IV.
(1) The day already foretold in Malachi 3:2 shall be as a fire burning fiercely as a furnace, and “the wicked” — not only the heathen, but the murmurers themselves, so far from being accounted happy (Malachi 3:15) — shall be as “stubble.” (Comp. Isaiah 5:24; Zephaniah 1:18; Obadiah 1:18, &c.)