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80 lines
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\v 1 This is the word of Yahweh that came to Zephaniah son of Cushi son of Gedaliah son of Amariah son of
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Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah.
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\q
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\v 2 "I will utterly destroy everything from off the surface of the earth—this is Yahweh's declaration.
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\q
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\v 3 I will destroy man and beast; I will destroy the birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea,
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\q the ruins along with the wicked.
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\q For I will cut off man from the surface of the earth—this is Yahweh's declaration.
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\q
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\v 4 I will reach out with my hand over Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
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\q I will cut off every remnant of Baal from this place and the names of the idolatrous people among the priests,
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\q
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\v 5 the people who on the housetops worship the heavenly bodies,
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\q and the people who worship and swear to Yahweh but who also swear by their king.
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\f + \ft The Hebrew text has \fqa by their king \fqa* , but some modern versions read \fqa by Milcom \fqa* , the name of a pagan god that many people worshiped. \f*
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\v 6 I will also cut off those who have turned away from following Yahweh, those who neither seek Yahweh nor ask for his guidance."
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\v 7 Be silent before the Lord Yahweh! For the day of Yahweh is near;
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\q2 Yahweh has prepared the sacrifice and set apart his guests.
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\q
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\v 8 "It will come about on the day of Yahweh's sacrifice,
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\q that I will punish the princes and the king's sons,
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\q and everyone dressed in foreign clothes.
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\q
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\v 9 On that day I will punish all those who leap over the threshold,
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\q those who fill their master's house with violence and deceit.
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\q
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\v 10 So it will be on that day—this is Yahweh's declaration—
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\q that a cry of distress will come from the Fish Gate, wailing from the Second District,
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\q and a great crashing sound from the hills.
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\q
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\v 11 Wail, inhabitants of the Market District,
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\q for all the merchants will be ruined; all those who weigh out silver will be cut off.
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\q
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\v 12 It will come about at that time that
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\q I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men
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\q who have settled into their wine and say in their heart,
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\q 'Yahweh will not do anything, either good or evil.'
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\q
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\v 13 Their wealth will become plunder, and their houses will be an abandoned devastation!
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\q They will build houses but not live in them, and plant vineyards but not drink their wine.
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\q
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\v 14 The great day of Yahweh is near, near and hurrying quickly!
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\q The sound of the day of Yahweh will be that of a warrior crying bitterly!
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\q
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\v 15 That day will be a day of fury, a day of distress and anguish,
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\q a day of storm and devastation, a day of darkness and gloom,
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\q a day of clouds and thick darkness.
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\q
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\v 16 It will be a day of trumpets and alarms
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\q against the fortified cities and the high battlements.
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\v 17 For I will bring distress upon mankind, so that they will walk about like blind men
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\q2 since they have sinned against Yahweh.
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\q2 Their blood will be poured out like dust, and their inner parts like dung.
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\q2
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\v 18 Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to save them
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\q2 on the day of Yahweh's fury. In the fire of his jealousy the whole earth will be consumed,
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\q2 for he will bring a complete, a terrible end of all the inhabitants of the earth."
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