Malachi 4:3 - Exposition

Ye shall tread down the wicked (comp. Micah 4:13 ). They who were once oppressed and overborne by the powers of wickedness shall now rise superior to all hindrances, and themselves tread down the wicked as the ashes under their feet, to which the fire of judgment shall reduce them. In the day that I shall do this; rather, as in Malachi 3:17 , in the day which I am preparing .