1The word of the Lord which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.
2I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the Lord.
3I will consume man and beast;
4I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah,
5And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops;
6And them that are turned back from the Lord;
7Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord God:
8And it shall come to pass in the day of the Lord’s sacrifice,
9In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold,
10And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord,
11Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh,
12And it shall come to pass at that time,
13Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation:
14The great day of the Lord is near,
15That day is a day of wrath,
16A day of the trumpet and alarm
17And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men,
18Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them