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.
02 I will utterly consume all things from off the
land, saith the Lord.
03 I 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.
04 I 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;
05 And 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;
06 And them that are turned back from the Lord;
and those that have not sought the Lord, nor
enquired for him.
07 Hold 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.
08 And 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.
09 In the same day also will I punish all those
that leap on the threshold, which fill their
masters' houses with violence and deceit.
10 And 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.
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11 Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the
merchant people are cut down; all they that bear
silver are cut off.
12 And 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.
13 Therefore 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.
14 The 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.
15 That 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,
16 A day of the trumpet and alarm against the
fenced cities, and against the high towers.
17 And 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.
18 Neither 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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