Most Popular Bible Verses in Zephaniah
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a warrior
He will rejoice over you
He will bring you quietness
He will delight in you with shouts of joy.”
from the face of the earth
this is the Lord’s declaration.
treacherous men.
Her priests profane the sanctuary;
they do violence to instruction.
I will sweep away the birds of the sky
and the fish of the sea,
and the ruins
I will cut off mankind
from the face of the earth.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
and against all the residents of Jerusalem.
I will cut off every vestige of Baal
from this place,
the names of the pagan priests
along with the priests;
He does no wrong.
He applies His justice morning by morning;
He does not fail at dawn,
yet the one who does wrong knows no shame.
who carry out what He commands.
Seek righteousness, seek humility;
perhaps you will be concealed
on the day of the Lord’s anger.
to the heavenly host;
those who bow and pledge loyalty to the Lord
but also pledge loyalty to Milcom;
who do not seek the Lord or inquire of Him.
for the Day of the Lord is near.
Indeed, the Lord has prepared a sacrifice;
He has consecrated His guests.
I will punish the officials, the king’s sons,
and all who are dressed in foreign clothing.
all who skip over the threshold,
who fill their master’s house
with violence and deceit.
this is the Lord’s declaration—
there will be an outcry from the Fish Gate,
a wailing from the Second District,
and a loud crashing from the hills.
and punish the men who settle down comfortably,
who say to themselves:
The Lord will not do good or evil.
for all the merchants
all those loaded with silver will be cut off.
their corner towers
I have laid waste their streets,
with no one to pass through.
Their cities lie devastated,
without a person, without an inhabitant.
a day of trouble and distress,
a day of destruction and desolation,
a day of darkness
a day of clouds and blackness,
will not be able to rescue them
on the day of the Lord’s wrath.
The whole earth will be consumed
by the fire of His jealousy.
For He will make a complete,
yes, a horrifying end
of all the inhabitants of the earth.
and their houses a ruin.
They will build houses but never live in them,
plant vineyards but never drink their wine.
and 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.
this is the Lord’s declaration—
until the day I rise up for plunder.
For My decision is to gather nations,
to assemble kingdoms,
in order to pour out My indignation
all My burning anger;
for the whole earth will be consumed
by the fire of My jealousy.
and Ashkelon will become a ruin.
Ashdod will be driven out at noon,
and Ekron will be uprooted.
and accept correction.
Then her dwelling place
would not be cut off
based on all that I had allocated to her.
However, they became more corrupt
in all their actions.
against the fortified cities,
and against the high corner towers.
because of everything you have done
in rebelling
For then I will remove
your proud,
and you will never again be haughty
on My holy mountain.
nation of the Cherethites!
The word of the Lord is against you,
Canaan, land of the Philistines:
I will destroy you until there is no one left.
My supplicants, My dispersed people,
will bring an offering to Me.
The 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
a meek and humble people
and they will take refuge in the name of Yahweh.
with caves for shepherds and folds for sheep.
and the insults of the Ammonites,
who have taunted My people
and threatened their territory.
this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts,
the God of Israel—
Moab will be like Sodom
and the Ammonites like Gomorrah
a place overgrown with weeds,
a salt pit, and a perpetual wasteland.
The remnant of My people will plunder them;
the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.
do wrong or tell lies;
a deceitful tongue will not be found
in their mouths.
But they will pasture and lie down,
with nothing to make them afraid.
to the remnant of the house of Judah;
they will find pasture there.
They will lie down in the evening
among the houses of Ashkelon,
for the Lord their God will return to them
and restore their fortunes.
because they have taunted and acted arrogantly
against the people of the Lord of Hosts.
“Do not fear;
Zion, do not let your hands grow weak.
I will deal with all who afflict you.
I will save the lame
I will make those who were disgraced
throughout the earth
receive praise and fame.
and destroy Assyria;
He will make Nineveh a desolate ruin,
dry as the desert.
yes, at the time I will gather you.
I will give you fame and praise
among all the peoples of the earth,
when I restore your fortunes
Yahweh has spoken.
from the appointed festivals;
they will be a tribute from you
and a reproach on her.
when He starves all the gods of the earth.
Then all the distant coastlands of the nations
will bow in worship to Him,
each in its own place.
He has turned back your enemy.
The King of Israel, Yahweh, is among you;
you need no longer fear harm.
that lives in security,
that thinks to herself:
I exist, and there is no one else.
What a desolation she has become,
a place for wild animals to lie down!
Everyone who passes by her
jeers
every kind of wild animal.
Both the desert owl
will roost in the capitals of its pillars.
Their calls will sound
but devastation
for He will expose the cedar work.
and the day passes like chaff,
before the burning of the Lord’s anger overtakes you,
before the day of the Lord’s anger overtakes you.
her judges are wolves of the night,
which leave nothing for
she has not accepted discipline.
She has not trusted
she has not drawn near to her God.
shout loudly, Israel!
Be glad and rejoice with all your heart,
Daughter Jerusalem!
pure
so that all of them may call
on the name of Yahweh
and serve Him with a single purpose.
near and rapidly approaching.
Listen, the Day of the Lord—
then the warrior’s cry is bitter.