ZEPHANIAH
3.8
- Because they have taunted and spoken boastfully
- Against the people of the Lord of hosts.
- 11The Lord will be terrible unto them;
- For He will famish all the gods of the earth;
- Then shall all the isles of the nations worship Him,
- Every one from its place.
- 12Ye Ethiopians also,
- Ye shall be slain by My sword.
- 13And He will stretch out His hand against the north,
- And destroy Assyria,
- And will make Nineveh a desolation,
- And dry like the wilderness.
- 14And all beasts of every kind
- Shall lie down in the midst of her in herds;
- Both the pelican and the bittern
- Shall lodge in the capitals thereof;
- Voices shall sing in the windows;
- Desolation shall be in the posts;
- For the cedar-work thereof shall be uncovered.
- 15This is the joyous city
- That dwelt without care,
- That said in her heart:
- 'I am, and there is none else beside me';
- How is she become a desolation,
- A place for beasts to lie down in,'
- Every one that passeth by her
- Shall hiss, and wag his hand.
- 3Woe to her that is filthy and polluted,
- To the oppressing city!
- 2She hearkened not to the voice,
- She received not correction;
- She trusted not in the Lord,
- She drew not near to her God.
- 3Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions;
- Her judges are wolves of the desert,
- They leave not a bone for the morrow.
- 4Her prophets are wanton
- And treacherous persons;
- Her priests have profaned that which is holy,
- They have done violence to the law.
- 5The Lord who is righteous is in the midst of her,
- He will not do unrighteousness;
- Every morning doth He bring His right to light,
- It faileth not;
- But the unrighteous knoweth no shame.
- 6I have cut off nations,
- Their corners are desolate;
- I have made their streets waste,
- So that none passeth by;
- Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man,
- So that there is no inhabitant.
- 7I said: 'Surely thou wilt fear Me,
- Thou wilt receive correction;
- So her dwelling shall not be cut off,
- Despite all that I have visited upon her';
- But they betimes corrupted all their doings.
- 8Therefore wait ye for Me, saith the Lord,
- Until the day that I rise up to the prey;
- For My determination is to gather the nations,
- That I may assemble the kingdoms,
- To pour upon them Mine indignation,
- Even all My fierce anger;
- For all the earth shall be devoured
- With the fire of My jealousy.
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