For, behold, the day cometh, that shall (a) burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
(a) He prophesies of God's judgments against the wicked, who would not receive Christ, when God would send him for the restoration of his Church.