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Chapter 1 |
| 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. |
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| I will utterly consume all things from off the land,
saith the LORD. |
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3 | 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.
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| 4 | 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; |
| 5 | 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; |
| 6 | And them that
are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor
enquired for him. |
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7 | 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. |
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8 | 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. |
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9 | In the same day also will I
punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses
with violence and deceit. |
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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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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. |
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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. |
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| 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.
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| 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. |
