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The word of Jehovah which was unto▵ 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.
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Consuming I will consume all from on the faces of the ground, says◦ Jehovah.
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I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowl of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with◦ the wicked; and I will cut··off man from on the faces of the ground, says◦ Jehovah.
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And I will stretch··out My hand upon Judah, and upon all who dwell in Jerusalem; and I will cut··off from this place what··is··left of Baal, the name of the Chemarim* with the priests;
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and those who worship the army of the heavens on the roofs; and those who worship and who promise to Jehovah, but who also promise by their king,
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and who have turned··away from following after Jehovah, and those who have not sought Jehovah, and have not inquired for Him.
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Keep··silent before the Lord Jehovih*, for the day of Jehovah is near; for Jehovah has prepared a sacrifice; He has sanctified those He has called.
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And it shall be, in the day of the sacrifice of Jehovah, that I will visit upon the princes, and upon the sons of the king, and upon all clothed with foreign clothes.
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And I will visit upon all who leap over the threshold on that◦ day, who fill the house of their lords with violence and deceit.
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And it shall be in that◦ day, says◦ Jehovah, that there shall be the voice of a cry from the Fish Gate, and a howling from the Second, and a great breaking from the hills.
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Howl, ye who dwell in Maktesh, for all the people of commerce* are cut··off◦; all who carry◦ silver are cut··off.
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And it shall be at that◦ time that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and visit upon the men◦ who are congealed on their lees*, who say in their heart, Jehovah will not do··good; neither will He do··evil.
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And their belongings shall be for pillaging, and their houses a desolation; and they shall build houses, but not dwell in them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine of them.
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The great day of Jehovah is near; it is near, and hastens exceedingly the voice of the day of Jehovah; there the hero shall yell bitterly.
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This◦ day is a day of wrath, a day of adversity and anguish, a day of vastation and vastating, a day of darkness and thick··darkness, a day of cloud and dense··darkness,
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a day of a shophar* and a blast against the fortified cities, and against the tall towers.
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And I will cause adversity to man, and they shall walk as the blind, for they have sinned against Jehovah; and their blood shall be spilled··out as dust, and their flesh◦ as the excrement.
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Neither their silver nor their gold shall be··able to rescue them in the day of the wrath of Jehovah; but all the land shall be devoured by the fire of His zeal, for He shall surely make a speedy, complete end of all who dwell in the land.
