If you want to accept God's
offer in his Son, say a prayer like this:
Jesus, I confess that you are not only the
most important person in history, but you are the Creator and Savior of the
world. Lord Jesus, I need you. I have done wrong. Please forgive me of my sins
and come into my life. I ask you not just to be part of my life, but to guide me
to live according to the words I read in the Bible. Thank you for your mercy and
forgiveness. I am now committed to be your follower.
Amen.
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The Book of Zephaniah
Chapter 1
001:001 The word of the LORD which came unto
Zephaniah the son of
Cushi, the
son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son
of
Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah
the son of Amon, king of Judah.
001:002 I will utterly consume all things from off the
land, saith the
LORD.
001:003 I will consume man and beast; I will consume the
fowls of the
heaven, and the
fishes of the sea, and the
stumblingblocks
with the wicked:
and I will cut off man from off the
land,
saith the LORD.
001:004 I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah,
and upon all the
inhabitants of
Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant
of
Baal from this place, and the
name of the Chemarims with the
priests;
001:005 And them that worship the host of heaven upon
the housetops;
and them that
worship and that swear by the LORD, and
that
swear by Malcham;
001:006 And them that are turned back from the LORD; and
those that
have not sought the
LORD, nor enquired for him.
001:007 Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD:
for the day of
the LORD is at
hand: for the LORD hath prepared a
sacrifice,
he hath bid his
guests.
001:008 And it shall come to pass in the day of the
LORD's sacrifice,
that I will
punish the princes, and the king's children,
and
all such as are clothed with
strange apparel.
001:009 In the same day also will I punish all those
that leap on the
threshold, which
fill their masters' houses with violence
and
deceit.
001:010 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the
LORD, that
there shall be the
noise of a cry from the fish gate, and
an
howling from the second, and a
great crashing from the hills.
001:011 Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the
merchant people
are cut down; all
they that bear silver are cut off.
001:012 And it shall come to pass at that time, that I
will search
Jerusalem with
candles, and punish the men that are settled
on
their lees: that say in their
heart, The LORD will not do
good,
neither will he do evil.
001:013 Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and
their houses a
desolation: they
shall also build houses, but not
inhabit
them; and they shall plant
vineyards, but not drink the wine
thereof.
001:014 The great day of the LORD is near, it is near,
and hasteth
greatly, even the
voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty
man
shall cry there bitterly.
001:015 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and
distress, a
day of wasteness and
desolation, a day of darkness and
gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
001:016 A day of the trumpet and alarm against the
fenced cities, and
against the
high towers.
001:017 And I will bring distress upon men, that they
shall walk like
blind men, because
they have sinned against the LORD:
and
their blood shall be poured
out as dust, and their flesh as
the dung.
001:018 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be
able to deliver
them in the day of
the LORD's wrath; but the whole land
shall
be devoured by the fire of
his jealousy: for he shall make
even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
002:001 Gather yourselves together, yea, gather
together, O nation not
desired;
002:002 Before the decree bring forth, before the day
pass as the
chaff, before the
fierce anger of the LORD come upon
you,
before the day of the LORD's
anger come upon you.
002:003 Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth,
which have wrought
his judgment;
seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be
ye
shall be hid in the day of the
LORD's anger.
002:004 For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a
desolation: they
shall drive out
Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall
be
rooted up.
002:005 Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the
nation of the
Cherethites! the
word of the LORD is against you; O
Canaan,
the land of the
Philistines, I will even destroy thee,
that
there shall be no
inhabitant.
002:006 And the sea coast shall be dwellings and
cottages for
shepherds, and folds
for flocks.
002:007 And the coast shall be for the remnant of the
house of Judah;
they shall feed
thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon
shall
they lie down in the
evening: for the LORD their God
shall
visit them, and turn away
their captivity.
002:008 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the
revilings of the
children of
Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people,
and
magnified themselves against
their border.
002:009 Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts,
the God of
Israel, Surely Moab
shall be as Sodom, and the children
of
Ammon as Gomorrah, even the
breeding of nettles, and saltpits,
and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people
shall
spoil them, and the remnant
of my people shall possess them.
002:010 This shall they have for their pride, because
they have
reproached and magnified
themselves against the people of
the
LORD of hosts.
002:011 The LORD will be terrible unto them: for he will
famish all
the gods of the earth;
and men shall worship him, every
one
from his place, even all the
isles of the heathen.
002:012 Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.
002:013 And he will stretch out his hand against the
north, and
destroy Assyria; and
will make Nineveh a desolation, and
dry
like a wilderness.
002:014 And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her,
all the beasts
of the nations:
both the cormorant and the bittern shall
lodge
in the upper lintels of it;
their voice shall sing in the
windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds; for he
shall
uncover the cedar work.
002:015 This is the rejoicing city that dwelt
carelessly, that said in
her
heart, I am, and there is none 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.
003:001 Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the
oppressing
city!
003:002 She obeyed not the voice; she received not
correction; she
trusted not in the
LORD; she drew not near to her God.
003:003 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her
judges are
evening wolves; they
gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
003:004 Her prophets are light and treacherous persons:
her priests
have polluted the
sanctuary, they have done violence to
the
law.
003:005 The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will
not do
iniquity: every morning
doth he bring his judgment to
light,
he faileth not; but the
unjust knoweth no shame.
003:006 I have cut off the nations: their towers are
desolate; I made
their streets
waste, that none passeth by: their cities
are
destroyed, so that there is no
man, that there is none
inhabitant.
003:007 I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt
receive
instruction; so their
dwelling should not be cut off,
howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, and
corrupted
all their doings.
003:008 Therefore wait ye upon 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.
003:009 For then will I turn to the people a pure
language, that they
may all call
upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with
one
consent.
003:010 From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my
suppliants, even the
daughter of
my dispersed, shall bring mine offering.
003:011 In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all
thy doings,
wherein thou hast
transgressed against me: for then I
will
take away out of the midst of
thee them that rejoice in thy
pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my
holy
mountain.
003:012 I will also leave in the midst of thee an
afflicted and poor
people, and
they shall trust in the name of the LORD.
003:013 The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor
speak lies;
neither shall a
deceitful tongue be found in their mouth:
for
they shall feed and lie down,
and none shall make them afraid.
003:014 Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be
glad and rejoice
with all the
heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.
003:015 The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath
cast out thine
enemy: the king of
Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst
of
thee: thou shalt not see evil
any more.
003:016 In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear
thou not: and
to Zion, Let not
thine hands be slack.
003:017 The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty;
he will save,
he will rejoice over
thee with joy; he will rest in his
love,
he will joy over thee with
singing.
003:018 I will gather them that are sorrowful for the
solemn assembly,
who are of thee,
to whom the reproach of it was a burden.
003:019 Behold, at that time I will undo all that
afflict thee: and I
will save her
that halteth, and gather her that was
driven
out; and I will get them
praise and fame in every land
where
they have been put to
shame.
003:020 At that time will I bring you again, even in the
time that I
gather you: for I will
make you a name and a praise among
all
people of the earth, when I
turn back your captivity before
your eyes, saith the LORD.