29 Oh, that their hearts would be inclined to fear me(A) and keep all my commands(B) always, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!(C)

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11 “Whom have you so dreaded and feared(A)
    that you have not been true to me,
and have neither remembered(B) me
    nor taken this to heart?(C)
Is it not because I have long been silent(D)
    that you do not fear me?

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22 Should you not fear(A) me?” declares the Lord.
    “Should you not tremble(B) in my presence?
I made the sand a boundary for the sea,(C)
    an everlasting barrier it cannot cross.
The waves may roll, but they cannot prevail;
    they may roar,(D) but they cannot cross it.

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39 I will give them singleness(A) of heart and action, so that they will always fear(B) me and that all will then go well for them and for their children after them.

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Of Jerusalem I thought,
    ‘Surely you will fear me
    and accept correction!’(A)
Then her place of refuge[a] would not be destroyed,
    nor all my punishments come upon[b] her.
But they were still eager
    to act corruptly(B) in all they did.

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Footnotes

  1. Zephaniah 3:7 Or her sanctuary
  2. Zephaniah 3:7 Or all those I appointed over

“So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers,(A) adulterers(B) and perjurers,(C) against those who defraud laborers of their wages,(D) who oppress the widows(E) and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners(F) among you of justice, but do not fear(G) me,” says the Lord Almighty.

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