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12 And it shall be that at that time
I will search Jerusalem with lamps,
and I will punish the men
    whose senses are dulled from drinking,[a]
who say in their hearts,
    ‘Yahweh will not do good, nor will he do evil.’
13 Then their wealth shall be as plunder,
    and their homes as desolation.
And they shall build their houses and not inhabit them,
    and they shall plant vineyards and not drink their wine.”
14 The great day of Yahweh draws near;
    it is near and coming very swiftly.
The sound of the day of Yahweh is bitterness;
    there, a warrior cries out!

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Footnotes

  1. Zephaniah 1:12 Literally “who are thickened with their dregs”