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    Zephaniah · 18 verses

    Zephaniah 1

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    The LORD will search Jerusalem with lamps, as though complacency might be hiding in the furniture, and then punish the men who say, “The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.”

    A sacrifice with an alarming guest listvv. 1–7

    The word comes to Zephaniah in the days of Josiah, and the family line is carefully set out: Cushi, Gedaliah, Amariah, and Hezekiah. Then the LORD announces a sweeping away so thorough that man, beast, birds, fish, idols, and their worshipers all appear in the same dreadful inventory. Judah and Jerusalem are singled out, along with rooftop star-worshipers, double swearers, and those who have simply stopped seeking the LORD. The scene is then given its strangest shape: a sacrifice has been prepared, guests have been consecrated, and silence is required.

    Lamps in Jerusalemvv. 8–13

    The punishment moves through the city’s inhabitants: princes, the king’s sons, people dressed in foreign apparel, and those who leap over the threshold while filling their master’s house with violence and deceit. A cry rises from the Fish Gate, a wail from the Second Quarter, and a crash from the hills. Mortar is told to wail because merchants and silver-weighers will be silenced. Then Jerusalem is searched with lamps—not a grand celestial instrument, but lamps—and the settled men who imagine that nothing will happen are found in the path of plunder, ruined houses, uninhabited buildings, and vineyards whose wine they will never drink.

    The day arrives with nearly every dark noun availablevv. 14–18

    The great Day of the LORD comes near and quickly, bringing a bitter cry from the mighty. It is named, in an almost breathless procession, as wrath, trouble, distress, destruction, desolation, darkness, gloom, clouds, blackness, horn blast, and battle cry. Fortified cities and high corner towers are not spared. Mankind walks like the blind, blood is poured out like dust, flesh like dung, and silver and gold prove entirely useless. The earth ends under the fire of His jealousy, with a sudden end for all who dwell on it.

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    1. Zeph 1:1This is the word of the LORD that came to Zephaniah son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah:

    2. Zeph 1:2“I will completely sweep away everything from the face of the earth,” declares the LORD.

    3. Zeph 1:3“I will sweep away man and beast; I will sweep away the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, and the idols with their wicked worshipers. I will cut off mankind from the face of the earth,” declares the LORD.

    4. Zeph 1:4“I will stretch out My hand against Judah and against all who dwell in Jerusalem. I will cut off from this place every remnant of Baal, the names of the idolatrous and pagan priests—

    5. Zeph 1:5those who bow on the rooftops to worship the host of heaven, those who bow down and swear by the LORD but also swear by Milcom,

    6. Zeph 1:6and those who turn back from following the LORD, neither seeking the LORD nor inquiring of Him.”

    7. Zeph 1:7Be silent in the presence of the Lord GOD, for the Day of the LORD is near. Indeed, the LORD has prepared a sacrifice; He has consecrated His guests.

    8. Zeph 1:8“On the Day of the LORD’s sacrifice I will punish the princes, the sons of the king, and all who are dressed in foreign apparel.

    9. Zeph 1:9On that day I will punish all who leap over the threshold, who fill the house of their master with violence and deceit.

    10. Zeph 1:10On that day,” declares the LORD, “a cry will go up from the Fish Gate, a wail from the Second District, and a loud crashing from the hills.

    11. Zeph 1:11Wail, O dwellers of the Hollow, for all your merchants will be silenced; all who weigh out silver will be cut off.

    12. Zeph 1:12And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men settled in complacency, who say to themselves, ‘The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.’

    13. Zeph 1:13Their wealth will be plundered and their houses laid waste. They will build houses but not inhabit them, and plant vineyards but never drink their wine.

    14. Zeph 1:14The great Day of the LORD is near—near and coming quickly. Listen, the Day of the LORD! Then the cry of the mighty will be bitter.

    15. Zeph 1:15That day will be a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of destruction and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,

    16. Zeph 1:16a day of horn blast and battle cry against the fortified cities, and against the high corner towers.

    17. Zeph 1:17I will bring such distress on mankind that they will walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the LORD. Their blood will be poured out like dust and their flesh like dung.

    18. Zeph 1:18Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the Day of the LORD’s wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of His jealousy.” For indeed, He will make a sudden end of all who dwell on the earth.

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    • 7Habakkuk 2:20But the LORD is in His holy temple; let all the earth be silent before Him.
    • 6Isaiah 1:4Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.
    • 6Jeremiah 2:13“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
    • 7Zechariah 2:13Be silent before the LORD, all people, for He has roused Himself from His holy dwelling.”
    • 12Amos 6:1Woe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Israel comes.
    • 6Jeremiah 15:6You have forsaken Me, declares the LORD. You have turned your back. So I will stretch out My hand against you and I will destroy you; I am weary of showing compassion.
    • 12Jeremiah 48:11Moab has been at ease from youth, settled like wine on its dregs; he has not been poured from vessel to vessel or gone into exile. So his flavor has remained the same, and his aroma is unchanged.
    • 14Ezekiel 30:3For the day is near, the Day of the LORD is near. It will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.
    • 14Malachi 4:5Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD.
    • 7Zephaniah 1:14The great Day of the LORD is near—near and coming quickly. Listen, the Day of the LORD! Then the cry of the mighty will be bitter.
    • 13Amos 5:11Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.
    • 14Zephaniah 1:7Be silent in the presence of the Lord GOD, for the Day of the LORD is near. Indeed, the LORD has prepared a sacrifice; He has consecrated His guests.
    • 18Ezekiel 7:19They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will seem unclean. Their silver and gold cannot save them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their appetites or fill their stomachs with wealth, for it became the stumbling block that brought their iniquity.
    • 52 Kings 17:33They worshiped the LORD, but they also served their own gods according to the customs of the nations from which they had been carried away.
    • 5Jeremiah 19:13The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like that place, Topheth—all the houses on whose rooftops they burned incense to all the host of heaven and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”
    • 6Ezekiel 3:20Now if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I put a stumbling block before him, he will die. If you did not warn him, he will die in his sin, and the righteous acts he did will not be remembered. And I will hold you responsible for his blood.

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