: 27 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book: 28 And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day. 29 The secret things belong to the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
  • Rev 19:15 : 15 And out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it he should strike the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
  • Rev 22:3 : 3 And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him.
  • Rev 22:20-21 : 20 He who testifies to these things says, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. 21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
  • Zech 11:6 : 6 For I will no longer pity the inhabitants of the land, says the LORD. But behold, I will deliver every man into his neighbor's hand, and into the hand of his king. They shall strike the land, and I will not deliver them out of their hand.
  • Zech 13:8 : 8 And it shall come to pass that in all the land, says the LORD, two-thirds shall be cut off and die, but one-third shall be left in it.
  • Zech 14:2 : 2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses plundered, and the women violated; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
  • Zech 14:12 : 12 And this shall be the plague with which the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
  • Matt 22:7 : 7 But when the king heard about it, he was angry: and he sent out his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
  • Isa 24:6 : 6 Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell in it are desolate; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
  • Isa 43:28 : 28 Therefore, I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.
  • Isa 61:2 : 2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;
  • Matt 24:27-30 : 27 For as the lightning comes from the east and shines to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. 28 For wherever the carcass is, there the eagles will be gathered together. 29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 30 Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
  • Mark 11:21 : 21 And Peter, calling to remembrance, said to him, Master, behold, the fig tree which you cursed is withered away.
  • Mark 13:14-26 : 14 But when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let the reader understand,) then let them that are in Judea flee to the mountains: 15 And let him who is on the housetop not go down into the house, nor enter in, to take anything out of his house: 16 And let him who is in the field not turn back again to take up his garment. 17 But woe to those who are with child, and to those who nurse infants in those days! 18 And pray that your flight be not in the winter. 19 For in those days will be affliction, such as has not been from the beginning of creation which God created until this time, nor ever shall be. 20 And unless the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom he has chosen, he has shortened the days. 21 And then if anyone says to you, Look, here is Christ; or, Look, he is there; do not believe it: 22 For false Christs and false prophets will rise, and will show signs and wonders, to seduce, if possible, even the elect. 23 But take heed: behold, I have foretold you all things. 24 But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, 25 And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken. 26 And then they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.
  • Luke 1:76 : 76 And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Highest, for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways,
  • Luke 19:41-44 : 41 And when he came near, he saw the city and wept over it, 42 Saying, If you had known, even you, at least in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. 43 For the days shall come upon you, when your enemies will build an embankment around you and surround you and enclose you on every side, 44 And will level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.
  • Luke 21:22-27 : 22 For these are the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. 23 But woe to those who are with child and to those who give suck in those days! For there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people. 24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. 25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; 26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. 27 And then shall they see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
  • Heb 6:8 : 8 But that which bears thorns and thistles is rejected, and is near to being cursed, its end is to be burned.

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