Zephaniah 1:9-11

Contemporary English Version

⁹I will punish worshipers
of pagan gods^[a]
and cruel palace officials
who abuse their power.

¹⁰I, the Lord, promise
    that on that day
noisy crying will be heard
from Fish Gate, New Town,
    and Upper Hills.
¹¹Everyone in Lower Hollow^[b]
    will mourn loudly,
because merchants
and money changers
    will be wiped out.

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Footnotes

1.9 worshipers … gods: The Hebrew text has “all who jump over the threshold,” which was a Philistine religious practice (see 1 Samuel 5.5).
1.10,11 Fish Gate, New Town, and Upper Hills … Lower Hollow: Names for different sections of Jerusalem: Fish Gate was probably the main gate on the north side of the city; New Town was a newer section; Upper Hills may have been a suburb north of the city; Lower Hollow was probably on the southern edge of town.