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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The 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. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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; |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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; |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor inquired for him. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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, |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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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