Chapter 1
The word of the Lord which came unto Zephaniah the son of
Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the
days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.
2I will utterly consume
all things from off the land, saith the Lord.
3I will consume man
and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea,
and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the
land, saith the Lord.
4I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and
upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal
from this place, and the name of the Chemarims with the priests;
5And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them
that worship and that swear by the Lord, and that swear by Malcham;
6And them that are turned back from the Lord; and those that have
not sought the Lord, nor enquired for him.
7Hold thy peace at the
presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the Lord is at hand: for the
Lord hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests.
8And it shall
come to pass in the day of the Lord’S sacrifice, that I will punish the
princes, and the king’s children, and all such as are clothed with strange
apparel.
9In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the
threshold, which fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit.
10And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that there
shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the
second, and a great crashing from the hills.
11Howl, ye inhabitants of
Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all they that bear silver
are cut off.
12And it shall come to pass at that time, that I
will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on
their lees: that say in their heart, The Lord will not do good, neither will
he do evil.
13Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their
houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit
them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.
14The great day of the Lord is near, it is near, and
hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the Lord: the mighty
man shall cry there bitterly.
15That day is a day of wrath, a day
of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness
and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
16A day of the
trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.
17And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind
men, because they have sinned against the Lord: and their blood shall be
poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.
18Neither their silver
nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord’S wrath;
but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he
shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
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