| 1:1 |
The word of theJehovah Lord which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah. |
| 1:2 |
I will utterly consume all things from off the face of the ground, saith the LordJehovah. |
| 1:3 |
I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowlsbirds of the heavenheavens, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the face of the ground, saith the LordJehovah. |
| 1:4 |
And I will stretch out minemy 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 Chemarim with the priests; |
| 1:5 |
and them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship, whichthat swear to theJehovah Lord and swear by Malcam; |
| 1:6 |
and them that are turned back from following the LordJehovah; and those that have not sought the LordJehovah, nor inquired after him. |
| 1:7 |
Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GODJehovah; for the day of theJehovah Lord is at hand: for theJehovah Lord hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath sanctifiedconsecrated his guests. |
| 1:8 |
And it shall come to pass in the day of theJehovahs LordS sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the kings sons, and all such as are clothed with foreign apparel. |
| 1:9 |
And in that day I will punish all those that leap over the threshold, whichthat fill their masters house with violence and deceit. |
| 1:10 |
And in that day, saith the LordJehovah, there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and ana howlingwailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills. |
| 1:11 |
HowlWail, ye inhabitants of Maktesh,; for all the people of Canaan are undone:; all they that were laden with sliversilver are cut off. |
| 1:12 |
And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candleslamps; and I will punish the men that are settled on their lees, that say in their heart, TheJehovah Lord will not do good, neither will he do evil. |
| 1:14 |
The great day of theJehovah Lord is near, it is near and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LordJehovah; the mighty man crieth there bitterly. |
| 1:16 |
a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fencedfortified cities, and against the high battlements. |
| 1:17 |
And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against theJehovah; Lord: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as dung. |
| 1:18 |
Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of theJehovahs LordS wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shallwill make an end, yea, a terrible end, of all them that dwell in the land. |
| 2:2 |
before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of theJehovah Lord come upon you, before the day of theJehovahs LordS anger come upon you. |
| 2:3 |
Seek ye the LordJehovah, all ye meek of the earth, whichthat have wroughtkept his judgementordinances; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shallwill be hid in the day of theJehovahs LordS anger. |
| 2:4 |
For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation:; they shall drive out Ashdod at the noonday, and Ekron shall be rooted up. |
| 2:5 |
Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! The word of theJehovah Lord is against you, O Canaan, the land of the Philistines; I will destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant. |
| 2:7 |
And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed their flocks thereupon:; in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening; for theJehovah Lord their God shallwill visit them, and bring againback their captivity. |
| 2:9 |
Therefore as I live, saith theJehovah Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoilmake a prey of them, and the remnant of my nation shall inherit them. |
| 2:10 |
This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of theJehovah Lord of hosts. |
| 2:11 |
TheJehovah Lord will be terrible unto them:; for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the nations. |
| 2:13 |
And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria;, and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like the wilderness. |
| 2:14 |
And herds shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the pelican and the porcupine shall lodge in the chapiterscapitals thereof:; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds;: for he hath laid bare the cedar work. |
| 2:15 |
This is the joyous city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none elsebesides beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand. |
| 3:1 |
Woe to her that is rebellious and polluted,! to the oppressing city! |
| 3:2 |
She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LordJehovah; she drew not near to her God. |
| 3:4 |
Her prophets are light and treacherous persons:; her priests have profaned the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law. |
| 3:5 |
TheJehovah Lord in the midst of her is righteous; he will not do iniquity; every morning doth he bring his judgementjustice to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame. |
| 3:6 |
I have cut off nations,; their battlements are desolate; I have made their streets waste, so that none passeth by:; their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is noneno inhabitant. |
| 3:7 |
I said, SurelyOnly thou wilt fear me, thou wiltme; receive correction; so her dwelling shouldshall not be cut off, according to all that I have appointed concerning her: but they rose early and corrupted all their doings. |
| 3:8 |
Therefore wait ye for me, saith the LordJehovah, until the day that I rise up to the prey:; for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger; for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy. |
| 3:9 |
For then will I turn to the peoples of a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LordJehovah, to serve him with one consent. |
| 3:11 |
In that day shalt thou not be ashamedput to shame for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me:; for then I will take away out of the midst of thee thy proudly exulting ones, and thou shalt no more be haughty in my holy mountain. |
| 3:12 |
But I will leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trusttake refuge in the name of the LordJehovah. |
| 3:13 |
The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth:; for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid. |
| 3:15 |
TheJehovah Lord hath taken away thy judgementsjudgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the kingKing of Israel, even the LordJehovah, is in the midst of thee:; thou shalt not fear evil any more. |
| 3:16 |
In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not:; O Zion, let not thinethy hands be slack. |
| 3:17 |
TheJehovah Lord thy God is in the midst of thee, a mighty one who will save:; he will rejoice over thee with joy,; he will rest in his love,; he will joy over thee with singing. |
| 3:18 |
I will gather them that sorrow for the solemn assembly, who were of thee:; to whom the burden upon her was a reproach. |
| 3:19 |
Behold, at that time I will deal with all them that afflict thee:; and I will save her that haltethwhich is lame, and gather her that which was driven away; and I will make them a praise and a name, whose shame hath been in all the earth. |
| 3:20 |
At that time will I bring you in, and at that time will I gather you:; for I will make you a name and a praise among all the peoples of the earth, when I bring againback your captivity before your eyes, saith the LordJehovah. |