The Book of Zephaniah! verse by verse...

[bgoddenia]

Zephaniah 2:2 before the appointed time arrives and that day sweeps on like chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD comes upon you before the day of the LORD's wrath comes upon you.

 

[Glenda]

Zep 2:3 Seek Jehovah, all the meek of the earth who have done His justice; seek righteousness; seek meekness. It may be you shall be hidden in the day of the anger of Jehovah.

 

[Glenda]

Zep 2:4 For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a ruin. They shall drive Ashdod out at the noonday, and Ekron shall be rooted up.

 

[doc329]

Zephaniah 2:5 (KJV) 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.

 

[barb754]

Zephaniah 2:6 (KJV) And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.

 

[bgoddenia]

Zephaniah 2:7 It will belong to the remnant of the house of Judah;there they will find pasture. In the evening they will lie down in the houses of Ashkelon. The LORD their God will care for them;he will restore their fortunes.

 

[doc329]

Zephaniah 2:8 (KJV) 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.

 

[Glenda]

Zep 2:9 Therefore, as I live, declares Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the sons of Ammon like Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and a pit of salt, and a ruin forever. The remnant of My people shall plunder them, and the rest of the nation shall possess them.

 

[doc329]

Zephaniah 2:10 (KJV) This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.

 

[barb754]

Zephaniah 2:11 (KJV) 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.

 

[doc329]

Zephaniah 2:12 (KJV) Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.

 

[Glenda]

Zep 2:13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.

 

[barb754]

Zephaniah 2:14 (KJV) 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.

 

[doc329]

Zephaniah 2:15 (KJV) 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.

 

[bgoddenia]

Zephaniah 3:1Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled!

 

[barb754]

Zephaniah 3:2 (KJV) She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God.

 

[Glenda]

Zep 3:3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.

 

[doc329]

Zephaniah 3:4 (KJV) Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.

 

[barb754]

Zephaniah 3:5 (KJV) 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.

 

[doc329]

Zephaniah 3:6 (KJV) 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.