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Zephaniah 1 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:1 - The word of the Lord 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.
(cf. Amo 5:18–20 )

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:2 - I will take away everything from the face of the earth, says the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:3 - I will take away man and beast; I will take away the birds of the heaven and the fishes of the sea; causing the downfall of the evil-doers, and cutting man off from the face of the earth, says the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:4 - And my hand will be stretched out on Judah and on all the people of Jerusalem, cutting off the name of the Baal from this place, and the name of the false priests,

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:5 - And the worshippers of the army of heaven on the house-tops, and the Lord's worshippers who take oaths by Milcom,

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:6 - And those who are turned back from going after the Lord, and those who have not made prayer to the Lord or got directions from him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:7 - Let there be no sound before the Lord God: for the day of the Lord is near: for the Lord has made ready an offering, he has made his guests holy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:8 - And it will come about in the day of the Lord's offering, that I will send punishment on the rulers and the king's sons and all who are clothed in robes from strange lands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:9 - And in that day I will send punishment on all those who come jumping over the doorstep and make their master's house full of violent behaviour and deceit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:10 - And in that day, says the Lord, there will be the sound of a cry from the fish doorway, and an outcry from the new town, and a great thundering from the hills, and cries of grief from the people of the Hollow;

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:11 - Because of the downfall of all the people of Canaan: all those who were weighted down with silver have been cut off.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:12 - And it will come about at that time, that I will go searching through Jerusalem with lights; and I will send punishment on the men who have become like wine stored over-long, who say to themselves, The Lord will not do good and will not do evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:13 - And their wealth will be violently taken away, and their houses will be made waste: they will go on building houses and never living in them, and planting vine-gardens but not drinking the wine from them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:14 - The great day of the Lord is near, it is near and coming very quickly; the bitter day of the Lord is near, coming on more quickly than a man of war.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:15 - That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and sorrow, a day of wasting and destruction, a day of dark night and deep shade, a day of cloud and thick dark.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:16 - A day of sounding the horn and the war-cry against the walled towns and the high towers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:17 - And I will send trouble on men so that they will go about like the blind, because they have done evil against the Lord: and their blood will be drained out like dust, and their strength like waste.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:18 - Even their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the day of the Lord's wrath; but all the land will be burned up in the fire of his bitter wrath: for he will put an end, even suddenly, to all who are living in the land.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Zephaniah Chapter 1 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras