Tsephanyah א

Zephaniah 1 (CKJV)

¹ The word of  יְהֹוָה  which came unto Tsephanyah the son of Kushi, the son of Gedalyah, the son of Amaryah, the son of Hizqiyah, in the days of Yoshiyahu the son of Amon, king of Yehudah.

² I will sweep everything away
From the face of the earth
                                 --declares  יְהֹוָה .

³ I will sweep away man and beast; 
I will sweep away the birds of the sky, 
And the fish of the sea, 
I will make the wicked stumble,
And I will destroy mankind
From the face of the earth, 
                                 --declares  יְהֹוָה .

⁴ I will also stretch out My Arm against Yehudah, 
And against all who dwell in Yerushalayim; 
And I will wipe out from this place, 
Every vestige of Baal,
And the name of the kemarim along with the priests;

⁵ And those who bow down on the roofs
To the host of heaven;
And those who bow down and swear to  
  יְהֹוָה 
But also swear by Malkam;
⁶ And those who have forsaken  יְהֹוָה , 
and those who have not sought  יְהֹוָה 
And have not turned to Him.

⁷ Be silent before my  יְהֹוָה Elohim,
For the day of  יְהֹוָה is approaching;
For  יְהֹוָה  has prepared a slaughter, 
He has bidden His set apart guests.
⁸ And on the day of the slaughter of  יְהֹוָה  , 
I will punish the princes, 
And the king's children, 
And all who don a foreign vestment.

⁹ I will also punish on that day
Everyone who steps over the threshold, 
Who fill their masters' palace 
with lawlessness and fraud.
¹⁰ In that day there shall be, 
                                 --declares  יְהֹוָה --
A loud outcry from the fish gate, 
And an howling from the Mishneh, 
And a sound of great anguish from the hills.

¹¹ Howl, you inhabitants of Machtesh, 
For all the tradesmen are cut down; 
All they who weigh silver are wiped out.

¹² And it shall come to pass at that time, 
I will search Yerushalayim with lamps, 
And I will punish the men 
Who rest untroubled on their lees,
Who say in their heart,  
 יְהֹוָה will do nothing, good or evil.

¹³ Their wealth shall be plundered
And their homes laid waste
They shall build houses, but not inhabit them; 
Plant vineyards, but not drink their wine.

¹⁴ The great day of  יְהֹוָה is near, 
It is near, and hastens greatly, 
Hear the voice of the day of  יְהֹוָה !
It is bitter:
There a warrior shrieks!

¹⁵ That day is a day of wrath, 
A day of trouble and distress, 
A day of calamity and desolation, 
A day of darkness and deep gloom, 
A day of clouds and thick darkness,

¹⁶ A day of the shophar and alarms- 
Against the fortified cities, 
and the lofty corner towers.

¹⁷ And I will bring distress on the people, 
And they shall walk like blind men, 
because they have sinned against  יְהֹוָה ;
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 
On the day of  יְהֹוָה ; 
In the fire of His passion,
The whole land shall be consumed;
for He shall make a terrible end
Of all who dwell in the earth.