⁶ He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children,^(A) and the hearts of the children to their parents; or else I will come and strike^(B) the land with total destruction.”^(C)

¹⁶ He will bring back many of the people of Israel to the Lord their God.

¹⁷ And he will go on before the Lord,^(A) in the spirit and power of Elijah,^(B) to turn the hearts of the parents to their children^(C) and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”^(D)

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