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Zephaniah 1:7-9
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Zephaniah 1:7-9
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7 Be quiet! The Lord God is here.
It will soon be the day of the Lord.[a]
The Lord has made his sacrifice ready.[b]
He has made the people ready who will give the sacrifice to him.’[c]
8 ‘When it is time for the Lord's sacrifice, I will punish the rulers and the king's sons.
I will punish everyone who wears clothes like foreign people do.’[d]
9 ‘I will also punish the people who rush into other people's houses. They do that because they want to rob those people.
On that same day, I will also punish other robbers. Those people fill their masters' houses with the things that they take.’
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- 1:7 ‘day of the Lord’ is the time when God comes as the great judge.
- 1:7 sacrifice: Here, this does not mean an animal. It means the people who worshipped false gods.
- 1:7 the people that God made ready: the army of the Chaldeans.
- 1:8 Foreign people probably put these clothes on when they worshipped their own gods.
Zephaniah 1:7-9
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Zephaniah 1:7-9
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Footnotes
- Zephaniah 1:9 See 1 Samuel 5:5.
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