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class="reftext"><a href="/zephaniah/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>before the decree<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Zephaniah.2.2.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> takes effect</p><p class="poem">and the day passes like chaff,</p><p class="poem">before the burning of the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span>’s anger<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Zephaniah.2.2.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a> overtakes you,</p><p class="poem">before the day of the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span>’s anger overtakes you.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Zephaniah.2.2.3"><span class="xrfAlphabet">c</span></a></p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Zephaniah.2.3" /> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/zephaniah/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Seek the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span>,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Zephaniah.2.3.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> all you humble<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Zephaniah.2.3.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a> of the earth,</p><p class="poem">who carry out what he commands.</p><p class="poem">Seek righteousness, seek humility;</p><p class="poem">perhaps you will be concealed<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Zephaniah.2.3.3"><span class="xrfAlphabet">c</span></a></p><p class="poem">on the day of the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span>’s anger.</p></blockquote><h3 class="head1">Judgment against the Nations</h3><blockquote class="poetryblock"><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Zephaniah.2.4" /> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/zephaniah/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For Gaza will be abandoned,</p><p class="poem">and Ashkelon will become a ruin.</p><p class="poem">Ashdod will be driven out at noon,</p><p class="poem">and Ekron will be uprooted.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Zephaniah.2.4.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Zephaniah.2.5" /> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/zephaniah/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Woe, inhabitants of the seacoast,</p><p class="poem">nation of the Cherethites!<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Zephaniah.2.5.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">a</span></a> <a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Zephaniah.2.5.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">The word of the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> is against you,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Zephaniah.2.5.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><p class="poem">Canaan, land of the Philistines:</p><p class="poem">I will destroy you until there is no one left.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Zephaniah.2.5.3"><span class="xrfAlphabet">c</span></a></p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Zephaniah.2.6" /> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/zephaniah/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The seacoast will become pasturelands</p><p class="poem">with caves for shepherds and pens for sheep.</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Zephaniah.2.7" /> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/zephaniah/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The coastland will belong</p><p class="poem">to the remnant of the house of Judah;</p><p class="poem">they will find pasture there.</p><p class="poem">They will lie down in the evening</p><p class="poem">among the houses of Ashkelon,</p><p class="poem">for the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> their God will return to them</p><p class="poem">and restore their fortunes.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Zephaniah.2.7.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p></blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Zephaniah.2.8" /> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/zephaniah/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>I have heard the taunting<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Zephaniah.2.8.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> of Moab</p><p class="poem">and the insults of the Ammonites,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Zephaniah.2.8.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><p class="poem">who have taunted my people</p><p class="poem">and threatened their territory.</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Zephaniah.2.9" /> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/zephaniah/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Therefore, as I live —</p><p class="poem">this is the declaration of the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> of Armies,</p><p class="poem">the God of Israel —</p><p class="poem">Moab will be like Sodom<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Zephaniah.2.9.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">and the Ammonites like Gomorrah:<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Zephaniah.2.9.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><p class="poem">a place overgrown with weeds,</p><p class="poem">a salt pit, and a perpetual wasteland.</p><p class="poem">The remnant of my people will plunder them;</p><p class="poem">the remainder of my nation will dispossess them.</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Zephaniah.2.10" /> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/zephaniah/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>This is what they get for their pride,</p><p class="poem">because they have taunted and acted arrogantly<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Zephaniah.2.10.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">against the people of the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> of Armies.</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Zephaniah.2.11" /> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/zephaniah/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> will be terrifying to them</p><p class="poem">when he starves all the gods of the earth.</p><p class="poem">Then all the distant coasts and islands of the nations</p><p class="poem">will bow in worship to him,</p><p class="poem">each in its own place.</p></blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Zephaniah.2.12" /> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/zephaniah/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>You Cushites will also be slain by my sword.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Zephaniah.2.12.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p></blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Zephaniah.2.13" /> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/zephaniah/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He will also stretch out his hand against the north</p><p class="poem">and destroy Assyria;</p><p class="poem">he will make Nineveh a desolate ruin,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Zephaniah.2.13.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">dry as the desert.</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Zephaniah.2.14" /> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/zephaniah/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Herds will lie down in the middle of it,</p><p class="poem">every kind of wild animal.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Zephaniah.2.14.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a></p><p class="poem">Both eagle owls<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Zephaniah.2.14.2"><span class="fnAlphabet">B</span></a> and herons<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Zephaniah.2.14.3"><span class="fnAlphabet">C</span></a></p><p class="poem">will roost in the capitals of its pillars.</p><p class="poem">Their calls will sound<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Zephaniah.2.14.4"><span class="fnAlphabet">D</span></a> from the window,</p><p class="poem">but devastation<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Zephaniah.2.14.5"><span class="fnAlphabet">E</span></a> will be on the threshold,</p><p class="poem">for he will expose the cedar work.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Zephaniah.2.14.6"><span class="fnAlphabet">F</span></a></p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Zephaniah.2.15" /> <span class="reftext"><a href="/zephaniah/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>This is the jubilant<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Zephaniah.2.15.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> city</p><p class="poem">that lives in security,</p><p class="poem">that says to herself:</p><p class="poem">I exist, and there is no one else.</p><p class="poem">What a desolation she has become,</p><p class="poem">a place for wild animals to lie down!</p><p class="poem">Everyone who passes by her</p><p class="poem">scoffs<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Zephaniah.2.15.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a> and shakes his fist.</p></blockquote><br /><section id="footnotes-Zephaniah.2" class="fnSection"><aside id="fn.Zephaniah.2.1.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Zephaniah.2.1">2:1</a></span> Or <span class="italic">shameless</span></aside><aside id="fn.Zephaniah.2.5.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Zephaniah.2.5">2:5</a></span> = Sea Peoples</aside><aside id="fn.Zephaniah.2.14.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Zephaniah.2.14">2:14</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">every wild animal of a nation</span></aside><aside id="fn.Zephaniah.2.14.2"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Zephaniah.2.14">2:14</a></span> Or <span class="italic">the pelicans</span></aside><aside id="fn.Zephaniah.2.14.3"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Zephaniah.2.14">2:14</a></span> Or <span class="italic">the hedgehogs</span></aside><aside id="fn.Zephaniah.2.14.4"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Zephaniah.2.14">2:14</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">sing</span></aside><aside id="fn.Zephaniah.2.14.5"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Zephaniah.2.14">2:14</a></span> LXX, Vg read <span class="italic">ravens</span></aside><aside id="fn.Zephaniah.2.14.6"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Zephaniah.2.14">2:14</a></span> Hb obscure</aside><aside id="fn.Zephaniah.2.15.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Zephaniah.2.15">2:15</a></span> Or <span class="italic">hisses</span></aside><br /><section id="cross-references-Zephaniah.2" class="xrfSection"><aside id="xrf.Zephaniah.2.2.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Zephaniah.2.2">2:2</a></span> Jb 23:14; Ps 2:7; 148:6</aside><aside id="xrf.Zephaniah.2.2.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Zephaniah.2.2">2:2</a></span> Nm 25:4; 32:14; Jr 4:8; 12:13; 25:37; 30:24; 51:45</aside><aside id="xrf.Zephaniah.2.2.3"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Zephaniah.2.2">2:2</a></span> Lm 2:22</aside><aside id="xrf.Zephaniah.2.3.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Zephaniah.2.3">2:3</a></span> 1Ch 22:19; 2Ch 12:14; 14:4; 15:12–13; 16:12; Ps 34:10; Is 9:13; 51:1; Hs 10:12; Am 5:14; Zph 1:6; Zch 8:21–22</aside><aside id="xrf.Zephaniah.2.3.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Zephaniah.2.3">2:3</a></span> Nm 12:3; Ps 25:9; 37:11; 76:9; Am 8:4</aside><aside id="xrf.Zephaniah.2.3.3"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Zephaniah.2.3">2:3</a></span> Gn 4:14; Ex 3:6; Ps 17:8</aside><aside id="xrf.Zephaniah.2.4.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Zephaniah.2.4">2:4</a></span> Jr 25:20; Am 1:6–8; Zch 9:5–7</aside><aside id="xrf.Zephaniah.2.5.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Zephaniah.2.5">2:5</a></span> Ezk 25:16</aside><aside id="xrf.Zephaniah.2.5.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Zephaniah.2.5">2:5</a></span> Is 37:22; Jr 16:10; 42:19; Am 3:1</aside><aside id="xrf.Zephaniah.2.5.3"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Zephaniah.2.5">2:5</a></span> Is 5:9; 6:11; Jr 4:7; 26:9; 33:10; 34:22; 44:22; 46:19; 48:9; Zph 3:6</aside><aside id="xrf.Zephaniah.2.7.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Zephaniah.2.7">2:7</a></span> Ps 85:1; Jr 30:18; 48:47; Lm 2:14</aside><aside id="xrf.Zephaniah.2.8.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Zephaniah.2.8">2:8</a></span> Ps 42:10; 102:8; 119:42; Mt 27:44; Heb 10:33</aside><aside id="xrf.Zephaniah.2.8.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Zephaniah.2.8">2:8</a></span> Am 1:13</aside><aside id="xrf.Zephaniah.2.9.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Zephaniah.2.9">2:9</a></span> Is 1:9; 3:9; 13:19; Jr 23:14; Rm 9:29</aside><aside id="xrf.Zephaniah.2.9.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Zephaniah.2.9">2:9</a></span> Gn 19:24–25</aside><aside id="xrf.Zephaniah.2.10.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Zephaniah.2.10">2:10</a></span> Jr 48:42</aside><aside id="xrf.Zephaniah.2.12.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Zephaniah.2.12">2:12</a></span> Is 18:1–7</aside><aside id="xrf.Zephaniah.2.13.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Zephaniah.2.13">2:13</a></span> Nah 2:8; 3:7</aside><aside id="xrf.Zephaniah.2.15.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Zephaniah.2.15">2:15</a></span> Is 13:3; 22:2; 23:7; 24:8; 32:13; Zph 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