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Threatenings against Judáh and Jerusalém, because of their idolatry.

1.The word of the Lord, which came unto Zephaniáh the son of Cushí, the son of Gedaliáh, the son of Amariáh, the son of Hizkiáh, in the daies of *Josiáh, the son of *Amón King of Judáh.

2.I will surely destroy all things from off the land, saith the Lord.

3.I will destroy man and beast: I will destroy the ^afoules of the heaven, and the fish of the sea, and ruins shalbe to the wicked, and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the Lord.

4.I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judáh, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalém, and I will cut off the remnant of Báal from this place, & the names of the ^bChemarims with the Priests,

5.And them that worship the hoste of heaven upon the house tops, & them that worship & swear by the Lord, and by ^cMalchám,

6.And them that are turned back from the Lord, and those that have not sought the Lord, nor inquired for him.

7.Be still at the presence of the Lord God: for the day of the Lord is at hand: for the Lord hath prepared a sacrifice, and hath sanctified his ghestes.

8.And it shalbe in the day of the Lord’s sacrifice, that I will visit the princes and the King’s children, and all such as are clothed with ^dstrange apparel.

9.In the same day also will I visit all those that ^edance upon the threshold so proudly, which fill their master’s houses by cruelty and deceit.

10.And in that day, saith the Lord, there shalbe a noise, and cry from the ^ffish gate, and an howling from the second gate, and a great destruction from the hills.

11.Howl ye inhabitants of ^gthe low place: for the company of the marchants is destroyed: all they that bare silver, are cut off.

12.And at that time will I search Jerusalém with ^hlights, and visit the men that are frozen ⁱin their dregges, and say in their hearts, The Lord will neither do good nor do evil.

13.Therefore their goods shalbe spoiled, and their houses waste: *they shal also build houses, but not inhabit them, and they shal 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: ^kthe strong man shal cry there bitterly.

15.*That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and heaviness, a day of destruction and desolation, a day of obscurity and darkness, a day of clouds and blackness,

16.A day of the trumpet and alarm against the strong cities, and against the high towers.

17.And I will bring distress upon men, that they shal walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the Lord, and their blood shalbe poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dongue.

18.*Neither their silver nor their gold shal be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord’s wrath, but *the whole land shal be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shal make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

Zephaniah 1

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