The
Book of Zephaniah
Chapter
1 Verse 1-18
Editor’s
notation - Today’s study is a reading of the first chapter of the
Book of Zephaniah. (a) Over the next few days I will take verses and
highlight them as I normally do in my studies
Zephaniah
the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah,
the
son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days
of
Josiah, the son of Amon king of Judah.
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
fowls
of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and
ruins
shall be 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 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
swear
by the Lord, and swear by Milcam.
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 guests.
8
And it shall be 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 strange apparel.
9
In the same day also will I visit all those that
dance
upon the threshold so proudly, which fill their
masters’
houses by cruelty and deceit.
10
And in that day, saith the Lord, there shall be
a
noise, and cry from the fish gate, and an howling
from
the second gate, and a great destruction from
the
hills.
11
How ye inhabitants of the low place: for the
company
of the merchants is destroyed: all they that
bear
silver, are cut off.
12
And at that time will I search Jerusalem with
lights,
and visit the men that are frozen in their
dregs,
and say in their hearts, The Lord will neither
do
good nor do evil.
13
Therefore their goods shall be spoiled, and their
houses
waste: they shall also build houses, but not
inhabit
them, and they shall 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:
the strong man shall 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
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.
(a)
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