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Word of the Lord that came to Zephaniah son of Cushi, son of Gedaliah, son of Amariah, son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah. |
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All cut from the face of the earth, saith the Lord: |
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I will consume man and beast will consume the fowls of heaven and the fish of the sea, and the stumbling blocks with the wicked; I cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD. |
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And I will stretch out my hand upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem cut off from this place the remnant of Baal, the name of the priests with the priests; |
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and those who are on the roofs of worship the host of heaven, and them that worship and that swear by the Lord, and swear by Malcham; |
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and those who departed from the Lord, not sought the LORD, nor inquired for him.
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Be silent before the Lord God! For the day of the Lord: The Lord has prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests. |
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And in the day of the Lord's sacrifice, that I will punish the princes and the king's sons and all those clothed with strange apparel; |
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I will punish on that day all who leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit. |
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And in that day, saith the LORD, a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the gate, and a great crashing from the hills. |
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Howl, ye inhabitants of the lower part of town, disappear for all the merchant people are cut off and bear silver. |
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And it will be at that time, I search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees, saying in his heart, `Lord will not do good or evil." |
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And wealth shall spoil them, and their houses - a desolation; They shall build houses and live in them will not plant vineyards, and from them will not drink wine.
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The great day of the Lord is near, and hastens greatly: the voice of the Lord's Day; shall cry there bitterly bravest! |
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Day of Anger - the day, a day of trouble and distress, a day of devastation and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, |
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day of the trumpet and alarm against the fortified cities and high towers. |
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And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the Lord, and will disperse their blood as dust, and their flesh - as the dung. |
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Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of wrath of the Lord, and the fire of his jealousy, shall be devoured the whole earth, for the destruction, and, moreover, the sudden, he will make of all the inhabitants of the land. |
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