Yahweh is speaking to the people of Israel.

## See ##

AT: “Look” or “Listen” or “Pay attention to what I am about to tell you.”

## But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? ##

AT: "Absolutely no one is going to be able to resist Yahweh.

## For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like laundry soap. ##

God is comparing his ability to rule the people and to cleanse them from sin to the power of a strong soap to clean clothes or the power of fire to melt an object. It is another way of saying that God's power to do this is unstoppable. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])

## and he will purify the sons of Levi ##

"and he will correct and cleanse the sons of Levi from sin"

## He will refine them like gold and silver ##

God will remove sin from the Levites to make them more pure. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]]).

## and they will bring offerings of righteousness to Yahweh ##

"and they will bring acceptable offerings of worship to Yahweh."