A New Translation of the Hebrew Prophets

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ZEPHANIAH. Ch. i.] INSCRIPTION. 1 The word of Jehovah, which came to Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Ama- riah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah. Destruction of Judah threatened. Exhortation to repentance. Punishment of the enemies of...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ZEPHANIAH. Ch. i.] INSCRIPTION. 1 The word of Jehovah, which came to Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Ama- riah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah. Destruction of Judah threatened. Exhortation to repentance. Punishment of the enemies of Judah. ? Ch. i. n. 2 I Will utterly consume all things from the face of the land, saith Jehovah; 3 I will consume man and beast; I will consume the birds of heaven, and the fishes of the sea, And the stumblingblocks with the wicked; And I will cut off man from the face of the land, saith Jehovah. I will stretch out my hand over Judah, And over all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, And I will cut off from this place the residue of Baal, The name of the idol-sacrificers with the priests And those who bow themselves on the housetops to the host of heaven, And those who bow themselves and swear by Jehovah, And also swear by their idol, e And those, that turn back from Jehovah, And those that seek not Jehovah, nor inquire for him. 7 Be silent before the Lord Jehovah For the day of Jehovah is near; For Jehovah hath prepared a sacrifice; He hath appointed his guests. 8 And in the day of the sacrifice of Jehovah it shall come to pass That I will punish the princes and the sons of the king, And all that are clothed with foreign apparel. 9 In that day also will I punish all that leap over the threshold, That fill the houses of their master with violence and deceit. 10 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah, That there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish- gate, And of a howling from another part of the city, And of great destruction from the hills. 11 Howl, ye inhabitants of Mak...