Zephaniah 1

1Yahweh’s word which came to Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah.Cross-references: 2Ki 22:1 · 2Chr 34:1 · Jer 1:2 · Jer 25:3 · Ezek 1:3 · Hos 1:1 · +2 more

2I will utterly sweep away everything from the surface of the earth, says Yahweh.Cross-references: Gen 6:7 · 2Ki 22:16 · 2Chr 36:21 · Isa 6:11 · Jer 6:8 · Jer 24:8 · +4 more

3I will sweep away man and animal. I will sweep away the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and the heaps of rubble with the wicked. I will cut off man from the surface of the earth, says Yahweh.Cross-references: Isa 27:9 · Jer 4:23 · Jer 12:4 · Ezek 7:19 · Ezek 14:3 · Ezek 14:13 · +9 more

4I will stretch out my hand against Judah and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place—the name of the idolatrous and pagan priests,Cross-references: Ex 15:12 · 2Ki 21:13 · 2Ki 23:4 · 2Chr 34:4 · Isa 14:26 · Jer 6:12 · +2 more

5those who worship the army of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by Yahweh and also swear by Malcam,Cross-references: Deut 10:20 · Josh 23:7 · 1Ki 11:5 · 1Ki 11:33 · 1Ki 18:21 · 2Ki 17:33 · +13 more

6those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.Cross-references: 1Sam 15:11 · Ps 10:4 · Ps 14:2 · Ps 36:3 · Ps 125:5 · Isa 1:4 · +14 more

7Be silent at the presence of the Lord Yahweh, for the day of Yahweh is at hand. For Yahweh has prepared a sacrifice. He has consecrated his guests.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:9 · 1Sam 16:5 · 1Sam 20:26 · Job 40:4 · Ps 46:10 · Ps 76:8 · +26 more

8It will happen in the day of Yahweh’s sacrifice that I will punish the princes, the king’s sons, and all those who are clothed with foreign clothing.Cross-references: Deut 22:5 · 2Ki 10:22 · 2Ki 23:30 · 2Ki 24:12 · 2Ki 25:6 · 2Ki 25:19 · +7 more

9In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master’s house with violence and deceit.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:15 · 1Sam 5:5 · 2Ki 5:20 · Neh 5:15 · Prov 29:12 · Amos 3:10 · +1 more

10In that day, says Yahweh, there will be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.Cross-references: 2Sam 5:7 · 2Sam 5:9 · 2Ki 22:14 · 2Chr 3:1 · 2Chr 32:22 · 2Chr 33:14 · +9 more

11Wail, you inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the people of Canaan are undone! All those who were loaded with silver are cut off.Cross-references: Neh 3:31 · Jer 4:8 · Jer 25:34 · Ezek 21:12 · Hos 9:6 · Hos 12:7 · +6 more

12It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, “Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil.”Cross-references: Job 21:15 · Ps 10:11 · Ps 14:1 · Ps 94:7 · Isa 5:19 · Jer 10:5 · +10 more

13Their wealth will become a plunder, and their houses a desolation. Yes, they will build houses, but won’t inhabit them. They will plant vineyards, but won’t drink their wine.Cross-references: Deut 28:30 · Deut 28:39 · Deut 28:51 · Isa 5:8 · Isa 6:11 · Isa 24:1 · +15 more

14The great day of Yahweh is near. It is near and hurries greatly, the voice of the day of Yahweh. The mighty man cries there bitterly.Cross-references: Isa 15:4 · Isa 22:4 · Isa 33:7 · Isa 66:6 · Jer 25:36 · Jer 30:7 · +21 more

15That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,Cross-references: Job 3:4 · Isa 22:5 · Jer 30:7 · Joel 2:2 · Joel 2:11 · Amos 5:18 · +6 more

16a day of the trumpet and alarm against the fortified cities and against the high battlements.Cross-references: Ps 48:12 · Isa 2:12 · Isa 32:14 · Isa 59:10 · Jer 4:19 · Jer 6:1 · +6 more

17I will bring such distress on men that they will walk like blind men because they have sinned against Yahweh. Their blood will be poured out like dust and their flesh like dung.Cross-references: Deut 28:28 · 2Ki 9:33 · Ps 79:2 · Ps 83:10 · Isa 24:5 · Isa 29:10 · +30 more

18Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.Cross-references: Gen 6:7 · Lev 26:33 · Deut 29:20 · Deut 31:17 · Deut 32:21 · 1Ki 14:22 · +27 more