Malachi 4 · Verse 2

Malachi 4:2

But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
Malachi 4:2, King James Version

Malachi 4:2 in other translations

BSB“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.
WEBBut to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out and leap like calves of the stall.
ASVBut unto you that fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings; and ye shall go forth, and gambol as calves of the stall.
YLTAnd risen to you, ye who fear My name, Hath the sun of righteousness--and healing in its wings, And ye have gone forth, and have increased as calves of a stall.
DARBYAnd unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth and leap like fatted calves.
BBEBut to you who give worship to my name, the sun of righteousness will come up with new life in its wings; and you will go out, playing like young oxen full of food.
WebsterBut to you that fear my name, shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

What does Malachi 4:2 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
2. The effect of the judgment on the righteous, as contrasted with its effect on the wicked (Mal 4:1). To the wicked it shall be as an oven that consumes the stubble (Mt 6:30); to the righteous it shall be the advent of the gladdening Sun, not of condemnation, but "of righteousness"; not destroying, but "healing" (Jr 23:6). you that fear my name--The same as those in Mal 3:16, who confessed God amidst abounding blasphemy (Is 66:5; Mt 10:32). The spiritual blessings brought by Him are summed up in the two, "righteousness" (1Co 1:30) and spiritual "healing" (Psa 103:3; Is 57:19). Those who walk in the dark now may take comfort in the certainty that they shall walk hereafter in eternal light (Is 50:10). in his wings--implying the winged swiftness with which He shall appear (compare "suddenly," Mal 3:1) for the relief of His people. The beams of the Sun are His "wings." Compare "wings of the morning," Psa 139:9. The "Sun" gladdening the righteous is suggested by the previous "day" of terror consuming the wicked. Compare as to Christ, 2Sa 23:4; Psa 84:11; Lu 1:78; Joh 1:9; 8:12; Ep 5:14; and in His second coming, 2Pe 1:19. The Church is the moon reflecting His light (Re 12:1). The righteous shall by His righteousness "shine as the Sun in the kingdom of the Father" (Mt 13:43). ye shall go forth--from the straits in which you were, as it were, held captive. An earnest of this was given in the escape of the Christians to Pella before the destruction of Jerusalem. grow up--rather, "leap" as frisking calves [Calvin]; literally, "spread," "take a wide range." as calves of the stall--which when set free from the stall disport with joy (Ac 8:8; 13:52; 20:24; Ro 14:17; Ga 5:22; Php 1:4; 1Pe 1:8). Especially the godly shall rejoice at their final deliverance at Christ's second coming (Is 61:10).

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 2 You that fear my name - The persons mentioned in the sixteenth verse of the preceding chapter, ye that look for redemption through the Messiah. The Sun of righteousness - The Lord Jesus, the promised Messiah; the Hope of Israel. With healing in his wings - As the sun, by the rays of light and heat, revives, cheers, and fructifies the whole creation, giving, through God, light and life everywhere; so Jesus Christ, by the influences of his grace and Spirit, shall quicken, awaken, enlighten, warm, invigorate heal, purify, and refine every soul that believes in him, and, by his wings or rays, diffuse these blessings from one end of heaven to another; everywhere invigorating the seeds of righteousness, and withering and drying up the seeds of sin. The rays of this Sun are the truths of his Gospel, and the influences of his Spirit. And at present these are universally diffused. And ye shall go forth - Ye who believe on his name shall go forth out of Jerusalem when the Romans shall come up against it. After Cestius Gallus had blockaded the city for some days, he suddenly raised the siege. The Christians who were then in it, knowing, by seeing Jerusalem encompassed with armies, that the day of its destruction was come, when their Lord commanded them to flee into the mountains, took this opportunity to escape from Jerusalem, and go to Pella, in Coelesyria; so that no Christian life fell in the siege and destruction of this city. But these words are of more general application and meaning; "ye shall go forth" in all the occupations of life, but particularly in the means of grace; and: - Grow up as calves of the stall - Full of health, of life, and spirits; satisfied and happy.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Malachi 4:1-3

Here is a reference to the first and to the second coming of Christ: God has fixed the day of both. Those who do wickedly, who do not fear God's anger, shall feel it. It is certainly to be applied to the day of judgment, when Christ shall be revealed in flaming fire; to execute judgment on the proud, and all that do wickedly. In both, Christ is a rejoicing Light to those who serve him faithfully. By the Sun of…

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Malachi 4:2 in the original Hebrew

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וְזָרְחָ֨הve.za.re.Chahand it will riseH2224
לָכֶ֜םla.Khemfor you
יִרְאֵ֤יyir.'Ei[those] fearingH3373
שְׁמִי֙she.Mi<of> name myH8034
שֶׁ֣מֶשׁShe.mesha sun ofH8121
צְדָקָ֔הtze.da.KahrighteousnessH6666
וּמַרְפֵּ֖אu.mar.Pe'and healingH4832
בִּכְנָפֶ֑יהָbikh.na.Fei.ha[will be] in wings itsH3671
וִֽיצָאתֶ֥םvi.tza.Temand you will go outH3318
וּפִשְׁתֶּ֖םu.fish.Temand you will skipH6335
כְּעֶגְלֵ֥יke.'eg.Leilike calves ofH5695
מַרְבֵּֽק\׃mar.Bek[the] stallH4770

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Cross references for Malachi 4:2

  • Jeremiah 33:6

    Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.

  • Psalms 84:11

    For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

  • Isaiah 30:26

    Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the Lord bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.

  • Luke 1:78

    Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,

  • John 8:12

    Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

  • Isaiah 53:5

    But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

  • Revelation 22:16

    I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.

  • 2 Samuel 23:4

    And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.

  • Malachi 3:16

    Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.

  • John 1:4

    In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

  • 2 Peter 1:19

    We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:

  • Revelation 22:2

    In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
that fear.
3:16; Ps 85:9; Isa 50:10; 66:1,2; Lu 1:50; Ac 13:26; Re 11:18
the Sun.
2Sa 23:4; Ps 67:1; 84:11; Pr 4:18; Isa 9:2; 30:26; 49:6; 60:1-3,19,20
Ho 6:3; Mt 4:15,16; Lu 1:78; 2:32; Joh 1:4,8,14; 8:12; 9:4; 12:35,36
Joh 12:40; Ac 13:47; 26:18; Eph 5:8-14; 2Pe 1:19; 1Jo 2:8; Re 2:28
Re 22:16
healing.
Ps 103:3; 147:3; Isa 53:5; 57:18,19; Jer 17:14; 33:6; Eze 47:12
Ho 6:1; 14:4; Mt 11:5; Re 22:2
wings.
Ru 2:12; Mt 23:37
ye shall.
Ps 92:12-14; Isa 49:9,10; 55:12,13; Jer 31:9-14; Ho 14:5-7
Joh 15:2-5; 2Th 1:3; 2Pe 3:18

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Context

  • Malachi 4:1

    For, behold, the day cometh, that shall 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.

  • Malachi 4:2

    But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

  • Malachi 4:3

    And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts.

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Malachi 4:2 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Mas á vosotros los que teméis mi nombre, nacerá el Sol de justicia, y en sus alas traerá salud: y saldréis, y saltaréis como becerros de la manada.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Aber euch, die ihr meinen Namen fürchtet, wird die Sonne der Gerechtigkeit aufgehen mit Heilung in ihren Flügeln. Und ihr werdet ausziehen und hüpfen gleich Mastkälbern;
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Et orietur vobis timentibus nomen meum sol justitiæ, et sanitas in pennis ejus: et egrediemini, et salietis sicut vituli de armento.